Dr Argiro Vatakis, Cognitive Systems Research Institute Van Mildert College January - March 2013
Argiro Vatakis is a researcher at the Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece and a visiting lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens. She is an experimental psychologist focusing on the study of time perception with an emphasis on synchrony perception for complex, multisensory stimuli. Specifically, her research seeks to answer how people perceive synchrony in everyday events given the differential processing speeds of the various sensory signals and how people bind multisensory events. She completed her bachelor studies in 2000 at the Department of Psychology , California State University of Long Beach, USA and her doctoral degree in 2007 at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
In 2010, Dr Vatakis launched a 4-year international research network funded by COST-ESF called T
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MEntaL activitY: theoretical, behavioral, bioimaging and clinical perspectives (TIMELY). TIMELY aims to bridge scientists working in different aspects of time and time perception in order to address issues related to the conceptual analysis and measurement of time, the exploration of the cognitive, linguistic, and developmental factors associated with time perception, the extension of time research to ecologically-valid stimuli and exploitation of results for the development of real-world applications, and a deeper understanding and investigation of the neural correlates of time perception.
Dr Vatakis has published a number of papers and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books. Her most recent projects include the preparation of a special issue in Acta Psychologica focusing on ‘Temporal Processing Within and Across Senses’ and an edited book by Brill on ‘Time Distortions in Mind: Temporal processing in clinical populations.’
While at the IAS Dr Vatakis will be designing and conducting new research on social signal and temporal processing and developmental aspects of time perception.
Professor Udo Will, Ohio State University University College October – December 2012
Udo Will is Professor of Cognitive Ethnomusicology at Ohio State University. He studied music, sociology, and neuroscience, holds PhDs in both musicology and neurobiology and publishes widely in both fields. His research covers topics from functional neuroanatomy and evolution of the vertebrate auditory system to cognitive aspects of music performances in oral cultures, rhythm and melody processing by the human brain and the relationship of the cognitive architecture of music and language processing.
During the 1990s he was a research fellow in Armidale, NSW, and at Flinders University, Adelaide, working alongside Catherine Ellis on pitch and rhythm production in Aboriginal Australian music. From 1996 to 2002 he was elected president of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM). In 2001 he moved to the US to take up a newly created position in Cognitive Ethnomusicology at the Ohio State University.
With M. Clayton and R. Sager he has published a major article, ‘In time with the music,’ that developed and advanced applications of the entrainment concept in ethnomusicology, and that became a reference text in musical entrainment research. Together with M. Clayton (Durham) and I. Cross (Cambridge) he is one of the initiators of a research network that brings together psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists and musicologists working on ‘Music and Entrainment,’ and that was initially sponsored by the British Academy. He currently leads research projects on brainwave and heartbeat entrainment to musical rhythms and on memory processing of vocal and instrumental rhythms.
At Durham, Professor Will will work on the question whether musical time perception can be understood as being based on multiple mechanisms, and whether these are intrinsic or dedicated mechanisms. With members of the Music Department he will work on a position paper and develop a collaborative proposal for further analytical and experimental work in musical time production and perception.
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