#psychoacoustics — Public Fediverse posts

A recent North Carolina State University study demonstrates that both the visual stimuli of natural landscapes and the auditory stimuli of birdsong are associated with significant reductions in human psychological stress compared to urban environments.
#EnvironmentalPsychology #Psychoacoustics #PublicHealth #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/psy07212601.html

Caterina Barbieri performing live at the summit of Mount Etna. via Patch Notes:

https://youtu.be/NGX1CNIV8_g?si=03FeK79v2GnlRrEq

#ETNA #CaterinaBarbieri #live #music #electronic #experimental #psychoacoustics #modular #modularsynthesiser #synthesiser #modularsynth #synth

New #openaccess article published in Trends in hearing! "Probing the Underlying Mechanisms of Spectro-Temporal Modulation Discrimination". Can you discriminate a rising frequency sweep from a downward one, in the presence of a background noise? Using reverse correlation, we investigated listeners’ sensitivity to specific frequency sweeps and the auditory mechanisms involved. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23312165261465060
Huge thanks to Lily Paulick for transforming a very complex set of data into a clear and rigorous paper!
#reversecorrelation #audition #hearing #psychoacoustics

Music often appears to arise from intuition. Composers and producers describe the creative process as following a feeling for harmony, rhythm, texture, and timing. Yet listeners often respond to certain musical gestures in strikingly similar ways. A harmonic shift intensifies tension. A rhythmic change alters perceived movement. A melodic peak can create a moment of release.

These recurring reactions suggest that musical emotion does not arise from artistic intention alone. It also reflects how the human brain processes sound. Research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology shows that musical perception involves several interacting neural systems: auditory analysis in the cortex, emotional processing in limbic structures, motor synchronization with rhythm, and reward responses connected to expectation and resolution.

For composers, this perspective raises an interesting question. If specific musical structures engage attention, anticipation, and pleasure in consistent ways, how can this knowledge inform composition without turning music into a formula? Scientific understanding does not replace intuition. It clarifies why intuitive musical decisions often work and why certain musical forms reliably move listeners.

My new essay examines this intersection between artistic practice and neuroscience. It discusses how harmony, rhythm, melodic contour, and sonic texture interact with perception, memory, and emotional processing in the brain, and what this relationship means for the act of composing.

Here is the full essay:
https://tomkolbe.com/2026/03/14/the-neuroscience-of-musical-emotion-in-composition/

#MusicCognition #Neuroscience #Composition #MusicTheory #MusicProduction #CognitiveScience #MusicResearch #Psychoacoustics

Postdoctoral Associate – Human Auditory and Computational Models
University of Connecticut

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-connecticut-27778-postdoctoral-associate-human-auditory-and-computational-models/

#aimachinelearning #auditoryperception #computationalneuroscience #machinelearning #psychoacoustics #ScienceJ...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-connecticut-27778-postdoctoral-associate-human-auditory-and-computational-models/?fsp_sid=8929

An #openaccess toolbox aimed at unifying the field of auditory reverse correlation studies by providing a consistent experimental and analysis framework allowing for better #replicability and #reproducibility
https://fediscience.org/@LeoVarnet/115627592918266083
#revcorr #revcor #psychphysics #psychology #psychoacoustics #OpenScience @psycholinguistics @psychology

🎶 639 Hz Славянская Звуковая Матрица | Раскрытие Внутреннего Потенциала и Дар Предвидения.🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-qop8zMnhA

#SlavicMusic #SoundTherapy #BinauralBeats #639Hz #Intuition #ThirdEye #Clairvoyance #Meditation #Relaxation #Healing #Energy #Cosmoenergetics #AncientWisdom #SpiritualAwakening #Mysticism #InnerPeace #Mindfulness #SlavicFolklore #PsychoAcoustics #Звукотерапия #Медитация #Интуиция #ТретийГлаз #СлавянскаяМузыка #БинауральныеРитмы #Исцеление #Энергия #ДревниеЗнания

⚡️ Пробуди Свою Интуицию! Славянская Музыка Активации 639 Hz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPGDUb1uvcs

#SlavicMusic #SoundTherapy #BinauralBeats #639Hz #Intuition #ThirdEye #Clairvoyance #Meditation #Relaxation #Healing #Energy #Cosmoenergetics #AncientWisdom #SpiritualAwakening #Mysticism #InnerPeace #Mindfulness #SlavicFolklore #PsychoAcoustics #Звукотерапия #Медитация #Интуиция #ТретийГлаз #СлавянскаяМузыка #БинауральныеРитмы #Исцеление #Энергия #ДревниеЗнания

“No Parades Without A Marching Band” - My essay on #psychoacoustics and why sound and music are so important to culture, memory and life… #Music #Sound #ethnomusicology https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKdrUTqaG0qQtOC9YfQf04HjkxfXZxBXVsaHiFp6yV0/edit?usp=drivesdk

Microscopic Melodies: The Hidden Symphony of Sound and Microbial Life

#MicrobialLife #Psychoacoustics #Bioacoustics #Holobionts #MicrobialManagement #Eukaryotes #Cymatics #QuantumAntennae #Rebiosis #SoundScience #NatureSymphony #Microbiology #GutHealth #ScienceIsFun #HiddenWonders

https://youtube.com/shorts/5YZK3Ti_06U?feature=share

Watching a video on why the 12 tone scale is what it is and I came across this quote:

"As with all things in music theory, it's not instruction, it's insight."

