@andytonality.bsky.social
Music theorist, practitioner, and cognitive scientist at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University. #MusicScience #Bayesian #Cognition #CausalInference
The first study from my PhD project is now available! π
"Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery"
Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social.
Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On the left, a Papua New Guinean musician in ceremonial clothes is performing on the Kundu drum (a long hourglass-shaped wooden drum). In the background, members of the community are enjoying the show. On the right, in the background, are plots showing the results of computational analyses of the effects of different music-acoustical features on perceived music stability in several different communities. On the right, in the foreground, a young woman from PNG is wearing headphones and taking part in a music cognition experiment.
We are offering an exciting #Cross-Cultural #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney for our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses!
www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.
23.05.2025 01:18 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 3
"Have directed acyclic graphs fullfilled their promise?" - the recording of my debate with @margaritamb.bsky.social at the World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 is now available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79...
#EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025
We were thrilled to welcome Prof George Williams AO, Vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University to MARCS Institute!
The VC chatted to our researchers about the exciting work in child development, neuromorphic research, biomedical engineering, & music science. Thanks for your support & insights!
πAs #languages disappear, so do parts of a #communityβs identity and culture. β¨Newly funded ARC Discovery Project, led by Dr Hannah Sarvasy, will explore the impact of preserving #Indigenous languages in Papua New Guinea and beyond. π tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5
@katestevartssci.bsky.social
Project ID: DP250101116. Investigators: Associate Professor Andrew Milne; Professor Roger Dean; Professor Emery Schubert; Dr Catherine Ingram; Dr Hannah Sarvasy; Professor Tuomas Eerola. Summary: Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect. Across almost all human cultures, music has a remarkable capacity to communicate different affects (emotions and feelings). However it is unknown which, if any, associations between music-acoustical features and affects are universal, and which are cultural. In a music cognition field-research program of unprecedented scope, we aim to estimate how tones in melodic, polyphonic, harmonic, and rhythmic contexts influence affective responses, and the extent to which these effects are mediated by cultural mechanisms (familiarity and association). The findings will have profound implications for the use of sound and music in therapeutic applications and will help identify ways to bridge cultural divides through intercultural musical appreciation. Announced: 26/11/2024. Admin Organisation: Western Sydney University. Primary FOR: 3603. Funding Awarded: $914,548.00
I am very happy to report that our ARC Discovery project β Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect β has been funded ($915,000 over 4 years). The team is amazing, and the project has unprecedented scope for multicultural music cognition field experiments. #MusicScience
30.11.2024 05:07 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0Music communicates emotions across cultures, but how much is universal vs cultural? β¨Newly funded #ARC #Discovery Project will explore music's impact on #health, #wellbeing, and the global #music industry. πhttps://tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5
#MusicScience @katestevartssci.bsky.social
Bar graph (blue bars) showing the funding invested in the ARCβs Discovery Projects scheme each year since 2002, including yesterdayβs outcomes for 2025. Thereβs a red line showing the success rate (number of applications approved divided by the number submitted). Data compiled here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing.
Yesterday was an improvement for Discovery Projects.
An extra ~$110 million was invested compared to last year (which was a low point).
It replaces rapid loss in last 2 years & aligns investment with the last 12 years (adjusted for inflation).
Not enough, but a start!
Acoustical and cultural explanations for contextual tonal stability: http://osf.io/zhjd2/
17.12.2023 08:10 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our International Visiting Scholar Scheme 2024 is now open!
Spend 1-3 months in 2024 working with our brilliant researchers in amazing facilities!
Two streams available: #PhD Students: $AUD 2,500 & #ECR #MCR: $AUD 3,500.
Applications close: 24th January 2024.
tinyurl.com/visitMARCS
Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate perceptual & cognitive processes of #socialinteraction & #communication with @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @perikeller.bsky.social
Applications close 1 Dec tinyurl.com/JoinMARCS #postdoc #cogneuro #musicscience
I'm so thrilled that Adrian's pioneering work on randomising grant outcomes is gaining traction internationally. We need an organisation here in Australia willing to give it a go...
#statsky #biostats
JCU has the Elizabeth Pearse Music Scholarship to fund the study of music at Masters or PhD level. Applications now open. #MusicScience
05.11.2023 23:49 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0I was there too (in the afternoon) β shame I didn't see you to say hello.
27.10.2023 12:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Two postdoc positions in cyberpsychology at the University of Newcastle, Australia
More info: mathpsych.org
#CogPsyc #Psychology #PhDSky #PsychJobs
More ways of splitting the octave
www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/10...
Open peer review planned for Psychological Science
#Psychology #MetaSci #ScientificPublishing
www.science.org/content/arti...
Some words on Carla Bley:
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2023/10/no-m...
youtu.be/bvDhRrGCwqg?...
18.10.2023 11:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RIP the wonderful Carla Bley www.theguardian.com/music/2023/o...
18.10.2023 11:14 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Oh, no no no, it was too cold alwaysΒ Β Β
(Still the dead one lay moaning)Β Β Β
I was much too far out all my lifeΒ Β Β
And not waving but drowning.
New platform, new paper! π΅ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The second article from our #musicscience field-research in Papua New Guinea and Sydney is out! We find that acoustical roughness is universally associated with musical consonance/dissonance (operationalized as βstabilityβ)!
