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- Contributo da formação musical no desempenho académico e cognitivo de crianças e adolescentes: uma revisão sistemáticaPublication . Azevedo, Susana; Rato, Joana; Caldas, Alexandre CastroThis systematic review aimed to analyze the recent literature on the influence that the study of music can exert on academic performance in general and on mathematics; in cognitive functions; and in brain plasticity. The review includes studies published between 2007 and 2018 in the PubMed and Complementary Index databases, Academic Search Complete, Education Source, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Science Direct and PsycArticles, using the descriptor musical training, combined with descriptors linked to academic performance in general and in mathematics - academic achievement, mathematics and academic development -, and cognitive development - brain development and cognitive development. The studies were selected according to the following criteria: studies (i) published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, (ii) with children and adolescents up to 18 years of age, (iii) which included musical training in its theoretical and/or instrumental components. The relationship between musical education and academic performance in general and mathematics was inconsistent, and there was no consensus in the literature about the benefits of the former over the latter. Cognitive benefits and evidence for structural brain plasticity induced by early childhood music training were found, taking into account differences in gray matter volume.
- Public art research, aims and networksPublication . Abreu, José GuilhermeSince 20th century’s last decades, public art, and its youngest expression, street art, have been obtaining increasing impact on non-specialized audiences, and gaining greater attention by critics and other specialists, for public art is the artistic discipline “that characterizes best the manifestations of the last third of the 20th century” (Maderuelo, 2000:240). Nowadays, there is no urban improvement, no architectonic iconic intervention, no landscape project, no heritage revitalization initiative that do not have, as its expected consequence, public space redesign and public art display. Meant as one of the main urban regeneration tools, public art has been contributing to transform the 20th century industrial-functional city into the convivial cities of post-industrial era (Miles, 1997). Present in art schools and university curricula, where it engages increasing advanced studies, when talking about Public Art now, we think the time has come to gather, to analyze and to reflect upon what has been done, in order to generate new synthesis, about what this novel, and yet very old domain, has achieved. Engaging Public Art a progressive ideario (Armajani, 1995), has anything carrying social relevance really changed in our cities? Did public art succeed in catalyzing meaning to our common ground of interaction? How do social sciences assess the outcomes of globalized public space aesthetical gaze and use? And talking about meaning, is public art fostering social inclusion of multi-ethnic minorities and avant-garde thinking or action? As all utopian project, is public art inspiring the creation of new and more rewarding goals to our culture? Obviously, these aims are not supposed to be achieved by a couple of articles in a single journal. So, let me express our goals in a most humble way, as Hannah Arendt did, when she said that “what I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.” (Arendt, 1958:5).
- Atypical interpersonal communication: looking for and through a different lensPublication . Dias, João Canossa; Mineiro, Ana; Damen, SaskiaWhile studying communication, researchers and practitioners may use different theoretical approaches or models representative of the process. Dependent on the definition of communication and the use of a linear, interactional or transactional model of communication, the philosophical inclination will change, as well as the questions, hypothesis, and explanations formulated by the professional. Communication takes place in diverse contexts; this text focuses on interpersonal communication settings. Interpersonal communication may become atypical when one of the parties in the exchange communicates mainly through pre-verbal, unconventional and, sometimes, peculiar behaviours. Atypical communication is common in case of a disability or neurodevelopmental condition is present. In the present research, the Complex of Continuous Communication (CCC) is formulated as a theoretical model to analyse and explain atypical interpersonal communication as a co-creative process, emphasizing the way the communication relationship is developed within the dyads. The model is based on a thorough narrative review of relevant literature in the field to determine the components of the model, clarify the relationships among them, and explain how the communicative dynamic may grow in terms of diversity and complexity. The new model is articulated with a conscious influence from the transactional conceptualization and the dialogical perspective of communication, acknowledging the need for further experimentation in order to be validated.