Seminar Details:

The first CogMIR seminar was held on August 9, 2011, at Ryerson University, Toronto, and was sponsored by the Mitacs Elevate program. The seminar focused on the topics of musical similarity, cross-cultural perception, and cognitive modelling of musical expectations.

Keynote speakers for the event were:

• David Huron, Ohio State University
• Geraint Wiggins, Goldsmiths, University of London

Other speakers for the event were:

• Naresh Vempala, SMART Lab, Ryerson University
• David Beckford, CSO and co-founder of waveDNA, Toronto, ON
• Glen Kappel, CIO of waveDNA, Toronto, ON

Program details and abstracts of the talks are available here.