Symposium venue
Small Hall (Pieni Juhlasali), Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th Floor, University of Helsinki
Programme
Thursday 12 June
8.30 Registration & poster set up
9.15 Welcome to the symposium
Professor Sari Lindblom-Ylänne, Vice Dean of Research, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
9.30 Musical expertise – from neuroimaging to behavior genetics
Prof Fredrik Ullén, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
10.15 Musical Expertise, Functional Evidence
Prof Mari Tervaniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
11.00 Lunch break
12.00 Auditory Processing and its Plasticity in Dyslexia
Prof Teija Kujala, CICERO Learning & University of Helsinki, Finland
12.45 Auditory and speech perception before school age – implications for language and reading development
Dr Jarmo A. Hämäläinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
13.30 The Biological Background of Dyslexia
Prof Juha Kere, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
14.15 Coffee
14.45 Neural Correlates of Rapid Word Acquisition
Prof Yury Shtyrov, University of Århus, Denmark
15.30 Neurocognition of Bilingualism
Dr Minna Lehtonen, University of Helsinki & Åbo Akademi University, Finland
16.15 – 18.00 Posters (See All abstracts Neurodynamics of language and music 2014)
2nd floor foyer of the Main Building
18.00 – 20.00 The Vice-Rector’s Reception
Vice-Rector Keijo Hämäläinen, University of Helsinki
4th floor foyer of the Main Building, outside the Small Hall
Friday 13 June
09.30 Sounds in Psychiatric Disorders
Prof Kenneth Hughdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
10.15 Music in Healthy and Developing Brain
Prof Minna Huotilainen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
11.00 Lunch break
12.00 Prediction error as the key to understanding the pleasure of challenging rhythms
Prof Peter Vuust, University of Århus, Denmark
12.45 Music in Neurological Rehabilitation
Dr Teppo Särkämö, University of Helsinki, Finland
13.30 Coffee
14.00 Music Emotions and Aesthetics in the Brain
Dr Elvira Brattico, Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland
14.45 Plasticity in Audition – past, present and future
Prof Josef Rauschecker, Georgetown University, USA
15.30 Closing of the symposium