Our Aim
Our Mission:
Music and Cognition aims to design, implement and assess projects that tackle an identified need, as well as establishing high-quality, collaborative relationships between researchers, teachers, practitioners, children and schools.
08/04/2019
Tiziana Pozzo at the Music Therapy Conference of the Mediterranean 2019 in Tunisia presenting the research project "Sounding Out - Music for deaf students" and the relative Toolkit, written with Katie Mason for Creative Futures, founded by Youth Music, in collaboration with UCL - Institute of Education.
05/03/2019
In exactly 30 days Tiziana Pozzo will be in Tunis, presenting the research Sounding Out and the Toolkit about Music for Deaf Students, written with Katie Mason.
https://www.creativefuturesuk.com/resources
She's been invited by the Associazione Scuola di Specializzazione in Musicoterapia "Giovanni Ferrari" to lead a presentation of the research run by Creative Futures, the University College London in collaboration with us.
She will also run a practical workshop about the use of the body music with deaf children.
04/03/2019
January 3-5th 2019, Katie Mason and Alice Rose Bowmer attended the Central European University’s Conference on Cognitive Development in Budapest, Hungary.
The conference featured a fantastic line-up of international cognitive development researchers, all meeting to discuss their recent findings and advances in the field.
Alice and Katie presented a poster of their work investigating the impact of music classes on preschool children’s executive function skills, which was very well received!
01/03/2019
Happy world music therapy day to all the wonderful music therapists out there, and to the children, young people, parents and adults whose lives are enriched by music therapy.
25/02/2019
Katie Mason and Tiziana Pozzo worked with Creative Futures to produce a toolkit for music practitioners working with deaf students. Named “Sounding Out”, it contains activities with supporting video examples - and it is available FREE here: www.creativefuturesuk.com/resources
Check it out!
creativefutures | Resources Delivering inspirational arts programmes to improve outcomes for children and young people.
18th of March
Presentation of Music and Cognition on a FB livestream.
Save the date!
21/02/2019
Recently, Alice Rose Bowmer wrote an eye-opening article for the Centre of Educational Neuroscience about her experiences as both a teacher and researcher, and how the two professions should work together for mutual benefit and optimal outcomes. Check out her article here:
http://www.educationalneuroscience.org.uk/2019/02/15/how-teaching-informs-research-informs-teaching-informs-research/
21/02/2019
New Publication! Out now in Frontiers in Psychology.
Our latest paper entitled “Investigating the impact of a musical intervention on preschool children’s executive function” is now available in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology – you can read the paper at the link below.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02389/full
We conducted the research with the UCL Institute of Education and arts charity Creative Futures to investigate the effect of weekly musicianship training on the executive function abilities of 3-to-4-year-old children at a London preschool. The findings from the study contribute to current debates about the potential cognitive benefit of musical interventions, including important issues regarding intervention duration, experimental design, target age groups, executive function testing, and task novelty – all of which we discuss in the paper. You can read more about the study on our “Projects” page!
21/02/2019
In September 2018, Katie Mason and Tiziana Pozzoworked with the arts charity, Creative Futures, to produce an online toolkit for music practitioners working with deaf children.
“Sounding Out” is a comprehensive resource to support music leaders and school teachers who work with deaf children, and is a culmination of the experiences and learning from across a 3-year programme in specialist schools for deaf children funded by Youth Music.
The toolkit consists of two sections, a theoretical introduction and a practical section with step-by-step guides to creating warm-up activities, musical games and main activities, supported by video examples. This free resource can be found on Creative Futures’ website.
Creative Futures - Transforming young lives through the arts - London | Resources Delivering inspirational arts programmes to improve outcomes for children and young people.
21/02/2019
We agree! That’s why we are excited to launch our new research group, "Music and Cognition”!
Look out for our Facebook livestream on 18th March!
15/02/2019
Our new paper is out, investigating the impact of a musical intervention on preschool children’s executive function! Learn more in the link in bio!
Thanks to Creative Futures for this first steps together!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02389/full
15/02/2019
An article published by the centre for educational neuroscience all about how teaching and research are mutually supportive, by Alice Rose Bowmer
How teaching informs research informs teaching informs research… We’re always especially pleased to hear from people with one foot in teaching and another in academic research, so today we are delighted to introduce Alice Bowmer who absolutely fits that bi…