1. Keynote Addresses

  • Laying down a path in musicking. The listening body in action: 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
  • 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

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

  • Explorations and Teleomusicality. Talk delivered at CIM18, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, 16-20 October 2018, Institute for Musicology, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland​
  • A conceptual framework for interactive musical learning. Talk delivered at Together in Music Conference: Expression, Performance and Communication in Ensembles, 12-14 April 2018, 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 2018, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK (with Gande, A. & Kruse-Weber, S.)
  • 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 2016, 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 2016, 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 2016, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston TX, USA                                  
  • 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 2015, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (with van der Schyff, D.; talk delivered by 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 2015, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK (with Timmers, R. & Cowell, H.; Poster presented by 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 2015, 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 2015, Department of Music, The University of Sheffield, UK (with Timmers, R.)                                   
  • 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 2014, Berlin, Germany (with Gerson, S., Hiemstra, W. Timmers, R., & Hunnius, S.; Poster presented by Gerson, S.)                                    
  • 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 2013, Department of Psychology, University of Pavia, Italy (with Gerson, S., Timmers, R., Bekkering, H. & Hunnius, S.)                               
  • 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 2012, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece   
  • ​Mirroring teleomusical acts. Poster presented at IV Neuromusic Conference, 9-12 June 2011, University of Edinburgh, UK (with Menin, D.)
  • On atoms of musical experience. Poster presented at IV Neuromusic Conference, 9-12 June 2011, University of Edinburgh, UK (with Menin, D.; Poster presented by Menin, D.)                            
  • Models of Biomusicology.​ Poster presented at Summer School in Systematic Musicology, 11-20 August 2010, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 

4. 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.