Meeting Information
The 33rd annual meeting of New England Sequencing and Timing (NEST) will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the University of Connecticut.
Important dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: February 21st
- Notification to accepted authors: March 3rd
- Registration deadline: March 31st (RSVP here )
Location: University of Connecticut, Bousfield Psychology Building, Room A106
Address: 406 Babbidge Rd, Storrs, CT 06269
Parking: There will be signs from South Parking Garage to the conference site (see here for parking fee). Payment is required at the time of entry and can be made via the Flowbird mobile app or at the kiosk near the elevator on the first floor. See the Program and Abstract Book (link coming soon!) for more parking options (some are free on Saturday).
There will be a $25 registration fee which can be paid on site by cash, check or Venmo (breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided).
Gala reception with cocktails, dinner, and jam will occur at Ed Large’s house after the event. In-person interactions and social gatherings are a cherished hallmark of NEST. We hope you will join us!
Call for Abstracts
Please use this form for abstract submissions. The deadline for abstracts is February 21, 2025.
We welcome abstract submissions for short (20 mins.) or long (45 mins.) talks. NEST is traditionally a local/regional workshop. We accept submissions from outside the New England area this year, however, only in-person presentations will be accepted.
This year’s theme is Music and Brain Health. Related topics include but are not limited to:
- Music-based intervention
- Music therapy
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Music and aging
- Rhythm, movement and the brain
While the above topics will be highlighted by this year's theme, we welcome all submissions related to rhythm, sequencing and timing in the behavior of living systems.
Please send questions to: musicdynamicslab@gmail.com
Information regarding registration, lodging and transportation can be found on this page and will be updated as the event approaches.
Contact Us
All updates about NEST 2025 will be sent via email.
Contact us at musicdynamicslab@gmail.com with any questions.
If you know someone who is interested in joining the NEST family, please let us know so we can add them to our email list.
History of NEST
The idea of the NEST meetings was hatched over breakfast in New Orleans at the November 1990 meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Charles Collyer, David Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, and Daniel Willingham, all of whom were then working in the greater New England area, decided to get together soon at a place closer to home and discuss their research. This they did in January of 1991 in Amherst. The NEST acronym, which invokes the hierarchically nested structure of rhythms and sequences, was coined at this first informal meeting.
The second NEST meeting was already more structured, and gradually the meetings reached their current size of about 40 attendees. The first four meetings were held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, organized by David Rosenbaum. After his departure for Penn State in the summer of 1994, Charles Collyer hosted the next five meetings at Brown University in Providence. Bruno Repp took over as organizer in 2000, with meetings being held first at Yale University and more recently at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven. In 1998, a book edited by Rosenbaum and Collyer was published which is known informally as “The Best of NEST.” To view its contents, click here.