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
We had a great time hosting Dr Ébano Resende de Souza over the past couple weeks, including lots of discussions about his exciting ongoing research on absolute pitch.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We had a great time hosting Dr Ébano Resende de Souza over the past couple weeks, including lots of discussions about his exciting ongoing research on absolute pitch.
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
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 😎
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
@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
@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a presentation on the content validity assessment for his music-emotion episode instrument! Out now as a preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#musicscience #psychometrics
#musicscience #psychometrics
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a presentation on the content validity assessment for his music-emotion episode instrument! Out now as a preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#musicscience #psychometrics
#musicscience #psychometrics
@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 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@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
@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 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@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!!
Postdoc @weiwu.bsky.social giving a presentation at #ICMPC18 on music evoked thoughts. Semantic similarity analysis showed that adjacent age groups share similar thoughts to the music!
#musicscience
#musicscience
July 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Postdoc @weiwu.bsky.social giving a presentation at #ICMPC18 on music evoked thoughts. Semantic similarity analysis showed that adjacent age groups share similar thoughts to the music!
#musicscience
#musicscience
Excited to announce that @sysmus.bsky.social in 2026 will be held in Durham @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social!!!!
June 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Excited to announce that @sysmus.bsky.social in 2026 will be held in Durham @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social!!!!
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social presented her ongoing project on music-evoked thoughts at #SysMus25!!
June 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social presented her ongoing project on music-evoked thoughts at #SysMus25!!
@katiesvish.bsky.social presented her current project which looks into differences between Western and Carnatic Musicians on Absolute Pitch Recognition #SysMus25 #musicscience
June 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
@katiesvish.bsky.social presented her current project which looks into differences between Western and Carnatic Musicians on Absolute Pitch Recognition #SysMus25 #musicscience
@nashraa.bsky.social gave a presentation today at #SysMus25!! Excited to see that familiarity, length and non-isochrony affects the temporal learning of North Indian Rhythms! #musicscience
June 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@nashraa.bsky.social gave a presentation today at #SysMus25!! Excited to see that familiarity, length and non-isochrony affects the temporal learning of North Indian Rhythms! #musicscience
Hazel & Connor recently represented @durham-university.bsky.social for @ukrepro.bsky.social's retreat, hosted by @lselibrary.bsky.social! They presented @reproducibilitea.org's new discipline-specific resources, using their interdisciplinary perspective in #MusicScience @durhammusicdept.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hazel & Connor recently represented @durham-university.bsky.social for @ukrepro.bsky.social's retreat, hosted by @lselibrary.bsky.social! They presented @reproducibilitea.org's new discipline-specific resources, using their interdisciplinary perspective in #MusicScience @durhammusicdept.bsky.social
PhD student, @charasteliou.bsky.social gave a presentation at #SEMPRE about Mneme Project: an intervention study on music memorization techniques with primary school students in the United Arab Emirates! #musicscience
April 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
PhD student, @charasteliou.bsky.social gave a presentation at #SEMPRE about Mneme Project: an intervention study on music memorization techniques with primary school students in the United Arab Emirates! #musicscience
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social also gave a presentation today for the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded PhD Music & Imagination project with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social! Exploring “thoughtscapes” experienced across 17 genres. Find out more on OSF: osf.io/5ebz2/
April 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social also gave a presentation today for the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded PhD Music & Imagination project with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social! Exploring “thoughtscapes” experienced across 17 genres. Find out more on OSF: osf.io/5ebz2/
@leverhulme.ac.uk funded postdoctoral researcher @curwen01.bsky.social spoke today at #SEMPRE about music-colour synaesthesia and how this may impact event segmentation in MENI generation #musicscience
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@leverhulme.ac.uk funded postdoctoral researcher @curwen01.bsky.social spoke today at #SEMPRE about music-colour synaesthesia and how this may impact event segmentation in MENI generation #musicscience
PhD student, Fruzsi Szücs gave a talk about how music can effect autobiographical memories! #musicscience happening at SEMPRE25!
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
PhD student, Fruzsi Szücs gave a talk about how music can effect autobiographical memories! #musicscience happening at SEMPRE25!
At SEMPRE25 our lab member @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social has a poster detailing the MUSIFEAST-17 stimuli dataset. Found in more detail here:
osf.io/5ebz2/
osf.io/5ebz2/
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
At SEMPRE25 our lab member @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social has a poster detailing the MUSIFEAST-17 stimuli dataset. Found in more detail here:
osf.io/5ebz2/
osf.io/5ebz2/
@ukrepro.bsky.social sent us a @reproducibilitea.org teapot 🫖
Looking forward to sharing tea and #OpenResearch ideas with Durham University’s research community at our ReproducibiliTea meetings!
Looking forward to sharing tea and #OpenResearch ideas with Durham University’s research community at our ReproducibiliTea meetings!
January 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@ukrepro.bsky.social sent us a @reproducibilitea.org teapot 🫖
Looking forward to sharing tea and #OpenResearch ideas with Durham University’s research community at our ReproducibiliTea meetings!
Looking forward to sharing tea and #OpenResearch ideas with Durham University’s research community at our ReproducibiliTea meetings!
Our co-director @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social presented to Durham Comp Sci students about her @leverhulme.bsky.social project looking into music-evoked thoughts
Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music
Interested? Check out musicscience.net!
Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music
Interested? Check out musicscience.net!
January 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Our co-director @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social presented to Durham Comp Sci students about her @leverhulme.bsky.social project looking into music-evoked thoughts
Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music
Interested? Check out musicscience.net!
Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music
Interested? Check out musicscience.net!