Steven A B Wright

Steven A B Wright

@stevenabwright.bsky.social

Writing a book about music preference.

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samuel mehr
@mehr.nz

fave new demonstration of survey items being really not that bad at tracking carefully-measured cognitive things: in 900,000 participants, a 5-item "how good are you at music" self-report (the colours) very directly tracks a 20min adaptive test of music perception ability (the x-axis)

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Pat Savage
@patrickesavage.bsky.social

🌏🎶 Special Many Voices: A world music podcast episode! 🎶🌏 The Season 1 finale ends with two very special guest hosts - my own kids! They interviewed me about my own NZ/US musical culture to make me see what it's like on the other end of the microphone: youtu.be/N9IZixq1pOs

Pat Savage@patrickesavage.bsky.social

🌏🎶 Special @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast episode🎶🌏 The Season 1 finale ends with two very special guest hosts - my own kids! They interviewed me about my own NZ/US musical culture to make me see what it's like on the other end of the microphone: youtu.be/N9IZixq1pOs

youtu.be#8 [guest hosts Maika & Kazushi Savage]: NZ & US English songs with Dr Patrick SavageYouTube video by Many Voices: A world music podcast

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Tuomas Eerola
@tuomaseerola.bsky.social

Why Context Matters in Music and Emotions — a blog post on why emotional experiences with music cannot be explained by musical features alone, but require a contextualised understanding of the listener and situation.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

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

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Pat Savage
@patrickesavage.bsky.social

How it started / How it ended

Pat Savage@patrickesavage.bsky.social

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

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Pat Savage
@patrickesavage.bsky.social

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: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Pat Savage@patrickesavage.bsky.social

In journal club today an astute grad student pointed out that these macaque tapping data look nothing like human beat synchronisation data. Nor, for that matter, like data from vocal learners like Snowball the cockatoo. Doesn't seem like evidence for synchronisation - are we missing something?

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Simon Fisher
@profsimonfisher.bsky.social

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. 👇🧪

journals.plos.orgGenetic underpinnings of chills from art and musicAuthor 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...

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Tuomas Eerola
@tuomaseerola.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 doi.org/10.1177/0305...

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Anna Fiveash
@anna5ash.bsky.social

📣 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 🎶

Steven A B Wright
@stevenabwright.bsky.social

I love this.

Sylvie Nozaradan@sylvienozaradan.bsky.social

How to think about culture in psychology and neuroscience? What about seeing it as a source and product of perceptual plasticity? Such an inspiring journey to co-write this paper with R Polak, A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, J London. osf.io/preprints/ps... Feedback welcome!

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UiO - RITMO
@unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social

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...

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

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Lullabyte
@lullabyte.bsky.social

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. z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run #Musicscience

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Nashra Ahmad
@nashraa.bsky.social

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

tandfonline.comThe Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic PatternsThe 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...

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Jamal A. Williams
@jayneuro.bsky.social

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...

biorxiv.orgMusic-evoked reactivation during continuous perception is associated with enhanced subsequent recall of naturalistic eventsMusic is a potent cue for recalling personal experiences, yet the neural basis of music-evoked memory remains elusive. We address this question by using the full-length film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to examine how repeated musical themes reactivate previously encoded events in cortex and shape next-day recall. Participants in an fMRI study viewed either the original film (with repeated musical themes) or a no-music version. By comparing neural activity patterns between these groups, we found that music-evoked reactivation of neural patterns linked to earlier scenes in the default mode network was associated with improved subsequent recall. This relationship was specific to the music condition and persisted when we controlled for a proxy measure of initial encoding strength (spatial intersubject correlation), suggesting that music-evoked reactivation may play a role in making event memories stick that is distinct from what happens at initial encoding. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. National Institutes of Health, https://ror.org/01cwqze88, F99 NS118740, R01 MH112357

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
@sundersays.bsky.social

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