We are proud to announce Marcus Pearce as the first keynote speaker of the 1st #ConfMusSleep! With a background in Experimental Psychology and AI, he is Reader in Cognitive Science at Queen Mary University and Honorary Professor at Aarhus University. #musicscience

🎶🛏️ Call for contributions! The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral). Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk #confmussleep #musicscience

Excited to share that Peter Vuust will give the welcome lecture at the 1st Int. Conf. on Music & Sleep! 🎶💤 Director of MIB, Prof. at AU and RAMA, and acclaimed jazz musician, Vuust unites science & creativity. His lecture will explore music neuroscience & predictive coding of music. #ConfMusSleep

Our Assistant Professor Anna Zamorano has written a really nice piece for videnskab.dk and The Conversation - enjoy the read :-) theconversation.com/neuroscience...

Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk for their generous support for the Music and Sleep Conference. With this contribution, we can create an excellent conference program, and we look forward to welcoming all interested researchers and students. More info: confmussleep.au.dk #ConfMusSleep #Musicscience

Excited to share that I’ll give a talk at this year’s Lindy Hop Festival in Aarhus on September 27! The talks are open to the public. aarhuslindyhoppers.dk/daytime-acti...

New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience link.springer.com/article/10.3...

‪Excited to share that the 1. International Conf. on Music & Sleep (May 6–8, 2026) takes place in the stunning Chamber Music Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus 🎶 A bright, elegant venue with views of ARoS. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk @lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience ‪‬

Nice article with input from MIB professor Elvira Brattico. bbc.com/future/artic...

Paper on beauty and the brain by MIB professor Elvira Brattico and colleagues nicely featured in Videnskab.dk. Original paper here: www.ibroneuroscience.org/.../S0306-45... videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

MIB Professor Peter Vuust gives talk at Copenhell. musicinthebrain.au.dk/display/arti... @dg.dk

We are excited to announce the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social, Aarhus, DK, in collaboration with RAMA and @lullabyte.bsky.social. Dates: 6-8 May 2026. #musicscience Please mark your calendars and share the post. musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...

We are very proud of our Associate Professor Leonardo Bonetti @leonardobonetti.bsky.social who just received a Sapere Aude grant :-) Congrats! @dg.dk @au.dk dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...

🧠Nyt studie fra @musicinthebrain.bsky.social tyder på, at hjernen har en fest og selv danser med til rytmen, når du sætter musik på.👇 videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

@musicinthebrain.bsky.social har undersøgt, hvor meget groove stofmisbrugere oplevede, når de hørte musik. Resultatet viser, at testgruppen med stofmisbrugere, sammenlignet med en testgruppe, der aldrig har prøvet kokain eller heroin, foretrækker kompliceret musik👇 videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

MIB Associate Professor @leonardobonetti.bsky.social in a conversation with DPhil candidate Ramón Nartallo-Kaluarachchi from Oxford University.

Honoured to receive the BCC Award for Arts & Culture 2025! Grateful to ShruthiUK and the Birmingham Thyagaraja Festival for this recognition. Special thanks to Chithra Ramakrishnan for presenting this award. #BCCAwards #ArtsAndCulture #BirminghamThyagarajaFestival

New paper shows that PLUMM is shaped not just by syncopation but also by the no of rhythmic layers, the roles of different instruments and their interactions, extending our understanding of the rhythmic features driving the motor and hedonic responses to music. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🎧 Are you into electronic music or just a music lover? Join our online study! 🎶 ✅ Use headphones ✅ Do it on a computer screen ✅ Make sure you have 25 minutes uninterrupted in a silent space Click the link, hit OK, and you're in! 🔗 run.pavlovia.org/AthanKon/lis...

New paper from MIB! Congrats to all authors :-). Check out thread by @mattiarosso.bsky.social for details.

New paper alert!

Excited to share that @perikeller.bsky.social has secured funding for a new EEG lab. Congrats to Peter and many thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk :-) musicinthebrain.au.dk/display/arti...

🧠A new computational method offers a powerful tool for studying brain function, memory, and diseases. “It gives us a unique opportunity to understand how brain regions work together,” says Leonardo Bonetti from @musicinthebrain.bsky.social 👇 @ox.ac.uk and @au.dk health.au.dk/en/display/a...

We are extremely happy to share that the Salling Foundations and The Lundbeck Foundation have each contributed 10 million DKK to the center! musicinthebrain.au.dk/display/arti...

If you are 18+ years old and live in or close to Aarhus, Denmark, you can join this study on how insight arises in the brain.

⚽️Dygtige fodboldspillere er ikke bare fysisk overlegne, men overgår gennemsnittet på en lang række parametre. F.eks. kognitiv fleksibilitet, evne til planlægning og arbejdshukommelse. Ny #dkforsk 👉 bit.ly/41lN4KY @leonardobonetti.bsky.social @au.dk @musicinthebrain.bsky.social

If you are between the ages of 20 and 40 and live in or close to Aarhus, Denmark, you can join this study on "The role of dopamine in the pleasurable urge to move, rhythm perception and production". Questions? Reach out to Pelle, [email protected]

Hello! For my PhD at the @musicinthebrain.bsky.social we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep. 🎶💤 Click on the link if you’re more than 18 and listen to music for sleep! It takes around 15 minutes ☀️ survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto... Thank you! #musicscience @lullabyte.bsky.social

New paper out in Midwifery! In this systematic review, we evaluated the evidence for an effect of music on sleep in pregnancy-related insomnia 🎵😴🤰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social

⚽-Elitespillere overgår konsekvent gennemsnitsbefolkningen, når det gælder kognitiv fleksibilitet, planlægning og arbejdshukommelse. @leonardobonetti.bsky.social fra @musicinthebrain.bsky.social er førsteforfatter på et interessant studie, som du kan læse om her👇 24nyt.dk/mere-end-mus...

Do you like listening to and moving to music? Help us out with our research on musical interactions onsite in Aarhus, Denmark! sites.google.com/view/musical...

For all #musicscience newcomers, two recent meta-analysis @musicinthebrain.bsky.social on MUSIC COGNITION and MUSIC EXPERTISE. First, we synthesised 130 studies and discussed our meta-analytic findings under the light of the predictive coding of music theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that all of our annual reports, including the latest from 2023, are available on our website? This is a great opportunity to read about all our exciting research :-) musicinthebrain.au.dk/annual-reports