In the news: I’m on today’s episode of BBC World’s Unexpected Elements talking about singing research around 14-15 min in: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Out project coordinator is graduating! After graduation, Sharleen will be looking forward to working in a research lab for 1-2 years while pursuing musical opportunities!

Lab Manager Jon has graduated and is now working as an acoustic consultant for Arup, an architectural design company, modeling and analyzing spaces as well as programming with Max in their SoundLab. Congrats, Jon!

Happy to be featured in this Brazilian video by @josegoisjr instagram.com/reel/C_T33f9SO…

It’s going to be a great year at Penn State!

Where are they now? Lab alumnus Jack C. graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) this summer and is starting his residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Jefferson Health in New Jersey. Go Jack!

Data collection training completed!

Lab alumna Annie Liu publishes first first-author paper. Yay Annie!

Our next meeting on how sleep consolidation benefits musicians (and artists) as they work to maintain and refine their motor skills:

Lab alumna Annie doing good work!

Our friend Bill Foan at ADRI is doing beautiful work over here!

Great talk by lab coauthor and collaborator Laura Stambaugh. Thanks for a great visit today!

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience out, titled Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Music Research. It covers methods in music psychology to open research & computational analysis, see doi.org/10.4324/978100… R & Python code at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

It’s giving Tuesday check us out: givecampus.com/schools/PennSt…

Good work, everyone!

Undergraduate student team presents on music psychology at the Suncoast Symposium for music, wellness, and sustainability. “Bravi!”

Great visit from a Penn State alum at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota!

Joey is conducting research this summer in Toronto, focusing on the neurophysiological mechanisms of absolute pitch. She will explore how the brain processes pitch and supports vocal performance. Following this, she will be a Columbia University Summer Public Health Scholar 👩‍🏫

Our latest—cognitive correlates in musicianship skills in Frontiers Psychology!

Coming soon in 2026! Unmuted—A new ADRI podcast mini-series from Penn State’s College of Arts & Architecture on the arts and why we need them.