While the music lasts. Presentation, Wigmore Hall, London, 2012.

Music and dementia. Presentation in session ‘Healthy Ageing through Music’.

Creative Workshops with the Elderly. Presentation in session ‘Healthy Ageing through Music’. Presentations: - Evert Bisschop Boele: Creative Workshops with the Elderly World Conference ISME, Thessaloniki, Greece, 20/7/2012

Musicking in Groningen: towards a grounded theory of uses and functions of music in a modern western society. Presentatie 4 juli 2012, scholing onderzoeksvaardigheden docenten Hanzehogeschool Groningen,  Lectoraat Lifelong Learning in Music & the Arts

Musicians engaging with people with dementia. Presentation Greece.

Ouderen en muziek: projectpresentatie. 16-06-2012, Symposium ‘Ouderen en Muziek'.

Community music: interventie of dienst aan het idioculturele

The project Rhythm for Life has had a parallel project in Groningen, with the projects Learning to play an instrument at an elderly age and Creative workshops for the elderly. These were carried out in Groningen at the PCC in the framework of the research line HAMA of the research group LLMA. The second …

In this fMRI study, it was hypothesized that mirror neurons in the premotor-parietal network would be activated while improvising performers listened to music. Such activations would suggest that perception is engaging the action repertoire of the improvising musician. Recognition and understanding of …

Our conception of the brain is influenced by metaphors like the computer which grant the brain an executive function. This notion ignores the fact that the brain evolved in the context of the natural environment and functions together with it. In addition, we are frequently less aware of the action-perception …