Kira Vibe Jespersen

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.
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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. Apply by 25 June 2025. Location: Aarhus, Denmark. Advance your academic career in a leading research environment.

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.…

Babies Don’t Need Mozart Recordings, Just a Parent Who Sings The salutary effect of music on infants is more about happiness than smarts.

www.wsj.com/science/babi...

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!

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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

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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-...

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

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...

<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library Insomnia is highly prevalent and associated with serious health issues. Despite the negative impact of poor sleep on mind and body, most people do not seek treatment. This study aimed to examine the ...

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

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Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment - Nature Communications Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.

“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

Large million grant: Music as the key to the brain's creativity Two Danish foundations are donating a total of 20 million kroner to the Center for Music in the Brain (MIB) at Aarhus University. The Lundbeck Foundation and Salling Foundations have each contributed ...

We are extremely happy to share that the Salling Foundations and The Lundbeck Foundation have each contributed 10 million DKK to the center!
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Musik og hjernen | Biblioteket Sønderborg

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

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Wonderful memories from the #Neuromusic conference in Helsinki last summer

Postdoc in cognitive neuroscience - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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.

Individual differences in the effects of musical familiarity and musical features on brain activity during relaxation Finding a way to relax is increasingly difficult in our overstimulating modern society and chronic stress can have severe psychological and physiological consequences. Music is a promising tool to pro...

Furthermore, she evaluated the impact of music familiarity on the choice of sleep music using both an online survey and fMRI to understand the brain activity underlying relaxation responses to different types of music
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To further understand the variation seen in sleep music audio features, she evaluated the role of individual motivations on the choice of sleep music using YouTube sleep playlists
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The audio features of sleep music: Universal and subgroup characteristics Throughout history, lullabies have been used to help children sleep, and today, with the increasing accessibility of recorded music, many people report listening to music as a tool to improve sleep. N...

Rebecca did wonderful research investigating the characteristics of sleep music using a large Spotify dataset
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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, pelledd@clin.au.dk

Our meta-analysis showed a beneficial effect of listening to music on sleep quality, but only four randomized controlled trials were identified! Definitely, more attention needs to be payed to insomnia during pregnancy.

The effect of music on pregnancy-related insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis Pregnancy is associated with physical, physiological and hormonal changes, that significantly influence sleep. Pregnancy-related insomnia is associate…

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

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice This journal publishes articles on theory, research, methodology, and clinical applications related to the psychology of consciousness.

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!
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sonihed2025_Programme | Sound for Energy

The conference is tomorrow - Wednesday 29th of January. Online participation is possible and free, but registration is needed 😃
Thanks to Sandra Pauletto for organising!
soundforenergy.net/sonihed2025_...