Public talk by Professor Lauren Stewart on how music affects the brain, with examples from stroke rehabilitation and perinatal mental health.
Professor Lauren Stewart brings The Neuroscience of Music to The Guildhall on Tuesday 15 December. She's a Professor of Psychology at the University of Roehampton, and her work covers a lot of ground: learning and plasticity, congenital amusia, earworms, and the therapeutic side of music. She's also done her fair share of public science, including a silent disco earworm experiment at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry, a live look at musical plagiarism at the Science Museum's Dana Centre, and a discussion of the 'tingle factor' during Radio 3's Wellcome Collection residency.
At the moment she's leading the CHIME Project, a global health initiative that looks at how culturally embedded musical practices can support women's mental health during pregnancy. The talk draws on her view of music as 'the most underutilised health asset on the planet', and she illustrates it with examples from opposite ends of the spectrum: stroke rehabilitation at the National Hospital for Neurology on one hand, and group singing interventions for perinatal mental health in rural West Africa on the other. It's a wide range to cover in one evening, from the clinical to the community.
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This is one of eight psychology and neuroscience talks Seed Talks has hosted in Salisbury, which have welcomed over 1,700 people so far. The night is at The Guildhall in Market Place, Guildhall Square, Salisbury SP1 1JH. Doors open at 6:00pm, the talk starts at 6:15pm, and it runs for about two hours.
