🎉 Don't miss our upcoming seminar by Kendra Oudyk, postdoc at the Origami Lab The Neuro at McGill University, on open meta-research in neuroimaging. 📅 Monday, December 9, 4 pm (UTC)/11 am (ET). 👀 We hope to see you there! Link in the comments👇 #OpenScience #Neuroscience

How do music preferences & exercise impact sleep? Take 15 mins to help us find out! 👉 Join here: r.jyu.fi/EPE Please RT& share ! 🙏 Music, Mind, Body and Brain Music Mind Machine Research Centre Rory Kirk

Come study with us! We are excited to announce the international application period for our Master's Degree in Music and Science is now open! You can apply until 22 January 2025. jyu.fi/en/study-with-…

Some of our research from the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in The Guardian today! theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

How might music enhance physical exercise? I share insights from a range of studies in my latest Psychology Today article on how music elevates motivation, movement, & pleasure— making exercise feel easier and more rewarding. Read more: psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/musi…

What do fireflies, fish schools, and dancers have in common? They self-organize—and now, science has a model to explain it! Our new study uses swarmalators to reveal the hidden physics of the dance floor. frontiersin.org/journals/behav…

Can music influence cognitive control & pleasure during exercise? Our new meta-analysis finds it increases attention (g = 1.05), inhibitory control (g = 1.87) & affect (g = 0.86)— but fades at higher exercise intensities. Our preprint medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

New online study looking at how people rate a musical rehearsal between two singers. It just takes 5-10 minutes and it'd be great if you could have a listen: oxfordanthropology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8c…

Great to see our research on music & exercise featured Yle Uutiset — I spoke briefly about our work here: areena.yle.fi/1-74151811?utm… Full article available in Finnish here: yle.fi/a/74-20152374 Music, Mind, Body and Brain

📢 Call for Abstracts! The 4th Joint Seminar on Music, Sport & Health will take place @ Uni of Jyväskylä on June 13th 2025. We’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Jasmin Hutchinson Jasmin Hutchinson as keynote speaker! Details: jyu.fi/en/events/4th-… Abstract deadline: May 2nd Music, Mind, Body and Brain

Our very own Dr Andy Danso was recently featured on Yle! Check it out! Tutkimus: Musiikki vähentää kokemusta liikunnan rasittavuudesta ja auttaa tekemään siitä pysyvän tavan yle.fi/a/74-20152374... Music makes exercise more enjoyable, easier and may increase adherence

Come work with me University of York! Exciting opportunity for a fully funded PhD studentship in Music Cognition as part of our ERC Synergy Project "REMAKE". euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/funding/p… #musicscience #musicology #musicpsychology #embodiedcognition #music #PhDposition #organology

Musical neurodynamics — a Perspective by Eleanor E. Harding, Ji Chul Kim, Alexander P. Demos, Iran R. Roman, Parker Tichko, Caroline Palmer & Edward W. Large nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔊 Prof. Harri Piitulainen discusses motor control, proprioception, and the importance of proper reception in our movements. Full episode here 👇 paresearcher.podbean.com/e/piitulainen/

Now this is podcasting! Listen to MMBB researcher Marc Thompson discuss the Centre, the Master's iN Music and Science and how he ended up in Finland. open.spotify.com/episode/3VV8Fx…

Can music before sleep buffer the effects of anxiety on sleep? Figure 1 from our new preprint suggests: maybe— with frequent use. Higher pre-sleep music use may weaken the anxiety–sleep link. Music as a self-regulatory tool? Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Do music & sport identities influence health? Our new preprint shows: → Stronger music & sport identities = better health via self-efficacy & health behaviours. → Only sport identity was directly linked to mental health. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Arguably the most important project in the history of exercise science thus far. Equally enlightening is the accompanying "Reflections" paper. This conversation is long overdue. Congrats to Jenny Murphy for this incredible achievement and to Sports Medicine for publishing these

New accepted & forthcoming meta-analysis on Personalised Interactive Music Systems (PIMS) for physical activity & exercise w/ JMIR Human Factors We find PIMS significantly increase pleasure & exercise duration. Faster tempo music = stronger effects and performance. dx.doi.org/10.2196/70372

Can VR support post-stroke cognitive screening & improve patient engagement? Our new JMIR XR and Spatial Computing study explored this via a custom VR task using spatial audio + visual cues. We found: - Feasibility/patterns of attentional bias - High usability In press: doi.org/10.2196/72439