The Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (CoE MMBB) studies music as a multimodal human experience and as a versatile engine of change, throughout the life span and in health and disease. As a multidisciplinary research centre, it combines musicology, psychology, education, music therapy, computer science, and cognitive neuroscience. The CoE MMBB is a consortium between three research groups at the University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki.
In 2008-2013, the Brain, Music and Learning research group formed the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research with the Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä. Also currently, 2022–2029, it is involved with Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body, and Brain coordinated by the University of Jyväskylä.
The Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU), at University of Helsinki, investigates human auditory and crossmodal cognition, as well as their impairments and plasticity. The main research areas are human language and music processes, their plasticity, and the development of auditory functions. Their laboratory serves both research and teaching purposes. CBRU is a part of the Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, and Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences. It also belongs to Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain and to Cognitive Brain Laboratory, which is a HiLIFE research infrastructure platform.
Creating Novel Technologies of Scalable and Empowering Learning (CREDU) was a multidisciplinary research project that studied phenomena important to learning, such as fundamental cognitive and emotional mechanisms, the value of interaction, and the development of long term learning motivation. The project focused on studying how different learning environments (kindergartens, school classrooms, workplaces or VR-environments) affect learning and the related background functions. CREDU was active between 2020-2022.