The second poster session in the morning of Day 2 was entitled ‘Musical experience and Commuication’ and featured 5 talks that looked at appreciation for music and musical role models as well as positive psychological impacts of musical activities such as dance and karaoke. I will go through an outline of their presentation combined with information that I gained either from attending the poster or from the abstracts book. Needless to say the ‘Hips don’t lie’ poster was hard to get near on the day! (earworm anyone?)   The first presentation was given by Cynthia Patel (University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA) and considered adolescent girls responses to three songs from three…

The rest of the morning on Day 2 was filled with more of the 5 minute poster presentations. I am getting used to this format now and have learned to strike a balance between getting as much new information as I can handle and fact overload! I think my naivety with this balance explains partly my overactive brain on the first night. This time I made sure to just chose a select few presentations and save the rest for the poster session. The first session of the day was focused on ‘Health and Welbeing’. The first poster presentation I attended was that of my MMB masters student Mike Wammes. Mike…