Music and the Brain Symposium Stanford University

Trio Voce performs Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 1, the U.S. premier of Memory Slips, by Stanford composer/professor/music teacher Jonathan Berger, and Beethoven Piano Trio No. 5 in D major "Ghost," Op. 70, No. 1. (March 4, 2011)

Thomas Grey talks about episodic memory loss and the representation of memory in the highly stylized, fictional context of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. (March 5, 2011)

Kerry Tribe discusses her recent double-projected film on the storied amnesic Patient H.M., whose hippocampus was removed in an experimental procedure intended to alleviate his severe epilepsy in 1953. (March 5, 2011)

Nina Kraus talks about how musical experience strengthens the auditory-neural mechanisms that underlie everyday auditory skills. (March 5, 2011)

David Huron illustrates different types of memory through music. He shows that memory research provides helpful insight into a long-standing philosophical problem: what is a musical work? (March 5, 2011)

How do we recognize music as familiar? Julene Johnson explores music familiarity from the perspective of neurodegenerative diseases and underlying brain mechanisms. (March 4, 2011)