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Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords (2024)
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Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2024). Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 41(3), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.3.161

This study tested whether chords that do not differ in acoustic roughness but that have distinct affective connotations are strong enough to prime negative and positive associations measurable with an affective priming method. We tested whether music... Read More about Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords.

Music, Memory, and Imagination (2024)
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Margulis, E. H., & Jakubowski, K. (2024). Music, Memory, and Imagination. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(2), 108-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231217229

This article argues that the capacity of music to reliably cue both autobiographical memories and fictional imaginings can be leveraged to better understand the relationship and interdependence between memory and imagination more generally. The multi... Read More about Music, Memory, and Imagination.

A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study (2024)
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Steliou, C., & Jakubowski, K. (2024). A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study. Music & Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231225733

Despite more than a century of research on music memorization and practicing strategies, there is a lack of comprehensive evidence on how instrumental music teachers teach memorization to children and adolescents in one-to-one lessons. The present qu... Read More about A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study.

Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals (2023)
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Armitage, J., Lahdelma, I., Eerola, T., & Ambrazevičius, R. (2023). Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals. PLoS ONE, 18(12), Article e0294645. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294645

There is debate whether the foundations of consonance and dissonance are rooted in culture or in psychoacoustics. In order to disentangle the contribution of culture and psychoacoustics, we considered automatic responses to the perfect fifth and the... Read More about Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals.

The Human Affectome (2023)
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Schiller, D., Yu, A. N., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., Eslinger, P. J., Frewen, P., Kemp, A. H., Pace-Schott, E. F., Raber, J., Silton, R. L., Stefanova, E., Williams, J. H., Abe, N., Aghajani, M., Albrecht, F., Alexander, R., Anders, S., Aragón, O. R., …Lowe, L. (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, Article 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450

Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett (2023)
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Agawu, K., Bhogal, G. K., Cavett, E., Dunsby, J., Horton, J., Monchick, A., …Zagorski‐Thomas, S. (2023). Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett. Music Analysis, 42(3), 412-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12221

Julian Horton's 2020 article on the ‘necessity of analysis’ delineates previous critiques of music analysis into the performative and the historicist and counters their assumptions. He proposes that analysis remains viable in light of historical, ont... Read More about Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett.

Signaling Seduction: The Courtship Strategies of Ming Era Courtesans (2023)
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Wang, S. (online). Signaling Seduction: The Courtship Strategies of Ming Era Courtesans. Ming Studies, 34-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/0147037x.2023.2249327

This study applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Ming period courtesans (ji 妓) and their activities, combining the close reading of literature and Ming era visual presentations, with insights drawn from the fields of modern courtship... Read More about Signaling Seduction: The Courtship Strategies of Ming Era Courtesans.

Music cues impact the emotionality but not richness of episodic memory retrieval (2023)
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Jakubowski, K., Walker, D., & Wang, H. (online). Music cues impact the emotionality but not richness of episodic memory retrieval. Memory, 31(10), 1259-1268. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2256055

Previous studies have found that music evokes more vivid and emotional memories of autobiographical events than various other retrieval cues. However, it is possible such findings can be explained by pre-existing differences between disparate events... Read More about Music cues impact the emotionality but not richness of episodic memory retrieval.

Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music (2023)
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Taruffi, L., Ayyildiz, C., & Herff, S. A. (2023). Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music. Imagination, Cognition and Personality Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, 43(2), 169-192. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366231193145

Imagination plays a key role in evidence-based, cognitive therapies, and recent research highlights that music – a perceptual stimulus imbued with affective and social meaning – can influence some aspects of imagination, such as vividness and emotion... Read More about Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music.

Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain (2023)
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Johnson-Williams, E. (2023). Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain. Postcolonial Studies, 26(3), 360-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2243082

Derrida’s work on ‘archive fever’ has prompted a great deal of academic reflection about the archive and what a critical ‘archiving’ of the past can imply for our understanding of the present. And yet, if the object of historical study is musical sou... Read More about Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain.

Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes (2023)
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Curwen, C., Timmers, R., & Schiavio, A. (2024). Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Psychological Research, 88(2), 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01856-2

Synaesthesia has been conceptualised as a joining of sensory experiences. Taking a holistic, embodied perspective, we investigate in this paper the role of action and emotion, testing hypotheses related to (1) changes to action-related qualities of a... Read More about Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes.

Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study (2023)
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Jakubowski, K., Belfi, A. M., Kvavilashvili, L., Ely, A., Gill, M., & Herbert, G. (2023). Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study. British Journal of Psychology, 114(3), 580-604. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12639

Previous research has found that music brings back more vivid and emotional autobiographical memories than various other retrieval cues. However, such studies have often been low in ecological validity and constrained by relatively limited cue select... Read More about Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study.

Differences in autobiographical memories reported using text and voice during everyday life (2023)
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Pearson, E., Graff, J., Bai, E., Jakubowski, K., & Belfi, A. M. (2023). Differences in autobiographical memories reported using text and voice during everyday life. Memory, 31(3), 393-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2162084

Autobiographical memories frequently occur during everyday life. One of the most common approaches to measuring memories in everyday life is a diary method: Participants record memories as they occur by writing down these memories in a paper diary or... Read More about Differences in autobiographical memories reported using text and voice during everyday life.