🎶 Test your musical memory! 🎯 tunetwins.amsterdammusiclab.nl @musiccognition.bsky.social and others have made something wonderful: a science game for matching familiar melodies from around the world. Play TuneTwins and help us advance research on music cognition. (Seen at #ICMPC, more to come!)

Looking forward to hearing Prof. Marcus Pearce and the #ConfMusSleep may next year!

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #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

Did you know? Emotions in national anthems reveal surprising patterns in geography and culture. 1/2 (continues in comments) Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Musicscience #MusicPsychology #MIR #NationalAnthems #Emotion

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...

Very interesting review on the intimate relationship between sleep and depression. Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

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

Looking forward to presenting my work for a lot of high school students as part of the Hearts & Minds festival tomorrow. (heartsandminds.fuau.dk) A brief survey distributed among the participants do confirm our previous findings that young people more often use music for sleep!

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 ‪‬

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 “Conferences, huh. What’s the point?” @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway. #musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...

A really amazing project!

The first two papers from the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Music & Imagination project are now out, led by the fantastic @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social! First, we built and validated a stimulus set of over 350 music clips varying in genre, familiarity, emotion, etc. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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...

Looking forward to the third @lullabyte.bsky.social summer camp in Berlin next week! An excellent programme with science discussions, start-up strategies, keynotes, a Sleep Concert and the presentation of the joint artistic project of the PhD students named 'Somnosphere' lullabyte.eu/2025/06/19/l...

Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD.…

How mind wandering and blanking relate to cardiac activity and brain/cardiac relationships? This revised preprint confirms our initial findings, with a full replication of the initial protocol! @corcorana.bsky.social also masterfully extended the paper in several interesting directions! 🧪🧠🫀

Do you want to learn more about how music is processed in the brain? Join our 2025 summer school on music neuroscience! @musicinthebrain.bsky.social musicinthebrain.au.dk/summer-schoo...

Jeg havde en spændende snak med Emma Holtet fra Videnslyd om hvad der sker i hjernen, når vi lytter til musik, og hvordan vi bruger musik i hverdagen. Det blev til en ny episode i podcasten Fuld af viden - Forskernes fredagsbar @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @dg.dk www.spreaker.com/episode/nar-...

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶 While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎧 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...

'A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation' by Fabian Schwimmbeck, Esteban Bullón Tarrasó & Thomas Schreiner @fabian31415.bsky.social @estebanbt.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

What do people do to sleep well? I am really happy that our study on sleep strategies in the general population is now out in Journal of Sleep Research! @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social #musicscience #JSR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪

If you do studies including music or audio, please complete this survey to support the development of a standardised BIDS format for audio. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social @musicperception.bsky.social

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...

Glæder mig til at fortælle om musik og hjernen i Sønderborg i dag - inklusiv vores nyeste forskning fra Center for @musicinthebrain.bsky.social. Tak til Biblioteket Sønderborg for invitationen! @dg.dk biblioteket.sonderborg.dk/biblioteket-...

Wonderful memories from the #Neuromusic conference in Helsinki last summer

Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum . Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline for the application is March 20th 2025.

Congratulations to Rebecca Jane Scarratt who successfully defended her PhD on 'Global and individual effects of music on relaxation and sleep' at @musicinthebrain.bsky.social last week. Thanks to the assessment committee for facilitating a really inspiring discussion of the work!

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.

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]

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

A new journal from the American Psychological Association dedicated to consciousness!! Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice www.apa.org/pubs/journal... Check it out! 🧠🧪

On my way to the #SoniHED 2025 conference on sonification of health and environmental data. Happy to be invited speaker for the 'Sound and Sleep' symposium together with @thomasandrillon.bsky.social and @miriamakkermann.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social @musicinthebrain.bsky.social

Looking for another 20 participants for our @york.ac.uk online music listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11. What does music make you feel or imagine? Help Splat the alien 🛸learn what music means to Earthlings! #musicscience Info and access: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...

Preprint out with Rasmus Buus and @silviagenovese.bsky.social 🎉 We evaluated sleep strategies in the general population and found that most people use specific behaviors for sleep. 11% use music for sleep weekly @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social #musicscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

This post is deeply funny to me because (1) it accurately lays out what most scientific writing on music is about, thus demonstrating (2) why very few people outside the subfield take it seriously

New preprint out with Rebecca Jane Scarratt 🥳🎉 Using a text mining approach to YouTube comments, we investigated how different motivations for using sleep music can influence the type of music used for sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

The 2023 annual report for @musicinthebrain.bsky.social is now online at our webpage. A great opportunity to get an overview of all the excellent MIB research. musicinthebrain.au.dk/annual-reports

I am really happy to share the good news that our systematic review on the effect of music as a sleep aid in adults with mental health problems is out in European Psychiatry 🎶 Thanks to Nan Zhao for his great work on this paper! @lullabyte.bsky.social #musicscience www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excellent opportunity to contribute to #musicscience

New protocol out! We are conducting a Cochrane review on the effect of rhythmic auditory stimulation for Parkinson’s at the Center for Music in the Brain, @aarhusuni.bsky.social Thanks to co-authors @kiravibe.bsky.social, @ErikJohnsen, and @PeterVuust www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

It was great welcoming the @lullabyte.bsky.social network at the Paris Brain Institute! We talked about sleep, music (obviously), and how to make sure our PhD candidates receive the best support we can offer for their research. Next meeting will be in Barcelona with super interesting events!