Music of the Mind
Gresham College Lecture Series
LSO St Luke's
Wednesday 15 April 2026 • 6pm
Book TicketsJerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s
Professor Milton Mermikides speaker
Tickets
Tickets free, advance booking necessary.
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Seats are allocated on a first come first serve basis. Doors open 30 minutes before the lecture begins, so we recommend arriving early. Any unclaimed seats will be given away to attendees without tickets 10 minutes before the lecture begins. Guest reserved seating is given away 5 minutes before the lecture begins. A ticket does not guarantee a seat, so we recommend arriving early.
Where does music live in the mind? Is it an evolutionary byproduct, a trick of perception – or something deeper?
From Pinker’s auditory cheesecake to sonic illusions like the McGurk effect and Deutsch’s phantom melodies, music plays with our senses in ways we barely comprehend. Yet its ties to language, memory, and emotion suggest it is fundamental to human thought. Can we see its traces in the brain? This lecture explores whether music is a fleeting illusion – or the key to understanding the mind itself.
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