1. Keynote Addresses

• Reclaiming the human element. Musical synergies and the cognitive humanities, ICMPC 18, the 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 21-25 July 2025, São Paulo, Brasil.

• Embodied musical synergies. Creativity and interaction in the musical moment. Psychology and Music Conference - Interdisciplinary Encounters, 26-29 October 2022, University of the Arts Belgrade, Serbia.

• Fostering creativity in musical learning. Formal and informal pedagogies from infancy to adulthood*. European Association for Music in School (EAS) Conference, 10-13 June 2020, University of Padova, Italy (*cancelled due to COVID-19)

 

• The embodied-embedded-extended-enactive musical mind*. Life-Span Perspectives on Music Therapy, Cognition, and Embodiment, 22 April 2020, University of Bergen, Norway (*cancelled due to COVID-19)

 

• Embodiment in musical learning and development: A guide to discovery. Symposium of the Finnish Society for Music Education (FiSME), 14-16 November 2019, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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• From action to musical experience. A ‘4E’ proposal. 3rd Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 29-30 August 2019, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

 

• ​Laying down a path in musicking. The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4), 28 July - 2 August 2019, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland    

 

• Embodied action and the roots of musicality. 19th Herbstakademie Conference. Embodied Aesthetics: Resonance in Perception, Expression and Therapy, 5-7 October 2017, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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• Mind the body. Musical sense-making and the power of action.​ GAPS, Global Arts and Psychology Seminar, 28-29 April 2017, University of Graz, Austria 

2. Invited Talks

• Exploring music pathways. Open discussion with High-School Students, 2 December 2025, Canadian School of Milan, Italy.

• Presentation of the REM@KE project (with M. Guido and J. Speerstra), 17 October 2025, Gothenburg International Organ Festival, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Cognition, intersubjectivity and cultural diversity in music teaching and learning. Guest lecture, 24 November 2025, Institute for Education, University College London, UK.

 

• Reclaiming the human element. Musical experience through the lens of 4E cognitive science. Meetings of the Beyond Cognition and Culture Research Group, 12 June 2025, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK (delivered remotely).

• Reframing the musical mind through cognitive ecosystems. Guest lecture, 9 May 2025, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria.

• Musical minds and the cognitive humanities. Sketches for theory and research. Symposium: Educating Through Music - Cognitive Approaches, Cultural Contexts, and Technological Tools, 10 October 2024, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM), Ghent University, Belgium.

• Musical bodies, musical minds. A post-cognitivist perspective on musical learning and cognition, Guest lecture, 24 May 2024, Department of Clinical Psychology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

 

• Synergy and creativity in musical learning. The Royal Musical Association Research Colloquia in Music, 13 March 2024, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK.

• Unlocking musical synergies. Embodiment and sense-making in musical skill acquisition. Department’s Research Seminar, 22 November 2023, Department of Music, University of Birmingham, UK

• Understanding musical synergies. A preliminary taxonomy. Meetings of the music psychology @ Leeds group, 20 June 2023, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK.

• Musical sense-making. Actions, synergies, and intersubjectivity. Guest lecture, 15 May 2023, Department of Musicology, University of Pavia, Italy (delivered remotely).

• 4E Cognitive Science and embodied musical synergies Datasounds, Datasets and Datasense Research Network Seminar Series, 11 May 2023 (delivered remotely).

•  Music as proprioceptive art (with M. Schrenk). Art in Conversation Seminar, 26 April, 2023 University of St Andrews, UK (delivered remotely).

• Variations on David Borgo’s insights into improvisation, learning, and creativity / Embodiment and intersubjectivity in musical learning. Two invited lectures, 3 April 2023, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK.
  
  
• Rethinking the musical mind? The Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, 7 December 2022, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.

• Being musical beings. Tales of embodiment and musical synergies. Music Research Seminar Series, 1 December 2022, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, UK. 

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• Scienze cognitive e ricerca musicale: Il valore dell’interdisciplinarità. Verso i Dottorati di Ricerca. Incontro Internazionale sulla Ricerca Artistica nei Conservatori, 28 September 2022, “L. D’annunzio” Music Conservatoire, Pescara, Italy (delivered remotely).

• Musical creativity in theory and practice. Guest lecture, 10 December 2021, Department of Music, Art, and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 

• A world to share: 4E cognition and ethnomusicology. Meetings of the Cognitive Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group (SIG) in the Society for Ethnomusicology, 1 April 2021, Brigham Young University, USA

 

• Performance science. Transformation: Plenary day for doctoral students, 18 March 2021, Royal College of Music, London, UK (with V. Carreras and J. MacRitchie)

 

• Musical skill acquisition in action and interaction. Guest lecture, 20 January 2021, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

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• The musical moment. Embodiment, creativity, and intersubjectivity. Guest lecture, 14 May 2020, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Messina, Italy

 

• Situated musicality. Empirical and phenomenological approaches. Guest lecture, 7 May 2019, Department of Archaeology, University of Barcelona, Spain

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• Experience and the musical subject. 4Esthetics Workshop. 4E/Situated approaches to (music) aesthetics: challenges and perspectives, 7-9 March 2019, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany    

 

• Corpo non mente. Musica, pedagogia, e scienze cognitive. Guest Lecture and Workshop, 2 March 2019, “C. Abbado” Scuola Civica di Musica, Milan, Italy

 

• The 4E approach to music cognition. Guest Lecture, 24 January 2019, Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid, Spain 

 

• As above, so below. Musical experience in our hands. Auditory perception and musical sound workshop, 7-9 November 2018, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

 

• Being, knowing, doing. 4E cognition and the dynamics of musical development. Guest Lecture, 9 October 2018, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, 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 2018, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

 

• Enactive musical explorations. Enactivism: theory and performance Conference. Workshop in Musical Performance, 15-17 March 2018, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA                                    

 

• Sensorimotor primacy in music cognition. Guest Lecture, 5 December 2017, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

 

• Exploring musical creativity in human development, pedagogy, and performance. Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 25 April 2017, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria                                    

 

• ‘4E’ Musicality and the pre-reflective. Insights from musical learning and performance. Mind and Brain in Music Symposium, 30-31 October 2015, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

 

• What is music cognition? Guest Lecture, 27 April 2015, “G. Verdi” Music Conservatoire, Milan, Italy

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• Music cognition as Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Extended.​ Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 21 April 2015, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria 

3. Media Coverage

• So strangely Podcast. I was interviewed about the paper "When the sound becomes the goal. 4E cognition and Teleomusicality in early infancy", September 2018. Click here to listen to the interview. 

                      

• ​The naked scientists, BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live.​ I made an appearance on BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live, talking about music perception and emotion, August 2015. Click here to listen to the interview.