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Tuomas Eerola

@tuomaseerola.bsky.social

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Music psychology Professor at Durham University, UK. Research on music and emotions, rhythm, movement and other essentials of music. #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Oct 22

New theory out! What do you get when you mix music and emotion regulation literature with the functions of music and explanations of music-induced emotions? You get a new theory called the 'Episode Model of Emotional Experiences of Music' 1/5 #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Aug 5

Very nice and particularly like the specificity of the imagined content that the methods allow you to demonstrate. The stable diffusion generated images are fun and I’m surprised that the average content is as coherent as it seems!

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Harin Lee @harinlee.info · Jun 4

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social

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Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · May 23

We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.

Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion | Western Sydney University

www.westernsydney.edu.au

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · May 13

Forgot Mike’s Bluesky handle, @michaelschutz.bsky.social here and shout out to wonderful MAPLE lab at McMaster University, maplelab.net, who have been systematically curating various datasets for music cognition over the last decade.

MAPLE Lab

The MAPLE lab is the world’s first music cognition lab with a percussion focus. Drawing upon the diverse skills of our team, we conduct federally funded research in a state-of-the-art facility, presen...

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · May 13

Our findings show that this model can predict expert ratings with a high degree of accuracy (r = .82). The model is fairly robust across different recordings and performers. Python implementation is available at github.com/tuomaseerola... #MusicCognition #Tonal #ComputationalMusic 3/3

GitHub - tuomaseerola/relative_mode: Relative Mode Estimation (model)

Relative Mode Estimation (model). Contribute to tuomaseerola/relative_mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · May 13

To quantify relative mode, we developed an audio-based computational model that adapts key-finding methods and focusses on the difference in strength between major and minor keys. This model was evaluated against expert music analysts' ratings of relative mode. #MusicAnalysis 2/3

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · May 13

Want to measure how "major" or "minor" a musical passage feels on a sliding scale, not just as a simple label? 🤔 Mike Schutz and I refined the concept of 'relative mode', treating it as a continuous spectrum from minor to major. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #musicscience #MIR 1/3

Shows a plot of audio waveform with continuously changing estimation of majorness to minorness (relative mode) in a Bach prelude. It is a screen capture from GitHub.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Apr 25

Also, brief synchronous music interactions boosted state empathy, but not overall social bonding. While induced empathy didn't have an effect, trait empathy & familiarity were linked to the experience of bonding. Interesting work from @sheffielduni.bsky.social #musicscience doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Frontiers | Actions and feelings in sync: exploring the relationship between synchrony and empathy in children’s dyadic musical interactions

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Apr 25

New study by @persatz.bsky.social on children's music-making explores empathy & synchrony! Findings show that higher trait empathy helps children synchronize better, especially when their timing is less stable. Female-female pairs also synchronized better. 1/2 #musicscience

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 5

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:

🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior

⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 23

Great examples and really impossible to pin down any one specific expression or emotion. They might be what Diana Raffman called “ineffable” (verbally inexpressible) to some extent as well

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thanks. I was pretty happy with the load of positives affect terms (love etc) coming through that usually do not get attention but are of course super popular themes of music

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 23

This is probably a tiny dataset compared to your recent standards! There are more questions to be answered with this data as the content data (audio etc) nor the backgrounds nor the functions were not reported here

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 23

What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Visualisation of search frequency of 213 affect terms, term similarities and clustering solution for 88 prominent terms, and the terms positioned within the affective circumplex space

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 23

Great self-diagnostic tests about your well-being in academia. By going through the survey, you get to reflect what elements are a drain and many – but not all – of these we can influence. I'm looking forward to see what this early career team can put together for the February webinar #musicscience

Researchers' Wellbeing Webinar Series @researcherswell.bsky.social · Jan 14

Before starting our webinar series we would like to get YOU -researchers in varying fields and stages of career- involved and share your experiences. We will form our upcoming webinar series based on the results of this survey.

Researchers' Wellbeing Survey: Survey Powered by Webropol

link.webropolsurveys.com

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 18

Amazing summary and it does make a persuasive pitch to start with {rix}, thank you @jgeller1phd.bsky.social

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m sure he will but it would be good to hear someone who has used both as a {normal user} to share experiences

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m thinking of reigning in a collaborative/GitHub #rstats project to have a reproducible environment: Would you recommend renv or rix for this? Project utilises a mixture of GitHub / CRAN packages & users have different OSes (Mac/Win).

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 24

I get it. No spoilers….

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 20

This is great, timeliness is crucial!

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 19

Amazing, changing the journal policies is the single most effective way to shift the culture (based on various meta science studies) so I hope this gets traction. Really positive if it does.

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 18

I think of it as good starting point; the last years already show a marked improvement and if we take this as a wake up call, it should be easy to improve the numbers in 3-4 years. But journals can really facilitate this change by being more demanding.

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 18

This should not be allowed, it is not the 2004 anymore

Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 18

... and with respect to Psychological Science (journal), they are an exception because since 2024 they have _required_ all submissions to make full transparency statement, see journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... This is probably the best way to improve the lack of transparency in general

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 18

One need not wonder as the data is available: a sample of field-wide (n=200) and prominent journals (n=200) in psychology gives slightly different rates: 7/14% for preregistration, data sharing 14/16%, materials 16/19%. This is Hardwicke et al., 2024, osf.io/preprints/ps...

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