This category focuses on the important influence that culture has on education, featuring current research
Culture and Education
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Brain and Culture Lecture December 1st with Cassia Low Manting “Tuning the Brain: How Music Sharpens Attention in a Noisy World”
Date and time: December 1st at 14.00 Location: Peter Reichard lecture hall, Biomedicum, Solna väg 9 Speaker: Cassia Low Manting, Research Specialist, Daniel Lundqvist's research group, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet Title: Tuning the Brain: How Music Sharpens Attention in a Noisy World Tuning the Brain: How Music Sharpens Attention in a Noisy …
In Focus: Empathy and Education
Classroom Lessons Found to Boost Empathy in a recent study A study backed by the University of Cambridge suggests that just one term of empathy-focused lessons in schools could lead to improvements in student behaviour. Around 900 students, aged five to 18, across six different countries took part in a video-based …
Food for thought: the realm of creativity through the art of “Poem-Making” every Thursday at 19.00 online
When: Every Thursday at 10:00 AM Pacific (19.00 CET) Location: Online (see link below) Offered by Redwing Keyssar, RN, Author, Director of Patient and Caregiver Education at The MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care, UCSF/Mt Zion. In this one-hour “Poetry Café”, co-sponsored by the MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care and …
Can analysis of Beethoven’s DNA reveal his genetic ‘musical’ predisposition?
How much of exceptional human achievement can be attributed to genetics? This longstanding question, originating in the early days of genetic research, seems more approachable today thanks to advanced molecular techniques that allow for the analysis of DNA from historical figures. But how reliable are the conclusions drawn from such …
Sissela Nutley receives KI’s Culture Prize 2024
Photo: George Chahine Researcher, screenwriter and composer Sissela Nutley is awarded KI's Culture Prize for her work in uniting culture and science to convey messages about the brain and mental illness, including through the school program “Det syns inte” (It is not visible) which is used in classrooms around Sweden. The …
Interview with Dr. Eugen Wassiliwizky: the study of aesthetic emotions
Dr. Eugen Wassiliwizky’s research focuses on the study of aesthetic emotions. In this interview, questions like: If goosebumps have a neurological connection to survival, why does impactful art also cause chills? What draws us to poetry that is sad or bittersweet? How do experienced poetry readers differ from new ones …
In focus: Regular auditory rhythms can help improve both perception and movement coordination in children at risk for DCD
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a common condition in children that affects their ability to coordinate movements and timing. Research has shown that problems with tracking and synchronizing movements to rhythms are common in various motor disorders. Research in a recent article in Scientific Reports with Laurel Trainor (pictured) aims to …
How Our Brains Process Music
Researchers unlocked how the brain processes melodies, creating a detailed map of auditory cortex activity. Their study reveals that the brain engages in dual tasks when hearing music: tracking pitch with neurons used for speech and predicting future notes with music-specific neurons. This breakthrough clarifies the longstanding mystery of melody perception, …
Dr. Immordino-Yang video interview: How Emotions & Social Factors Impact Learning
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD is Professor of education, psychology and neuroscience at the University of Southern California and director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education, who has done groundbreaking research on emotions, self-awareness and social interactions and how these impact the way we learn and change …
Arts, Culture & the Brain: A literature review and new epidemiological analyses
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 …
Interview with Assal Habibi – music in education
This month Gunnar Bjursell has interviewed Assal Habibi, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California. Gunnar and Assal discuss the benefits of music in education and the impact it has on child development Full interview with subtitles in English
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 …
Does the amount of time you spend in school improve your intelligence, or are other factors more important?
This new study between Karolinska Institutet and the Radboud University Medical Center and Vrije University in Holland focused on how months of schooling related to intelligence in 6567 children (aged 9-11), taking into account factors such as socioeconomic status (SES) and cognitive ability. Notably, two years of schooling had a larger …
Why Should I Learn Music? It Can Be Good for Your Brain!
Research shows that playing music also contributes to our overall health and wellbeing and helps our thinking and planning skills. In this popular science article, we will first talk about how various parts of the brain are engaged to make music playing possible. We will also discuss benefits of music …
Fredrik Ullén 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
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 …
New study about the individual differences in ordinary aesthetic experience
Aesthetic experience seems both regular and idiosyncratic. On one hand, there are powerful regularities in what we tend to find attractive versus unattractive (e.g., beaches versus mud puddles). On the other hand, our tastes also vary dramatically from person to person: what one of us finds beautiful, another might find …
Welcome to the ‘Music and Personality’ experiment, conducted by Prof. Glenn Schellenberg with colleagues at the University of Lisbon!
Find out more about your personality and musical talent! Welcome to the 'Music and Personality' experiment! The aim of this study is to explore how musical abilities are associated with personality, nonmusical abilities, formal music training, and informal musical activities (e.g., listening, attending concerts). The experiment takes around 45 minutes …
