Musical Performance

Adam Boulanger, Graham Grindlay, and Nick Knouf

Musical performance is one of the most demanding tasks that humans undertake, both cognitively as well as physically. The process of reading and interpreting musical notation, translating this information into motor instructions, and reacting to the resulting sounds is a complex set of tasks that draws on many disparate cognitive systems. As a first step toward our eventual goal of a more formalized understanding of musical performance, we are working to develop quantitative models of expressive musical performance.

Current Directions in Music, Mind, and Health:

A focus on Alzheimer's Disease
A focus on Autism
A focus on Emotion
A focus on Performance

Selected Projects in Music, Mind and Health: