Steven A B Wright

Looking for some good readings for a graduate student who is interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of music #perception. Any recommendations—philosophical or otherwise? #PhilPerception #PhilQ

How it started / How it ended

We (@johnmcbride4lyf.bsky.social, @yutoozaki.bsky.social, @mhoeschele.bsky.social, Alex Ruf, Raphaël Powis, @musiccognition.bsky.social & I) wrote this up into a formal critique of the Science paper claiming to demonstrate beat synchronization in macaques:
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Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music Author summary Many people experience chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing art. Yet not everyone feels these reactions in the same way. These differences provide a window into ho...

A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such “chills” (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. 👇🧪

Does musical tension make the final resolution sweeter? 🎵 New research says perhaps no! We found that high dissonance in the penultimate chord actually makes the final tonic sound less pleasant, debunking the long-held "contrast effect" theory. #musicscience #musicresearch
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SysMus26 We are looking forward to hosting the next International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology very soon! SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—i…

Last week to submit abstracts to join our group in Durham in July for the SysMus26 conference! Please share with any interested #musicscience students! musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

📣 Happy to share our new pre-print investigating rhythmic competencies in an internet-based sample of 300 participants - Check it out here! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Nice collaboration with Nick Foster, Reyna Gordon, Simone Dalla Bella, and Barbara Tillmann 😁

🎵🧪 #musicscience 🎶

I love this.

Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? Tell us about it at www.manyparrots.org @birdsingalong.bsky.social @laurynbenedict.bsky.social et al.

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

NYAS Publications Prominent theories suggest that the urge to move along to rhythmic music is driven by precision-weighted prediction errors. We operationalized this account as a Bayesian model which outputs surprisal...

Nice new paper here providing a model of why we want to move.

#musiccognition #music #research #musicscience

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A strange ad for Facebook to dangle in front of me.

YouTube video by Music Cognition Group (UvA) Probing beat and isochrony perception in primates | Paper at ICMPC17 | Henkjan Honing

In short, I believe the study provides evidence for isochrony perception rather than beat perception. I explain the difference in [1] and present empirical data in [2].
[1] youtu.be/hZlribCZAx8?...
[2] doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Monkeys That Catch The Beat Rewrite The Story Of Rhythm #Science #Biology #Zoology #RhythmResearch #AnimalBehavior #MusicScience

OUT NOW!!! SoundPower with Stefan Koelsch, professor, music neuroscientist and violinist. We look at how musical pleasure shapes emotion, health and ageing.

In his words “Dopamine can help keep the brain younger.”

Listen here: www.tinyurl.com/ep18-SP-Stef...

David Huron (1954–2025) - Daniel Shanahan, 2025

I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science.

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Paper out with Atser Damsma, Tom Kaplan, Mohsen Ghorashi, & Marcus Pearce! How do listeners represent rhythmic patterns? Our probabilistic modelling 🎶 says using abstract, imprecise representations, like ratio and contour: "long, a bit shorter, shortish"! Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!🥳
Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo".
Read more here:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total.
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#Musicscience

The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...

Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
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#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

Sign the Petition Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham

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Thrilled to share our new publication in Aesthetics, Creativity & the Arts! 🎶 Huge thanks to my wonderful collaborators for making this possible. Our paper explores how culture shapes emotions felt with favorite music and their implications for arts & health. Read it here: doi.org/10.1037/aca0...

Let Music Be Your Medicine Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.

Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...

#musicscience

Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society The ability to synchronize bodily movements with regular auditory rhythm across a broad range of tempos underlies humans’ capacity for playing music and dancing. This capability is prevalent across hu...

Looks like macaques can entrain to a beat, if it’s visual. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments?
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.

#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych

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
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Music and memory - WHYY Princeton professor Elizabeth Margulis explains why music has the power to affect our emotions, transport us to far away places and connect us to others.

🎶 Can music impact our memories?

@margulisa.bsky.social, director of The Music Cognition Lab at Princeton, joins @whyy.org to explain.

Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...