Public Lecture

HUMAN MOVEMENT IN THE PERCEPTION AND COGNITION OF MUSIC, was the topic of the public lecture that I attended on McGill University. It was given by Rolf Inge Godoy a professor at the Department of Musicology in the University of Oslo.

In my presentation I tried to explain a little bit about the issue of "Music Related Movement", that was the term used by the professor Godoy to refer to human movements that reflect characteristics of the music. In the beginning of the presentation he pointed out that we see people moving to music everywhere, and that all the listeners seem to be able to reproduce some features of the music with their movements. Therefore, the professor Godoy and the researchers believe that Human Movement is an essential part of Music Perception and Cognition. They made observation studies to understand the role of movement in the perception and cognition of music.

The topic of the lecture was really interesting, but it was difficult to understant because it's very scientific. Since it was my first public lecture in Montreal, in english was a good experience that I enjoyed.