Peer dissemination and media coverage

Conferences and symposia organised

• 2019: Workshop “Untangling music-language interactions in the brain”: University of Vienna, Department of Cognitive Biology

• 2019: Symposium “Current topics in Music Cognition: Perceiving time and structure”: European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) meeting

• 2017 & 2016: Lecture series with international speakers: Dresden Music Cognition Lab, TU Dresden

Invited talks (at conferences, labs)

• Oct 2020: Music and Brain group, University of Heidelberg (Priv. Doz. Peter Schneider) – cancelled due to COVID-19

• Oct 2020: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz (Prof. R. Parncutt)

• Apr 2020: Austrian Society for Neurology meeting – cancelled due to COVID-19

• Aug 2019: Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, Motion, University of Oslo (Prof. J. Vuoskoski)

• Mar 2019: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz (Prof. R. Parncutt)

• Jan&Jun 2019: Medical doctors’ training sessions (“Morgenfortbildung”), Neurology Clinic, Vienna General Hospital

• Jan 2017: Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (Prof. D. Sammler)

• Dec 2016: University of Uppsala, Department of Psychology (Prof. P. Juslin)

• Jul 2014: University of Manchester, School of Psychological Sciences (Prof. S. Kotz)

• May 2014: University of Cambridge, Centre for Neuroscience in Education (Prof. D. Szücs)

• Apr 2014: University of Geneva, Neuroscience of Emotion Lab (Prof. D. Grandjean)

Conference presentations

• 2019: “Detecting phrase boundaries: An Indian music segmentation study”. Oral presentation at European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain, September 2019

• 2019: “Melodic Intonation Therapy: A meta-analysis”. Poster presentation at Learning and Plasticity meeting, Äkäslompolo, Finland, April 2019

• 2017: “Reading the musical mind: from perception to imagery, via fMRI decoding”. Poster presentation at International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2017

• 2016: “Musical dissonance – the good, the bad and the jazzy”. Poster presentation at International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco, USA, July 2016

• 2015: “Number-space and pitch-space interactions in the numerically impaired brain”. Oral presentation at European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2015

• 2014: “What can voxel- and surface-based morphometry reveal about mathematical expertise?”. Poster presentation at Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Milan, Italy, July 2014

• 2014: “Is more always better? Cognitive and anatomical markers of the mathematical brain”. Poster presentation at Oxford Neuroscience Symposium, Oxford, UK, March 2014

• 2013: “Transcranial random noise stimulation enhances consistency of strategies used in an arithmetic learning task”. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, USA, November 2013

• 2011: “Investigating the mathematical brain”. Oral presentation at European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), San Sebastian, Spain, September 2011

• 2011: “Number, mind and brain”. Oral presentation at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, London, UK, August 2011

Media coverage

• 2020: Interview for “În universul muzicii”, at Radio România Muzical, September 2020

• 2020: Profile report in Adevărul, January 2020

• 2019: Coverage by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and by the Austrian Press Agency (APA), of my 2019 Science paper, November 2019

• 2012: BBC Radio 4 (“Today” programme) coverage of my PhD experiments using transcranial electrical stimulation of the brain, January 2012