There are some exciting (and weather relevant!) goodies in the #ESCOM12York welcome bags!! Following our environmental ethos, we encourage delegates to use their #ESCOM12 cup throughout the event.

Interested in the dynamics on the dance floor? Dr Joshua S. Bamford has the answer: swarmalators! ESCOM12 With Petri Toiviainen from Music, Mind, Body and Brain

Wonderful big data take on tempo and age by Geoff Luck & Alessandro Ansani that show a hockey stick function of performed tempo across age that matches the changes in spontaneous motor tempo across life-span #musicscience #escom12

Congratulations to Prof. Suvi Saarikallio, the new ESCOM Society president!

Madeline Hamilton ja tutkimusryhmänsä havaitsivat, että hittilistoilla keikkuvien biisien melodiat ovat muuttuneet 1950-luvulta tähän päivään tultaessa yksinkertaisemmiksi. Itsekin olen huomannut hittibiiseissä ”lastenlaulumaisia” melodioita. 1/4 theguardian.com/music/article/…

Kristi Kiilu opens the conference day by teaching us an Estonian lullaby by Arvo Pärt at the Arvo Pärt Center in Laulasmaa in Estonia at #ISME #Mistec conference.

Our Director Laurel Trainor is a big part of HAMILTON CITY Magazine's recent feature: TURN UP THE MUSIC, which emphasizes the importance of music education! Read about how Hamiltonians are working to keep the music playing! hamiltoncitymagazine.ca/turn-up-the-mu… #MusicAndTheMind #NeuroScience

Dear #ISME participants, please don’t miss our workshop today at 16:20 in Arkadia1 room at Crowne Plaza Helsinki. We work on building bridges between practical music education and neuroscience research. Alicia Lucendo Noriega Music, Mind, Body and Brain and Elisa Seppänen with me. Faculty of Educational Sciences, Univ. of Helsinki

Haetaan osallistujia tutkimukseen! Onko sinulla tai tutullasi jokin muistiin vaikuttava sairaus? Haemme mukaan 60 vuotta täyttäneitä, joilla on mahdollisuus osallistua tänä syksynä musiikilliseen ryhmätoimintaan Helsingissä. Lisätiedot: tutkimushoitaja Eija Lahdensuo, 0503188048.

Musa-aivotutkijat Tanja Linnavalli, Vesa Putkinen ja Daniel Levitin kokoontuivat eilen leppoisaan tiedekeskusteluun Rosebud Books:lla. Mm. kirjallaan This is your brain on music (2006) alaa popularisoinut Levitin nousee pe 23.8. myös Musiikkitalo:n klubin lavalle, suosittelen! 🎷🎸

Delighted to have hosted our colleagues from the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Exciting collaboration on physical activity, sports, education, and music: How can integrating physical activity 🤸 with music 🎺 enhance mental health and wellbeing?

Wonderful panel and concert on Aug. 23. Our own Suvi Saarikallio took the stage with Daniel Levitin Victor Wooten and host Marko Ahtisaari to discuss music as an art form, as a science, and as a key to well-being. Photo credit: @Helsinkifestival

Our newest study with Iballa Burunat and Dan Levitin featured in New Scientist. 🎹🧠 #musicscience Music, Mind, Body and Brain University of Jyväskylä newscientist.com/article/244527…

What would be more interesting than the #neuroscience of #music and #learning? Hear more about the recent research and guests in Brain, Music and Learning research group with the hosts Mari Tervaniemi and Minna Huotilainen.

Music play school enhances children's language skills! In our Brain, Music and Learning podcast, we discuss with Dr. Tanja Tanja Linnavalli her music intervention research in early childhood education in Finland. Listen here and follow for more: open.spotify.com/episode/5efP6g…