Edith Van Dyck

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at Ghent University

Recent research revealed that emotional content can be successfully decoded from human dance movement. Most previous studies made use of videos of actors or dancers portraying emotions through choreography. The current study applies emotion induction techniques and free movement in order to examine the recognition of emotional content from dance. O...

In this article, we explore the idea that music listening can achieve neurological and psychological effects that are somewhat similar to those facilitated by psychoactive substances. To motivate this claim, we delve into the mechanisms behind music perception, psychoactive substance use, and their mutual relationship, relying on recent development...

Background: Illicit substance use is common at music festivals. One could question whether festival attendees deliberately plan to take drugs at such events or whether their illicit (poly)drug use is provoked by specific circumstances, such as the presence of peers or a general belief that others are using drugs at the festival. Objectives: The pre...

Various drug-related strategies are being implemented at festivals to reduce drug use or the risks associated with it, including prevention, harm reduction, healthcare, and law enforcement. The effectiveness of some of these strategies has not been consistently demonstrated, whereas others remain unexplored in terms of their impact. As a result, fo...

Unlabelled: Spurred by recent advances in digital technologies, virtual concerts have become established modes for event attendance and represent a rapidly growing segment of the music industry. Yet, up to now, general experience of virtual concert attendees remains largely underexplored. Here, we focus on a subcategory in this domain: music conce...

EDM event attendees are a high-risk population for substance use and associated adverse effects. The aim of this study was to examine substance use at EDM events, focusing on associations between attendance motives and substance use. Sociodemographic characteristics, event specifics, past-year use, and attendance motives were assessed through an on...

In musical instrument training, researchers have gradually started exploring the potential of interactive technologies supporting learning processes and teaching methods. Although numerous technological tools have been proposed to enhance instrument learning and teaching, these methods rarely find their way into daily practice and teaching routines...

This document contains the poster that was presented.

La présente étude vise à améliorer notre compréhension de la façon dont les festivalier·ères – en particulier, les usager·ères de drogues (UD) – et les parties prenantes (ou stakeholders) perçoivent les interventions liées aux drogues dans les festivals de musique belges, et à produire des connaissances sur le point de vue des UD, dans le but d’amé...

The aim of this study was to obtain insights into the perceptions of prevention, harm reduction, health care and law enforcement strategies and perceptions of substance use (norms) at music festivals in Belgium, through the eyes of festival attendees and festival stakeholders. A mixed-method study was conducted between 2019 and 2021, combining a qu...

De doelstelling van dit onderzoek bestond erin om inzicht te verwerven in, enerzijds de percepties omtrent preventieve-, schadebeperkings-, (gezondheids)zorg-, en repressieve (wetshandhaving) strategieën, en anderzijds in de percepties rond de normen van druggebruik, aanwezig op muziekfestivals in België. Deze percepties werden zowel bestudeerd van...

The aim of this study was to obtain insights into the perceptions of prevention, harm reduction, health care and law enforcement strategies and perceptions of substance use (norms) at music festivals in Belgium, through the eyes of festival attendees and festival stakeholders. A mixed-method study was conducted between 2019 and 2021, combining a qu...

Researchers increasingly explore the potential of technologies in music instrument training such as virtual environments, wearable devices or multimodal interactive systems that could enhance learning processes and support teaching methods (Ramirez et al., 2018; Johnson et al., 2019). However, studies that investigate technology use in education su...

In 2020, a wide range of countries went into lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant musicians were restricted in their mobility and most of them could no longer rehearse/play together in live settings. This study investigated how musicians tried to adapt to the new situation and examined the motivations and methods of joint music mak...

Taking regular walks when living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) has beneficial effects on movement and quality of life. Yet, patients usually show reduced physical activity compared to healthy older adults. Using auditory stimulation such as music can facilitate walking but patients vary significantly in their response. An individualized approach ad...

A wide range of countries decided to go into lockdown to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020, a setting separating people and restricting their movements. We investigated how musicians dealt with this sudden restriction in mobility. Responses of 234 people were collected. The majority of respondents (95%) resided in Belgium...

Duo musicians exhibit a broad variety of bodily gestures, but it is unclear how soloists’ and accompanists’ movements differ and to what extent they attract observers’ visual attention. In Experiment 1, seven musical duos’ body movements were tracked while they performed two pieces in two different conditions. In a congruent condition, soloist and...

Duo musicians exhibit a broad variety of bodily gestures, but it is unclear how soloists’ and accompanists’ movements differ and to what extent they attract observers’ visual attention. In Experiment 1, seven musical duos’ body movements were tracked while they performed two pieces in two different conditions. In a congruent condition, soloist and...

Matching exercise behavior to musical beats has been shown to favorably affect repetitive endurance tasks. In this study, our aim was to explore the role of spontaneous versus instructed entrainment, focusing on self‐paced exercise of healthy, recreational runners. For three 4‐min running tasks, 33 recreational participants were either running in s...

