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An extensive literature has investigated the impact of musical training on cognitive skills and academic achievement in children and adolescents. However, most of the studies have relied on cross-sectional designs, which makes it impossible to elucidate whether the observed differences are a consequence of the engagement in musical activities. Previous meta-analyses with longitudinal studies have also found inconsistent results, possibly due to their reliance on vague definitions of musical training. In addition, more evidence has appeared in recent years.

Instagram is a social network that facilitates the social-comparison and feedback-seeking (called SCFS processes), which are particularly relevant during adolescence.

María Alonso-Ferres, a researcher at CIMCYC, carried out a study on the influence and effects of a relationship on health or well-being. To do this, it introduces the concept of perceived partner responsiveness (PPR).

Agar Marín Morales, a researcher at the CIMCYC, has studied the neuroscientific variables that can influence gender violence, in order to expand knowledge about this phenomenon and help reduce its prevalence and recurrence.

From an early age, people have to remember to do some activities, such as doing homework or asking parents for consent for a school trip.

A group of researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center of the University of Granada (UGR), members of the Laboratory of Social Psychology of Inequality (http://wwwlocal.ugr.es/~psidesigualdad/), has carried out a study on the perception of economic inequality.

Last 20th of December, a report focused on the research led by María Nieves Pérez Marfil and Francisco Cruz Quintana, researchers at the CIMCYC-UGR (http: //pathresearchgroup.com/) appeared on the Con-Ciencia program of Canal Sur.

A group of researchers from the University of Granada are working on the project "Evaluation of Neurodevelopment in Cuban children from 6 to 18 years old by means of the Infant Computerized Neuropsychological Evaluation Battery (BENCI)". María Nieves Pérez Marfil and Francisco Cruz Quintana, researchers at the CIMCYC, participate in this project.

Sergio Moreno-Ríos, a researcher at CIMCYC, is one of the authors of the article Signalling Three-Way Intersections: Is Redundancy Better Than Only Mandatory or Prohibitory Signs? published in Frontiers In Psychology journal. The paper reports a study that investigates what could be the best traffic signs to signal a three-way intersection based on the decision speed of the drivers.

CIMCYC researchers Juan Manuel Jiménez Ramos and Ignacio Morón have carried out a study on how lesions in the ventral hippocampus influence allocentric spatial memory, which was recently published in the journal Behavioral Brain Research.