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DocumentSpeaking to the trained ear: Musical expertise enhances the recognition of emotions in speech prosody2011

Reference code: PT/FB
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Location: S. Mamede do Coronado
Title:
BIAL Foundation Archive
Start date: 1994
History:
The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by Laboratórios BIAL in conjunction with the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities. BIAL’s Foundation mission is to foster the scientific study of Man from both the physical and spiritual perspectives.
Along the years the BIAL Foundation has developed an important relationship with the scientific community, first in Portugal and after worldwide. Today it is an institution of reference which aims to stimulate new researches that may help people, promote more health and contribute to new milestones to gain access to knowledge.
Among its activities the BIAL Foundation manages the BIAL Award, created in 1984, one of the most important awards in the Health field in Europe. The BIAL Award rewards both the basic and the clinical research distinguishing works of major impact in medical research.
The BIAL Foundation also assigns Scientific Research Scholarships for the study of neurophysiological and mental health in people, arousing the interest of researchers in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
To date the BIAL Foundation has supported 461 projects, more than 1000 researchers, with research groups in twenty-seven countries, resulting, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, out of which 172 published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Since 1996 the BIAL Foundation organizes the Symposia entitled "Behind and Beyond the Brain", a Forum that gathers well renowned neurosciences speakers and the BIAL Foundation Fellows which are spread around the world.
Classified as an institution of public utility, the BIAL Foundation includes among its patrons the Portuguese President, the Portuguese Universities Rectors' Council and the Portuguese Medical Association.
URL: http://www.bial.com/pt/
Accessibility: By permission

Reference code: PT/FB/BL
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Title: BIAL Grants
Start date: 1994
History:
In 1994 the BIAL Foundation launched a programme of science research grants with the aim of encouraging the research into Man’s physical and mental processes, namely in fields still largely unexplored but which warrant further scientific analysis, as Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
Since its launch, applications to the BIAL grants have been increasing. Up to now 461 projects have been supported, involving more than 1000 researchers from 27 countries.
The approved applications have benefited from grants in amounts comprised between €5,000 and €50, 000. The amount to be granted is fixed by the Scientific board according to the needs of each project.
The supported projects have originated, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, 172 out of which were published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Among the BIAL Foundation fellows is worth highlighting the presence of scientists from prestigious universities from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, and many others.
The BIAL grants are promoted biannually.

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2008
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pastas 1 a
Title:
2008 Grants
Start date: 2009-01

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2008-029
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pasta 24/2008
Title:
029 - Emotional processing from language and music: Comparative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging studies
Duration: 2009-01 - 2015-09
Researcher(s):
Maria São Luís Castro, Armando César Ferreira Lima, António José de Bastos Leite, Maria Carolina Lobo Almeida Garrett
Institution(s): Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto, Grupo de Investigação em Linguagem (Portugal)
Contents: Contents:
Bursary agreement
Application form
Correspondence
Financial report and expenditure documents
Progress report
Articles
Unpublished documents
Written consent forms of participants
Final report
Language: eng
Author:
Castro, S. L.
Secondary author(s):
Lima, C. F., Leite, A., Garrett, M. C.
Number of reproductions:
1
Keywords:
Psychophysiology / Emotion / Cognitive processes / Language / Perception / Biopsychological problems / Neurodegenerative disorders / Parkinson's disease

