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PresentationIt is indisputable that, with his operas, Wagner introduced profound new insights relating music, language (poetry) and emotion. It is widely consensual that with his dramas, Wagner intended to explore human mind and behaviour with the power of music. In fact, never before was music so systematically used as a tool for describing and interpreting facts, events, beliefs, desires, intentions, memories and emotions. In the last decades, there has been much advance in the understanding of the cerebral basis of music and its relationships with brain mechanisms of language, cognition and emotion. In short, music has also been shown to be a powerful pathway to understand human mind and behaviour with the modern tools of neuroscience.Therefore, Wagner&#8217;s bicentennial could be an excellent opportunity for a meeting, summarizing the recent advances of brain research on these themes.&#160;&#160; Certainly, this Symposium is not addressed only to people who appreciate Wagner&#8217;s Operas. It is not addressed only to specialists in brain research either. Lectures by the invited speakers are intended to be clear enough to be assimilated and enjoyed by a vast audience interested in Music, Art, Science and human creativity.OrganizationFaculdade de Ci&#234;ncias M&#233;dicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Goethe-Institut, in collaboration with Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias Sociais e Humanas da UNL, Funda&#231;&#227;o Ci&#234;ncia e Tecnologia (FCT),&#160; Instituto Superior de Ci&#234;ncias da Sa&#250;de Egas Moniz, Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia, Sociedade Portuguesa de Neuroci&#234;ncias, Sociedade Portuguesa de Neuroradiologia, Ordem dos M&#233;dicos, Associa&#231;&#227;o Portuguesa de Educa&#231;&#227;o Musical&#160; e C&#237;rculo Richard Wagner de PortugalCoordinators :&#160;Armando Sena (Lisbon) Robert Zatorre (Montreal)ProgramSaturday, May 25, 201309.00h Registration 09.30h Welcome to the meeting10.00 Wagner and Science, Armando Sena (Lisbon)10.30 OPENING LECTURE: The Cerebral Basis of Music, Robert Zatorre (Montreal)11.15 Coffee-break and Poster CommunicationsAct I: Music From The Brain, Music For The Brain11.45 Music Semantics and the Brain, Stefan Koelsch (Berlin)12.15 Music and Language Learning, Daniele Sch&#246;n (Marseille)12.45 Emotions in the Brain, Stefan Koelsch (Berlin)13.15 Lunch and Poster Communications14.00 Musical Rhythms and Auditory-Motor Integration in the Brain, Virginia Penhune (Montreal)14.30 Musical Training and Brain Plasticity, Lutz.J&#228;ncke (Zurich)15.00 Musical Disorders, Timothy Griffiths (Newcastle upon Tyne)15.30 Music as a Tool for Human Development, Paulo Maria Rodrigues (Aveiro) and Helena Rodrigues (Lisbon)16.00 Coffee-Break and Poster CommunicationsAct II: Wagner, Music And The Brain16.30 The Language of Music in Wagner, Siegfried Mauser (Munich)17.15 Wagner Today, Paulo Ferreira de Castro (Lisbon)17.45 CLOSING LECTURE: Ant&#243;nio Dam&#225;sio (Los Angeles)18.30 End of the Meeting21.00 DinnerInvited speakersAnt&#243;nio Dam&#225;sio, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USAArmando Sena, CEDOC-Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias M&#233;dicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa&#8211;Central, Lisboa e Instituto Superior de Ci&#234;ncias da Sa&#250;de Egas Moniz, Monte da Caparica, PortugalDaniele Sch&#246;n, INSERM U 1106, Institut de Neurosciences de Syst&#232;mes, Marseille, FranceHelena Rodrigues, Centro de Estuds de Sociologia e Est&#233;tica Musical (CESEM). Laborat&#243;rio de M&#250;sica e Comunica&#231;&#227;o na Inf&#226;ncia, Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, PortugalLutz J&#228;ncke, Institute of Psychology, Department of Neuropsychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandPaulo Maria Rodrigues, Departamento de Comunica&#231;&#227;o e Arte, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, PortugalPaulo Ferreira de Castro, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Est&#233;tica Musical (CESEM), Departamento de Ci&#234;ncias Musicais, Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, PortugalRobert Zatorre, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaSiegfried Mauser, Hochschule f&#252;r Musik und Theater, Munich, GermanyStefan Koelsch, Cluster of Excellence &#171;Languages of Emotion&#187;, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, GermanyTimothy Griffiths, Cognitive Neurology, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomVirginia Penhune, Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada