Prof. Pablo Ripollés and Dr. Lucía Vaquero attended this week the first NeMO-CAMP workshop in Carry-le-Rouet (France). The interesting and promising premise behind this gathering is to establish and reinforce the links between researchers from the Neuroscience & Music field that have collaborative tights with institutions and researchers located in the South of Europe (mostly France, Italy and Spain).
The workshop contained both short and long talks, as well as a poster session. Discussions around the origins and importance of music, the biases researchers in this field may introduce, and the latest results of projects around a wide array of topics (from music curiosity to beat & rhythm perception to brain processes supporting earworms), among other ideas, were presented by young PIs in the field.
Prof. Ripollés led one of the short talks, introducing the works of PhD students Ellie Abrahams and Brandon Carone around the effects of novelty and reward on memory. LV, on the other hand, presented the SMART project and its preliminary results from the first music group (completed during Spring 2024) in a poster format, and got a lot of attention, questions and interesting feedback from a big section of the attendees to the workshop. The project was considered extremely interesting and well-designed, as well as truly relevant and innovative. Some interesting suggestions discussed during this poster session will be surely applied to our future analyses.
This was a very stimulating retreat-like workshop that for sure will promote collaboration, and that has served to situate the SMART project as a novel and important piece of research in the field. We are very thankful to the organizers (Benjamin Morillon, Daniele Schön, Luc Arnal, and Keith Doelling) for inviting ud.
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