• Music and pleasure,  Music Psychology

    Do I still like music?

    Hello Dear Reader, Here we are again, holiday times are coming!! This is my last day of working before I settle down to spend time with my beloved families. First, a traditional Spanish Christmas Eve celebration of food (my freezer is full of fish) followed by a very British Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Then my husband and I will be heading to Spain proper to revel in the dry and brighter weather for a few days while meeting my new nephew Daniel, born just 3 weeks ago. I can’t wait. In the meantime, here I sit in my office in Sheffield, updating all my work related websites and writing…

  • Music & The Brain,  Music Psychology

    2015 DVD course – Music & the Mind

    Dear Reader, I am currently running a research project over in the United States. Earlier this year I was granted a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Researcher Mobility grant, allowing me to work in the US. My grant is called ‘Memory ability and the musical mind’. As part of my WUN research programme I am conducting a joint project with Professor Elizabeth West Marvin (pictured), who is based in the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Professor Marvin is an expert in the psychology of absolute (perfect) pitch (AP), the ability to name notes in the the absence of an external reference. She and I are keen to better understand the memory…