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Part of the SMART team at the NeMO-CAMP 2024

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…

Lucia Vaquero Zamora

24 de November de 2024

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European science, music, networking, neuroscience, science communication, SMART project, workshop
SMART represented during MARL & CoHRR: Sound + Health Research Day

On Friday October 25th, 2024, NYU’s 370 Jay St. facilities held the MARL & CoHRR: Sound + Health Research Day. This was a one-day event for researchers from the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) and the Center for Health and Rehabilitation Research (CoHRR) to introduce each other, their teams, and their lines of research,…

Lucia Vaquero Zamora

25 de October de 2024

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audio music and speech, CoHRR, collaboration, collaborative science, communication, dissemination, MARL, multidisciplinary, music, News!, NYU, Pablo Ripolles, science, SMART project
SMART celebrates its collaboration with ACO at the American Composers Orchestra 2024 Gala

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and our scientific team found each other back in 2022 in a very serendipitous way, but from the first conversation, both parts knew they were the perfect partner for achieving each others’ goals, specifically, in the context of the SMART project. Collaborating with ACO has been a dream from the…

Lucia Vaquero Zamora

16 de October de 2024

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american composers orchestra, mental health, neuroscience and music, well being, youth
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