Daniel Müllensiefen is Professor of Systematic Musicology and Music Psychology at the University of Hamburg. His research spans musical development, melodic memory, individual differences in musical ability, and applications of music psychology in real-world settings.
Selected Publications
- The recall and recognition of sonic logos Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2026)
- Perception of chord sequences modeled with prediction by partial matching, voice-leading distance, and spectral pitch-class similarity Music & Science (2024)
- Handedness and musicality in secondary school students Music Perception (2023)
- The associations between music training, musical working memory, and visuospatial working memory: an opportunity for causal modeling Music Perception (2022)
- An efficient and adaptive test of auditory mental imagery Psychological Research (2021)
- The mistuning perception test: A new measurement instrument Behavior Research Methods (2019)
- Development and validation of the computerised adaptive beat alignment test (CA-BAT) Scientific Reports (2018)
- Applying modern psychometric techniques to melodic discrimination testing: Item response theory, computerised adaptive testing, and automatic item generation Scientific Reports (2017)
- Modelling melodic discrimination tests: Descriptive and explanatory approaches Journal of New Music Research (2016)
- Investigating the importance of self-theories of intelligence and musicality for students' academic and musical achievement Frontiers in Psychology (2015)