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Pathways through music evolution: Reconstructing emergence between interacting minds

Padova, Italy
3-4 April 2024

We invite you to an exciting symposium that focuses on the interplay of cognition and evolution in musicality. Thinking of music as rooted in social interaction, we propose a fresh take on the question of why and how music emerged in human evolution. 

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PhD position, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

We are looking for a full-time PhD student at Ghent University to study the hierarchical learning of cues for cognitive control. The position is for four years (provided positive periodic evaluation). Candidates are expected to show a strong interest in cognitive science, and are expected to have a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in relevant domains such as Cognitive (Neuro)Science, Psychology, or other relevant disciplines. 

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Funded PhD Candidate Position - Perceptual Inference Group - Neural encoding of temporal expectations, BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

The freshly established Perceptual Inference Group at the BCBL studies how the subcortical and early cortical stages of the brain work together to make sense of the sensory world. This project will investigate how the brain learns to predict the onset of incoming sounds with high temporal precision, conforming the sensations of rhythm in speech and music. The project will make use a combination of modelling and high-resolution fMRI to explore the encoding of time in the human brain.

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