Given the number of people who view music theory as prescriptive, I think that quote is excellent.

#music #musictheory #psychoacoustics

https://youtu.be/CFbG-8eYKJU

Gracie Abrams -- Stay

https://youtu.be/LChF16vd4RM?si=X35ugp2rFkiDs0AD

I was sitting in a coffee shop the other evening when the chorus of this song caught my attention.

Struck by the singer-songwriter pathos, I noted down a couple of lines of the lyrics on a napkin so that I could identify the song later.

Listening to "Stay" in my kitchen the next day, I found the song insubstantial and less moving than it had been when I heard it in the coffee shop.

My differing responses made me think again of how much the setting in which we hear music can shape our response. I don't think many will disagree with that observation.

More controversial but quite fascinating to me is the claim that our auditory perception of the music will be shaped both by non-acoustic aspects of the setting and by our beliefs and desires.

That claim exists at the intersection of musicology, psychology, and philosophy. Discussion of "authenticity" in early music performance and the significance of the visual in Kpop have prompted my interest in this matter.

#GracieAbrams #Musicology #PhilosophyOfMusic #Psychoacoustics
#EarlyMusic #Kpop

Study: Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams. The basic mechanism relies on the Venturi effect, producing a unique rough and piercing sound. #psychoacoustics https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/study-why-aztec-death-whistles-sound-like-human-screams/

Enjoying this new work from MIT Press:

Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality by Richard Parncutt

#musictheory #psychology #psychoacoustics #books #philosophy #MIT

Nice open-access meta-analysis of studies on discrimination of hi-res audio https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18296 #audio #PsychoAcoustics

The latest #preprint from my team: "Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise". I will tell you more about this research when it gets published, but here's a glimpse of our main finding. This colorful figure shows the acoustic cues listeners rely on to differentiate the sounds /aba/, /ada/, /aga/, /apa/, /ata/, /aka/. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.25.600732v1 #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics @cognition @linguistics #phonetics #phonemes

Bunch of smart music being emitted today 8pm at Aquarium #Leipzig.

𝐑𝐌 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬, 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐳 and 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧
from Vienna's ETAT #netlabel are performing.

See you there!

https://www.etat.xyz/

#experimentalmusic #computermusic #soundart #psychoacoustics

Hello Mastodon! I have created a simple #auditory #illusion to illustrate the kind of effect I'm investigating, and would love your feedback! Here's the gist: you will first hear a "aba" sound and "a ada" sound, followed by a series of sounds in a weird background noise, then the exact same series of sounds in quiet... Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
#AuditoryIllusion #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics @psychology @psycholinguistics

Hi there, while this world still exists, let's make more music that is as free as a cat and as crazy as a moonlit night. That will continue with this album.
#experimental #synth #psychoacoustics #electronicmusic #electroacoustic
https://takeshihayashi.bandcamp.com/album/rhapsody-in-patching-continuously-added-tracks

It was a long process (more than 2 years since we wrote the preregistration document) but our new study was finally published in #JASA yesterday ! The paper itself is rather technical but the central idea is worth sharing in a thread:
https://fediscience.org/@LeoVarnet/111957028478805915
#psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics #phonetics #CognitiveScience #Cognition
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38364046/

It was a long process (more than 2 years since we wrote the preregistration document) but our new study was finally published in #JASA yesterday ! The paper itself is rather technical but the central idea is worth sharing in a thread. ⬇️ (1/X)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38364046/ #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics #phonetics #CognitiveScience #Cognition @cognition @psychology @psycholinguistics @AcousticalSocietyofAmerica

Dear fellow auditory scientists, this is your friendly reminder that I have created a list to help us connect more easily on Mastodon! https://leovarnet.github.io/Mastodon-Audition/
Fill out the form if you want to be listed here: https://framaforms.org/audition-scientists-on-mastodon-1697965056
…And of course: please spread the word!
@psychology @psycholinguistics @academicsunite @academicchatter #audition #auditory #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics #academics

@lakens Inspired by your 'Improving Your Statistical Inferences', some colleagues and I woud like to write an #OpenSource #psychoacoustics textbook on GitHub. Do you have any guidance on that? Do you think the best way to start would be to branch your GitHub repository? Thanks!

Audition scientists on mastodon, your list is ready! https://leovarnet.github.io/Mastodon-Audition/
Fill out the form (https://framaforms.org/audition-scientists-on-mastodon-1697965056) if you want to be listed here!
…And of course: please spread the word!
#audition #auditory #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics