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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 19h

🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience

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Music, Mind, Body and Brain @coe-mmbb.bsky.social · 6d

Did you know? Emotions in national anthems reveal surprising patterns in geography and culture. 1/2 (continues in comments)

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Musicscience #MusicPsychology #MIR #NationalAnthems #Emotion

The emotional geography of National anthems - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The emotional geography of National anthems

www.nature.com

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to share that Peter Vuust will give the welcome lecture at the 1st Int. Conf. on Music & Sleep! 🎶💤
Director of MIB, Prof. at AU and RAMA, and acclaimed jazz musician, Vuust unites science & creativity. His lecture will explore music neuroscience & predictive coding of music.
#ConfMusSleep

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 8d

Our Assistant Professor Anna Zamorano has written a really nice piece for videnskab.dk and The Conversation - enjoy the read :-)
theconversation.com/neuroscience...

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 14d

Very interesting review on the intimate relationship between sleep and depression.
Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression

Sleep disturbances are both a primary symptom of and risk factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). Sleep alterations in MDD include the presence of insomnia or hypersomnia and aberrations in sleep ...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk for their generous support for the Music and Sleep Conference. With this contribution, we can create an excellent conference program, and we look forward to welcoming all interested researchers and students.
More info: confmussleep.au.dk
#ConfMusSleep #Musicscience

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 20d

Looking forward to presenting my work for a lot of high school students as part of the Hearts & Minds festival tomorrow.
(heartsandminds.fuau.dk)
A brief survey distributed among the participants do confirm our previous findings that young people more often use music for sleep!

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 26d

We identified four clusters of participants based on their relaxation response to the different types of music. The groups displayed distinct neural auditory and motor activity patterns. These results highlight the importance of considering individual differences in music-based interventions.

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 26d

In this study, we used fMRI to investigate how music influences brain activity during relaxation with a particular focus on the familiarity and different music characteristics. Calm music was the strongest predictor of relaxation followed by familiar music.

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 26d

New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · Aug 25

‪Excited to share that the 1. International Conf. on Music & Sleep (May 6–8, 2026) takes place in the stunning Chamber Music Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus 🎶 A bright, elegant venue with views of ARoS. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
@lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience ‪‬

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨NEW BLOG🚨

“Conferences, huh. What’s the point?”

@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway.

#musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd

musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...

Conferences, huh. What’s the point?

In this post, Hazel, Katie, and Connor highlight some reasons why you should consider attending an academic conference, supplemented by our recent experience from attending the 18th International C…

musicscience.net

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · Jul 9

A really amazing project!

Lullabyte @lullabyte.bsky.social · Jun 19

Since Lullabyte began, we’ve been collaborating on a project blending Sleep, Music & Data Science. We're excited to share Somnosphere at the Long Night of Sciences in Berlin on June 28th, an immersive AV experience exploring how can we share the private nature of sleep. tinyurl.com/LNDWLullabyte

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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · Jul 5

The first two papers from the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Music & Imagination project are now out, led by the fantastic @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social! First, we built and validated a stimulus set of over 350 music clips varying in genre, familiarity, emotion, etc. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are excited to announce the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social, Aarhus, DK, in collaboration with RAMA and @lullabyte.bsky.social.
Dates: 6-8 May 2026. #musicscience
Please mark your calendars and share the post.
musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · Jun 27

Looking forward to the third @lullabyte.bsky.social summer camp in Berlin next week! An excellent programme with science discussions, start-up strategies, keynotes, a Sleep Concert and the presentation of the joint artistic project of the PhD students named 'Somnosphere'
lullabyte.eu/2025/06/19/l...

Lullabyte at the Long Night of the Sciences | Lullabyte

lullabyte.eu

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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · Jun 6

Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD.…

Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD. Apply by 25 June 2025. Location: Aarhus, Denmark. Advance your academic career in a leading research environment.

higherjobz.com

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · Jun 2

www.wsj.com/science/babi...

Babies Don’t Need Mozart Recordings, Just a Parent Who Sings

The salutary effect of music on infants is more about happiness than smarts.

www.wsj.com

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · May 19

How mind wandering and blanking relate to cardiac activity and brain/cardiac relationships?

This revised preprint confirms our initial findings, with a full replication of the initial protocol!

@corcorana.bsky.social also masterfully extended the paper in several interesting directions!

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · May 19

Mind-wandering is associated with late modulation of the heartbeat-evoked potential; mind-blanking is associated with greater decoupling of heart-brain phase coupling.

New findings from our radically-revised study of spontaneous cognitive & physiological dynamics

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

When your heart isn't in it anymore: Cardiac correlates of task disengagement

Neuroscience is beginning to uncover the role of interoceptive feedback in perception, learning, and decision-making; however, the relation between spontaneous visceral and cognitive dynamics has rece...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · May 12

Do you want to learn more about how music is processed in the brain?
Join our 2025 summer school on music neuroscience!
@musicinthebrain.bsky.social

musicinthebrain.au.dk/summer-schoo...

Summer School 2025

musicinthebrain.au.dk

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · May 9

Jeg havde en spændende snak med Emma Holtet fra Videnslyd om hvad der sker i hjernen, når vi lytter til musik, og hvordan vi bruger musik i hverdagen.
Det blev til en ny episode i podcasten Fuld af viden - Forskernes fredagsbar
@musicinthebrain.bsky.social @dg.dk
www.spreaker.com/episode/nar-...

Når musikken rammer hjernen - kan du lytte dig til bedre søvn? - Fuld af viden - Forskernes fredagsbar

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Trinh Nguyen @trinhnguyen.bsky.social · May 8

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life

Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · Apr 24

🎧 Are you into electronic music or just a music lover? Join our online study! 🎶

✅ Use headphones
✅ Do it on a computer screen
✅ Make sure you have 25 minutes uninterrupted in a silent space

Click the link, hit OK, and you're in!
🔗 run.pavlovia.org/AthanKon/lis...

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · Mar 30

'A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation'

by Fabian Schwimmbeck, Esteban Bullón Tarrasó & Thomas Schreiner
@fabian31415.bsky.social @estebanbt.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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