The Brain Research And Interdisciplinary Neurosciences (BRAIN) Lab at WMU

01/16/2024

Project led by: Dr. Alice Jones Bartoli, Dr. Diana Omigie, and Curious Minds.

To learn more and apply:
curiousminds.org.uk
senss.ac.uk/collaborativeproject6

11/11/2023

Ohh yes …

I think we can relate to this 😆

11/12/2021

Check out this new publication exploring the experiences of music therapy students throughout their clinical training!

Congratulations to all the authors Ed Roth, Xueyan Hua, Wang Lu, Jordan Blitz Novak, Fei Wang, Taylorlyn Mehnert, Rebekah Morano, Jennifer Fiore and Alycia Sterenberg Mahon!

Article can be found in the Voices: A World Forum for Music therapy: https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i3.3055

Roth, E., Hua, X., Lu, W., Novak, J., Wang, F., Mehnert, T., Morano, R., Fiore, J., & Sterenberg Mahon, A. (2021). Clinical Training in Music Therapy. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(3). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i3.3055

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11/05/2021

Whether you are close friends or acquaintances, you know how easy it is to feel connected when making music within a group. Why does this happen? Can group music making be used to increase social connectedness?

Molly Grettenberger and Sheridan Brown are breaking down their study on how they used motion capture to look at movement synchronization as well as qualitative interviews to look at social connectedness!

If you want to learn more, you can read Molly’s thesis here: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/5158/ and Sheridan’s thesis here: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/5153/.
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10/22/2021

Come visit us in the BRAIN Lab! We are located in the College of Health and Human Services building, Room 2019. Feel free to schedule a meeting with us by sending an email to music-brainlabmanager@wmich.edu! We look forward to meeting you!
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10/16/2021

The 2021 AMTA Conference is this week! Be sure to check out “The Neurobiology of Trauma: Neuroprotection, Plasticity, and Music” presented by Edward Roth, PhD, MT-BC. The session will be held on Sunday, October 17th, from 10:00am to 11:15am. See you there!
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10/15/2021

The 2021 AMTA Conference is this week! Be sure to check out one of the featured conference sessions: “Trauma Informed Care, Social Justice, and Resilience: Connecting and Exploring the Conference Theme through Research and Practice.” Panelists include: Natalia Alvarez-Figueroa, MMT, MT‑BC; Ed Roth, PhD, MT‑BC; Maria Gonsalves Schimpf, MA, MT‑BC; Dr. Elly Scrine. Moderator: Wendy Woolsey, MA, MT‑BC. The session will take place on Saturday, October 16th, from 4:30pm to 5:45pm and is sponsored by CARF International-Aspire to Excellence. We will see you there!
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10/15/2021

The 2021 AMTA conference is this week! We are proud to share that one of our recent WMU alumni, Taylorlyn Mehnert, MM, MT-BC, is one of the presenters for the oral research poster session! The oral research poster session is on Saturday, October 16th, from 11:15am to 12:30pm. She will be presenting her research, “The Role of Music in the Trauma Narrative and "Storytelling": Perspectives of Clinicians” with Angela Moe, PhD, and Edward Roth, PhD, MT-BC. Come and join the 2021 AMTA conference!
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10/14/2021

The 2021 AMTA Conference is this week! Be sure to check out “The Solution Within the Work: Discovering Vicarious Resilience as a Way to Combat Burnout” featuring one of our recent WMU alumni, Bridget Sova, MM, MT-BC along with Edward Roth, PhD, MT-BC. The session will take place on Friday, October 15th, from 10:00am to 11:15am. See you then!

The Solution Within the Work: Discovering Vicarious Resilience as a Way to Combat Burnout
Presenter(s): Bridget Sova, MM, MT-BC; Edward Roth, PhD, MT-BC
Friday, Oct. 15th from 10:00am to 11:15am

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10/08/2021

Let’s meet our new Graduate Research Assistant! This year, we are glad to have Eunice Yung as the BRAIN Lab’s GA. Eunice is currently in her first year of the Music Therapy Graduate program at WMU! Eunice enjoys working with children and hopes to continue her understanding of how music impacts this population cognitively through research. Welcome Eunice!
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05/20/2021

Neurobiological models of emotion focus traditionally on limbic/paralimbic regions as neural substrates of emotion generation, and insular cortex (in conjunction with isocortical anterior cingulate cortex, ACC) as the neural substrate of feelings. An emerging view, however, highlights the importance...

04/26/2021

Asking our colleagues and friends... what improvisation articles have you been reading lately? We have really been enjoying, "Jazz Musicians Reveal Role of Expectancy in Human Creativity" from Przysinda et al., 2017!

"Results suggest that creativity entails being sensitive and engaged with unexpected events within a well-learned context, and that training sharpens our expectations and can have general implications for how humans learn to be creative." (p. 52)

Citation: Przysinda, E., Zeng, T., Maves, K., Arkin, C., and Loui, P. (2017). Jazz musicians reveal role of expectancy in human creativity. Brain and Cognition 119(2017), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.09.008