Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇

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.

Want to measure how "major" or "minor" a musical passage feels on a sliding scale, not just as a simple label? 🤔 Mike Schutz and I refined the concept of 'relative mode', treating it as a continuous spectrum from minor to major. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #musicscience #MIR 1/3

New study by @persatz.bsky.social on children's music-making explores empathy & synchrony! Findings show that higher trait empathy helps children synchronize better, especially when their timing is less stable. Female-female pairs also synchronized better. 1/2 #musicscience

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore: 🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques) 💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making 🤝 Spontaneous social behavior ⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Great self-diagnostic tests about your well-being in academia. By going through the survey, you get to reflect what elements are a drain and many – but not all – of these we can influence. I'm looking forward to see what this early career team can put together for the February webinar #musicscience

I’m thinking of reigning in a collaborative/GitHub #rstats project to have a reproducible environment: Would you recommend renv or rix for this? Project utilises a mixture of GitHub / CRAN packages & users have different OSes (Mac/Win).

How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...

The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW 20) will take place at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland from the 16th to the 19th of June 2025. The portal for abstract submissions is now open here: www.rppw.org/rppw20 #musicscience

Our new @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social account looks great. Notice the facilities (built in 1093) literally next to our lab in the background of the group photo.

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

New theory out! What do you get when you mix music and emotion regulation literature with the functions of music and explanations of music-induced emotions? You get a new theory called the 'Episode Model of Emotional Experiences of Music' 1/5 #musicscience

🎶What does music make you feel or imagine? Our second listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11 is now online. Help Splat 👾 the alien learn about what music means to Earthlings! Info and link: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42…#musicsciencece

I made a 1-minute YouTube video of how to create an index to a book with keywords, page proofs and python scripting. youtu.be/E50CeDgoBIA #musicscience #book #workclevernothard

Cultural Evolution Society Conference starting with a full house at Durham run by DCERC. Lots of exciting talks, including those touching upon #musicscience

Final #escom12 keynote given by Bruno Mesz who took us on a whirlwind tour of #crossmodal interactions with music. So many mappings (#smell, #shape, #colour, #taste) make sense with music but the level of explanation is not always easy to establish #musicscience

This was my personal favourite talk so far at #ESCOM12York: Geoff Luck & Alessandro Ansani show a hockey stick function between performed tempo and age using a large Spotify-derived corpus. The result matches the changes in spontaneous motor tempo across life-span #musicscience #escom12

Engaging summary of chills while performing music by Scott Bannister and Emily Payne at #escom12: They highlight the many ways performers occasionally experience chills (feeling accomplishment, immersion, connecting with audience, togetherness,..). What a great topic for #musicscience

Niels Chr. Hansen presents a great talk about fado music at #escom12 & offers a new corpus. Fado are often in minor, utilise unstable pitches & long durations for appoggiatura. But is the Essen folk song collection the best benchmark for a comparison? #musicscience

Our PhD student Nashra Ahmad from Durham University delivered her study on learning and recognition of long Indian cycles well at #ESCOM12York #musicscience #musicpsychology

Ian Cross explains in his #ESCOM keynote how dominance and power has influenced (too much) our views on music and social interaction as it is an exception compared to affiliative mechanisms. He pools evidence from a wide range of disciplines. 1/2 #ESCOM12York #musicscience #musicpsychology

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social outlines a bold ambition to develop a measurement tool for emotional episodes of music, which are situated and contextualised experiences #ESCOM12York #musicscience #musicpsychology

Persefoni Tzanaki presents intriguing findings about how synchrony between pairs of children who tap together can influence trait empathy but this not visible in measures of social bonding #ESCOM #musicscience #synchrony #developmental

#ESCOM: in memoriam - Alf Gabrielsson who pioneered expressive performance and music and emotion research eulogised by John Sloboda #musicscience

#ESCOM: in memoriam - Irène Deliège who almost single-handedly formed ESCOM and the journal Musicae Scientiae #musicscience eulogised by Geraint Wiggins

#ESCOM conference formally declared open with honouring Irene Deliege for her pioneering work for the society @escom12.bsky.social #ESCOM12York #musicscience #musicpsychology

I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of colleagues tomorrow at #ESCOM12York. And there are talks & keynotes, too #musicscience #ESCOM

Just FYI, @tuomaseerola.bsky.social set up a #musicpsych feed in the meantime to watch things like ESCOM go by. I think the issue with the #musicscience feed had to do with my Google Domain being migrated over to Squarespace and I missed some key infrastructure changes. Help wanted if you could!

SysMus Conference is live, weather is gorgeous, and the organisers have made everyone feel really welcome to @uniofjyvaskyla, Finland #musicscience

James Armitage from Durham University explains in a blog what evidence supports culture shaping the perception of consonance by focussing on a particular dissonant Lithuanian singing tradition: musicscience.net/2024/04/26/w...

Insights from a research visit to the premiere #musicscience lab @CoE_MMBB at Jyvaskyla, Finland by Connor Kirts. Connor is now back #Durham to our benefit #phdlife musicscience.net/2024/03/22/d...

@syeducation.bsky.social Nice talk at the Royal Society event about #preregistration about how reviewers and journal editors engage with the preregistrations: In short, alarmingly little: <15% for reviewers & <5% of editors mention having accessed them in a sample of studies from @plos.bsky.social.

any recommendations of statistics handbooks by women? With R content or without? I’m trying to balance the readings in terms of gender #stats #rstats

In my daily #duolingo dose I noticed that @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social had written a nice Duolingo blog about whether music is a universal language? The reach of this blog might be really wide (500M+ users…)! blog.duolingo.com/is-music-a-u...

A new & positive experience in peer review: the whole process was ran through GitHub transparently for @JOSS_TheOJ. Patient & constructive comments by @martinr0camora & @pmcharrison to our technical summary of the onsetsync R library #rstats #musicscience doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Is aversion to rough sounds inherent? We tested this with Lithuanian Sutartinė singers on their preferred “clashing major 2nd interval” and found that they do prefer these but still experience these as negative automatically. @PLOSONE #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

An interesting community feedback site for journals supporting #registeredreports. Site provides speed, quality & other indices but currently only 15/333 journals have sufficient ratings for public release so I urge #musicscience scholars to make their views known. #openscience initiative by @benmeg

#preregistration in #musicscience, is it worth the effort? My reflection on recent experiences are largely positive, but these are still #rare in our field. I’ve already mentioned this in the old social media sites, but here’s my entry to Bluesky tuomaseerola.github.io/preregistrat...