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Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS)
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The Australian Music & Psychology Society comprises researchers sharing a passion for all things music & psychology
http://amps.org.au #MusicScience
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‼️#AMPlify2025 Postponed‼️

Dear attendees, please note this session has been postponed to 2026. Further details will be shared in the new year! 🎆
ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 6d
#AMPlify2025 December Seminar: Professor Nikki Rickard 🎤🎶
When: Wednesday 3 December, 4-5pm AEDT
Where: Via Zoom

Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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#AMPlify2025 December Seminar: Professor Nikki Rickard 🎤🎶
When: Wednesday 3 December, 4-5pm AEDT
Where: Via Zoom

Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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#AMPSWritingGroup 👨‍💻 #TeamTuesdays
It's the end of November!? No need to worry, we've still got three sessions to go.

Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Upcoming Book Publication: Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt 🎵📣

Art Cure can be ordered online through:
UK Penguin - www.penguin.co.uk/books/462340...
US Macmillan - us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Waterstones - www.waterstones.com/book/art-cur...
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#AMPSWritingGroup 👩‍💻 #TeamThursdays
Whether you've got writing, admin, or other work to be done, we're here for you!

Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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- Although such systems are promoted as tools for personalized listening, they *could* also be used to infer or profile individuals’ beliefs

A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3
this is top portion of the article displaying the title of the study, Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music: goal-directed mechanisms in music emotion recognition
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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omriraccah.bsky.social
happy to share our newly published paper in
@cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠

for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
Uncovering the mental representations underlying symbolic domains is a long-standing goal of cognitive science. Music, a relatively unexplored aspect …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 13d
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Psychology Today featured Western-led research by psychology PhD student Riya K. Sidhu and professor Jessica A. Grahn exploring how nostalgic songs spark the urge to move — revealing the powerful link between memory, music, and motion. 🎶🧠 Read more: www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/time...
Memories You Can Dance To
While catchy new tunes can get us tapping our feet and swaying in our seat, it’s nostalgia that gets us out on the dance floor.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠

🎶 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2026) | Toulouse, France [In-person] | 8-10 April 2026

🎤 The call for papers closes 15 November, 2025.

🌐 www.evostar.org/2026/evomusa...
EvoMUSART – EvoStar 2026
www.evostar.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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🔥#HotOffThePress🔥November Edition
If you have a paper that's just been published or about to be, please reach out!

New publication from AMPS members:

Lowe-Brown, et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1145/3726...

Thompson, et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1177/2055...

Vidas, et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1145/3726...
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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patrickesavage.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the first Stage 2 manuscript from this @pci-regreports.bsky.social programmatic protocol, led by @zixuanjia.bsky.social. In Mandarin, we replicated song-speech differences found by @yutoozaki.bsky.social et al., and explored the mediating role of musicianship:
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Table 5. Registered Report Design Planner. Includes three hypotheses (H1-H3). Figure 5. Distributions of mean values of three acoustic features (pitch height, temporal rate, pitch stability) across singing and conversation conditions (n = 20 participants). The participants' mean acoustic values are shown as black dots, with dashed lines connecting each participant's produced speech and song. Figure 8. Scatter plots showing the correlation between effect sizes and Musicianship, in terms of self-perceived (left) and complimented by others (right) ratings. The red line represents the pitch height, blue line represents temporal rate, and green line represents pitch stability.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠

🎶 Methodological Challenges and Perspectives in Multimodal Music Performance Research | University of Luxembourg [In-person] | 26-27 January, 2026

🎤 Send proposal via email to [email protected] by 16 November, 2025

🌐 amps.org.au/2025/10/30/s...
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠

🎶 Creating Wellbeing: Youth, Arts, and Mental Health (CAWRI) | Melbourne, AU (in-person) | 10 April 2026

🎤 Submit proposals before 11:59pm AEDT Friday 6 February 2026 by following the link below:

forms.office.com/r/KHtRAJqz49

🌐 www.cawri.com.au/events
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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sb-78.bsky.social
New #openaccess paper on musical chills! 🎶🎺

Most work on listeners, but we find musicians experience chills while performing!

Chills linked to performance qualities, connections between performers and personal associations. Findings suggest chills + wellbeing link

Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Fascinating to hear @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social talk at Leeds about how music shapes imagination, covering importance of genre, age, auditory features and contextual associations with music for content of imagined thoughts when listening! Brilliant collaborative work!
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#AMPSCommunityEngagement initiative is under way! 🎉

Our AMPS committee members, Xanthe Lowe-Brown and Dianna Vidas, went out to St Margaret's Anglican Girls School and kick started our Community Engagement initiative.

Read more: amps.org.au/2025/10/31/a...
More info here: amps.org.au/engagement/
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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#AMPSWritingGroup 👨‍💻 #TeamTuesdays
Only a few more sessions this year to go. Don't miss out!

Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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#AMPSWritingGroup 👩‍💻 #TeamThursdays
We're still going in November! See you there.

Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We are excited to announce that we have a page on Linkedin. If you are a past or current committee member and would like to refer to our community on your Linkedin profile, please refer to the following link:

www.linkedin.com/company/aust...
Australian Music & Psychology Society | LinkedIn
Australian Music & Psychology Society | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Australian Music and Psychology Society (AMPS) stimulates discussion and scholarly research on music and psychology. | AMPS has gro...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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#AMPSWritingGroup 👨‍💻 #TeamTuesdays
Need help getting into the flow of writing? Get your day started with us to feel motivated and ready for the day!

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October 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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#AMPSWritingGroup 👩‍💻 #TeamThursdays
Working hard or hardly working by yourself. Join us to achieve your writing goals!

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October 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Interesting new study exploring patterns and trends in published research on music & emotion regulation.

Short take—it’s developed tremendous over the decades and remains of continued scholarly interest 🤩

Check it out: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

#musictherapy #musicscience #emotionregulation
Frontiers | Music-based emotion regulation: a bibliometric systematic review (2000–2024)
BackgroundMusic Emotion Regulation (MER) research has emerged as a significant field in mental health intervention, yet a comprehensive bibliometric analysis...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Our study about reminiscence bump(s) in personally meaningful music:

Your life’s greatest hits? A global study finds they trace back to our teens. Timing changes w/ age & gender: as we age, men stick to old favourites, women embrace newer tunes! 1/2

Read: t.ly/u2qvJ

#MusicScience #MusicPsychology
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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#MusicPerformance Concert Event 🎶🎵

🎶 Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO) | Rediscovering Music Sydney | Macquarie Park, NSW [Free event registration essential]

🗓 Friday 14 November 2025, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

🌐 Event info: cso.org.au/concerts/red...
REDISCOVERING MUSIC SYDNEY
cso.org.au
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM