1. Keynote Addresses

2019                                       
  • Laying down a path in musicking.
The listening body in action: The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4), 28 July - 2 August, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland
 
2017                                       
  • Embodied action and the roots of musicality.
19th Herbstakademie Conference. Embodied Aesthetics: Resonance in Perception, Expression and Therapy, 5-7 October, University of Heidelberg, Germany
 
  • Mind the body. Musical sense-making and the power of action.
GAPS, Global Arts and Psychology Seminar, 28-29 April, University of Graz, Austria 

2. Invited Talks

2019                                       
  • TBA.
4Esthetics Workshop. 4E/Situated approaches to (music) aesthetics: challenges and perspectives, 7-9 March, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
2018                                      
  • As above, so below. Musical experience in our hands.
Auditory perception and musical sound workshop, 7-9 November, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
 
  • Being, knowing, doing. 4E cognition and the dynamics of musical development.
Guest Lecture, 9 October, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway
 
  • Making music together between adaptivity and creativity.
SFPS, the 6th International Congress of the French Society of Sport Psychology, 12-15 June, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  • Enactive musical explorations.
Enactivism: theory and performance Conference. Workshop in Musical Performance, 15-17 March, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA
 
2017                                       
  • Sensorimotor primacy in music cognition.
Doctoral seminars in Sport Psychology, 5 December, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  • Exploring musical creativity in human development, pedagogy, and performance.
Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 25 April, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria
 
2015                                      
  • ‘4E’ Musicality and the pre-reflective. Insights from musical learning and performance.
Mind and Brain in Music Symposium, 30-31 October, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
 
  • What is music cognition?
Guest Lecture, 27 April, “G. Verdi” Music Conservatoire, Milan, Italy
 
  • Music cognition as Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Extended.
Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 21 April, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria 

3. Conference and Workshop Presentations

2018                                       
  • Explorations and Teleomusicality.
Talk delivered at CIM18, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, 16-20 October, Institute for Musicology, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland
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  • A conceptual framework for interactive musical learning.
Talk delivered at Together in Music Conference: Expression, Performance and Communication in Ensembles, 12-14 April, National Centre for Early Music, University of York, UK
 
  •  ‘Meet4Music'. Negotiating meaning between community music, performativity, and the cognitive sciences.
Talk delivered at Reflective Conservatoire Conference, 20-23 February, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK (with Gande, A. & Kruse-Weber, S.)
 
2016                                       
  • Participatory music-making as participatory sense-making. An empirical study.
Poster presented at ESPP16, 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 10-13 August, University of St. Andrews, UK (with Walton, A., Rodger, M. & Devaney, J.)
 
  • The loss and regain of coordinated behaviour in musical duos.
Talk delivered at ICMPC14, the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 5-9 July, San Francisco CA, USA (with Walton, A., Rodger, M. & Devaney, J.)
 
  • From the cradle to the stage. The musical mind in action.
Talk delivered at Exploring the Mind through Music Conference, 6-10 June, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston TX, USA (June)
 
2015                                      
  • The embodied musical mind: enactive cognitive science and music education.
Talk delivered at International Symposium: Learning and teaching music in the Twenty-First Century. The contribution of science and technology, 5-6 November, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (with van der Schyff, D.)
 
  • Influences of visual activity on memorised tempo of a performance.
Poster presented at ESCOM9, the 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 17-22 August, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK (with Timmers, R. & Cowell, H.)
 
  • An inter(en)active approach to musical agency and learning.
Talk delivered at ICMEM, The International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music, Department of Music, 23-25 March, The University of Sheffield, UK (with Cummins, F.)
 
  • Cross-modal facilitation in learning atonal melodies.
Poster presented at ICMEM, The International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music, 23-25 March, Department of Music, The University of Sheffield, UK (with Timmers, R.)
 
2014                                       
  • The effects of active versus observational experience on infants’ multisensory integration in a musical context.
Poster presented at XIX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, 3-5 July, Berlin, Germany (with Gerson, S., Hiemstra, W. Timmers, R., & Hunnius, S.)
 
2013                                       
  • Sensorimotor integration and action-effect contingency in infants’ engagement with a musical instrument.
Poster presented at EBRAMUS Conference on New perspectives for stimulating cognitive and sensory processes, 20-22 September, Department of Psychology, University of Pavia, Italy (with Gerson, S., Timmers, R., Bekkering, H. & Hunnius, S.)
 
2012                                      
  • Motor knowledge and the development of musical expertise.
Poster presented at ICMPC12/ESCOM8, the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), 23-28 July, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 
2011                                       
  • Mirroring teleomusical acts.
Poster presented at IV Neuromusic Conference, 9-12 June, University of Edinburgh, UK (with Menin, D.)
 
  • On atoms of musical experience.
Poster presented at IV Neuromusic Conference, 9-12 June, University of Edinburgh, UK (with Menin, D.)
 
2010                                      
  • Models of Biomusicology.
Poster presented at Summer School in Systematic Musicology, 11-20 August, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 

4. Media Coverage

2018                                       
  • So strangely Podcast.
 I was interviewed about the paper "When the sound becomes the goal. 4E cognition and Teleomusicality in early infancy". Click here to listen to the interview.
 
2015                                      
  • ​The naked scientists, BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live.
I made an appearance on BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live, talking about music perception and emotion. Click here to listen to the interview.