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Andy Milne
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Music theorist, practitioner, and cognitive scientist at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University. #MusicScience #Bayesian #Cognition #CausalInference
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The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉

"Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery"

Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
andytonality.bsky.social
We are offering an exciting #Cross-Cultural #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney for our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses!

www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
On the left, a Papua New Guinean musician in ceremonial clothes is performing on the Kundu drum (a long hourglass-shaped wooden drum). In the background, members of the community are enjoying the show. On the right, in the background, are plots showing the results of computational analyses of the effects of different music-acoustical features on perceived music stability in several different communities. On the right, in the foreground, a young woman from PNG is wearing headphones and taking part in a music cognition experiment.
June 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
andytonality.bsky.social
We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.
Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion | Western Sydney University
www.westernsydney.edu.au
May 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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pwgtennant.bsky.social
"Have directed acyclic graphs fullfilled their promise?" - the recording of my debate with @margaritamb.bsky.social at the World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 is now available on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79...

#EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025
WCE2024 - INT02 - Debate - Have DAGS fulfilled their promise?
YouTube video by World Congress of Epidemiology 2024
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January 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
We were thrilled to welcome Prof George Williams AO, Vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University to MARCS Institute!

The VC chatted to our researchers about the exciting work in child development, neuromorphic research, biomedical engineering, & music science. Thanks for your support & insights!
December 6, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
🌎As #languages disappear, so do parts of a #community’s identity and culture. ✨Newly funded ARC Discovery Project, led by Dr Hannah Sarvasy, will explore the impact of preserving #Indigenous languages in Papua New Guinea and beyond. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5

@katestevartssci.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 5:32 AM
andytonality.bsky.social
I am very happy to report that our ARC Discovery project – Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect – has been funded ($915,000 over 4 years). The team is amazing, and the project has unprecedented scope for multicultural music cognition field experiments. #MusicScience
Project ID: DP250101116. Investigators: Associate Professor Andrew Milne; Professor Roger Dean; Professor Emery Schubert; Dr Catherine Ingram; Dr Hannah Sarvasy; Professor Tuomas Eerola. Summary: Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect. Across almost all human cultures, music has a remarkable capacity to communicate different affects (emotions and feelings). However it is unknown which, if any, associations between music-acoustical features and affects are universal, and which are cultural. In a music cognition field-research program of unprecedented scope, we aim to estimate how tones in melodic, polyphonic, harmonic, and rhythmic contexts influence affective responses, and the extent to which these effects are mediated by cultural mechanisms (familiarity and association). The findings will have profound implications for the use of sound and music in therapeutic applications and will help identify ways to bridge cultural divides through intercultural musical appreciation. Announced: 26/11/2024. Admin Organisation: Western Sydney University. Primary FOR: 3603. Funding Awarded: $914,548.00
November 30, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
Music communicates emotions across cultures, but how much is universal vs cultural? ✨Newly funded #ARC #Discovery Project will explore music's impact on #health, #wellbeing, and the global #music industry. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5

#MusicScience @katestevartssci.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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arc-tracker.bsky.social
Yesterday was an improvement for Discovery Projects.

An extra ~$110 million was invested compared to last year (which was a low point).

It replaces rapid loss in last 2 years & aligns investment with the last 12 years (adjusted for inflation).

Not enough, but a start!
Bar graph (blue bars) showing the funding invested in the ARC’s Discovery Projects scheme each year since 2002, including yesterday’s outcomes for 2025. There’s a red line showing the success rate (number of applications approved divided by the number submitted). Data compiled here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing.
November 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Acoustical and cultural explanations for contextual tonal stability: http://osf.io/zhjd2/
December 17, 2023 at 8:10 AM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
Our International Visiting Scholar Scheme 2024 is now open!

Spend 1-3 months in 2024 working with our brilliant researchers in amazing facilities!
Two streams available: #PhD Students: $AUD 2,500 & #ECR #MCR: $AUD 3,500.
Applications close: 24th January 2024.
tinyurl.com/visitMARCS
November 28, 2023 at 5:23 AM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate perceptual & cognitive processes of #socialinteraction & #communication with @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @perikeller.bsky.social
Applications close 1 Dec tinyurl.com/JoinMARCS #postdoc #cogneuro #musicscience
November 22, 2023 at 11:25 PM
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tayacollyer.bsky.social
I'm so thrilled that Adrian's pioneering work on randomising grant outcomes is gaining traction internationally. We need an organisation here in Australia willing to give it a go...

#statsky #biostats
November 16, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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studylistening.bsky.social
JCU has the Elizabeth Pearse Music Scholarship to fund the study of music at Masters or PhD level. Applications now open. #MusicScience
November 5, 2023 at 11:49 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Two postdoc positions in cyberpsychology at the University of Newcastle, Australia

More info: mathpsych.org

#CogPsyc #Psychology #PhDSky #PsychJobs
October 24, 2023 at 8:17 PM
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johndcook.bsky.social
More ways of splitting the octave

www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/10...
October 19, 2023 at 1:42 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Open peer review planned for Psychological Science

#Psychology #MetaSci #ScientificPublishing

www.science.org/content/arti...
October 22, 2023 at 6:56 AM
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Some words on Carla Bley:
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2023/10/no-m...
NO MORE AGAIN - CARLA BLEY
It was the afternoon of Saturday, 16 February 1980, a day I'll remember for the rest of my life, when I travelled to the old Bridge Stree...
warmrationalism.blogspot.com
October 18, 2023 at 11:17 AM
andytonality.bsky.social
RIP the wonderful Carla Bley www.theguardian.com/music/2023/o...
October 18, 2023 at 11:14 AM
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elineadrianne.bsky.social
New platform, new paper! 🎵 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The second article from our #musicscience field-research in Papua New Guinea and Sydney is out! We find that acoustical roughness is universally associated with musical consonance/dissonance (operationalized as “stability”)!
Evidence for a universal association of auditory roughness with musical stability
We provide evidence that the roughness of chords—a psychoacoustic property resulting from unresolved frequency components—is associated with perceived musical stability (operationalized as finishe...
doi.org
September 21, 2023 at 6:28 AM