Research at the Music Cognition Lab seeks to understand the way in which human listeners and performers perceive and appreciate music. This research spans a wide range of psychological domains, from low-level processes such as auditory stream segregation to high-level musical experiences such as aesthetic appreciation. The group makes use of a wide range of research paradigms, including computational modelling, neuroimaging, and cognitive psychology.
The Music Cognition Lab is part of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), and the Cognitive Science (CogSci) Research Group, all institutions of Queen Mary University of London. The lab is led by Marcus Pearce.
Recent News
- 2023-02-18: New paper in Cognition by Matthias Klarlund with Yi Du, Elvira Brattico and colleagues: Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners.
- 2023-02-10: New preprint by Roberta Bianco, Edward Hall, Marcus Pearce and Maria Chait: Healthy ageing effects on implicit auditory memory: from encoding to 6-month retention.
- 2023-01-27: Tom Kaplan presents at the Groove Workshop: Modelling individual differences in perception of microtiming patterns for an archetypal drum beat.
- 2023-01-17: The new website is up and running.
July 2022: Alejandra Carriero, Eliana Valdez (Birkbeck University in London), Amira Korkor,
Edward Hall, Tom Kaplan, Marcus Pearce.
December 2021: Amira Korkor, Tom Kaplan, Madeline Hamilton, Katie Rose Sanfilippo (City, University of London), Peter Harrison (University of Cambridge), Edward Hall, Marcus Pearce.
March 2018: Emmanouil Benetos, Stine Sørensen (visitor), Peter Harrison, Manuel Anglada-Tort, Adrien Ycart, Jiajie Dai, Changhong Wang, Ioanna Zioga, Marcus Pearce.
December 2017: Jiajie Dai, Adrien Ycart, Changhong Wang, Edward Hall, Emmanouil Benetos, Rémi de Fleurian.
June 2015: Léna Delval, Sam Duffy, Yvonne Blokland, Yading Song, Sarah Sauvé, Marcus Pearce, Marco Bussi, JP Tauscher, Miriam Tenderini.