Muziek is goed voor ons. Het maakt ons door de band genomen gelukkiger en kan tevens de sociale binding met anderen versterken. Vanuit een wetenschappelijk perspectief is het dus bijzonder zinvol om muziek te maken, spelen en/of luisteren in tijden van lockdown, waar negatieve effecten van sociale isolatie en tal van gerelateerde psychologische kla...

Een strakke drum of stevige beat stimuleert sporters om endorfines aan te maken, en parkinsonpatiënten stappen sneller en langer onder de juiste noten. Muziek blijkt een krachtig hulpmiddel voor onder meer training en therapie. Nieuwe toepassingen zitten in de pijplijn.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01145.].

In the sports and exercise domain, it has been suggested that musical intensity might boost performance. Previous research revealed that pumping up the volume of music might increase running speed, grip strength, and choice reaction time while simultaneously decreasing time to exhaustion and level of perceived exhaustion. However, evidence is still...

The BeatHealth system aims to develop a mobile music listening device synchronizing in a personalized way music and movement, and dedicated to improving the kinematics of the runner. Thanks to inertial units connected to a smartphone, the runner's steps are detected in real time by the mobile application. A dedicated algorithm adapts the pulsation...

The use of music and specifically tempo-matched music has been shown to affect running performance. But can we maximize the synchronization of movements to music and does maximum synchronization influence kinematics and motivation? In this study, we explore the effect of different types of music-to-movement alignment strategies on phase coherence,...

Dr. Edith Van Dyck is postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan het IPEM, het onderzoeksinstituut van demusicologie aan de Universiteit Gent. Ze doet onderzoek naar de link tussen actie en perceptie binnenhet domein van de muzikale interactie en publiceerde verschillende papers over de wijze waaropmensen lopen en dansen op muziek. Tevens was ze als onderzoeker...

Running with music is becoming increasingly popular and software has been developed that provides music at the runners' tempo. This work aims at investigating the effect of different music synchronization strategies on runners' foot strike impact. Tests were performed in the Flanders Sports Arena in Ghent with 28 participants. The impact on the tib...

Music is frequently used as a means of relaxation. Conversely, it is used as a means of arousal in sports and exercise contexts. Previous research suggests that tempo is one of the most significant determinants of music-related arousal and relaxation effects. Here we investigate the specific effect of music tempo, but also more generally, the influ...

Over the past decade, embodied music cognition has become an influential paradigm in music research. The paradigm holds that music cognition is strongly determined by corporeally mediated interactions with music. They determine the way in which music can be conceived in terms of goals, directions, targets, values, and reward. The chapter gives an o...

In running competitions portable music players and headphones are often banned. In some cases, runners have been disqualified after using such devices during competition. In this paper, it is discussed whether, aside from possible safety reasons, such competition regulations make sense and whether music can have an ergogenic effect on performance....

Background Music is frequently used as a means to relax, while its arousing effects are often employed in sports and exercise contexts. Previous work shows that music tempo is one of the most significant determinants of music-related arousal and relaxation effects. However, in the literature on human heart rate, music tempo itself has not yet been...

Background Music is frequently used as a means to relax, while its arousing effects are often employed in sports and exercise contexts. Previous work shows that music tempo is one of the most significant determinants of music-related arousal and relaxation effects. However, in the literature on human heart rate, music tempo itself has not yet been...

A regular rhythm in music is a strong driver for establishing a synchronized human rhythm. Typically human rhythm tends to go along with the musical rhythm in such a way that a salient feature of the human rhythm matches the timing of a salient feature of the musical rhythm. But what are the underlying mechanisms behind music-movement synchronizati...

The expressive features of music can influence the velocity of walking. So far, studies used instructed (and intended) synchronization. But is this velocity effect still present with non-instructed (spontaneous) synchronization? To figure that out, participants were instructed to walk in their own comfort tempo on an indoor track, first in silence...

Data used for the analysis. (XLSX)

List of music that was selected and used in this study. The table contains the song ID, average BPM, artist and song title. (XLSX)

Since accumulating evidence suggests that step rate is strongly associated with running-related injuries, it is important for runners to exercise at an appropriate running cadence. As music tempo has been shown to be capable of impacting exercise performance of repetitive endurance activities, it might also serve as a means to (re)shape running cad...

The embodied perspective on embodied music cognition has stressed the central role of the body and body move- ments in musical meaning formation processes. In the present study, we investigate by means of a behavioral experiment how free body movements in response to music (i.e., action) can be linked to specific linguistic, metaphorical descriptio...

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of two basic emotions, happiness and sadness, on dance movement. A total of 32 adult participants were induced to feel emotional states of either happiness or sadness and then danced intuitively to an emotionally ‘neutral’ piece of music, composed specifically for the experiment. Based on an Effort-Sh...

The present study aims to gain better insight into the connection between music and dance by examining the dynamic effects of the bass drum on a dancing audience in a club-like environment. One hundred adult participants moved freely in groups of five to a musical sequence that comprised six songs. Each song consisted of one section that was repeat...

The present study aims to gain a better insight into the connection between music and dance by examining the dynamic effects of the bass drum on a dancing audience in a club-like environment. One hundred adult participants moved freely in groups of five to a musical sequence that comprised six songs. Each song consisted of one section that was repe...