Hendrik Purwins and Xavier Serra are co-organizers of the workshop "Music, Brain and Cognition" at NIPS 2007 on December 7th and 8th in Whistler, Canada.

This workshop will span topics from signal processing and musical structure to the cognition of music and sound. It will include the following paper presentations by MTG researchers:

• R.Annies, E. Martinez, K. Adiloglu, H. Purwins and K. Obermayer. "Comparison of Biologically Inspired Classification Schemes for Everyday Sounds"
• M.Coath, S. L. Denham, L. Smith, H. Honing, A. Hazan, P. Holonowicz and H. Purwins. "An Auditory Model for the Detection of Perceptual Onsets and Beat Tracking in Singing".
• R.Marxer, P. Holonowicz and H. Purwins. "Dynamical Hierarchical Self-Organization of Harmonic, Motivic, and Pitch Categories"
• A. Hazan, P. Brossier, R. Marxer and H. Purwins. "What/When Causal Expectation Modelling in Monophonic Pitched and Percussive Audio"

NIPS Workshop on Music, Brain and Cognition