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SMART Lab Master’s Student wins this year’s 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition

Mar 24, 2017 Ella Dubinsky has won this year’s 3 Minute Thesis at Ryerson University. 3MT is a university-wide competition where graduate students present their research in three minutes to a panel of non-specialist judges and an audience, using only one PPT slide. Read more about it (and even watch the video) here! After this, Ella

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LIFE Institute’s Partners in Learning honour awarded to two SMART Lab Members

Mar 24, 2017 Two members of the SMART Lab were honoured this week at the LIFE Institute’s Partners in Learning event. Domenica Fanelli (left) and Ella Dubinsky (right) will receive bursaries to support their ongoing work investigating perceptual, cognitive and social benefits of singing in older adults. Congratulations!!! And here is one more photo featuring a wider

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Emoteplay, a SMART Lab startup company, is about to release its first app!

Mar 10, 2017 Big Break: the Acting Game The game is designed to operate as a safe and fun way for kids to practice their social communication skills through modules that require listening, watching, acting, and singing. A great resource for coaching nonverbal aspects of expression and emotion understanding.

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Symposium accepted for Neurosciences & Music VI

Dec 1st, 2016 Dr. Frank Russo will be co-chairing a symposium with Assal Habibi of the Brain and Creativity Institute (University of Southern California) on “Extra-musical benefits of music training across the lifespan” at Neurosciences & Music VI. In partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, the Mariani Foundation for Paediatric Neurology will

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