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@kellyjakubowski.bsky.social

Professor of Music Psychology at Durham University, violinist, researching musical memory and imagination

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International Symposiumย โ€” Call for Contributions - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network What does it mean to imagine music? The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network invites proposals for its inaugural international symposium, held at Durham University, UK, 18โ€“19 May 2026. The event brings t...

๐ŸŒ€ Still time to submit to our international symposium!

๐Ÿ“ Durham University | 18โ€“19 May 2026

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025

musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...

08.10.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Music and Boredom: A First Insight Into an Unexplored Relationship - Julia Merrill, Tristan Niedecken, 2023 While the positive effects of music listening have received much attention, insights into the negative effects are rare, such as the experience of boredom. In t...

I remember this paper coming out a while ago. They didnโ€™t use specific stimuli, but possible their team has been working collecting music since then doi.org/10.1177/2059...

09.10.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lab member @fruzsiszucs.bsky.social has written about her recent experience going to her first international conference at musicscience.net!

#musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18

29.09.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wรผrzburg

Wรผrzburg

๐Ÿ“ฏWe're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Wรผrzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! ๐Ÿ“† **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...

08.09.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Conferences, huh. Whatโ€™s the point? In this post, Hazel, Katie, and Connor highlight some reasons why you should consider attending an academic conference, supplemented by our recent experience from attending the 18th International Cโ€ฆ

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โ€œConferences, huh. Whatโ€™s the point?โ€

@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...

13.08.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Popular music and movies as autobiographical memory cues - Memory & Cognition Research on music-evoked autobiographical memories has grown rapidly in recent years, suggesting that music can be an effective stimulus for cueing memories from oneโ€™s life. One challenging aspect of ...

Great to see this paper out, which is a super useful resource for people wanting to use music and/or movies as autobiographical memory cues. Thanks to Amy Belfi and her awesome students for involving me in this work! doi.org/10.3758/s134...

12.08.2025 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Inner Music in Fiction and Biography - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network Inner Music in Fiction and Biography โ€˜Inner musicโ€™ or โ€˜musical imageryโ€™ refers to the music that one hears in oneโ€™s own head. For example, an โ€˜earwormโ€™ is a catchy piece of music that is stuck in oneโ€™...

Can you think of examples of books, films, TV shows, etc. featuring earworms or other types of imagined music? Please share them here! musicinmyhead.org/inner-music-...

06.08.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
WTC & ITS 2027

Weโ€™re thrilled to announce that the Inner Music and Wellbeing Network is a Strategic Partner of the 4th World Tinnitus Congress & XV International Tinnitus Seminar, 30 Juneโ€“2 July 2027.

@freyabailes.bsky.social will lead a track on Consciousness, Inner Music & Auditory Imagery.

wtc2027.co.uk

06.08.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm on leave from work till late Sept, but great to see the research of our
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
being shared with colleagues from across the globe at #ICMPC18 by our highly capable and joyful students and postdocs!

26.07.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Almost forgot @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social poster highlight from #ICMPC18!

Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience

26.07.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Connor presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

Connor presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo 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

24.07.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Wei wu presenting online at ICMPC18

Wei wu presenting online at ICMPC18

Postdoc @weiwu.bsky.social giving a presentation at #ICMPC18 on music evoked thoughts. Semantic similarity analysis showed that adjacent age groups share similar thoughts to the music!
#musicscience

22.07.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been having some wonderful and really engaging discussions with many of the #ICMPC18 attendees this year in Sรฃo Paulo!
So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ’ซ

(P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)

25.07.2025 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shout out to @katiesvish.bsky.social!!

24.07.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Another great presentation from @aliyaedwards.bsky.social!!

24.07.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dr. Caroline Curwen presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

Dr. Caroline Curwen presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

@curwen01.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo about her @leverhulme.ac.uk project connecting music-evoked narrative imaginings and synaesthesia! #musicscience

24.07.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Hazel presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

Hazel presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social gave a presentation yesterday exploring the types of thoughts occurring while listening to music from a wide range of styles, familiarity, and more! Great to disseminate this @leverhulme.ac.uk project to the #musicscience crowd at #ICMPC18!!

24.07.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Chara presenting online at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

Chara presenting online at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

Insights into the effectiveness of different memorisation techniques by @charasteliou.bsky.social!!

#musicscience #musicpedagogy #musicteaching #ICMPC18

25.07.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fruzsina presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

Fruzsina presenting at ICMPC18 in Sรฃo Paulo

@fruzsiszucs.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 about how musical cues depict different concepts and their connection to specific memories! #musicscience

25.07.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Harin Lee presenting in Sรฃo Paulo

Harin Lee presenting in Sรฃo Paulo

Congratulations to @harinlee.info for winning the #ICMPC18 best student paper award! ๐Ÿฅ‡

22.07.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Neat design for a new test of musical imagery ability incorporating pitch and rhythm presented by @aliyaedwards.bsky.social at #ICMPC18 #musicscience

23.07.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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exciting news this Saturday: another article PUBLISHED!! โ€œThoughtscapesโ€ takes a deeper look peopleโ€™s thought landscape while listening the range of music clips and styles in the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set :)) ๐Ÿ‘‚๐Ÿ’ญ ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐ŸŽฌ doi.org/10.1177/0305...

05.07.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

. @norijacoby.bsky.social, Mapping cross-cultural internal representations in music

a whopper of research-packed keynote -- new behavioural methods (incl. online and field exps.) can address Qs about perception of music and their underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms

#ICMPC2025 #MusicScience

22.07.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And alumni of course!

21.07.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good luck to all the @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social members presenting both in-person and virtually at #ICMPC18 this week!

21.07.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. Iโ€™m also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. Iโ€™ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025โ€”feel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.

18.07.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Then, we looked at how features of the different music clips predicted different thought types, like memories, fictional imaginings, and abstract imagery: doi.org/10.1177/0305....

05.07.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

05.07.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Studienorganisation Chiffre PSY-SPORT-15172

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!
lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...

23.06.2025 08:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Coauthored with the fabulous @margulisa.bsky.social

20.06.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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