EBRAMUS

EBRAMUS
(ITN MC FP7, GA 238157)
Europe BRAin and MUSic
Consortium meeting and Spring
School 2011
Delmenhorst, February 26 – March 5, 2011
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller
HMT-Hannover
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Bigand
Université de Bourgogne, LEAD CNRS UMR 5022, Dijon
Dr. Barbara Tillmann
Université Claude Bernard, NSCC CNRS UMR 5020, Lyon

Preliminary Program
Friday, February 25:
Arrival of the EBRAMUS Board and EBRAMUS-Students
Saturday, February 26
10:00 Meeting of the Students in the “Freizeithaus”-HWK, election of two of
the 2 ESRs/ER representatives.
Lunch
Supervisory Board (SB) Meeting
First Part: Annual General Assembly, administrative points
(Participants: Partners, Associate Partners, Elected student
representatives)
14:00 Welcome to the network
14:15 Organization of the Midterm Review Meeting (16 June 2011) in presence
of our European Project Officer
14:45 Procedure for the first Financial report (autumn 2011) with an emphasis
on the Form C (CE financial sheet).
15:15 WP leader presentations on the current status of each WP
Prof. Kotz as WP 1 leader for the recruitment,
Prof. Leman as WP 5 leader for the incoming events
Dr. Keller as WP 6 leader for the student exchanges between the partner
laboratories
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Reminder Ethical Issues
16:45 Participant Portal (European Web based reporting software) notifications
for updated information about a partner host institution (address, head, …).
Amendments to the description of work (Annexe 1) depending of the
acceptation of the European Project Officer.
17:15 Eligibility of expenses for the meetings and the summerschools/workshops
18:00 Dinner
20:00 – 22:00 Informal Meeting of the EBRAMUS Board and ESRs/ER.

Sunday, 27 February
Second Part: Annual Scientific Meeting
(Participants: Partners, Associate Partners, Elected student
representatives – and open to all ESRs and ER who would like to attend)
The network teams will present and discuss projects and results and
capitalise on existing exchanges and collaborations. Presentation of the
state of the art updated since the submission of the EBRAMUS
application, notably for results concerning the EBRAMUS topics.
Short introductory presentations by WP-Leaders:
09:00 WP 2 (Leader, Prof. Kotz) Music and Prosody in the rehabilitation of
auditory processing and language disorders.
10:00 WP 3 (Leader, Prof. Samson) Music in the rehabilitation of memory and
learning.
11:00 WP 4 (Leader, Prof. Altenmüller) Music and motor rehabilitation.
12:30 Lunch
Advisory Committee
(Participants: Partners, Associate Partners, all ESRs, ER)
ESRs/ER will present the ongoing work of their project. They will present
theoretical argumentation, planned studies, ethics, encountered problems,
as well as results, interpretations and follow-ups. Presentation: 10 minutes,
discussion 20 minutes.
WP 2 Music and Prosody in the rehabilitation of auditory processing and
language disorders.
WP 3 Music in the rehabilitation of memory and learning.
WP 4 Music and motor rehabilitation.
14:00 – 14:30 Irène Alonso Fernandez (P2) – memory
14:30 – 15:00 Richard Penninger (P7) – auditory
15:00 – 15:30 Agnieszka Karas (P1a) – auditory, language, memory
15:30 – 16:00 Tatiana Selchenkova (P1c) – learning, language
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 Nia Cason (P1b) – language, rhythm
17:00 – 17:30 Laura Verga (P4a) – language
17:30 – 18:00 Sujin Hong (P6) – language
18:00 Dinner
19:30 Meeting of the EBRAMUS Board, Faculty and Students

Monday, 28 February
09:00 – 09:30 Floris van Vugt (P5) – motor
09:30 – 10:00 Marieke van der Steen (P4b) – motor
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Dr. Nicolas Farrugia (P3, Post-Doc) – motor
11:00 – 11:30 Charles-Etienne Benoît (P3) – motor
11:30 – 12:00 Summary
End of the internal EBRAMUS meeting
(Participants: Partners, Associate Partners, all ESRs, ER)
EBRAMUS – Spring School
(Participants: Ebramus Faculty, Ebramus students and external students
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Welcome of the students
15:00 – 16:00 Lecture 1: Ethical Issues in Scientific Contexts (Prof. Dr. Georg
Marckmann)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Structured Discussion Panel: Truth, Probabilities and Statistics! (with
Students and EBRAMUS Faculty)
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Chamber Music of students and faculty / informal get together
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 2: Music Cognition and Transfer: Does Music make smarter
(Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kopiez)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Structured Discussion Panel: Music and the Brain (with Students and
EBRAMUS Faculty)
12:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16.00 Methods 1: Neuropsychological Methods (Prof. Dr. Severine Samson)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Methods 1 (cont.): Neuropsychological Methods (Prof. Dr. Simone Dalla
Bella)
18:30 Dinner
20:30 – 21:15 Lecture 3: Auditory Plasticity and Music (Prof. Dr. Christo Pantev)
21:15 – 22:00 Structured Discussion Panel: Music and the auditory System (with
Students and EBRAMUS Faculty)
Wednesday, March 2. 2011
09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 4: Evolutionary speculations on the origins of music (Prof. Dr.
Eckart Altenmüller)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Structured Discussion Panel: Music as an evolutionary adaptation (with
Students and EBRAMUS Faculty)
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Trip to Bremen (visit of architectural highlights)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 4: Neurological Music Therapy (Prof. Dr. Thomas Münte)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Structured Discussion Panel (What Helps in Music?)
(with Students and EBRAMUS Faculty)
12:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Methods 2: EEG and Evoked Potentials (Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17.30 Methods 3: Motion capture (Dr. Erwin Schoonderwaldt)
17:30 – 18.30 Dinner
18:30 Trip to Opera (Madame Butterfly in Bremen)
Friday, March 4, 2011
09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 5: Music perception in Cochlear Implants (Dr. Matthias Wittfoth)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Structured Discussion Panel (Music for auditory handicapped: where to
go?) (with Students and EBRAMUS Faculty)
12:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Methods 3: Scientific presenting and rhetoric (Prof. Dr. Eckart
Altenmüller)
16:30 – 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:30 Feedback round and preparation of the next meeting
18:30 Dinner and Fare-Well party
Saturday, March 5, 2011
08:00 Fare-well breakfast (perhaps short meeting of the members at the hotel)