Tuomas Eerola
@tuomaseerola.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
Excited to be hosting promising scholars during SysMus26! 🎉
Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
#musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences
Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
#musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences
SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—is being held this coming year at Durham University, UK, July 22–24 (Wed–Fri), 2026!
Abstract submission deadline is 30 January 2026.
Check out the SysMus 26 site for further details:
musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
Abstract submission deadline is 30 January 2026.
Check out the SysMus 26 site for further details:
musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
SysMus26
We are looking forward to hosting the next International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology very soon! SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—i…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Excited to be hosting promising scholars during SysMus26! 🎉
Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
#musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences
Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
#musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences
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🎶 Nice write up of our recent work exploring musicians chills/frisson experiences while performing! 🎶
You can find the 🔓 #openaccess paper here - doi.org/10.1177/03057356251383805
#musicscience #musicpsych
You can find the 🔓 #openaccess paper here - doi.org/10.1177/03057356251383805
#musicscience #musicpsych
Musicians frequently experience frisson while performing, study suggests
Musicians frequently experience frisson while performing, study suggests
A new study in Psychology of Music reports that musical chills, or frisson, are common during performance. The findings suggest that these sensations reflect strong emotional reactions shaped by musical features, social connection, and personal meaning.
www.psypost.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🎶 Nice write up of our recent work exploring musicians chills/frisson experiences while performing! 🎶
You can find the 🔓 #openaccess paper here - doi.org/10.1177/03057356251383805
#musicscience #musicpsych
You can find the 🔓 #openaccess paper here - doi.org/10.1177/03057356251383805
#musicscience #musicpsych
What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data?
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data?
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Out in EPJ Data Science @springernature.com, we show:
- Personalized music algorithms trained on emotion data can become problematic when used with politically charged music
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#musicpsych #musicscience #emotion #psycsci #psychscisky #music 1/3
- Personalized music algorithms trained on emotion data can become problematic when used with politically charged music
rdcu.be/ePImC
#musicpsych #musicscience #emotion #psycsci #psychscisky #music 1/3
Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music: goal-directed mechanisms in music emotion recognition
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Out in EPJ Data Science @springernature.com, we show:
- Personalized music algorithms trained on emotion data can become problematic when used with politically charged music
rdcu.be/ePImC
#musicpsych #musicscience #emotion #psycsci #psychscisky #music 1/3
- Personalized music algorithms trained on emotion data can become problematic when used with politically charged music
rdcu.be/ePImC
#musicpsych #musicscience #emotion #psycsci #psychscisky #music 1/3
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns
The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
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
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
June 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
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
May 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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.
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
May 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
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
April 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
🚨 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! ⬇️
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! ⬇️
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨 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! ⬇️
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! ⬇️
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...
January 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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...
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
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
January 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
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).
January 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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).
How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...
December 18, 2024 at 10:40 AM
How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW 20) will take place at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland from the 16th to the 19th of June 2025. The portal for abstract submissions is now open here: www.rppw.org/rppw20
#musicscience
#musicscience
RPPW20
Submission portal for RPPW20
www.rppw.org
December 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW 20) will take place at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland from the 16th to the 19th of June 2025. The portal for abstract submissions is now open here: www.rppw.org/rppw20
#musicscience
#musicscience
Our new @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social account looks great. Notice the facilities (built in 1093) literally next to our lab in the background of the group photo.
November 30, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Our new @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social account looks great. Notice the facilities (built in 1093) literally next to our lab in the background of the group photo.
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
November 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
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
October 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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
Reposted by Tuomas Eerola
🎶What does music make you feel or imagine? Our second listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11 is now online. Help Splat 👾 the alien learn about what music means to Earthlings!
Info and link:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42…#musicsciencece
Info and link:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42…#musicsciencece
https://york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42…
October 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
🎶What does music make you feel or imagine? Our second listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11 is now online. Help Splat 👾 the alien learn about what music means to Earthlings!
Info and link:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42…#musicsciencece
Info and link:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42…#musicsciencece
I made a 1-minute YouTube video of how to create an index to a book with keywords, page proofs and python scripting.
youtu.be/E50CeDgoBIA #musicscience #book #workclevernothard
youtu.be/E50CeDgoBIA #musicscience #book #workclevernothard
how to index a book
YouTube video by Tuomas Eerola
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October 13, 2024 at 9:16 AM
I made a 1-minute YouTube video of how to create an index to a book with keywords, page proofs and python scripting.
youtu.be/E50CeDgoBIA #musicscience #book #workclevernothard
youtu.be/E50CeDgoBIA #musicscience #book #workclevernothard
Cultural Evolution Society Conference starting with a full house at Durham run by DCERC. Lots of exciting talks, including those touching upon #musicscience
September 9, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Cultural Evolution Society Conference starting with a full house at Durham run by DCERC. Lots of exciting talks, including those touching upon #musicscience
Final #escom12 keynote given by Bruno Mesz who took us on a whirlwind tour of #crossmodal interactions with music. So many mappings (#smell, #shape, #colour, #taste) make sense with music but the level of explanation is not always easy to establish #musicscience
July 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Final #escom12 keynote given by Bruno Mesz who took us on a whirlwind tour of #crossmodal interactions with music. So many mappings (#smell, #shape, #colour, #taste) make sense with music but the level of explanation is not always easy to establish #musicscience
This was my personal favourite talk so far at #ESCOM12York: Geoff Luck & Alessandro Ansani show a hockey stick function between performed tempo and age using a large Spotify-derived corpus. The result matches the changes in spontaneous motor tempo across life-span #musicscience #escom12
July 5, 2024 at 1:15 PM
This was my personal favourite talk so far at #ESCOM12York: Geoff Luck & Alessandro Ansani show a hockey stick function between performed tempo and age using a large Spotify-derived corpus. The result matches the changes in spontaneous motor tempo across life-span #musicscience #escom12
Engaging summary of chills while performing music by Scott Bannister and Emily Payne at #escom12: They highlight the many ways performers occasionally experience chills (feeling accomplishment, immersion, connecting with audience, togetherness,..). What a great topic for #musicscience
July 5, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Engaging summary of chills while performing music by Scott Bannister and Emily Payne at #escom12: They highlight the many ways performers occasionally experience chills (feeling accomplishment, immersion, connecting with audience, togetherness,..). What a great topic for #musicscience