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 I relatori invitati a partecipare al Meeting "International Workshop on the Biology and Genetics of Music" sono:

Dennis Drayna
Researcher National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (N.I.D.C.D.),Rockville, MD
Research interests:
  • Identify genes responsible for communication disorders in humans, including disorders of auditory pitch recognition
  • Deficits in the human sense of bitter taste and the speech disorder of stuttering

    • Jane Gitschier
    Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
    Research interests:
  • Genetics of absolute pitch

    • Isabelle Peretz
    Full Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Montréal, Canada
    Research interests:
  • Biological foundations of music
  • Brain organization principles for music
  • Music-specific impairments (acquired and congenital)
  • Neural correlates of musical emotions
  • Speech prosody
  • Music and speech in singing
  • Neural correlates of pitch-related deficits

    • Ian Cross
    Director of the Faculty's new Centre for Music and Science, Faculty at Cambridge, UK
    Research interests:
  • Perception of tonal structures and of the role of culture in shaping musical cognition,
  • General limits and constrain on scientific accounts in music,
  • Relation between music and cognitive evolution

    • Josh McDermott
    Researcher, Perceptual Science Group, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Research interests:
  • Auditory perception and cognition
  • Auditory scene analysis
  • Music perception
  • Mid-level vision

    • Guido Barbujani
    Professor of Genetics, university of Ferrara, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Population genetics, linguistics
    • Luisa Lopez
    Center for Developmental Disabilities "Eugenio Litta", University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Child Neurology
  • Neurophysiology
  • Learning disabilities

    • Tim Griffiths
    Professor of Cognitive Neurology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    Research interests:
  • Analysis of sound by brain and the brain disorder

    • John Sloboda
    Director of the Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development, Keele University, UK
    Research interests:
  • Psychology of Music: Musical ability: beliefs about the causes of unmusicality and tone deafness. Expression and emotion in performance and perception. The experience of music.
  • Psychological aspects of international security: perceptions of security and the ‘war on terror'; the anti-war movement

    • Marina Nespor
    Professor of Linguistic, University of Ferrara, Italy
    Research interests:
  • The emergence Grammar in the Brain

    • Dmitri Tymoczko
    Assistant Professor, University of Princeton, USA
    Research interests:
  • Natural basis of musical structure
  • Evolution of music

    • Robert J. Zatorre
    Full Professor, McGill Univ., Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
    Research interests:
  • Neuronal basis of auditory events, specifically speech and music

    • Mario Baroni
    Professor of Musicology, University of Bologna, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Musicology

    • Edoardo Boncinelli
    Full Professor of Biology and Genetics, University Vita–Salute San Raffaele, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Higher mental functions

    • Francesco Cavalli Sforza
    Writer, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Cultural and Biological Evolution

    • Davide Pettener
    Full Professo of Anthropology, University of Bologna, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Cultural and Biological Evolution

    • Roberto Ive
    Writer, Trieste, Italy
    Research interests:
  • Mongolian history and culture