Category: News!

• Opinion Piece around Mental Health & Rapidly Digitalizing World – EPHA publications

  LV was recently asked to write an opinion piece for the European Public Health Alliance leveraging her growing expertise on the topic of mental health and digital technologies. The article does an overview of the importance of the topic, mentioning then the recent legal and social pressures that social media companies have had to face…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  25 de September de 2024

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  EPHA publications, European Public Health Alliance, outreach, policy making, public health, science communication, social media

• LV gets interviewed and featured @MPAP’s Instagram

  Image obtained from Frank Buschman at Flicker The Fall 2024 semester started a week ago at NYU and, with it, a teaching opportunity has also begun for LV. During this semester, LV will be teaching the course ‘Psychology of Music‘, directed at Masters’ Students from NYU Steinhardt’s ‘Music and Performing Arts Professions (MPAP)‘ programs. As…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  9 de September de 2024

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  instagram, interview, MPAP, NYU, Psychology of Music, social media, teaching

• Presentation at the Musical Development Unit (MPIEA)

  Lucía Vaquero presented the SMART project at the bi-weekly meetings of the Musical Development Unit (within the Music Department at the MPIEA), the research group led by Dr. Franziska Dégé. In this presentation, LV commented the experimental design with its original planifications and necessary later modifications, the learning process that has taken place during the…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  24 de July de 2024

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  Max PLanck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, MPIEA, MSCA, neuroscience, science communication, SMART project, social media

• Presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

  As part of her stay at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) as a visiting scientist, Lucia Vaquero gave a talk for the Department of Music. In this talk within their departamental meetings, LV presented the SMART project, commenting on its original planifications, necessary modifications, learning process and improvements during first implementation, obtained…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  3 de July de 2024

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  Aesthetical Development, dissemination activities, Frankfurt, Max PLanck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, MPIEA, MSCA, neuroscience, project presentation, science communication, SMART project, social media, visiting scientist

• LV starts her stay at the MPIEA

  Lucía Vaquero is just starting her 6-weeks stay at the Max Plank Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, which constitutes her academic secondment within the MSCA timeline and planned activities. Under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Franziska Dégé, from the Department of Music (Music Development research line), she will continue the preparation of a protocol paper,…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  18 de June de 2024

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  academic secondments, exchange, Frankfurt, MPIEA, MSCA, networking, neuroscience, science communication, SMART project, social media

• SMART poster presentation at the Neuromusic VIII Conference

  These past few days (June 13th to 16th), a small part of the Ripolles Lab attended the Neuroscience and Music VIII conference in Helsinki (Finland). This is the most important conference in the neuromusic field, it takes place every 3 years, and it is a great showcase of the most relevant and novel advances in…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  16 de June de 2024

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  communication, conference, intervention studies, Mariani Foundation, mental health, MSCA, Music interventions, networking, neuroscience, neuroscience & music VIII, science communication, SMART project, social media

• Presentation & meeting with Sounds of Saving

  The Ripolles Lab held a meeting on May 30th with the organization Sounds of Saving at MARL-NYU premises to exchange ideas and discuss the different projects that both groups are currently working on. The main goal was to get to know each other, and try to find common ground for potential avenues of collaboration. Sounds…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  31 de May de 2024

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  collaboration, mental health, music, resources for mental health, Ripolles Lab, Sounds of Saving, wellness, youth

• Project presentation at NYU’s CoHRR 2024 Showcase

  On April 19th, the New York University’s Center of Health and Rehabilitation Research (CoHRR) at Steinhardt organized a showcase for all students and postdoctoral researchers affiliated with CoHRR to estimulate networking among the Center’s community and to get all researchers and students know better about the projects that are being developed at CoHRR. Lucia Vaquero…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  22 de April de 2024

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  CoHRR 2024 showcase, neuroeducation, neuroscience and the arts, nyu internal communication, project presentation, science communication, SMART project

• SMART interventions start!

  Today, SMART’s music intervention has officially started! The first group of recruited participants have attended the first session of the music composition/edition interventions. In this first class, teaching artists from the American Composers Orchestra have introduced themselves, as well as the planning and expected dynamics of the classes. The group started listening to a song…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  27 de February de 2024

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  american composers orchestra, class, intervention program, music, music composition, music edition, Music interventions, social media, songs, sound, teenagers

• SMART baseline evaluations start!

  After several delays that could not be foreseen due to a longer-than-expected IRB Ethics Committee review process by the New York Department of Education, and adaptations that had to be made to the scholar calendar, the baseline evaluations for the first cohort of recruited participants have just started! As described in our IRB-approved protocol, adapting…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  14 de February de 2024

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  baseline, behavioral evaluations, behavioral experiment, data acquisition, evaluation, experiment, experimental procedures, neuroscience, teenagers, testing