Music Psychology Lab - Durham
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
We are researchers at Durham University interested in psychological processes underlying musical activities and empirical approaches to study them.
Keep up to date with the lab on https://musicscience.net
Keep up to date with the lab on https://musicscience.net
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What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data?
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data?
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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- Although such systems are promoted as tools for personalized listening, they *could* also be used to infer or profile individuals’ beliefs
A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3
A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
- Although such systems are promoted as tools for personalized listening, they *could* also be used to infer or profile individuals’ beliefs
A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3
A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3
How do you perceive rhythmic cycles?
@nashraa.bsky.social new publication investigates the effects of cycle length and cross-cultural differences of familiarity and musicianship on learning rhythmic cycles
Read the article below to find out more!
#musicpsych #musician #psycsci #psychscisky #music
@nashraa.bsky.social new publication investigates the effects of cycle length and cross-cultural differences of familiarity and musicianship on learning rhythmic cycles
Read the article below to find out more!
#musicpsych #musician #psycsci #psychscisky #music
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
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#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns
The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
How do you perceive rhythmic cycles?
@nashraa.bsky.social new publication investigates the effects of cycle length and cross-cultural differences of familiarity and musicianship on learning rhythmic cycles
Read the article below to find out more!
#musicpsych #musician #psycsci #psychscisky #music
@nashraa.bsky.social new publication investigates the effects of cycle length and cross-cultural differences of familiarity and musicianship on learning rhythmic cycles
Read the article below to find out more!
#musicpsych #musician #psycsci #psychscisky #music
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Happy to be a part of this cross-cultural research on the perception of tension in harmonic intervals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
#musicpsych
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy to be a part of this cross-cultural research on the perception of tension in harmonic intervals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
#musicpsych
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Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
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Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
journals.sagepub.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
HUGE multi-lab study (including ours!) looking at whether musicians have better short-term memory than non-musicians across different domains (musical, verbal, and visuospatial memory). Congratulations to all 110 collaborators worldwide!
#musicpsych #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
#musicpsych #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
HUGE multi-lab study (including ours!) looking at whether musicians have better short-term memory than non-musicians across different domains (musical, verbal, and visuospatial memory). Congratulations to all 110 collaborators worldwide!
#musicpsych #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
#musicpsych #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
🚨New publication alert🚨
Latest consonance research coming from our lab had participants from India & UK rate how "tense" they found different harmonic intervals.🧵 below detailing insights! Not going to spoil surprising results here! #musicpsych #musician #psych
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest consonance research coming from our lab had participants from India & UK rate how "tense" they found different harmonic intervals.🧵 below detailing insights! Not going to spoil surprising results here! #musicpsych #musician #psych
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚨New publication alert🚨
Latest consonance research coming from our lab had participants from India & UK rate how "tense" they found different harmonic intervals.🧵 below detailing insights! Not going to spoil surprising results here! #musicpsych #musician #psych
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest consonance research coming from our lab had participants from India & UK rate how "tense" they found different harmonic intervals.🧵 below detailing insights! Not going to spoil surprising results here! #musicpsych #musician #psych
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fantastic and fun #musicpsych discussions happening all around!! 🥳🥳
Fascinating to hear @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social talk at Leeds about how music shapes imagination, covering importance of genre, age, auditory features and contextual associations with music for content of imagined thoughts when listening! Brilliant collaborative work!
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fantastic and fun #musicpsych discussions happening all around!! 🥳🥳
🎉🎉🎉 @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social connecting up with @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social to present ongoing research from our lab!! Cool stuff 😎
Thanks to @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social and Leeds School of Music for a fun and stimulating visit.
And with many thanks to the rest of the team doing this research @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social, @weiwu.bsky.social, @margulisa.bsky.social
And with many thanks to the rest of the team doing this research @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social, @weiwu.bsky.social, @margulisa.bsky.social
Fascinating to hear @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social talk at Leeds about how music shapes imagination, covering importance of genre, age, auditory features and contextual associations with music for content of imagined thoughts when listening! Brilliant collaborative work!
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🎉🎉🎉 @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social connecting up with @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social to present ongoing research from our lab!! Cool stuff 😎
Which memorisation techniques help young piano students perform their best?
PhD @charasteliou.bsky.social presented at #ISPS25 in Shanghai, showing that multimodal memorisation goes beyond repetition exercises in a pedagogical intervention study.
#musicscience #psychology #MusicSky #musiciansky
PhD @charasteliou.bsky.social presented at #ISPS25 in Shanghai, showing that multimodal memorisation goes beyond repetition exercises in a pedagogical intervention study.
#musicscience #psychology #MusicSky #musiciansky
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Which memorisation techniques help young piano students perform their best?
PhD @charasteliou.bsky.social presented at #ISPS25 in Shanghai, showing that multimodal memorisation goes beyond repetition exercises in a pedagogical intervention study.
#musicscience #psychology #MusicSky #musiciansky
PhD @charasteliou.bsky.social presented at #ISPS25 in Shanghai, showing that multimodal memorisation goes beyond repetition exercises in a pedagogical intervention study.
#musicscience #psychology #MusicSky #musiciansky
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🌀 Still time to submit to our international symposium!
📍 Durham University | 18–19 May 2026
🗓️ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025
musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...
📍 Durham University | 18–19 May 2026
🗓️ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025
musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...
International Symposium — Call for Contributions - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network
What does it mean to imagine music? The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network invites proposals for its inaugural international symposium, held at Durham University, UK, 18–19 May 2026. The event brings t...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🌀 Still time to submit to our international symposium!
📍 Durham University | 18–19 May 2026
🗓️ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025
musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...
