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Comment on How automatic are emotional responses to musical chords? by What does cross-cultural research tell us about harmony perception? – Music & Science Lab

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:09:51 +0000

[…] implicit measure of attitudes. A detailed description of the affective priming method in music is given here by my colleague, Imre Lahdelma. The TL;DR version is this: participants hear a chord just before […]

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Comment on How automatic are emotional responses to musical chords? by Imre Lahdelma

Imre Lahdelma — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:29:57 +0000

In reply to Jacques Bailhé.

Thank you Jacques!

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Comment on How automatic are emotional responses to musical chords? by Jacques Bailhé

Jacques Bailhé — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:26:20 +0000

Excellent, Imre. Congrats to you and your team.

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Comment on Separating the Cultural from the Universal in Harmony Perception by How automatic are emotional responses to musical chords? – Music & Science Lab

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:29:00 +0000

[…] and musicologists (see an excellent overview in Tagg & Clarida, 2003), the ethnocentric universalism myth is surprisingly hard to put to bed within the realm of music psychology; we believe the current results provide another nail in the universalist coffin in terms of the […]

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Comment on Is the Perception of Consonance and Dissonance Universal? by Laurence

Laurence — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:16:24 +0000

Great summary. I think the “subjective liking assessed on a 4-point scale” is a huge problem with that study. I could easily say that I prefer the sound of Major 3rds (they are happier sounding, and have more “colour”) to Perfect 5ths (more open and hollow) while at the same time recognizing that the 5ths are more consonant (less roughness, more “pure”).

We often enjoy dissonance in music. So it’s not about preference, it’s about to what extent cultural conditioning is a factor in our ability to perceive consonant sounds as “less rough”.

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Comment on Where Are The Older Adults in Music Psychology Research? by Joe Schaefer

Joe Schaefer — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:03:41 +0000

I am a musician preparing to release new music, and it occurs to me that there is almost a total lack of marketing, and material that is aimed at older music fans. I’m 45 and my heroes are 80 years old. I’m sure that Paul McCartney’s demographic still wants new music, but no one is writing for them, or actively attempting to reach them. It is a black hole in popular culture and a missed opportunity to ignore these listeners. I’m trying to form a marketing plan around the idea, and I enjoyed your article. Thank you!

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Comment on Is the Perception of Consonance and Dissonance Universal? by Separating the cultural from the universal in harmony perception – Music & Science Lab

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:11:27 +0000

[…] two years ago, I asked the question in the Music & Science blog series whether the perception of consonance and dissonance is universal. While the world has well and truly changed since then, pandemics aside these past two years have […]

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Comment on New MA Specialism in Music and Science by Fagottobooks Blog

Fagottobooks Blog — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:34:31 +0000

[…] in Music and Science, which will commence in Autumn 2021 (read more about this programme here!). In addition to a broad selection of research presentations/demonstrations from our academic staff […]

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Comment on Open Data in Music and Science by New MA Specialism in Music and Science – Music & Science Lab

New MA Specialism in Music and Science – Music & Science Lab — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:04:47 +0000

[…] our teaching, in which we emphasise the importance of scientific principles including replication, Open Data, and transparent research practices. Our academic staff and postgraduate students regularly share […]

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Comment on On fitting in: Triumphs and challenges of a psychologist in a music department by The two (or more) hats of a music psychologist: Communicating research to different disciplinary audiences – Music & Science Lab

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:22:33 +0000

[…] This post picks up on a recurring theme I’ve written about a couple times now, which is the unique challenges one faces when working in an area that falls ‘between’ traditional disciplines. Some of the challenges that arise in music psychology may be due to the fact that it is a relatively less ‘established’ discipline; although researchers have been doing work that could be considered ‘music psychology research’ for well over a century, music psychology has not fully established itself as a universally recognised subfield of either music or psychology. To give a counterexample, although music historians may use a range of methods and approaches that cross between those used by musicians and other types of historians, music history is widely accepted as a subject that ‘belongs’ in a music department. Similarly, when browsing academic staff lists of music departments at reputable universities, one would be shocked not to find any music historian listed, but not finding a music psychologist on the list would not typically raise any eyebrows (and similarly for psychology departments). Another issue is the arts/sciences divide that is a highly common, traditional way of dividing up schools/faculties within a university; music psychologists who find themselves placed into an ‘Arts’ Faculty or a ‘Sciences’ Faculty will either way be faced with various logistical problems that result from working in a discipline t…. […]

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Comment on Is the Perception of Consonance and Dissonance Universal? by Imre Lahdelma

Imre Lahdelma — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:52:05 +0000

In reply to Toso Pankovski.

