Farbood on music and speech processing in Music Fri. 3/31 2:30

Talk postponed until fall

Mary Farbood of NYU will present a talk in room 272 of the Fine Arts Center’s music wing at 2:30 of Friday March 31. A title and abstract follow.

Title: The temporal dynamics of music versus speech processing

Abstract: Two studies comparing the temporal dynamics of music and speech are presented. The first focuses on tempo and how it affects key-finding; these results are then compared to various timescales associated with speech processing. The second study examines decoding time of musical structure using a key-finding task and discusses those results in the context of analogous speech research. These experiments highlight both differences and similarities in how music and speech are processed in time.