CMPC18 – Music as a Living Cognitive Territory

July 21–25, 2025 | UFABC + São Paulo | In-Person and Online

ICMPC18 – La Música como Territorio Cognitivo Vivo - Brain Bee Idea

For the first time in Latin America, the world’s largest event on music cognition will take place in Brazil: the 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC18).

With the theme “Echoes and Ecologies: New Landscapes for Music Perception and Cognition,” the conference will bring together scientists, musicians, educators, therapists, and thinkers from all continents to São Paulo to rethink music as a **bodily, social, sensory, ecological, and spiritual phenomenon.

Hosted at UFABC, cultural venues throughout São Paulo, and globally transmitted in a hybrid format.

Why We Support ICMPC18

As a sponsor of the event, we support its proposal to reconnect science with life and music with its original dimension: human belonging.

The conference opens space for deep discussions aligned with Decolonial Neuroscience, one of the core frameworks we promote in our projects and educational programs.

Concepts We Promote — Resonating Through ICMPC18

* Yãy hã Miy (from the Maxakali people) – The symbolic and sensorial-bodily experience of musical learning.

* Tensional Selves – Listening as activation of affective bodies in states of defense, pleasure, surrender, or critique.

* Existential Metabolism – Every sound that traverses the body reorganizes its history, memory, and future.

* Damasian Mind – Musical consciousness as an integrated flow of interoception, feeling, and action.

* QSH – Human Quorum Sensing – Music as collective intelligence: to synchronize is to belong.

* Enjoyment with Metacognition – Musical states in which the body knows, thinks, and feels simultaneously.

* Body as Territory – The body as a soundscape and cognitive environment — where music is territory, and territory is consciousness.

What Will Be Presented?

ICMPC18 will feature:

  Neuroimaging research (EEG, fNIRS) during live musical improvisation

  Applications in childhood, education, autism, and neurodiversity

  Studies on urban sound ecology and immersive environments

  Artificial Intelligence and music as affective biofeedback

  Indigenous, African, and Latin American approaches to music cognition

  Virtual reality practices, scientific jam sessions, and artistic interventions

  Decolonial and antiracist music education initiatives

Our Mission as a Sponsor

We believe cognition is not merely brain processing, but a lived integration of body, territory, and culture.

To sponsor ICMPC18 is to support Brazil and Latin America in advancing toward a rooted, affective, and plural science — one that acknowledges the value of ancestral knowledge and living bodies in motion.