MT can be implemented in individual & group settings w/ different methods: improvisation, music imagery, music listening & songwriting. It can enhance depression, anxiety & functioning, support agency, self-expression & emotion regulation, promote wellbeing & facilitate self-reflection/awareness.
24.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two people facing each other playing djembé drums. The picture is cut in a way that only the hands of the two people and part of their arms and legs are showing in the picture. In the background two keyboards facing each other.
New review out on music therapy in treatment of depression-related disorders in working-age population! MT is an effective treatment for depression, anxiety and work-related stress. 1/2
Read here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
#MusicScience #MusicTherapy #Depression #Stress
24.11.2025 13:56 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
🎧 New #FENS - #EJN Journal Club Podcast episode!
🧠 In this episode, Hanna Poikonen explores what brain synchrony reveals about expertise and why taking #neuroscience out of the lab could bring us closer to understanding real-life experiences.
👉 https://loom.ly/bft__7k
03.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Also the Finnish Broadcasting company Yle is featuring our research on teenage music memories! They’re collecting people’s own musical memories — go share yours!
👉 yle.fi/a/74-20191537
#MusicScience #Musiikkimuistot #Musiikkipsykologia
05.11.2025 11:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great news: Our recent paper on the reminiscence bump in music just got featured in Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish): www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...
05.11.2025 11:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Using dynamic functional connectivity analysis, we show that musicians’ brains shift more often between sensorimotor, emotional, and cognitive networks involving frontal, motor, and auditory regions & non-musicians engage more self-referential patterns centred on medial prefrontal & parietal areas.
05.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are excited to announce the first major study on the NEW MuPsych app!
Find out how listening to Music on your phone influences your Emotions.
To take part, go to www.MusicStudy.eu
#MusicScience #MusicPsychology
23.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Miikka Peltomaa
Musiikit & ammatit in Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/24LZGev...
17.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our study about reminiscence bump(s) in personally meaningful music:
Your life’s greatest hits? A global study finds they trace back to our teens. Timing changes w/ age & gender: as we age, men stick to old favourites, women embrace newer tunes! 1/2
Read: t.ly/u2qvJ
#MusicScience #MusicPsychology
14.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
2/2 We show that occipital regions are engaged during music (attention, imagery, emotion) and that the brain more often shifts from DMN to orbitofrontal–limbic states, patterns that may help explain how music supports emotion and reward processing in children.
13.10.2025 06:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception
- RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!😁
Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen @ptoiviai.bsky.social, will give a talk titled "Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception".
Read more here:
08.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
2/2 Our study in JMIR Human Factors combines systematic review and meta-analysis to examine 18 studies on PIMSs. Results show increased physical activity & improved affective responses with meta-regression indicating faster music tempo improves these effects while exertion measures remain unchanged.
08.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Applicants Day 2025
Applicants Day is a free online event for anyone interested in international master's degree programmes at the University of Jyväskylä.
Looking to do a Master's in Music and Science? The next application round for Master’s Degree Programme in Music and Science at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) is open: January 7-21, 2026
Find out more about our program at the International Applicants' Day: jyu.fi/applicantsday
08.10.2025 06:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Study in JMIR XR & Spatial Computing presents a VR task co-developed w/ physiotherapists, integrating directional sound to improve attention & motor engagement during hand grasping movements. Performance trajectories in 12 sessions were modeled to capture individual differences in responsiveness 2/2
06.10.2025 07:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2/2 Our study published in Scientific Reports combines Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and machine learning to analyse 176 anthems worldwide. Energy peaks near the equator, sadness rises further from it cultural values shape anthem emotions in interesting ways.
02.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The emotional geography of National anthems - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The emotional geography of National anthems
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
02.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Interesting in networking and following our research output on LinkedIn? Join us here: www.linkedin.com/company/coe-...
01.06.2025 12:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People rafting on a rubber boat, green trees on the shores
This week we had two amazing seminar / research workshop days with the @coe-mmbb.bsky.social team, followed by some extreme water sports.
#musicscience #ilovemyjob
24.05.2025 12:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I received some great news during our @coe-mmbb.bsky.social meeting last week: my paper was selected for the Outstanding Paper Award of our Center for the year 2022 🥳 Now I am motivated to produce more 😁 read it here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
27.05.2025 14:44 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lukijalta | Lyhytnäköiset leikkaukset kulttuurista kylmäävät – romuttaa hyvinvointivaltion perustuksia
Kulttuurista leikkaaminen on lyhytnäköistä hyvinvointipolitiikkaa.
Prof. Toiviainen and Prof. Särkämö: cutting funding for culture is a short-sighted policy that undermines societal wellbeing, given the crucial role of arts and music in supporting mental health, social cohesion, and human development across all ages
👇 Linkki: www.aamulehti.fi/lukijalta/ar...
28.04.2025 11:34 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New study by @persatz.bsky.social on children's music-making explores empathy & synchrony! Findings show that higher trait empathy helps children synchronize better, especially when their timing is less stable. Female-female pairs also synchronized better. 1/2 #musicscience
25.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development is an interdisciplinary research institute of Western Sydney University.
www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs
The Australian Music & Psychology Society comprises researchers sharing a passion for all things music & psychology
http://amps.org.au #MusicScience
The Pitch Exploration Lab is a space for any major at Penn State to explore music, brain, and psychology topics related to the construct of musical pitch and rhythm.
We are the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. #musicscience https://www.musicperception.org/
Center for Music in the Brain (MIB) is a DNRF Center of Excellence at Aarhus University. We investigate how the brain processes music 🎶
www.musicinthebrain.au.dk
AHRC-funded network exploring the range and significance of musical imagery and wellbeing experiences 🎵
Led by @freyabailes.bsky.social and @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social
https://musicinmyhead.org/
ESCOM is an international non-profit society which promotes theoretical, experimental and applied research in the cognitive sciences of music.
Keep updated about society news and with our journal, MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ, on https://www.escomsociety.org
Music Psychology @ Leeds Research Group (University of Leeds). All the latest news, publications and updates from our research community.
https://music-psych.leeds.ac.uk
SysMus is an annual student-run event bringing together students in the broad field of systematic musicology to discuss and present research. Follow for conference and exec. committee updates. https://sites.google.com/view/sysmus
The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW20).
16-19th June, 2025
Jyväskylä, Finland.
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion.
RITMO is an interdisciplinary research centre at UiO, focused on rhythm, time and motion.
Music psychology research and teaching in #Sheffield, UK. Muses, Mind, Machine; Music & Dementia; Performer & Audience research; MA programmes onsite and online.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/research/research-themes/psychology-music
Freelance musician, music pedagogue. Doctoral student @ University of Jyväskylä (JYU). She/her.
https://linktr.ee/hannaturunen
Laulu ja ihmiset sydäntä lähellä.
Associate professor in musicology (University of Jyväskylä, FI) doing research on music and emotions, identity, and wellbeing/illbeing.
PhD candidate at Durham University, UK. Looking into music and emotion, music cognition, and psychometric development.
