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Brain and Culture Symposium 1 2016
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/brain-and-culture-symposium-1-2016/How can we interpret the different cultural expressions that have been the topic of discussions for centuries? What seperates music from art? Dance from architecture? Opera from poetry? Or are all artforms a product of our minds, and as such more unified that seperate? Modern Neuroscience sheds new light on, …
Brain and Culture symposium II 2017
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/brain-and-culture-ii-symposium-in-honour-of-georg-klein/Brain and Culture II symposium In honour of Georg Klein _____ Date: May 17, 2017 Time: 09.30-16.30 Place: Aula Medica, Nobels väg 6, Karolinska Institutet (How to find it) Contact: Louise von Essen _____ 9:30 – 9:35 Welcome – prof Karin Dahlman-Wright, Vice Chancellor, Karolinska Institutet. 9:35 – 9:40 Musical prelude: Fanfare. Trumpet ensemble, Lilla Akademien. 9:40 – 10:30 Profs …
Brain and Culture symposium III 2019
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/our-lectures/brain-and-culture-symposium-iii-2019/Date: October 11th, 2019 Time: 09.00-16.30 Place: Aula Medica, Nobels väg 6, Karolinska Institutet (How to find it) Contact: Louise von Essen 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome, Anders Gustafsson, Vice President for Research, Karolinska Institutet 9:15 – 9:25 Balettakademien, dance 9:25 – 10:15 Robert Zatorre: Music and the reward system: function and dysfunction View the video of Zatorre´s …
Brain & Culture lecture May 23rd: “Is music special as a cue for autobiographical memories? Exploring the how and why” with Kelly Jakubowski
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/culture-and-health/brain-culture-lecture-may-23rd-is-music-special-as-a-cue-for-autobiographical-memories-exploring-the-how-and-why-with-kelly-jakubowski/Title: Is music "special" as a cue for autobiographical memories? Exploring the how and why Speaker: Kelly Jakubowski, Associate Professor in Music Psychology, Co-Director of Centre for Research into Inner Experience, Department of Music, Durham University Date and time: Maj 23:e kl 14.00 Place: Inghesalen vid Widerströmska Huset, Tomtebodavägen 18, Solna About the lecture Many people think …
Arts, Culture & the Brain: A literature review and new epidemiological analyses
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/culture-and-health/arts-culture-the-brain-a-literature-review-and-new-epidemiological-analyses-2/An investigation into the impact of creativity and culture on the brain commissioned by the Arts Council in the U.K. What did the report find? The report offers extensive evidence that Engaging in creativity and culture is linked to positive wellbeing, feeling connected, and motivation in people across a range of …
The Cultural Brain Hypothesis: How culture drives brain expansion, sociality, and life history
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/culture-and-cognition/the-cultural-brain-hypothesis-how-culture-drives-brain-expansion-sociality-and-life-history/Humans have extraordinarily large brains, which tripled in size in the last few million years. Other animals also experienced a significant, though smaller, increase in brain size. These increases are puzzling, because brain tissue is energetically expensive—a smaller brain is easier to maintain in terms of calories. Here we present …
Brain & Culture lecture “Musical Daydreams” April 17th with Elizabeth Margulis
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/okategoriserad-en/brain-culture-lecture-april-17th-with-elizabeth-margulis/Title: Musical Daydreams Speaker: Elizabeth Margulis, Director, Music Cognition Lab Princeton University U.S.A Date & Time: April 17th at 3pm Location: Zoom, details coming soon Description Music can evoke a range of imaginings from autobiographical memories to fictional scenes, responses that have often been considered in separate streams of research. But given the amount of …
Brain & Culture lecture June 10th with Susan Magsamen
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/culture-and-health/brain-culture-lecture-june-10th-with-susan-magsamen/Speaker: Susan Magsamen, Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Title: coming soon Place and time: Eva & Georg Klein, Biomedicum Solna väg 9, Solna at 14.00
Fredrik Ullén awarded the KI Culture Prize 2022
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/culture-and-health/fredrik-ullen-awarded-the-ki-culture-prize-2022/Congratulations to Fredrik Ullén who was awarded the KI Culture Prize during KI Culture Day 19th October. Motivation for the prize Fredrik Ullén is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, and also a concert pianist. His major research interests are …
Review article: music perception, action, emotion and learning all rest on our fundamental capacity for prediction
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/culture-and-cognition/review-article-music-perception-action-emotion-and-learning-all-rest-on-our-fundamental-capacity-for-prediction/Music is ubiquitous across human cultures - as a source of affective and pleasurable experience, moving us both physically and emotionally - and learning to play music shapes both brain structure and brain function. Music processing in the brain - namely, the perception of melody, harmony and rhythm - has …
The Cultural Brain
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/the-cultural-brain/Background A revolution is going on in the cross scientific field of research where culture, brain, health and education meet each other. How do different forms of culture (and other environmental stimuli) affect the brain? What are the consequences for health, learning and wellbeing? Only a few years ago, only anecdotal pieces …
The Centre for Culture, Cognition and Health
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/the-centre-for-culture-cognition-and-health-2/Research focusing on cultural activities like music, reading and dance, and their effects on mental and physical health has dramatically advanced in recent years. Few research areas offer such excitement, or such intensity. Studying how the brain reacts when we listen to music, or play music ourself , helps us …
The Cultural Brain Initiative