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2008-029.14
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pasta 24/2008
Title:
Speaking to the trained ear: Musical expertise enhances the recognition of emotions in speech prosody
Publication year: 2011
URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21942696
Abstract/Results: ABSTRACT:
Language and music are closely related in our minds. Does musical expertise enhance the recognition of emotions in speech prosody? Forty highly trained musicians were compared with 40 musically untrained adults (controls) in the recognition of emotional prosody. For purposes of generalization, the participants were from two age groups, young (18-30 years) and middle adulthood (40-60 years). They were presented with short sentences expressing six emotions-anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise-and neutrality, by prosody alone. In each trial, they performed a forced-choice identification of the expressed emotion (reaction times, RTs, were collected) and an intensity judgment. General intelligence, cognitive control, and personality traits were also assessed. A robust effect of expertise was found: musicians were more accurate than controls, similarly across emotions and age groups. This effect cannot be attributed to socioeducational background, general cognitive or personality characteristics, because these did not differ between musicians and controls; perceived intensity and RTs were also similar in both groups. Furthermore, basic acoustic properties of the stimuli like fundamental frequency and duration were predictive of the participants' responses, and musicians and controls were similarly efficient in using them. Musical expertise was thus associated with cross-domain benefits to emotional prosody. These results indicate that emotional processing in music and in language engages shared resources.
Accessibility: Document exists in file
Copyright/Reproduction:
By permission
Language:
eng
Author:
Lima, C. F.
Secondary author(s):
Castro, S. L.
Document type:
Article
Number of reproductions:
1
Percentiles:
93.00|2.64
Reference:
Lima, C. F., & Castro, S. L. (2011). Speaking to the trained ear: Musical expertise enhances the recognition of emotions in speech prosody. Emotion, 11(5), 1021-1031. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024521
2-year Impact Factor: 3.875|2011
Times cited: 122|2026-02-05
Indexed document: Yes
Quartile: Q1
Keywords: Speech prosody / Emotion recognition / Musical expertise / Transfer effects

Speaking to the trained ear: Musical expertise enhances the recognition of emotions in speech prosody

Speaking to the trained ear: Musical expertise enhances the recognition of emotions in speech prosody
DocumentFinal report -Emotional processing from language and music: Comparative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging studies2014

Reference code: PT/FB
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Location: S. Mamede do Coronado
Title:
BIAL Foundation Archive
Start date: 1994
History:
The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by Laboratórios BIAL in conjunction with the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities. BIAL’s Foundation mission is to foster the scientific study of Man from both the physical and spiritual perspectives.
Along the years the BIAL Foundation has developed an important relationship with the scientific community, first in Portugal and after worldwide. Today it is an institution of reference which aims to stimulate new researches that may help people, promote more health and contribute to new milestones to gain access to knowledge.
Among its activities the BIAL Foundation manages the BIAL Award, created in 1984, one of the most important awards in the Health field in Europe. The BIAL Award rewards both the basic and the clinical research distinguishing works of major impact in medical research.
The BIAL Foundation also assigns Scientific Research Scholarships for the study of neurophysiological and mental health in people, arousing the interest of researchers in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
To date the BIAL Foundation has supported 461 projects, more than 1000 researchers, with research groups in twenty-seven countries, resulting, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, out of which 172 published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Since 1996 the BIAL Foundation organizes the Symposia entitled "Behind and Beyond the Brain", a Forum that gathers well renowned neurosciences speakers and the BIAL Foundation Fellows which are spread around the world.
Classified as an institution of public utility, the BIAL Foundation includes among its patrons the Portuguese President, the Portuguese Universities Rectors' Council and the Portuguese Medical Association.
URL: http://www.bial.com/pt/
Accessibility: By permission

Reference code: PT/FB/BL
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Title: BIAL Grants
Start date: 1994
History:
In 1994 the BIAL Foundation launched a programme of science research grants with the aim of encouraging the research into Man’s physical and mental processes, namely in fields still largely unexplored but which warrant further scientific analysis, as Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
Since its launch, applications to the BIAL grants have been increasing. Up to now 461 projects have been supported, involving more than 1000 researchers from 27 countries.
The approved applications have benefited from grants in amounts comprised between €5,000 and €50, 000. The amount to be granted is fixed by the Scientific board according to the needs of each project.
The supported projects have originated, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, 172 out of which were published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Among the BIAL Foundation fellows is worth highlighting the presence of scientists from prestigious universities from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, and many others.
The BIAL grants are promoted biannually.

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2008
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pastas 1 a
Title:
2008 Grants
Start date: 2009-01

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2008-029
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pasta 24/2008
Title:
029 - Emotional processing from language and music: Comparative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging studies
Duration: 2009-01 - 2015-09
Researcher(s):
Maria São Luís Castro, Armando César Ferreira Lima, António José de Bastos Leite, Maria Carolina Lobo Almeida Garrett
Institution(s): Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto, Grupo de Investigação em Linguagem (Portugal)
Contents: Contents:
Bursary agreement
Application form
Correspondence
Financial report and expenditure documents
Progress report
Articles
Unpublished documents
Written consent forms of participants
Final report
Language: eng
Author:
Castro, S. L.
Secondary author(s):
Lima, C. F., Leite, A., Garrett, M. C.
Number of reproductions:
1
Keywords:
Psychophysiology / Emotion / Cognitive processes / Language / Perception / Biopsychological problems / Neurodegenerative disorders / Parkinson's disease

