I'm conducting a research study on how music and sound affect stress levels and looking for participants from all over Australia (18+). The short 15–20 minute survey is completely anonymous and involves listening to music/sounds or creating a 3-song playlist before answering questions on stress and anxiety. Your participation will help expand our understanding of music’s impact on well-being across different regions of Australia.

🔗 Take the survey here: https://cqu.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1TFYTHAquUH9zx4

HREC/Ethical Approval: 2024-059. Thank you for your time!

Hi Reddit! I’m a psychology student working on a research study about absolute pitch, and we’re looking for participants to help us explore this fascinating phenomenon. It should only take about 10 minutes of your time!  

Who can participate?

Anyone! Whether you have absolute pitch or not, your experiences can contribute to our understanding of how different contexts or environments might influence this ability.

What’s in it for you?🎁

A chance to win a $25 gift card through our raffle.🎧 Personalized feedback on your pitch perception performance.

How to participate

It’s super easy! Just label some musical notes you hear and answer a few questions about your experiences.

Click here to sign up: https://perfect-pitch-test.com

If this sounds interesting to you—or you know someone who might love this—please share! And feel free to ask questions below—I’d be happy to chat about the study.

Thank you!!

Hi there,

I am a Psychology student at Oxford Brookes University carrying out research for my final year project. 

This online questionnaire aims to investigate the relationship between people’s music preferences and their attitudes/beliefs. The survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete and it is completely anonymous.please click here to view the participant sheet and take part. 
https://brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KSmAH9AMOaboBo 
If you have any questions then please contact the researcher Evelyn Ault by emailing 19154429@brookes.ac.uk
 
The study has been approved by the Psychology Research Ethics Committee

Why does music sound good sharp? Fe: I take a song in c minor. Put it at least 20 cents or more higher. And the harmony sound more euphoric. Like an euphoric version on c minor. Any phycological science involved or a conditioned preference?

Hi everyone! My name is CJ Arnce and I am a student at Pacific University looking for participants on how people perceive consonance and dissonance differently. I would greatly appreciate your participation, the survey should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete :) The link is posted below.

https://pacificu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_06P2WM3uhaa2FBY

Do you listen to music while working, studying, or doing daily tasks? I’m researching how background music impacts different tasks, and your input would be immensely helpful!

The survey takes just 6 minutes to fill, and your responses will make a huge difference in my research.

👉 https://forms.gle/7vDcSxms2NbLMNvx7

Thank you so much for your help!

Hi there! I'm doing a PhD in music neuroscience. I'm curious if there are people in this sub that work in the industry, or in gouvernemental agencies? What is your job? Where do you work? :)

Edit: So far I found MedRhythms (USA), NaturalPad (France), Feel and Play (Finland), BeatHealth (France), Musicare (France), brain.fm (USA) and Moodytunes (Australie).

All of the hockets I have listened to, both vocal and contemporary instrumental, are in a constant, stable, fixed tempo from medieval recordings to some of Reich's works.

Indeed Grove defines hocket as 'The medieval term for a contrapuntal technique of manipulating silence as a precise mensural value in the 13th and 14th centuries.'

However, an article (p.10, under the section 'Quality: Expressive Timi...') I am reading basing the experiment with the assumption that the tempo is fluctuating in hocket.

Isn't tempo in hocket fixed? If so, what is the reason that these authors thinking that it is non-fixed in hocked?

Thank you.

Hello,

I was reading a chapter on pitch perception from Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. It is stated that ''Most sounds we hear are mixtures of components with many diferent frequencies, yet our auditory system generally combines these into a single percept of one overall pitch''. I am a music major and am informed about harmonic series and partials but, I had been reading on masking from Huron's book Voice Leading and I wonder if the way humans hear these combination of frequencies as a single overall pitch is an outcome of masking.

Does auditory masking has a role in perceiving a combination of different frequencies as a single pitch? If yes, what is the role?

Thank you

I encountered these two word pairs in the article 'The role of the basal ganglia in beat perception':

''Basal ganglia activity is greater when participants listen to rhythms in which internal generation of the beat is required, as opposed to rhythms with strongly externally cued beats.''

I have no idea what they mean and the article itself is not explanatory. What do they mean, please?

Thank you.

How do researchers manipulate audio that contains speech and partly eliminate or disturb spectral cues to see if speech recognition is still successful by relying mostly on temporal cues? Is it by adding another sound-layer onto the speech audio clip or something?

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Exemplary study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7569981/

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Thank you so much

Hello,

I found the definition on 'spectrotemporal modulation' online but can not find 'temporal' and 'spectral' in the context of neuroscience and also their pair with the word 'modulation'. What do these terms refer to, please?

The question arises from the excerpt below:

''Recent studies show that degradation of spectral modulation impairs melody perception but not speech content, whereas degradation of temporal modulation has the opposite effect. Neural responses in the right and left auditory cortex in those studies are linked to processing of spectral and temporal modulations, respectively.''

Thank you

I read from a reliable paper that it is the subglottal pressure that determines loudness perception; however, I wonder isn't it in the end SPL as the effect anyway but subglottal pressure is just the cause of the loudness.

Great tutorial on counterpoint that I just discovered. I believe that formal study of music theory, harmony and counterpoint tells the student a lot about how their mind works. It also helps us understand our emotional reaction to music as after the study is finished there are words available to talk about our feelings that are generated by the active listening experience.

Hi there!

Im currently conducting an experiment related to music-evoked nostalgia which will be used within a university dissertation. The idea it to find out which specific components within music (for example vocals, drums, synths) evoke the most nostalgia. If this sounds interesting to you then it would be greatly appreciated if you could help take part! The results will be collected via a survey which I have linked at the bottom.

I am hoping to collect as many participants as possible within the time frame I have so please consider having a look as it would be extremely helpful.

Thank you:)

Link to survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd467freATCtS164aSThpECKEnGWEJU5Z8SM_lj2PaNUzf5OA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Do you remember the epic strings of the Game of Thrones or the punchy synthesizer from Seinfeld? Do you have an outstanding musical memory? If so, the #TeleTunes game might be a real challenge to you (and your parents ;-) ! Link: https://app.amsterdammusiclab.nl/teletunes

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On paper it makes perfect sense to me that the soprano D on the third beat of measure two connects the first and the penultimate bar melodic motion E-(D)-C as a passing tone. However, when the music on paper is realised with an instrument, I really doubt that an experienced listener comprehend the melodic motion or the all measures at large, that way, by, almost disregarding anything between these two spotted measures.

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I guess it's more of music cognition then music theory after that moment. What's the approach of music cognition to my question, please?

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Thank you