Year 1 of the CoE has been very productive! Follow 🎵 Musiikkitiede JY / Music & Science 🎵 for our Research Christmas Calendar!

Still looking for participants for a study on music videos. All participants get a personalised listener profile created for them upon completion and are entered to win a draw for a €50 voucher (Amazon, or something else if they prefer).

The application round for our International Masters Programme in Music and Science program is now open! Please spread the word and see you in September! 🇫🇮 University of Jyväskylä #musicscience jyu.fi/en/apply/maste…

[New paper!] We used a silent disco in a motion capture lab to test whether people like being in sync when dancing. Turns out they do! 🕺💃 doi.org/10.1177/205920… Music & Science Music, Mind, Body and Brain Social Body Lab - Oxford #musicscience

I wrote a little something about music, senses, and feelings for Musica nova festival. musicanova.fi/en/2023/02/17/…

📢We’re hiring PhD students and postdocs to join our music research team in Jyväskylä!

Great to have old friends and former JyU colleagues Jonna Vuoskoski Vinoo AR Tuomas Eerola Olivier Lartillot to visit and tell about their current research! Music, Mind, Body and Brain #musicscience

Celebrating 15 years of MIRtoolbox with Olivier Lartillot Tuomas Eerola. 50.000+ downloads and ~2.000 citations. A toast to the next 15 years! #musicscience

We are recruiting for our international Experience Sampling study on #music for social connection! Participating involves downloading an app to your Android phone, answering surveys in the app, and brief Experience Sampling Reports before and after music listening. DM for info

Happy to be hosting our colleagues from the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences for the 2nd Joint Seminar on Music, Sport and Health JYU Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences #musicscience Check out the program here: jyu.fi/en/current/arc…

Prof. @SebChastin presenting how music could be used to increase physical activity at the 2nd seminar organized by JYU Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences and Music, Mind, Body and Brain. 🚶‍♂️🎶

#RStats package movementsync for music performance analysis is now available in CRAN. 100+ functions for analysis of synchronisation, Granger causality and wavelet transforms for pose and onset data of a group of musicians. CRAN.R-project.org/package=moveme… #musicscience #OpenScience

Great way to end the academic year with all the team! ☀️⛵️🎶

Congratulations Dr. Andy on successfully defending your PhD Thesis in Music Therapy! Special thanks to external examiner Ass. Prof. Kat Agres for your challenging questions and insightful comments!

One of my most important studies is finally published: the pain-reducing effects of music are stronger when we tap along in sync with the music. Everyone can use this effect, in clinical & non-clinical settings, to reduce pain, anxiety, and worries. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

⁦martin hartmann⁩ presenting “Postural and Gestural Synchronization, sequential imitation, and mirroring predict perceived coupling of dancing dyads” at ⁦ICMPC17_APSCOM7⁩ photo credit: ⁦Andy⁩

The full 19 researchers representing the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain at ICMPC17_APSCOM7 in Tokyo! It was great to meet everyone there. Many congratulations to the organisers for such an excellent event!

Congrats to Meri Deniz for the ICMPC17_APSCOM7 Young Researcher Award! Music, Mind, Body and Brain University of Jyväskylä #musicscience

Fantastic to be hosting our friend and colleague Peter Keller this week at the Centre! Thank you for your interesting talk on "modelling the behavioural and brain bases of musical ensemble skills"!