Following the publication of our paper "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery", the University of Sydney has just shared a media release! How tiny tweaks in music shape what we imagine www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉 "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery" Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glenn speaks of genres as communities -- that genres are "really based in people". That you can speak to characteristics but "they're a result of the people involved". The stats teacher in me loves that scatterplots underpin the plotted genre map: everynoise.com #MusicScience

“Whether we’re celebrating or grieving, music is something we can turn to." A new study led by @steffenherff.bsky.social from @sydney.edu.au's Sydney Conservatorium of Music has shown for the first time empirically that music can keep you company by facilitating imagined social interactions.

I enjoyed chatting about the @smmb-lab.bsky.social’s recent research on music being good company at @abcnewsbot.bsky.social’s Weekend Breakfast! 🎥

Wonderful to see our research being featured on the ABC's Weekend Breakfast. In a wonderful chat between @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social from the Sydney, Music, Mind, and Body Lab, and Fauziah Ibrahim & Tom Oriti from the ABC, they discussed how music can be good company. @sydney.edu.au

My supervisor, Dr @steffenherff.bsky.social, and I wrote this piece for The Conversation on music and imagination: “Can music be good company?” …based on our lab’s recent work @smmb-lab.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-music-be...

Can music be good company? We contributed a small piece to the @theconversation.com drawing from recent work in the field of music and mental imagery. #musicscience #mentalimagery theconversation.com/can-music-be...

Delighted to share our new work 'Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions'. We show that music is indeed good company! #musicscience #mentalimagery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grateful for the chance to chat with Turkish News Agency Cyprus (TAK) about music psychology + my journey! 🎶🧠 The interview was re-published in several outlets (in Turkish). E.g., 🔗 www.yeniduzen.com/her-dinledig... Auto-translate gives a decent read if you’re curious!

We had a great time in São Paulo! A massive thanks to all attendees, both in person and online, as well as the organisers of the #icmpc18 who made this such a rich experience. #musicscience

In addition to her talk on the effect of rhythmic layering on mental imagery, @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social from the SMMBL also contributed a poster showing compelling interactions between musical micro variations and individual absorption tendencies on mental imagery #icmpc18 #musicscience

Ugur @ugurmkaya.bsky.social from our lab just gave a great talk at #ICMPC18 on how vocalists draw on their own intuitions to influence the vividness and emotional quality of listeners’ mental imagery. 🎤 @smmb-lab.bsky.social

Ade (@adefathiawati.bsky.social) from our lab highlighted updated trends in Music Performance Anxiety among tertiary music students across Australia, as well as the mitigation strategies students use 📊 #ICMPC18 @smmb-lab.bsky.social

Dr. Steffen Herff from @smmb-lab.bsky.social shares very rich findings at #icmpc18 about expertise-related muscle activation in drummers. This work has important implications for biofeedback interventions to help musicians develop their skills and avoid playing-related injury. #musicscience

My wonderful PhD supervisor, @steffenherff.bsky.social, gave a fantastic talk at #ICMPC18 on “Expertise predicts more efficient muscle spike shapes in drummers” today! 🥁 Incredible to see how nuanced motor control evolves with skill 💪 #ICMPC18 @smmb-lab.bsky.social

My lab colleague Fernando Castellar presented his poster on ‘The prevalence of music, mental imagery, and their combined use as a mental training technique by athletes and coaches’ at #ICMPC18 today! 🏋️🏌️‍♂️⛹️‍♀️🎶🎧💭 it’s inspiring to see how far his research has come! @smmb-lab.bsky.social

It is amazing to be in São Paulo at #ICMPC18 this year to be presenting my research on layering rhythms and mental imagery! @smmb-lab.bsky.social 🎶

We are very much looking forward to the #ICMPC18. The program looks excellent. Members of the SMMBL are also involved in 9 contributions this year, if any pique your interest, drop by! #MusicScience

@miriamolsen.bsky.social from our @smmb-lab.bsky.social presented a talk on ‘The efficacy of using biofeedback to reduce playing-related musculoskeletal pain and improve performance in musicians: A systematic review and meta-analysis’ at #ICMPC18! 🎶👩‍🎤💪

Sydney Music, Mind and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social is at #icmpc18 in São Paulo! 🇧🇷 The conference started with a great keynote by Vinoo Alluri!

We are offering an exciting #Cross-Cultural #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney for our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Grateful to be on this journey! Big thanks to @steffenherff.bsky.social for the support and guidance along the way. Read more about our research and reflections here:

🎉 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

"Music is remarkably resistant to forgetting". @steffenherff.bsky.social 📰🎵 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

🎉 New Publication Alert! 🎉 Incredibly excited to share our new paper, "Music as Social Surrogate? A Qualitative Analysis of Older Adults’ Choices of Music to Alleviate Loneliness", now published in Musicae Scientiae! 📰 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hi! I'm conducting a study on music performance experiences and need more participants! If you're studying music degree (instrument/vocals) in Australia, please join this anonymous survey: redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=A... Feel free to share the study with your musician network. Many thanks! ☺️

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/

It was a pleasure talking with Prof. Minna Huotilainen, a wonderful researcher in the field, on their podcast, Brain, Music and Learning! 🧠🎶🎼✏️ Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/54H0...

Morning #musicskyence, I’m gearing up to create a new Music Psychology (undergrad) course next term and am looking for studies to consider for student replication projects. Any recommendations for intriguing research that lends itself well to replication? #Psychology #MusicCognition #TeachingIdeas

🎶Just reposting this one… please share! What does music make you feel or imagine? @UniOfYork 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_...

Extremely excited for this project and to be working with amazing people!!! 🥳🥳👵👴🎈🎈💭🎶 @matskussner.bsky.social @steffenherff.bsky.social Sarah Hashim #musicscience #mentalimagery

Screaming! Our abstract for Swiftposium has just been accepted! 😄🎶 “Assess the Equation of You”: A Data-Driven Investigation of the Relationship between Lyrics and Audio Features across Taylor Swift’s Discography Luiza Lucuta #musicscience

Had my first PhD talk at the Music and Science Symposium, University of Newcastle! 🎙️🎶🥁 Already looking forward to next year!

Interested in a #musicscience / #musicology internship in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies at HU Berlin? Apply for one of our projects before 10 Dec and join our team in the summer of 2024: hic.hu-berlin.de/en/internshi...

Hello 🎵🧪-folks! I am so excited to share that the first paper coming from my PhD studies is online now! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Yesterday, it was great to watch creative music therapy masters students at Western Sydney University presenting their research proposals, ranging topics from schizophrenia to cultural impacts on therapy. Future music therapists being very interested in research made me happy 😊🥁🔷 #musicscience

Welcome to PhD students @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social (researching how 🎵 rhythm & instrumentation affect directed mental imagery) & @ugurmkaya.bsky.social (how vocal techniques shape vividness & sentiment of mental imagery) who just joined our #mentalimagery and #musicscience communities on 🟦sky.

Dear #mentalimagery community, I've set up a custom feed for research and discussion related to mental imagery. Just write #mentalimagery in your post, and it'll show up. You can add it to your feeds by clicking on 'feeds' on the left and search for 'mentalimagery' :-).

+++ Luiza and I met *virtually* two years ago at SysMus21, and now we’re doing our PhDs together at the MARCS Institute, not only attended #SysMus23 together until 4 am Sydney time, but virtually sat together! 👯‍♀️🎶🎙️👀 #musicscience

It was great attending #SysMus23 and presenting our recent research on the prevalent role of imagined social interactions during music listening @steffenherff.bsky.social Liila Taruffi! ✨✨✨🎶🧠 #musicscience