PRE-MUS · PROSODY EXPERIENCE ENHANCEMENT WITH MUSICAL EDUCATION
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2011-02-08 → 2012-02-07
- EU contribution
- €92,052
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-IEF
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Results in brief
Prosody experience enhancement with musical education
The main objectives of PRE-MUS project were: (1) to characterise perceptual prosodic abilities, performance on various levels of perceptual auditory linguistic and non-linguistic related tasks, and examine the associations between them; (2) to characterise musical-education level and examine the interrelations between them and prosodic abilities; (3) to develop pilot intervention training in musical education and auditory skills to enhance emotional prosody comprehension. The project reached all its targets. We developed a battery of prosodic and auditory skills tests - vocal emotion recognition task (VERT) (objective 1). The musical education level was characterised by the advanced measures of music audiation (AMMA) (Gordon, 1989) as well as by a music emotion recognition task (MERT) which was created through a combination of two validated sets of music excerpts (objective 2). For the purpose of the third objective, pilot intervention training in musical education and auditory skills was developed to enhance emotional prosody comprehension. We tested the influence of short musical intervention compared to short visual art intervention on vocal emotion recognition. In a second experiment, we compared musicians, which had long-term music training, to non-musicians regarding their vocal emotion recognition. The results from the pilot intervention revealed that short-term music intervention, focused on the ways music conveys emotions, improved significantly the vocal emotion recognition of the participants as opposed to the vocal emotion recognition of the art intervention group participants. In the second experiment, which examined the long-term music training effect, there were no significant differences between musicians and non-musicians in the vocal emotion recognition. Following the results of the PRE-MUS research we can suggest a model for short-term clinical intervention and a new rehabilitation therapy which can be employed in the case of the autistic spectrum disorder and schizophrenia patients as well as in the general population.
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Project objective
The proposed PROSODY EXPERIENCE ENHANCEMENT WITH MUSICAL EDUCATION (PRE-MUS) will bring Dr. Mualem, a professional musician and music teacher from Israel to Hull, for a postdoctoral fellowship in the cognitive psychology laboratory of Dr. Lavidor. This is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary project that has exceptional potential clinical and educational applications. The main objectives of PRE-MUS project are: 1. Characterize perceptual prosodic abilities, performance on various levels of perceptual auditory linguistic and non-linguistic related tasks, and examine the associations between them. 2. Characterize musical education (MUS) level and examine the interrelations between them and prosodic abilities. 3. Pilot intervention training in musical education and auditory skills to enhance emotional prosody comprehension. We view objective (3) as particularly important in developing methods of rehabilitation of prosody deficits found in Autism and Schizophrenia. The PRE-MUS will provide an exceptional environment for the advanced research training of the researcher (Dr. Mualem) in state-of-the-art theories and methods of cognitive psychology. The main training objective of PRE-MUS is to maximize the chances of Dr. Mualem to get an academic position in her homeland and the training program details how we aim to do so. The PRE-MUS will also provide positive role models for young female researchers in the community, as the two partners (Lavidor and Mualem) are both mothers who combine a career in Science with family life. Dr. Lavidor has already benefited from European funding under FP5, FP6 and FP7, including an ERC start-up award and a Marie Curie excellence award. Her extensive experience with EC schemes will guarantee the smooth running of the PRE-MUS project.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITY OF HULL · HullCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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