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MIB guest talks: Dr Diana Omigie and PhD candidate Iris Mencke

Visitors from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Germany give talks on music and the brain.

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 27 June 2017,  at 13:30 - 15:00

Location

Meeting room 5th floor, DNC Building 10G, Nørrebrogade 44, Aarhus University Hospital

Dr Diana Omigie:

Zygomaticus activations and Amygdala oscillations: The structure of musical pleasure.

 

From tears to goosebumps to breaking into a smile, music has the remarkable ability to induce emotions and elicit pleasure. In this talk, I will present work examining how the dynamics of music’s building blocks recruits the limbic system and drives pleasurable physiological arousal.

 

 

PhD Candidate Iris Mencke: Comparing brain correlates of classical and modern music with MEG.