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2008-029.01
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pasta 24/2008
Title:
Final report -Emotional processing from language and music: Comparative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging studies
Publication year: 2014
URL:
https://www.bial.com/imagem/Bolsa2908_19112015.pdf
Abstract/Results: ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
Humans perceive emotions in spoken language and music but despite recent progress in the cognitive neuroscience of emotion, language and music, it remains to be uncovered how far the mechanisms involved are shared or specific.
AIM
To investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms through which emotions such as happiness or fear are recognized in speech prosody and in music, with an emphasis on disentangling what is common and what differs across domains by assessing the impact of age and neurocognitive dysfunction on emotion recognition.
METHOD
Five interrelated studies were conducted.
RESULTS
A validated database of sentences spoken in European Portuguese expressing by prosody alone anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise and neutrality was developed [Study 1]. [Study 2] Accuracy in the recognition of happiness and peacefulness in music remained stable with increasing age, but decreased for fear and sadness from middle-age onwards; a serendipitous finding was that music training modulated recognition accuracy. [Study 3] We compared Parkinson’s disease patients with matched controls in the recognition of emotions in speech prosody and music, and found a dissociation: patients were impaired for positive emotions in music but not in speech, where they had a small global impairment. The impairment in music was not associated with perceptual or cognitive dysfunctions, but the impairment in speech correlated with executive dysfunction. [Studies 4 and 5] The role of musical training on emotion recognition was followed up in two further studies where musicians were compared with musically naive listeners. Musicians recognized emotions in speech more accurately than musically naive listeners [Study 4], and musical training correlated with recognition accuracy of emotions in music [Study 5].
CONCLUSION
How we perceive emotions in speech and music is modulated by ageing, Parkinson's disease and musical training. The neurocognitive mechanisms involved are in all likelihood partly shared, and partly segregated, across domains.
Accessibility: Document exists in file
Copyright/Reproduction:
By permission
Language:
por
Author:
Castro, S. L.
Document type:
Final report
Number of reproductions:
1
Indexed document:
No
Keywords: Aging / Emotion recognition / Music emotions / Speech prosody / Transfer effects

Final report -Emotional processing from language and music: Comparative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging studies

Final report -Emotional processing from language and music: Comparative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging studies
DocumentWorking memory training coupled with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults: A randomized controlled experiment2022

Reference code: PT/FB
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Location: S. Mamede do Coronado
Title:
BIAL Foundation Archive
Start date: 1994
History:
The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by Laboratórios BIAL in conjunction with the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities. BIAL’s Foundation mission is to foster the scientific study of Man from both the physical and spiritual perspectives.
Along the years the BIAL Foundation has developed an important relationship with the scientific community, first in Portugal and after worldwide. Today it is an institution of reference which aims to stimulate new researches that may help people, promote more health and contribute to new milestones to gain access to knowledge.
Among its activities the BIAL Foundation manages the BIAL Award, created in 1984, one of the most important awards in the Health field in Europe. The BIAL Award rewards both the basic and the clinical research distinguishing works of major impact in medical research.
The BIAL Foundation also assigns Scientific Research Scholarships for the study of neurophysiological and mental health in people, arousing the interest of researchers in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
To date the BIAL Foundation has supported 461 projects, more than 1000 researchers, with research groups in twenty-seven countries, resulting, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, out of which 172 published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Since 1996 the BIAL Foundation organizes the Symposia entitled "Behind and Beyond the Brain", a Forum that gathers well renowned neurosciences speakers and the BIAL Foundation Fellows which are spread around the world.
Classified as an institution of public utility, the BIAL Foundation includes among its patrons the Portuguese President, the Portuguese Universities Rectors' Council and the Portuguese Medical Association.
URL: http://www.bial.com/pt/
Accessibility: By permission

