Undergraduate research in action!

Happy new year, we’re back at it!

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Undergraduate student Joanna “Joey” Kieran Mendez is the labs project coordinator featured in the news at Penn State today. Go Joey!

Here we demonstrate the variable roles of intentional, flexibility, and pitch imagery in musician skills like error, detection, and melodic dictation. Fresh off the press today!

We report a combination of musical instrument experience yields musical benefits later in life - now out in Frontiers in Psychology👏

🔗 Read the article: frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1579714/full

Coming soon in 2026! Unmuted—A new ADRI podcast mini-series from Penn State’s College of Arts & Architecture on the arts and why we need them.

Joey will be conducting research this summer in Toronto, focusing on the neurophysiological mechanisms of absolute pitch. She aims to explore how the brain processes pitch and supports vocal performance. Following this, she will do Columbia University’s Summer Public Health Scholars Program.

Great visit from Penn State alum at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota!

Undergraduate student team presents on music psychology at the Suncoast Symposium for music, wellness, and sustainability. “Bravi!”

Good work, everyone!

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Data collection training completed!

Lab alumna Annie Liu publishes first first-author paper. Yay Annie!

Great talk by lab coauthor and collaborator Laura Stambaugh. Thanks for a great visit last week!!