Computational models for music emotion recognition (MER) have steadily improved. Our meta-analysis is now out in ACM Computing Surveys. We reviewed 34 studies comprising 290 models, distilled from a much larger initial pool. #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion #MIR

New paper in Trends in Hearing📄 1st Cadenza Challenge to improve music signal processing for listeners with hearing loss. Hearing aid users rated audio quality of music processed by entrant machine learning systems. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #MusicScience #HearingResearch #openaccess

Excited to announce our article has been published! doi.org/10.1177/2059... I led a project to operationalise constructs that identify the emotional episodes people experience listening to music. #MusicScience experts assessed items against prior theory, a surprisingly under reported practice 🔭❗

We are excited to announce the MUSICONNEX Conference! The hybrid conference will be hosted @coe-mmbb.bsky.social , @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social, Finland, on Sept 22–24th 2026. Check our keynotes, website, and contact information in the comments. #musicscience #musicresearch #musiconnex

Come work with us in Oslo! We are hiring a PhD fellow in the psychology of music, AI, and creativity, affiliated with the newly established @mishmashcentre.bsky.social Details: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

* CURRENTLY RECRUITING * Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you. This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing. 1/4

I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎶 Nice write up of our recent work exploring musicians chills/frisson experiences while performing! 🎶 You can find the 🔓 #openaccess paper here - doi.org/10.1177/03057356251383805 #musicscience #musicpsych

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_...

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.

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, ....

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!

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...

🎶🎧 Call for young participants aged 5-11 for short online listening expt describing anything music makes them feel or imagine. Thank you for participating/sharing! #musicscience #musiceducation Info/access (adult consent required): york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Really excited to be featured in a new Hï Ibiza mini-doc series exploring the elements of clubbing in Ibiza that take it beyond a night out to a transcendent experience. In this episode, I talk about dance music’s role in social connection, identity, and more...▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8-...

Chuffed that our music and Parkinson’s paper on ‘The Use of Music Among Swiss People with Parkinson’s: A Mixed Methods Survey and Comparison to the UK Findings’ led by the wonderful Prof Dawn Rose and with lots of fab collaborators, is now out! #PPI #Parkinsons journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our Call for Contributions is still open! Please share widely 💥

@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

Wonderful talk by @j-w-cannon.bsky.social from @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social presenting survey study and rich data on emotion, embodied pleasure and social connection at electronic dance music events #ICMPC18 #ICMPC2025 #MusicScience

Tuning in online to #ICMPC18 #ICMPC2025 where I can.. Great to see really nice work from Suvi Saarikallio et al. @coe-mmbb.bsky.social on functions of listening to personally meaningful music! Findings indicating emotions and memories more prevalent in personal vs. general music. #MusicScience

Happy to share new paper in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, providing an overview and results of two open machine learning challenges in the Cadenza Project (cadenzachallenge.org), aiming to improve music audio quality for listeners with a hearing loss. Paper here - doi.org/10.1109/OJSP...

For our latest blog entry, @j-w-cannon.bsky.social reports on our PGRs' experiences of the recent #SysMus25 conference in Oslo! Exceptional conference for students and early career researchers to connect, share insights, and develop impactful collaborations: music-psych.leeds.ac.uk/2025/07/03/o...

MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set now published and available to read! link.springer.com/article/10.3... 🧞‍♀️🚀 #MusicPsych #MusicScience

JOB OFFER: 4-year PostDoc position in the field of music psychology. Join us at the University of Innsbruck, in the heart of Austrian Alps! lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...

The authors of this latest blog from @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social are too modest to say but Leeds University Union Music Impact in the Community has also just won a Riley Award for their work. Congratulations!

In our latest blog, members of Leeds University Union Music Impact in the Community (LUUMIC) share insights from their volunteer work at Headingley Hall Care Home. From musical bingo to singalongs, they explore how music fosters wellbeing, connection, and joy: music-psych.leeds.ac.uk/2025/05/12/l...

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 paper!! “From music performance to prescription: A guide for musicians and health professionals” - an excellent collaboration with @genevieve132.bsky.social, Nick Aitcheson, and Christa Powell It is what it says on the tin! Open Access link 👇 shorturl.at/vmGwQ @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social

Calling student members, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty in #musicscience 📣 Our Early Career Researchers’ Group (ECRG) is being established to provide support, networking, and mentorship across institutions and countries. Join up below!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@drmkirby.bsky.social is doing @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social proud at #SEMPRE conference with her Hickman Award talk on inclusive arts-based learning experiences for adults with learning abilities.

Last chance to register for our SEMPRE conference 9-10 April at our RNCM! sempre.org.uk/conference/s... You can join us in person if you book by the end of tomorrow (Tue 25th March), or bookings will remain open for online attendance (£50 for the whole two days - bargain!).

🎉 New paper out! Our study explores how older adults use music to cope with loneliness, highlighting how music can act as a social surrogate by evoking emotional support and social connection. 🔎 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1029... #MusicPsychology #SocialSurrogacy #Loneliness

Exciting news! I’m running a free club night & research project at Exchange, #Bristol (April 5th) with Haze (@haze_bristol on Insta) Limited FREE tickets for those who volunteer for the research, or grab a standard ticket & enjoy the night! ✨ Tickets/info: hdfst.uk/e125010 #musicscience #rave

We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

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...

📣 SEMPRE conference 9-10 April 2025, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK 📣 Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2025 Keynotes: Karen Burland & Daniel Müllensiefen Please do join us, and please share with any colleagues who you think may be interested! sempre.org.uk/conferences/...

🎶📄 Happy to share new #musicscience research, exploring ‘pseudo-social music listening’ experiences. Brings together music psych literature highlighting social qualities of music listening; builds on ideas of social surrogacy and parasocial interaction! #openaccess here: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

The next SEMPRE spring conference will be held at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, on 9 and 10 April 2025. Abstracts for this conference just be submitted by 31st January 2025. www.sempre.org.uk/conferences/...