Article archive / November 2017
Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 11. Source pages: 7.
The American Psychological Association has awarded Juan Ventura, a Cognitive and Brain Sciences doctoral student, the APA Travel Award and the American Psychological Foundation (APF) Ungerleider/Zimbardo Travel Scholarship, according to LSU.
The title of Mr. Ventura’s research poster is "Cognitive Abilities in Non-Musicians and Musicians: Does Musicality Matter?" and he investigates the relationship between working memory, fluid intelligence, and musicality.
The study was completed with his advisor, Dr. Emily Elliott, and collaborators in the LSU Music Cognition and Computation Lab, Dr. Daniel Shanahan and David Baker. The Elliott Working Memory Lab can be found at elliottlablsu@gmail.com.
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