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We are pleased to share our just-published paper in the journal Nature Communications, entitled 'Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales'. This work represents a long-term collaboration with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Nori Jacoby) and Princeton University (Raja Marjieh), amongst others.

You can find our University press coverage here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-un...

You can find the paper itself here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-z

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