Happy New Year! 🎉🎈 #AMPS30th 🥂 Celebrate with us at our upcoming conference #AMPSAPSCOM✨ Save the date: 🗓 December 9-11, 2026 📍Gold Coast, Bond University 🏢 Crowne Plaza, Broadbeach, with special events/activities held on the Bond University campus.

🔥#HotOffThePress🔥December Edition If you have a paper that's just been published or about to be, please reach out! Here is a new publication from AMPS members: Blackwell, J., & Matherne, N. (2025) doi.org/10.1177/0255...

🎄Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎁 Did you miss a day from our #AMPSAdventCalendar? Revisit the previous days here: app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 24 🙏 Happy Holidays! Thank You! We celebrate the academics, post-docs, and students whose passion and hard work drive music psychology research forward across Australia. Thank you for your science! amps.org.au/research-gro...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 23 📚 Support for Publishing AMPS helps members navigate the academic world. Our network offers support, advice, and connections for publishing your research in top music psychology journals. amps.org.au/research/

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 22 🧩 The Psychology Connection AMPS is closely affiliated with the broader scientific community, recognizing the importance of psychological science in understanding musical experience. amps.org.au

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 21 🎂 Our Founding Year AMPS was officially founded in 1996. It now represents the national body of researchers in this field and is a member of APSCOM apscom.weebly.com and ICMPC icmpc.org/icmpc_about....

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 20 🎶 Support Music Research Donations directly support high-quality Australian research exploring how music influences cognition, emotion, and behaviour. Support this research: amps.org.au/donations/

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 19 🏫 Beyond the Lab: School Visits AMPS members visit schools to show students how music psychology works, like leading hands-on experiments on music and taste perception! See our community page: amps.org.au/community-sp...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 18 💰 Behind the Scenes: Meet Dr. Jon Prince Meet Dr. Jon Prince! As Treasurer, Jon keeps the finances sound so AMPS can continue to offer conferences, research awards and networking events across Australia. amps.org.au/amps-committ...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 17 🎁 The Gift of Membership Perks Membership gives you discounted conference fees, access to networking events, and direct support for your research goals! And best of all it's FREE! amps.org.au/membership/

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 16 🎄 Earworms: That Tune is Stuck Why does that Christmas jingle get stuck? AMPS member Dr. Tim Byron (UOW) researches how repetition and memory associations lock songs in our heads. Read his research: www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/20...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 15 📰 Fresh News: The AMPS Forum Want fresh music science news? Visit the AMPS Forum, our official blog, where members share interviews and research summaries. Read the latest post: amps.org.au/forum/

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 14 🥳 Networking Fun: Speed Dating! The 2024 conference featured a Speed Dating event! It was a great way for members to quickly meet and network with new colleagues. See more conference fun: amps.org.au/amps-2024-co...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 13 💼 Your Next Move: Opportunities AMPS shares job postings, scholarships, and PhD openings on our website. Check the Opportunities page often for your next move! Find open roles here: amps.org.au/opportunities/

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 12 🎻 Key Leader: Prof. Jane Davidson Prof. Davidson, a significant figure in Australian music science, is actively involved in AMPS and chairs the upcoming CAWRI 2026 event. amps.org.au/2025/10/30/c...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 11 ❤️ Music Unites: The Bonding Hormone Research on group singing and listening shows it encourages the release of Oxytocin (the 'bonding hormone'), strengthening community ties. Find out more: www.amps.org.au

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 10 🍏 Music & Emotional Wellbeing Our community engagement mission is to showcase how music shapes our emotions, perceptions, and wellbeing to the wider public. Read about our outreach: amps.org.au/engagement/

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 9 🌏 AMPS/APSCOM 2026 Conference We are co-hosting the AMPS/APSCOM 2026 Conference at Bond University on the Gold Coast, December 9–11, 2026. Join this major Asia-Pacific music science event! Get the details: amps.org.au/amps-apscom-...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 8 ✨ The Power of Goosebumps! Ever gotten shivers (chills) from a song? AMPS members study this! It happens when music releases dopamine, the chemical of pleasure!

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 7 ✍️ Get that Thesis Written! Our fortnightly Online Writing Group helps members stay focused and productive. It’s a dedicated, quiet space to conquer your research goals. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 6 💻 The Spotify Lab Did you know AMPS members research Spotify? Dr. Dianna Vidas presented the ECR keynote at AMPS 2024 on validating Spotify’s ratings of valence, energy and danceability characteristics💃

a nice, short @aunz.theconversation.com article on performance anxiety... (bonus - with @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social member Stephanie MacArthur's work referenced) theconversation.com/its-end-of-y...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 5 🤝 Student Support Alert AMPS runs a great Mentor-Mentee Program! Get paired with an experienced researcher to help you navigate your music science career. amps.org.au

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 4 🧠 Fact: Music & Memory Hearing a special song can trigger vivid memories from decades ago, even for people with dementia! Music bypasses parts of the brain that other memories use.

