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
09.02.2026 07:48 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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#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 🔭❗
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MUSICONNEX conference addresses the following questions: How can music help to connect with self and others? How can we study and measure this across mind, body, and varied contexts? What are the related next steps in research and engagement platforms?
Important dates: Abstract submission opens on the 2nd of February, 2026. Abstract submittion deadline is the 31st of March, 2026. For more information, visit our website.
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...
The image is of a recruitment poster for a research study: (images) University of Salford and Leverhulme Trust logos (text) Hearing loss, wellbeing and music Do you have first hand experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? Are you interested in taking part in a research study? You are eligible to take part if you: are 18 years or older, have experience of hearing loss, listen to music in your day-to-day life. The study will involve: taking part in an online survey (about 20 minutes), answering questions about your hearing, how you engage with music, and questions about mental health and wellbeing. For more information: Please email Addie Beckwith, PhD student at the University of Salford - a.m.beckwith@edu.salford.ac.uk. Supervisors: Dr Duncan Williams and Dr Robert Bendall (images) A large ear, a mute symbol, musical notes and a treble clef, an MP3 player and wired earbuds.
A QR code that leads to the survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/hearing-loss-wellbeing-and-music
* 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.
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I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science.
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🎶 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
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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
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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, ....
06.11.2025 09:44 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 3
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!
05.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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):
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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-...
27.09.2025 09:40 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
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Our Call for Contributions is still open! Please share widely 💥
17.09.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Connor presenting at ICMPC18 in São Paulo
@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
22.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Tuning 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
22.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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...
03.07.2025 08:40 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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!
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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!
14.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In 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...
14.05.2025 11:29 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Shows a plot of audio waveform with continuously changing estimation of majorness to minorness (relative mode) in a Bach prelude. It is a screen capture from GitHub.
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
13.05.2025 16:34 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
📣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!!
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@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.
10.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0