TARG - Toronto Auditory Research Group

TARG - Toronto Auditory Reseach Group aims to bring together auditory researchers from the Greater Toronto Area. Meetings are held quarterly in particapting institutes: SunnyBrook, SickKids, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest and Toronto Metropolitan University.
Want to join us? Send us an email: andrew.dimitrijevic@sunnybrook.ca

Next Meeting at Toronto Metropolitan University

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

This will again be a hybrid in-person/zoom meeting. The in-person part of the meeting will be at Toronto Metropolitan University, on the 12th Floor of the Atrium on Bay Building - 595 Bay St., Toronto, ON M5G 2C2 - in room AOB1270, 4-6 pm. This is the same place as the last TARG meeting. 

Entrance to the building:

Dr. Fink

Title: Research at the intersection of music, cognitive neuroscience, computer science & social justice

Description:
This talk will showcase our recently developed tools for multi-person, multi-modal measurement during live social musical events. We focus on capturing behavioural, cardiac, and eye-tracking data from both in-person and remote audiences. During the talk, we will demo our cardiac monitoring dashboard and multi-person eye-tracking approach (SocialEyes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06345), providing an overview of our scalable open-source methods. Using an artistic performance on wrongful incarceration as a case study, we will demonstrate the power of these tools in action. By combining multi-modal measures, we can gain unique insights into social attention and behaviour, and ultimately social justice advocacy through music.

Graduate students: Shreshth Saxena, Maya Flannery, Joshua Schlichting

Again, we will be arranging for a post-talk social gathering at the Imperial Pub. Please let me know if you will be attending as I will be making a reservation.