NIPS Workshop on Music, Brain and Cognition, Whistler 2007

NIPS Workshop on Music, Brain and Cognition, Whistler 2007

24 Lectures · Dec 7, 2007

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Music is one of the most widespread of human cultural activities, existing in some form in all cultures throughout the world. The definition of music as organised sound is widely accepted today but a naïve interpretation of this definition may suggest the notion that music exists widely in the animal kingdom, from the rasping of crickets' legs to the songs of the nightingale. However, only in the case of humans does music appear to be surplus to any obvious biological purpose, while at the same time being a strongly learned phenomenon and involving significant higher order cognitive processing rather than eliciting simple hardwired responses.

A two day workshop takes place at NIPS 07 (Whistler, Canada) and spans topics from signal processing and musical structure to the cognition of music and sound. In the first day the workshop provides a forum for cutting edge research addressing the fundamental challenges of modeling the structure of music and analysing its effect on the brain. It also provides a venue for interaction between the machine learning and the neuroscience/brain imaging communities to discuss the broader questions related to modeling the dynamics of brain activity. During the second day the workshop focuses on the modeling of sound, music perception and cognition. These have provide, with the crucial role of machine learning, a break through in various areas of music technology, in particular: Music Information Retrieval (MIR), expressive music synthesis, interactive music making, and sound design.

Understanding of music cognition in its implied top-down processes can help to decide which of the many descriptors in MIR are crucial for the musical experience and which are irrelevant. The target group is of researchers within the fields of (Music) Cognition, Music Technology, Machine Learning, Psychology, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Brain Imaging.

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Part 1: Modeling the Structure of Music and its Effect on the Brain

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Introduction to the Workshop

David R. Hardoon

Feb 01, 2008

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Psychoacoustic Influences on the Neural Correlates of music Syntactic Processing

Sebastian Jentschke

Feb 01, 2008

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Online Learning of Music Preference

Peter Orbanz

Dec 29, 2007

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Linear Programming Boosting for Classification of Musical Genre

Tom Diethe

Dec 29, 2007

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The Conditionally Independent Voice Model

Christopher Raphael

Dec 29, 2007

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A Generative Model for Rhythms

Jean-François Paiement

Feb 01, 2008

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A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation From ...

Zhiyao Duan

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Finding Musically Meaningful Words by Sparse CCA

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Feb 01, 2008

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Can Style be Learned? A Machine Learning Approach Towards ‘Performing’ as Famous...

Louis Dorard

Feb 01, 2008

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Discovering Music Structure via Similarity Fusion

Jerónimo Arenas-García

Feb 01, 2008

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Information Dynamics and the Perception of Temporal Structure in Music

Samer A. Abdallah

Dec 29, 2007

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Time-Frequency and Synchrony Analysis of Responses to Steady-State Auditory and ...

Tomasz M. Rutkowski

Dec 29, 2007

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Part 2: Models of Sound and Music Cognition

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The Mental Representation of Music: A Neural Darwinist Perspective

David Huron

Dec 29, 2007

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Measuring and Modeling Musical Expression

Douglas Eck

Dec 29, 2007

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Project Presentation: Closing the Loop of Sound Evaluation and Design (CLOSED)

Hendrik Purwins

Dec 29, 2007

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Project Presentation: Emergent Cognition through Active Perception (EmCAP)

Susan Denham

Dec 29, 2007

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Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Audio and Music Processing

A. Taylan Cemgil

Dec 29, 2007

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Hallucinations in Auditory Perception

Malcolm Slaney

Dec 29, 2007

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An Auditory Model for the Detection of Perceptual Onsets and Beat Tracking in Si...

Susan Denham

Dec 29, 2007

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Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes

Richard Turner

Feb 01, 2008

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What/When Causal Expectation Modelling in Monophonic Pitched and Percussive Audi...

Amaury Hazan

Feb 01, 2008

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Modeling and Visualizing Tonality in North Indian Classical Music

Parag Chordia

Feb 01, 2008

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Book-Adaptive and Book-Dependent Models to Accelerate Digitization of Early Musi...

Douglas Eck

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Interview

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Interview with David Hardoon

David R. Hardoon

Feb 01, 2008

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