The project MUSE (Music for the development of social skills: The impact of music training on socio-emocional processing) aimed to explore if music training improves socio-emotional processing. The project investigated differences between adult musicians and non-musicians in recognizing emotions, in voices and faces, and combined magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological techniques to delineate the neural mechanisms of the effect, as well as examining how emotions are represented in the trained brain, modulations in the processing time course, and changes in functional connectivity and brain anatomy. The project also comprised a a longitudinal study with children to test the effects of a music training program on socio-emotional processing, including pre- and post-training assessments.
Find out more with Cesár Lima, the lead researcher of the project, in the video below:
MUSE was funded by FCT (PTDC/PSI‑GER/ 28274/2017) e co-funded by European Regional Development Fund Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) through Regional OP Lisboa 2020 (LISBOA‑01‑0145‑FEDER‑028274) and Competitiveness and Internationalization OP (POCI‑01‑0145‑FEDER‑028274). For more information on this project and its results check the principal researcher's website, the Ciência-IUL page about the project, and on the EntreCampus article (in Portuguese).
Video credits:
Image capturing and video editing: Pedro Simão Mendes (SciComm Manager at CIS-Iscte)
Audio used: "perception", Music: Bensound.com/royalty-free-music, License code: 9EBCDE9VW5YSOMZO
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