Thanks Toso! More cross-cultural research is needed to settle this question I think. Cultural familiarity might affect the preference for highly consonant sonorities as well; we are currently reporting a study conducted in remote Northwest Pakistan which will definitely be of interest in this regard. Stay tuned! 🙂

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Comment on Is the Perception of Consonance and Dissonance Universal? by Toso Pankovski

Toso Pankovski — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:30:20 +0000

In reply to Imre Lahdelma.

Hi Imre, thank you for pointing that paper, and a good point – that is exactly what the results of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bica.2017.09.001 paper suggests: the highly consonant intervals are “set in stone”, where the less consonant may differ, from culture to culture. The inner workings of the neural network used in the research clearly demonstrate that.

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Comment on How WEIRD is music psychology? by Where Are The Older Adults in Music Psychology Research? – Music & Science Lab

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:22:47 +0000

[…] this might occur (it is hard to make conclusions from the absence of evidence), it is of course convenient to study young adults in many situations, such as a lab situated in a typical university. It is also true, albeit […]

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Comment on Crowdsourcing in Music Psychology by A few words on fieldwork research. – Music & Science Lab

A few words on fieldwork research. – Music & Science Lab — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:43:30 +0000

[…] project, we will recruit participants and bring them to the lab, conduct our research online (arguably an option to be seriously considered, provided the experiment parameters actually permit it), or travel far afield and recruit […]

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Comment on Open Data in Music and Science by SMPC 2019 Conference – Music & Science Lab

SMPC 2019 Conference – Music & Science Lab — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 07:12:15 +0000

[…] code (see some of these themes also described in a previous blog post by Tuomas Eerola on our site. It was great to see the SMPC community talking candidly about the inner workings of this process, […]

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Comment on Crowdsourcing in Music Psychology by James Armitage

James Armitage — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:59:29 +0000

In reply to Alex Lamont.

Thanks – we’re looking in quite a bit of detail as how our experimental data compares across three samples: lab, prolific and ‘traditional’ web recruitment (email lists, social media etc). We’ve found differences between the lab and traditional web samples, but much less difference between the lab and prolific samples. We’ve also had some really positive and interesting responses from participants.

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Comment on Crowdsourcing in Music Psychology by doctorwhatt

doctorwhatt — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:43:57 +0000

In reply to Alex Lamont.

Sounds like a good way of checking whether Prolific samples are responding like lab samples for your paradigm! How did you find Prolific in terms of setting up your study/stimuli? (Just asking as I’m considering using it for my next research idea).

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Comment on Crowdsourcing in Music Psychology by Alex Lamont

Alex Lamont — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:38:07 +0000

Really interesting blog, thanks! I’ve just run my first three studies through Prolific and agree with you that it works really well for music studies, and the ability to interact with the participants (e.g. to clarify data that looks unusual, check details) and to get interactions from them (for mine also talking about how much they enjoyed the study, usually!) is great. We ran one of the studies 50% from in-person lab participants and 50% through Prolific and haven’t found any significant differences in the pattern of results, which is also encouraging.

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Comment on Is the Perception of Consonance and Dissonance Universal? by Imre Lahdelma

Imre Lahdelma — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:10:32 +0000

In reply to Toso Pankovski.

Hi, thanks for your comment! Have you seen the empirically tested consonance rank ordering of intervals in the paper “Vocal similarity predicts the relative attraction of musical chords” by Bowling et al. (2018)? https://www.pnas.org/content/115/1/216

The ordering of the interval consonances is not set in stone even within the framework of Western culture it seems.

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Comment on Is the Perception of Consonance and Dissonance Universal? by Toso Pankovski

Toso Pankovski — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:46:37 +0000

In my previous post the video link is wrong: here is the correct link: https://youtu.be/99ODsIMq-ZM

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