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/the-cultural-brain-initiative/The Cultural Brain Initiative is an initiative at Karolinska Institutet which highlights international cutting edge research, focusing on the translational relationship between culture, the brain, teaching and health. This intitiative is aimed at interested researchers, leaders and representatives from political and business backgrounds, and the general public. Within the framework of …
Using a cappella to explain speech and music specialization
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/okategoriserad-en/using-a-cappella-to-explain-speech-and-music-specialization/A recent study suggests humans have developed complementary neural systems in each hemisphere for auditory stimuli. Speech and music are two fundamentally human activities that are decoded in different brain hemispheres. The study used a unique approach to reveal why this specialization exists. Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of …
Previous lectures
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/previous-lectures/January 12th 2024 Dance as a performative process and a narrative in life fractures: A Social psychological perpective with Hanna Pohjola, University of Eastern Finland, followed by a Dance Workshop with Balletakademien This presentation is focused on dance as a performative entity, an embodied narrative and an artistic experience in different life …
How to make a donation
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/make-a-donation-to-the-lottie-wiking-foundation/Make a donation to the Lottie Wiking foundation for Brain and Culture Research The Lottie Wiking foundation strives to support, by means of donations, brain and culture research and activities, including related developmental work within the fields of culture, art, music, movement and dance and physical activity, design and architecture. The foundation …
The Lottie Wiking Foundation
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/the-lottie-wiking-foundation-for-brain-and-culture-research/The foundation’s purpose To support, by means of donations, brain and culture research and activities, including related developmental work within the fields of culture, art, music, movement and dance and physical activity, design and architecture. The foundation is an independent organisation, nonaligned to political or religious beliefs. About Lottie Wiking and the …
Interviews with our guests
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/our-lectures/interviews-with-our-guests/Some of the researchers involved in the Brain and Culture initiative share their experiences, focusing on the interaction between scientific disciplines. Interview with Assal Habibi, University of San Francisco, California May 20 View the video interview on KI Play here Interview with Teppo Särkämö from the Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU), University of …
In focus: Fredrik Ullén at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/okategoriserad-en/in-focus-fredrik-ullen-at-the-max-planck-institute-for-empirical-aesthetics/The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is in many ways a unique research institute. A fundamental principal is that the institute should be a creative and interdisciplinary environment where empirical researchers within fields such as neuroscience, psychology and behavioral genetics interact with academics with a relevant background in the …
Latest publications
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/okategoriserad-en/latest-publications/Read the latest research publications within the fields of culture, brain and health on the link below. The list is regularly updated Research publications 2021
Research of interest outside the Centre
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/research/research-of-interest-outside-the-centre/AASA American Association of School Administrators Neuroscience research is revealing the impressive impact of arts instruction on students' cognitive, social and emotional development by David A. Sousa Every culture on this planet has art forms. Why is that? Neuroscientists continue to find clues as to how the mental and physical activities required …
Research overview
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/research-overview/Here is a selection of relevant and interesting articles chosen from leading research literature. Click on the links to access the original articles and abstracts Experiencing music A revolution in research about how the brain experiences and reacts to music is underway. This research includes how people from different cultures experience the …
Researchers
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/researchers/Here is is list of some of the most important centres for worldwide research connected to culture, the brain, health and teaching: Fredrik Ullén Fredrik Ullén is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. His research focuses on …
Grant for 1.2 M SEK from Hjärnfonden
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/nyheter/okategoriserad-en/the-centre-for-culture-cognition-and-health-recieves-a-grant-from-hjarnfonden-for-1-2-m-sek/Fredrik Ullén's group in The Centre for Culture, Cognition and Health has received a grant from Hjärnfonden for research relating to neural markers for learning, where a piano melody is used as a model to understand how the brain learns new skills. Hjärnfonden’s support is especially appreciated during a time …
Research Publications
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/publications/Research publications within the fields of culture, brain and health sorted annually 2024 The Neuroscience of Dance: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Review. Vander Elst OF, Foster NHD , Vuust P , Keller PE , Kringelbach ML. N. Euroscience Biobehav Rev 2023 Jul:150:105197. Prokofiev was (almost) right: A cross-cultural investigation of auditory-conceptual associations in Peter and the Wolf. Di Stefano N, …
Applications
http://www.kulturellahjarnan.se/en/applications/During the last ten years interest has increased in the use of music in the treatment and rehabilitation of neurological disorders. New methods have been developed to improve motor skill competence, cognitive competence and language and social competences in patients with various diseases. During the same period our knowledge of …