Weapons of the music to seduce the brain.

-The researcher Robert Zatorre, reference in the study of the perception of the music world, taught a master class on how music generates emotions in the brain

Zatorre taught a master class entitled music in the brain: ear, plasticity, image and emotion ”. The Canadian scientist of Argentine origin developed the themes of how the brain perceives music, imagine how musical sounds or how music generates emotions.

According to some recent research, the strong positive emotions caused by the music seem to be related to the area of the brain that is responsible for the reward and motivation. in addition, researchers in neuroscience are interested more and more music because it can be a powerful tool to reveal the inner workings of the nervous system.

In addition to the intervention of Zatorre, Congress hosted other presentations relating to the relationship between music and the brain. Several researchers presented their findings and research in a dedicated poster session at the music perception ”.

On the other hand, emphasized oral segment that afternoon was devoted to the latest research on how brain exercises judgment and decision making. The oral presentations also covered subjects like social cognition, learning, verbal understanding and perception.

The meeting on Sunday served also to close Congress 2011 ESCoP, the most important in Europe in the field of cognitive psychology, that during the last week has met in the Kursaal a thousand experts from all over the world to discuss the latest research on the most complex organ of the human being, the brain.

The study of this body key to inform ourselves is made from many different disciplines, so at the Kursaal meet tomorrow last day psychologists, pedagogues, linguists, physicists, mathematicians, computer, physicians or biologists. Very different professional profiles with a common goal: understanding the human brain.

The Congress, which has been witness to the last Sunday in 700 scientific presentations, featured the most prominent personalities from the world of cognitive psychology, with the intervention of, among others, Robert Zatorre of the McGill University of Canada; Dana Small, Yale University, USA; Cathy Price, of the University Colllege of London; Randi Martin, of the Rice University (USA); Antonino Vallesi, of the International School for Advanced Studies (Italy); Itziar Laka, the University of the Basque country; Nuria Sebastián, President of the ESCoP from Universitat Pompeu Fabra or Manuel Carreiras, director of the BCBL.