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Centre for Music and Science

 

We are delighted to have been awarded a £20,000 grant from the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme for the project 'Transforming music cognition research through next-generation online experiments'. This grant will drive ongoing development of our PsyNet software. PsyNet provides a concise yet highly expressive language for designing diverse kinds of experiments, ranging from systematic psychoacoustic experiments to massive cultural evolution experiments. PsyNet then automates the deployment of these experiments, meaning that you can collect data from hundreds of participants with just a single terminal command. We are excited to keep working with our collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics to develop this software, and to make it ready for a public release in the coming months.

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Maddie Jones starting PhD at Bristol University

28 March 2025

We are very pleased to hear that Maddie Jones, who did an undergraduate dissertation project at the CMS analysing the relationship between music listening and mood, has been awarded a full PhD scholarship to study at Bristol University, in the School of Psychological Science. She will be supervised by Professor Claire...

New article: Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening

28 March 2025

Many congratulations to Hannah Wilkie for her recent article in Music Perception entitled 'Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening'! This article came from Hannah's MPhil thesis at the CMS in 2023. Hannah is now studying for a PhD in Princeton University. Abstract: The influence of room acoustic...