An open air concert and NeuroConcurs Award Ceremony close the project NeuroUB
On Thursday 27 June, at 8.30 p.m., the last session of the series NeuroConcertstakes place in Jardins de la Sedeta (321, Carrer de Sicília, Barcelona) within the activities organised to celebrate the annual festival of Camp d'en Grassot-Gràcia Nova neighbourhood. The session analyses how music is perceived by the body and explains that even if we do not move, the motor cortex of the brain is active. Participating short films in the first NeuroConcurs “You, your brain and YouTube” are screened and awards are given before the concert. Both activities close the project NeuroUB.
On Thursday 27 June, at 8.30 p.m., the last session of the series NeuroConcertstakes place in Jardins de la Sedeta (321, Carrer de Sicília, Barcelona) within the activities organised to celebrate the annual festival of Camp d'en Grassot-Gràcia Nova neighbourhood. The session analyses how music is perceived by the body and explains that even if we do not move, the motor cortex of the brain is active. Participating short films in the first NeuroConcurs “You, your brain and YouTube” are screened and awards are given before the concert. Both activities close the project NeuroUB.
The last neuroconcert
Lenka Selinger, UB neuroscientist, and Rubén López Cano, music expert from the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC), describe brain processes involved in musicʼs body dimension accompanied by the music played by Swing Maniacs.
Lenka Selinger is studying a PhD in Neurosciences at the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group of the Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3C) of the UB. She holds a degree in Psychology from the UB (2010) and a masterʼs degree in Neurosciences, from the UB too. In 2011, she worked as temporary part-time lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology of the UB (2010-2011). Her research is focused on the influence of emotion on perceptive and cognitive processes (cognitive control, working memory, decision making), and emotion evocation brain mechanisms related music. She likes swing and she has given lindy hop classes for a year at the school Swing Maniacs in Barcelona.
Rubén López Cano researches on musical rhetoric and semiotics, philosophy of body musical cognition, musical epistemology, audiovisual musicology, musical art research, and diaspora, body and subjectivity in music. He has published some books such as: Música plurifocal, Música y retórica en el Barroco and Cómo hacer una comunicación, ponencia o ʻpaperʼ y no morir en el intento. He directs the digital publication TRANS-Transcultural Music Review.
NeuroConcurs Award Ceremony
During the session, the award ceremony of NeuroConcurs “You, your brain and YouTube” takes place too. Prizes will be conferred to the best video, to the most original video, to the video best made by an under 16, and to the most popular video.
The contest aimed at linking neuroscience with daily life aspects in order to remark the permanent action of the nervous system and the brain in our daily actions as a way to understand its relevance. Anyone interested could participate by sending a 3-minute video. Participating short films can be watched on this link.
NeuroUB: Neuroscience, Music and Art is a science disseminating project born to celebrate the Year of Neuroscience in Spain which aims at fostering the social interest in neurosciences. The project is funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) - Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Secretary for Universities and Research from the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia.