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Michaelmas 2023 seminars announced

30 August 2023

The seminar list for Michaelmas 2023 has now been published on the CMS seminars page ! We are excited to have guests joining us from institutes around the world, including Europe, the United States, and Australia, to talk about a variety of topics spanning pitch, rhythm, timbre, and memory.

Research associate position for managing a randomised controlled trial of music therapy with autistic children

30 August 2023

The Autism Research Centre at the Cambridge Department of Psychiatry is looking to appoint a research associate (fixed-term) to manage a randomised controlled trial of music therapy with autistic children. The application deadline is 10 September 2023. For more details see the following link: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job...

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: open for applications

11 July 2023

Applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open for a start date from 1 st September 2024. This is an excellent opportunity to conduct an independent postdoctoral research project at the Centre for Music & Science. British citizens and any nationals from the European Economic Area are eligible...

New paper: Handedness and musicality in secondary school students

1 July 2023

We are very proud of Lottie Anstee, CMS alumnus, whose undergraduate dissertation paper has now been published in the journal Music Perception. The paper describes a large-scale quantitative investigation of potential associations between handedness and musicality in secondary school students. Congratulations Lottie...

New paper: "Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution"

23 March 2023

We just published a new paper in the journal Current Biology, entitled "Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution". This was a fun project where we 'evolved' melodies in massive online experiments, getting participants to vocally imitate melodies from each other...

Workshop "Decoding Musical Structure: Theory, Computation, and Neuroscience" (5-9 February 2023)

10 February 2023

We cohosted a workshop entitled "Decoding Musical Structure: Theory, Computation, and Neuroscience" together with Martin Rohrmeier (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and Markus Neuwirth (Anton Bruckner University Linz). The workshop took place at the beautiful location of Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. The...

Elizabeth MacGregor appointed to new position at Birmingham City University

9 December 2022

We are happy to report that Elizabeth MacGregor has been appointed as a Research Fellow in Creativity in Arts Education at Birmingham City University, starting in January 2023. Elizabeth recently finished her PhD in music education, and has been a dedicated contributor to undergraduate teaching at the CMS over the last few...

New paper: A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces

27 October 2022

Recent CMS undergraduate Silas Sanders just presented his dissertation project at the 153rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. The project is entitled 'A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces'. Silas put together an impressive pipeline of acoustic...

New PhD and research assistant positions: Score design for music reading

11 October 2022

We are happy to share several new positions at our Centre for Music and Science (Faculty of Music, Cambridge). These positions are part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Score designs for the facilitation of music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives led by Professor Ian Cross (Principal Investigator) and Dr...

CMS at SEMPRE 50th Anniversary Conference

5 September 2022

We had our first post-COVID conference trip this weekend, to the 50th anniversary conference of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE). It was great to catch up with old friends and meet more of the community. We are particularly proud of CMS PhD student Xi Zhang, who received the Aubrey Hickman award for her paper entitled 'Tones shape notes: The realisation of lexical tones in Chaozhou songs'. We are also proud of our other CMS students who presented at the conference:

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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...

Michaelmas 2023 seminars announced

Research associate position for managing a randomised controlled trial of music therapy with autistic children

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: open for applications

New paper: Handedness and musicality in secondary school students

New paper: "Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution"

Workshop "Decoding Musical Structure: Theory, Computation, and Neuroscience" (5-9 February 2023)

Elizabeth MacGregor appointed to new position at Birmingham City University

New paper: A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces

New PhD and research assistant positions: Score design for music reading

CMS at SEMPRE 50th Anniversary Conference

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