Research

Research Areas

The Laboratory is dedicated to the generation of robust scientific knowledge in the fields of cognitive and computational musicology, music psychology, and community music. Our research focuses on the following areas:

  • Music and emotion / empathy
  • Music and Artificial Intelligence: musical creativity; knowledge extraction in folk music and jazz
  • Musical analysis in improvisation context
  • Audience engagement in musical creation
  • Music in the community: refugees and mental health
  • Music and language: syntax, semantics, repetition, similarity, and categorization
  • Music and neuroscience
  • Music and wellbeing in everyday life and higher education
  • Music and health
  • Music, development, and socialization
  • Cognitive aspects of higher music education
  • Teaching methodologies in Music Psychology and Cognitive Sciences in higher education
  • Pedagogical and technological interventions in school music education
  • Music in Everyday Life