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Symposium Program 2019 Program Brain and Culture Symposium 2019 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome, Anders Gustafsson, KI Vice President for Research Speakers and Artists 9:15 – 9:25 Balettakademien, dance 9:25 – 10:15 Robert Zatorre: Music and the reward system: function and dysfunction 10:15 –10:25 Balettakademien, dance 10:25 – 10:55 Coffee Sofia Karlsson Professor Robert Zatorre International artist, folk music singer and Robert Zatorre is a cognitive neuroscientist 10:55 – 11:45 Charles Spence: Gastrophysics- the new science of the table four-time Grammy award winner - Sofia whose laboratory studies the neural substra- Karlsson attended the folk music depart- te for auditory cognition, with special emp- --- Lunch --- ment of the Royal College of Music in hasis on two complex and characteristically Stockholm. From 1998 to 2002 she was a human abilities: speech and music. He and 13:00 – 13:50 Yulia Kovas: Gene-environment interplay in education and full-time member in Swedish folk music act his collaborators have published over 280 Groupa, and in 2002 she released her debut scientific papers on topics including pitch achievement solo album Folk songs. In 2005 she made her perception, auditory imagery, absolute pitch, public breakthrough with her second album perception of auditory space, and the role of 13:50 – 14:00 Sofia Karlsson, song Svarta ballader (Black ballads). The album the mesolimbic reward circuitry in medi- contains her interpretations of the Swedish ating musical pleasure. His research spans 14:00 – 14:50 Dean Simonton: Origins of genius - creativity in science and poet Dan Andersson, and was in the charts all aspects of human auditory processing, the arts for more than a year. The album has to date from studying the functional and structural sold 60,000 copies, and was awarded with properties of auditory cortices, to how these both Swedish and Danish Grammys. properties differ between the hemisphe- 14:50 – 15:00 Sofia Karlsson, song res, and how they change with training or After touring the country for two years, she sensory loss. His lab makes use of functional 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee released her third album Visor från vinden and structural MRI, MEG and EEG, and (Songs from the loft) with its collection of brain stimulation techniques, together with classical songs sung in Swedish, but writ- cognitive and psychophysical measures. In 15:30 – 16:20 Panel Discussion: Featuring the speakers with Helena ten by poets and musicians such as Bau- 2006 he became the founding co-director of Wessman and Fredrik Ullén delaire, Dan Andersson, Marianne Flodin, the international laboratory for Brain, Mu- Mikael Wiehe, Alf Hambe, Inger Hagerup, sic, and Sound research (BRAMS), a unique 16:20 – 16:30 Sofia Karlsson, song Carl Michael Bellman, Peps Persson, and multi-university consortium with state-of- Evert Taube. The album also contains Lars the art facilities dedicated to the cognitive Forssell’s free version of Boris Vian’s ”Le neuroscience of music. In 2011 he was awar- Déserteur”. ded the IPSEN foundation prize in neuronal Moderator: Gunnar Bjursell plasticity. In 2013, he won the Knowles prize Organisation: Gunnar Bjursell, Ingemar Ernberg, Fredrik Ullén in hearing research from Northwestern University, and in 2017 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Balettakademien Professor Charles Spence Yulia Kovas Dean Keith Simonton Since its foundation, Balettakademien Professor of Experimental Psychology; Head Professor of Genetics and Psychology, Dean Keith Simonton is a Distinguished Pro- in Stockholm has developed into one of of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Goldsmiths, University of London. Yulia fessor Emeritus of Psychology at UC-Davis. Scandinavia’s largest dance schools. Over the Department of Experimental Psychology; Fel- Kovas is Professor of Genetics and Psycho- He is particularly interested in the study of years, Balettakademien has played an im- low of Somerville College, Oxford University. logy at Goldsmiths; Honorary Professor at human intelligence, creativity, greatness, and portant role in developing dance in Sweden. Professor Charles Spence is a world-famous Moscow State University; visiting Professor at the psychology of science. He obtained his experimental psychologist with a specializa- University of Sussex, New York University in M.A at Harvard in 1973, and his PhD in 1975. Balettakademien was founded in Stock- tion in neuroscience-inspired multisensory London, Tomsk State University and Higher He is a fellow of the American Association holm in 1957. Until then dance education design. He has worked with many of the School of Economics. She directs InLab; co- for the Advancement of Science and a fellow and training in Sweden was strictly limi- world’s largest companies across the globe directs the International Centre for Research of the American Psychological Association. ted to classical ballet at the Royal Opera. since establishing the Crossmodal Research in Human Development; leads research into He has over 570 publications, including 14 Balettakademien’s ambition was to offer more Laboratory (CRL) at the Department of mathematical development in the Twins books. One of his books, The Origins of Ge- options in professional dance education and Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Early Development Study (TEDS); directs the nius, received the William James Book Award. training including Ballet, Contemporary in 1997. Prof. Spence has published over Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR); leads One of his findings was that the 10 years’ Dance, Jazz Dance and other dance forms. 900 academic articles and edited or autho- projects IDEAS (Individual Differences in experience of deliberate practice is not a red, 12 books including, in 2014, the Prose Education and Achievement) at Educational rule, but an average with significant variation Today one important program is danshälsa prize-winning “The perfect meal”, and the Centre for gifted adolescents Sirius and PLIS around the mean. He found that the people -Dance for Health at Balettakademien. Dans- recent international bestseller “Gastrophysics: - Prospective Longitudinal Interdisciplinary who achieved the greatest lifetime producti- hälsa is an initiative to strengthen the role The new science of eating” (2017; Penguin Study of families with children conceived vity and highest levels of eminence required dance can play in health and well-being. Viking) – winner of the 2019 Le Grand Prix naturally and by IVF. the least amount of time to achieve expertise. Dance for Health is a venture to spread the de la Culture Gastronomique from Académie He also found that while too much exper- health-giving effects of dance and to reach Internationale de la Gastronomie. tise can hurt one’s chances of greatness, the groups in society that fall outside of our Much of Prof. Spence’s work focuses on the downsides of overtraining in one domain can norms of who can dance, who can be seen design of enhanced multisensory food and Support our research be ameliorated by the acquisition of expertise in society and on stage, and how body and drink experiences, through collaborations among numerous different domains. He also movement contribute to health. Dance for with chefs, baristas, mixologists, chocolati- Please make a donation and support the found that an association of creativity with Health offers dance for people with different ers, perfumiers, and the food and beverage, research being carried out by the Centre psychopathic traits was more apparent in neurological diagnoses such as Parkinson, MS and flavour and fragrance industries. Prof. for Culture, Cognition and Health artists than in scientists. and stroke, as well as dance for senior citizens Spence has worked extensively in the world of and dance connecting different cultures. multisensory experiential wine and has also Photo: Håkan Larsson worked extensively on the question of how Swish 123 202 32 08 technology will transform our dining/drin- Bankgiro 5310-6217 king experiences in the future. Please mark your payment: ”Centrum för Kultur, donation” .