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How Rhythm and Timing Structure Experience: Music and Social Interaction

The Musicology Colloquium presents a talk by Laurel Trainor Rhythms are ubiquitous in biological systems, from motor movements for locomotion to communication signals such as speech and music. I will present evidence that auditory-motor interactions for timing are present early in development and that the human auditory system uses the motor system to accomplish rhythmic timing. I will present data indicating that infants can maintain internal interpretations of ambiguous rhythm patterns and that even the premature infant brain encodes beat and meter frequencies. Finally, I will discuss the social implications of coordinated movements in human interactions from musical ensembles to pro-social behaviour in infants. Laurel Trainor (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is a Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Fellow of the Association for Psycholog

Lung disease specialist takes up chair named for mentor

Lung disease specialist takes up chair named for mentor Will continue his ground-breaking research in Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) 18-May-2021 10:15 AM EDT, by McMaster University McMaster University Martin Kolb is research director at the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at McMaster and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, as well as division director for respirology at the Department of Medicine. Newswise Hamilton, ON (May 18, 2021) – People with incurable lung diseases have a powerful champion in McMaster University’s Martin Kolb. Kolb begins his five-year appointment as the inaugural Jack Gauldie Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) on July 1, and he will continue his ground-breaking research into this group of incurable and often-lethal respiratory illnesses.

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