Nashra Ahmad's Avatar

Nashra Ahmad

@nashraa.bsky.social

PhD scholar in Music Psychology at Durham University. Interested in Cross-Cultural Studies, Rhythm Perception and Synchronisation.

225 Followers  |  241 Following  |  14 Posts  |  Joined: 01.11.2024  |  1.5027

Latest posts by nashraa.bsky.social on Bluesky

Thanks.

12.11.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โฑ๏ธ Effect of Length: Across all groups, shorter rhythmic patterns were recognized more accurately than longer ones.

12.11.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽต Effect of General Musicianship: Western musicians generally performed better than Western non-musicians in recognizing rhythmic cycles.
๐ŸŒ Effect of Familiarity: Indian non-musicians were able to learn and recall the 7-, 8-, and 10-beat cycles, outperforming culturally unfamiliar non-musicians.

12.11.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’ก Key findings:
- Indian non-musicians and Western musicians recognized the shorter rhythms after exposure, while Western non-musicians showed no learning for any of the rhythmic patterns.

12.11.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Participants were asked to recognize rhythms before and after an explicit exposure.

12.11.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We explored how cultural familiarity and musical training shape the ability to learn and recognize rhythm pattern across four rhythms: 7-beat Rupaktal, 8-beat Kehervatal, 10-beat Jhaptal, and 16-beat Teental. Participants were asked to recognize rhythms before and after an explicit exposure.

12.11.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

12.11.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Happy to be a part of this cross-cultural research on the perception of tension in harmonic intervals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych

10.11.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image Post image

Participating in #ICMPC18 online and watching the winning papers of the conference by @harinlee.info and Lalit Mohan. Both making some great contributions to #musicscience #musicpsychology and moving beyond WEIRD.

22.07.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Preview
MUSIFEAST-17: MUsic Stimuli for imagination, familiarity, emotion, and Aesthetic STudies across 17 genres - Behavior Research Methods Musical stimuli are commonly used in psychological research for investigating a range of emotional, cognitive, and physiological processes. Despite this widespread use, many studies continue to rely o...

MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set now published and available to read!
link.springer.com/article/10.3... ๐Ÿงžโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿš€ #MusicPsych #MusicScience

20.06.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Post image Post image Post image

Had a great time presenting my work on chunking and memory, as well as the effect of cycle length in cross-cultural rhythm perception @rppw.bsky.social
Both of these talks explored long and complex temporal patterns in North Indian classical Music.

With: Martin Clayton & @tuomaseerola.bsky.social

20.06.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

@nashraa.bsky.social from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social is presenting next at #RPPW20

17.06.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thanks for sharing Lennie. :)

13.06.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lovely time presenting my work on temporal learning of North Indian Classical Rhythmic Patterns at #SysMus25

12.06.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A great initiative by our lab members.
#openresearch #openscience is what we need โค๏ธ

31.01.2025 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Dear all,

After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the re-launch of our monthly events, starting with our first session (online via Zoom) on December 3rd, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM GMT.

29.11.2024 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones

Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

25.11.2024 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

Would you like to play an online game on Auditory Memory for Indian Rhythms?
I am looking for musicians unfamiliar with Indian music to participate in this fun study. You will get a score on completion. ๐Ÿค“
#musicpsych

Click to participate: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

08.11.2024 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@nashraa is following 20 prominent accounts