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 3 🎓 Meet the President Did you know AMPS President Dr. Amanda Krause researches how digital music influences our everyday experiences and how listening affects our health and wellbeing.

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 2 🎤 Music & Wellbeing Seminar Put it in your calendars now! Join us in May next year via Zoom. Prof Nikki Rickard will discuss the social and emotional benefits of music engagement.

#AMPSWritingGroup 👨‍💻 #TeamTuesdays Last Tuesday session of the year. See you there! Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...

🎄 #AMPSAdventCalendar2025 🗓 Day 1 🎵 What is AMPS? AMPS stands for the Australian Music & Psychology Society We connect musicians, scientists, students and music lovers across Australia. Our goal is to stimulate discussion and scholarly research on music and psychology in Australia. www.amps.org.au

Haven’t read the full article yet, but this is a big deal if true! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#AMPSWritingGroup 👩‍💻 #TeamThursdays Last Thursday session of the year. See you there! Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...

7. YOU HAVE NOT YET HEARD YOUR FAVOURITE SONG (Glenn McDonald). A generally positive take on the streaming era and its quirks, fascinations, downsides, unexpected upsides. Glenn's everynoise.com genre map is kind of an internet landmark imo and there's a lot in here about it and associated stories

‼️#AMPlify2025 Postponed‼️ Dear attendees, please note this session has been postponed to 2026. Further details will be shared in the new year! 🎆

#AMPlify2025 December Seminar: Professor Nikki Rickard 🎤🎶 When: Wednesday 3 December, 4-5pm AEDT Where: Via Zoom Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...

#AMPSWritingGroup 👨‍💻 #TeamTuesdays It's the end of November!? No need to worry, we've still got three sessions to go. Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...

Upcoming Book Publication: Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt 🎵📣 Art Cure can be ordered online through: UK Penguin - www.penguin.co.uk/books/462340... US Macmillan - us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Waterstones - www.waterstones.com/book/art-cur...

#AMPSWritingGroup 👩‍💻 #TeamThursdays Whether you've got writing, admin, or other work to be done, we're here for you! Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...

- 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

happy to share our newly published paper in @cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠 for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

Psychology Today featured Western-led research by psychology PhD student Riya K. Sidhu and professor Jessica A. Grahn exploring how nostalgic songs spark the urge to move — revealing the powerful link between memory, music, and motion. 🎶🧠 Read more: www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/time...

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠 🎶 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2026) | Toulouse, France [In-person] | 8-10 April 2026 🎤 The call for papers closes 15 November, 2025. 🌐 www.evostar.org/2026/evomusa...

🔥#HotOffThePress🔥November Edition If you have a paper that's just been published or about to be, please reach out! New publication from AMPS members: Lowe-Brown, et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1145/3726... Thompson, et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1177/2055... Vidas, et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1145/3726...

Thrilled to share the first Stage 2 manuscript from this @pci-regreports.bsky.social programmatic protocol, led by @zixuanjia.bsky.social. In Mandarin, we replicated song-speech differences found by @yutoozaki.bsky.social et al., and explored the mediating role of musicianship: osf.io/gwavn_v1

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠 🎶 Methodological Challenges and Perspectives in Multimodal Music Performance Research | University of Luxembourg [In-person] | 26-27 January, 2026 🎤 Send proposal via email to [email protected] by 16 November, 2025 🌐 amps.org.au/2025/10/30/s...

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠 🎶 Creating Wellbeing: Youth, Arts, and Mental Health (CAWRI) | Melbourne, AU (in-person) | 10 April 2026 🎤 Submit proposals before 11:59pm AEDT Friday 6 February 2026 by following the link below: forms.office.com/r/KHtRAJqz49 🌐 www.cawri.com.au/events

New #openaccess paper on musical chills! 🎶🎺 Most work on listeners, but we find musicians experience chills while performing! Chills linked to performance qualities, connections between performers and personal associations. Findings suggest chills + wellbeing link Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0305...

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!

#AMPSCommunityEngagement initiative is under way! 🎉 Our AMPS committee members, Xanthe Lowe-Brown and Dianna Vidas, went out to St Margaret's Anglican Girls School and kick started our Community Engagement initiative. Read more: amps.org.au/2025/10/31/a... More info here: amps.org.au/engagement/

#AMPSWritingGroup 👨‍💻 #TeamTuesdays Only a few more sessions this year to go. Don't miss out! Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...