And we’re off, great keynote speech from Marcus Pearce highlighting how the idyom model can be used to model cultural differences in music perception and pleasure.

#musicscience #idyom #cambridge #sempre

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND SLEEP

Updated Conference Programme 🎶

The definitive programme for the 1st #ConfMusSleep is now live: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa....
Check details on keynotes, workshops, presentations & social events.
See you in Aarhus! ✨

#musicscience

Postdoctoral Position in AI, Machine Learning and Auditory Neuroscience - Research Paris, France | Institut de l’Audition (Institut Pasteur)Duration: 24 months (flexible start)Supervisor: Keith Doelling (INSERM) About the position We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to focus...

🚨 Post-doc Job ALERT! Interested in using AI to better understand how the brain enjoys music? Or how auditory processing changes in Hearing Loss? Want to eat your weight in 🥖, 🧀, and 🍷? Click on this! #neurojobs, #blackinneuro, #neuroskyence, #psychjobs
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠
🎶 2026 AMPS/APSCOM | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia [hybrid] | 9-11 December 2026

🎤 Deadline for abstracts due 24 April 2026

🎟 Registration open now: amps.org.au/conference-r...

🌐 amps.org.au/amps-apscom-...

Musical evoked imaginings in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic expert musicians Caroline Curwen’s project challenges and expands current models of music cognition and explores how music and synaesthesia shape our imagination and creativity

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @curwen01.bsky.social’s project @durham.ac.uk challenges and expands current models of music cognition and explores how music and synaesthesia shape our imagination and creativity.

Only in Dublin…

Dancing Across Disciplines Keen to move and be moved? Join us for a dynamic 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities.

Join us in Durham on 28th April for a 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces and communities. The day will explore the links between dance, literature, geography, health, and more!

Tickets are free but limited 🕺

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...

#AcademicSky

We’d a Great time at Gorillaz mountain tour this evening - staging was unreal.

House was packed, everyone singing like crazy, so many musicians on the stage.

Everything from grunge to disco - And never more needed

🤘 🪩 🕺🏻 🎸

#Gorillaz #TimeToDance #HappyEaster

Delighted to catch up with Saoirse Finn during her research visit to Dublin - in line with her talk on genetics, arts and wellbeing we went to visit the #DNA helical structure sculpture in the National botanical gardens

🧬 🌺 🌲 🌞

#botanics #leisure #health

Love all their noodle recipes - lethal for the butter/oil but so so tasty

Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2

It’s SPRING! And the blossoms are out

#flowers #spring #dublin

Well done to Georgina Coyle who set up the second showing of our Photovoice Exhibition at the Neuroconvergence event @ucddublin.bsky.social

The event show cased artwork from 14 neurodivergent individuals, which highlighted how #music and #arts can be used to support #neurodivergence.

🚨 #AMPlify2026 March Seminar: So… Can I Use AI for That? Ethical and Practical AI Use in Music Psychology Research with Dr. Solange Glasser

🗓When: Wednesday 11 March, 4-5pm AEDT
🌐Where: Via Zoom
💻Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...

Looking forward to it!

Thanks Kira!

Today we’re launching the website and social media pages for the new Music Cognition Lab from Dublin, Ireland!

Stay tuned for #Music #Cognition updates

🎶🧠🎶🎉

@escom.bsky.social @creativebrainweek.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social @musicperception.bsky.social #musicpsychology

Delighted to share our new lab page from the Music Cognition Lab! We have lot's of events and research projects coming up, so you can stay updated here!

#MusicPsychology

Looking forward to Creative Brain Week, I’ll be speaking on Wednesday in RIAM on some psychology experiments on #music and #pain

@ria.ie #musicscience #creative

We aren't kidding when we say that we book out early. Friday 6th March is ALREADY BOOKED OUT and the rest is going quickly. www.creativebrainweek.com Get your place booked! (Join the waiting list for Friday 6th if you are an optimist - sometimes we get returns).

How Beauty Changes the Beholder

Thanks to @alenedawson.bsky.social for this great piece integrating findings from the scientific study of aesthetics, including work from my lab.

www.templeton.org/news/how-bea...

Babies can categorise objects at two months, TCD-led research reveals Professor Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, explains research that found two-month-olds can categorise objects in their brain.

"Babies can categorise objects at two months" - Listen to Professor Rhodri Cusack discuss with RTÉ this exciting new research being done at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN). Listen below:

https://ow.ly/fYnZ50Yc7NN

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Virtually Together: Exploring the Impact of a Low-Latency Synchronized Audio Platform on Participant Wellbeing in a Facilitated Online Singing Group - Tara R. Gaertner, Cynthia C. Z. Friesen, Sean Gil... While previous research shows that group singing has clear benefits for wellbeing, there is limited data on how these benefits transfer to online singing groups...

Love this, Shame it’s underpowered but delighted to see the use of a low-latency audio platform for a music group.

This has been one of the biggest short comings in online music therapy- which has exploded post COVID.

Hopefully there will be a follow up study..

doi.org/10.1177/2059...

Excited to announce our article has been published! doi.org/10.1177/2059...

I led a project to operationalise constructs that identify the emotional episodes people experience listening to music. #MusicScience experts assessed items against prior theory, a surprisingly under reported practice 🔭❗

What’s in your head while you listen to music? Share your thoughts as you listen to music during a 40-minute survey we are running @durhammusicdept.bsky.social from the 18-20th February. Sign up at www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA5... to book your preferred time slot. #MusicScience

AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of social science is now under threat.

"In 6,700 tests, the bot managed to pass standard 'attention check' questions (which are designed to catch inattentive humans and simple bots) 99.8% of the time." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love this. “Spontaneous” has always really meant “we don’t know why X is happening”, a perspective tied to the dominance of structured task paradigms for studying cognition, behavior, and brain activity.

Wonderful! I was watching a documentary about the 60’s and 70’s and was struck how integral music was to the revolution against Nixon, Vietnam, and Civil Rights. Music is power.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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SysMus26 We are looking forward to hosting the next International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology very soon! SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—i…

Last week to submit abstracts to join our group in Durham in July for the SysMus26 conference! Please share with any interested #musicscience students! musicscience.net/events/sysmu...