Tag: neuroscience

• First SMART outcome paper published!

  SMART’s protocol paper has just been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology and the whole team is absolutely ecstactic! Although later than originally planned, the publication of our experimental protocol reflects years of intense work, funding application, partner and research site selection, team creation, seeking for ethics approval by NYU and the…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  18 de August de 2025

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  mental health, Music interventions, neuroscience, open access, open science, outreach, protocol paper, science dissemination, scientific publications, SMART project

• The SMART project presented at IRCAM (Paris, FR)

  Taking advantage of her visit to France, LV was invited to give a talk at Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music to present the SMART project and get to know a bit about the reseach performed there, specifically at the Sciences et Technologie de la Musique et du Son (STMS). Hosted and conducted by…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  28 de November de 2024

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  France, IRCAM, music, networking, neuroscience, presentation, science communication, seminar, SMART project

• 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

• 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

• 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

• New scientific publication from SMART team (unrelated to SMART)

  Before being the leading researcher in the SMART project, Lucía Vaquero was involved and acted as the local Principal Investigator (from UCM) for the EU-funded project ‘tEchnology for Multimodal inter-BRain dynAmiCs invEstigation (EMBRACE)‘ (also funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Program; specifically, it was awarded with an H2020-MSCA-RISE grant, which support international and intersectoral research projects).…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  6 de December de 2023

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  dry electrode EEG, EMBRACE project, human interaction, hyperscanning, intersectoral research, MSCA, neuroscience, new paper, scientific publication

• Outreach article for The Conversation (SPA)

  Thanks to her ongoing collabortion with the news outlet The Conversation España, Lucía Vaquero was invited to write another article for this platform. In this ocasion, the focus of the text was in close relationship with the SMART project. Image by Antoni Shkraba (obtained at pexels.com) This article, entitled ‘Do we know how new technologies…

  Lucia Vaquero Zamora

  30 de November de 2023

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  articles in Spanish, challenges in research, developmental neuroscience, divulgacion, neuroscience, outreach, science communication, social media