Reference code: PT/FB/BL
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Title: BIAL Grants
Start date: 1994
History:
In 1994 the BIAL Foundation launched a programme of science research grants with the aim of encouraging the research into Man’s physical and mental processes, namely in fields still largely unexplored but which warrant further scientific analysis, as Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
Since its launch, applications to the BIAL grants have been increasing. Up to now 461 projects have been supported, involving more than 1000 researchers from 27 countries.
The approved applications have benefited from grants in amounts comprised between €5,000 and €50, 000. The amount to be granted is fixed by the Scientific board according to the needs of each project.
The supported projects have originated, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, 172 out of which were published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Among the BIAL Foundation fellows is worth highlighting the presence of scientists from prestigious universities from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, and many others.
The BIAL grants are promoted biannually.

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2016
Location: BF-GMS
Title:
2016 Grants
Start date: 2017-01

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2016-286
Location: BF-GMS
Title:
286 - Getting the aging brain to train: A working memory and neurostimulation approach
Duration: 2017-06 - 2023-03
Researcher(s):
Adriana Sampaio, Ana Teixeira Santos, Sandra Carvalho, Jorge Leite, Ana Raquel, Felipe Fregni
Institution(s): Psychology Research Center (CIPsi), School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal); Spaulding-Labuschange Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown (USA)
Contents: Contents:
Application form
Correspondence
Research Funding Agreement
Progress report
Final report
Articles
Author: Sampaio, A.
Secondary author(s):
Teixeira-Santos, A. C., Carvalho, S., Leite, J., Mesquita, A. R., Fregni, F.
Number of reproductions:
1
Keywords:
Working memory training / Aging / Brain plasticity / Cognitive plasticity / Psychophysiology

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2016-286.05
Location: BF-GMS
Title:
Working memory training coupled with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults: A randomized controlled experiment
Publication year: 2022
URL:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.827188/full
Abstract/Results: Background: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been employed to boost working memory training (WMT) effects. Nevertheless, there is limited evidence on the efficacy of this combination in older adults. The present study is aimed to assess the delayed transfer effects of tDCS coupled with WMT in older adults in a 15-day follow-up. We explored if general cognitive ability, age, and educational level predicted the effects.
Methods: In this single-center, double-blind randomized sham-controlled experiment, 54 older adults were randomized into three groups: anodal-tDCS (atDCS)+WMT, sham-tDCS (stDCS)+WMT, and double-sham. Five sessions of tDCS (2 mA) were applied over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Far transfer was measured by Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM), while the near transfer effects were assessed through Digit Span. A frequentist linear mixed model (LMM) was complemented by a Bayesian approach in data analysis.
Results: Working memory training improved dual n-back performance in both groups submitted to this intervention but only the group that received atDCS+WMT displayed a significant improvement from pretest to follow-up in transfer measures of reasoning (RAPM) and short-term memory (forward Digit Span). Near transfer improvements predicted gains in far transfer, demonstrating that the far transfer is due to an improvement in the trained construct of working memory. Age, formal education, and vocabulary score seem to predict the gains in reasoning. However, Bayesian results do not provide substantial evidence to support this claim.
Conclusion: This study will help to consolidate the incipient but auspicious field of cognitive training coupled with tDCS in healthy older adults. Our findings demonstrated that atDCS may potentialize WMT by promoting transfer effects in short-term memory and reasoning in older adults, which are observed especially at follow-up.
Accessibility: Document exists in file
Language:
eng
Author:
Teixeira-Santos, A. C.
Secondary author(s):
Moreira, C., Pereira, D., Pinal, D., Fregni, F., Leite, J., Carvalho, S., Sampaio, A.
Document type:
Article
Number of reproductions:
1
Reference:
Teixeira-Santos, A. C., Moreira, C., Pereira, D., Pinal, D., Fregni, F., Leite, J., Carvalho, S. & Sampaio, A. (2022). Working memory training coupled with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults: A randomized controlled experiment. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14, 827188. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.827188
2-year Impact Factor: 4.800|2022
Times cited: 15|2025-09-24
Indexed document: Yes
Quartile: Q2
Keywords: tDCS / Cognitive training / Working memory / Neuroplasticity / Older adults / Reasoning / Transfer effects

Working memory training coupled with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults: A randomized controlled experiment

Working memory training coupled with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults: A randomized controlled experiment