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On World Heart Day, 29 September 2023, Elaine Chew spoke on Music and the Heart at the President’s Symposium dedicated to the Psychophysiology of Music (10.30am-12pm) at the Society of Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual Meeting, which took place 27 September – 1 October 2023.
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President’s Symposium : The Psychophysiology of Music
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The session chair was incoming SPR president, Julian Thayer, double bass player and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine.
The invited speakers were:
Psyche Loui, Northeastern University
Petr Janata, University of California, Davis
Elaine Chew, King’s College London
Stephane Guetin, Music Care and University Hospital and Montpelier School of Medicine
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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