📍 Durham University | 18–19 May 2026
🗓️ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025
musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...
Lab member @fruzsiszucs.bsky.social has written about her recent experience going to her first international conference at musicscience.net!
#musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18
#musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18
September 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Lab member @fruzsiszucs.bsky.social has written about her recent experience going to her first international conference at musicscience.net!
#musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18
#musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18
Honoured to have had Dr. Amanda Krause (@studylistening.bsky.social) join the lab on her visit from Australia! Great to hear about her work and discuss future #musicscience collaboration between @durham-university.bsky.social and @jcuofficial.bsky.social 😎
September 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Honoured to have had Dr. Amanda Krause (@studylistening.bsky.social) join the lab on her visit from Australia! Great to hear about her work and discuss future #musicscience collaboration between @durham-university.bsky.social and @jcuofficial.bsky.social 😎
🚨NEW BLOG🚨
“Conferences, huh. What’s the point?”
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway.
#musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd
musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...
“Conferences, huh. What’s the point?”
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway.
#musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd
musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...
Conferences, huh. What’s the point?
In this post, Hazel, Katie, and Connor highlight some reasons why you should consider attending an academic conference, supplemented by our recent experience from attending the 18th International C…
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August 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🚨NEW BLOG🚨
“Conferences, huh. What’s the point?”
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway.
#musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd
musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...
“Conferences, huh. What’s the point?”
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway.
#musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd
musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...
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Coldplay, Radiohead or R.E.M. – which band has changed their music the most over the years? Professor Nick Collins for our Department of Music has used computer analysis of music recordings to try and find the answer 🎸
👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Using computers to track the changing sound of bands - Durham University
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August 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Coldplay, Radiohead or R.E.M. – which band has changed their music the most over the years? Professor Nick Collins for our Department of Music has used computer analysis of music recordings to try and find the answer 🎸
👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Great opportunity to present "Seeing Sound, Shaping Stories: The Role of Ideasthesia and Event Segmentation in Musically Evoked Narratives" at #ICMPC - the theoretical grounding for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project #musicscience
@curwen01.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo about her @leverhulme.ac.uk project connecting music-evoked narrative imaginings and synaesthesia! #musicscience
July 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Great opportunity to present "Seeing Sound, Shaping Stories: The Role of Ideasthesia and Event Segmentation in Musically Evoked Narratives" at #ICMPC - the theoretical grounding for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project #musicscience
Had a blast 💥 at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo!! Super lucky for the opportunity to disseminate our research and engage with international colleagues! 🌏🌍🌎
July 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Had a blast 💥 at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo!! Super lucky for the opportunity to disseminate our research and engage with international colleagues! 🌏🌍🌎
@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a talk at #ICMPC18 on steps researchers can take to report their #measurement decisions and what questionable practices are common for the discipline #musicscience #psychometrics
July 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a talk at #ICMPC18 on steps researchers can take to report their #measurement decisions and what questionable practices are common for the discipline #musicscience #psychometrics
Almost forgot @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social poster highlight from #ICMPC18!
Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience
Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience
🔦 final poster showcase of this bad boy: MUSIFEAST-17 #ICMPC18
No fear though, as if you haven’t heard already, you can get to know via its publication doi.org/10.3758/s134... and explore the dataset on OSF osf.io/5ebz2/ and GitHub with its interactive Shiny app 🫢 github.com/HazelvdW/MUS...
No fear though, as if you haven’t heard already, you can get to know via its publication doi.org/10.3758/s134... and explore the dataset on OSF osf.io/5ebz2/ and GitHub with its interactive Shiny app 🫢 github.com/HazelvdW/MUS...
July 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Almost forgot @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social poster highlight from #ICMPC18!
Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience
Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience
@nashraa.bsky.social presenting on the final day of #ICMPC18 discussing her work on cross cultural rhythm perception 😮
#musicscience
#musicscience
July 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
@nashraa.bsky.social presenting on the final day of #ICMPC18 discussing her work on cross cultural rhythm perception 😮
#musicscience
#musicscience
Insights into the effectiveness of different memorisation techniques by @charasteliou.bsky.social!!
#musicscience #musicpedagogy #musicteaching #ICMPC18
#musicscience #musicpedagogy #musicteaching #ICMPC18
July 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Insights into the effectiveness of different memorisation techniques by @charasteliou.bsky.social!!
#musicscience #musicpedagogy #musicteaching #ICMPC18
#musicscience #musicpedagogy #musicteaching #ICMPC18
@fruzsiszucs.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 about how musical cues depict different concepts and their connection to specific memories! #musicscience
July 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@fruzsiszucs.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 about how musical cues depict different concepts and their connection to specific memories! #musicscience
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Been having some wonderful and really engaging discussions with many of the #ICMPC18 attendees this year in São Paulo!
So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people 🧠💫
(P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)
So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people 🧠💫
(P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social gave a presentation yesterday exploring the types of thoughts occurring while listening to music from a wide range of styles, familiarity, and more! Great to disseminate this @leverhulme.ac.uk project to the #musicscience crowd at #ICMPC18!!
July 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Been having some wonderful and really engaging discussions with many of the #ICMPC18 attendees this year in São Paulo!
So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people 🧠💫
(P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)
So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people 🧠💫
(P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)
Shout out to @katiesvish.bsky.social!!
Had a great time presenting at ICMPC18 on my current project which looks into the differences between Western and Carnatic Musicians on Absolute Pitch Recognition
#ICMPC18
#musicandscience
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
#ICMPC18
#musicandscience
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Shout out to @katiesvish.bsky.social!!