讲座主题：Cracking the pitch code in music and language: A summary of findings from the ERC-funded CAASD project

主讲人：Fang Liu

与会方式：

https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638

https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638

时间：2023年11月1日（周三）15:00 – 16:30

专家简介：

Dr Fang Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago. Before joining Reading, she was a lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, and did postdoctoral work at University College London, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Stanford University, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research aims to understand how the human brain processes pitch information for linguistic and musical purposes during production and perception. She has received funding from the European Research Council (678733, CAASD, 2016-2023; 838787, MAP, 2019-2022) and from the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK (PTA-026-27-2480, 2009-2010).

讲座简介：

Music and language share similar properties and are processed in overlapping brain regions. As a common information-bearing element in music and language, pitch plays an essential role in encoding musical melodies and signifying linguistic functions. However, two distinct neurodevelopmental conditions, congenital amusia (CA; a musical disorder) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD; a language disorder), affecting millions of people worldwide, may selectively impair individuals’ ability to process musical versus linguistic pitch. In this talk, I will summarize our recent findings on music, language, and emotion processing in CA and ASD from our ERC-funded CAASD project, with the aim of uncovering the underlying mechanisms of pitch processing in music and language.