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Universal and cultural emotion communication in music
Hello dear reader. It is a beautiful sunny Sunday morning here in London. One could be forgiven for assuming that spring is on the way after a long chilly winter, but I have a rule to not get excited until I see my first snowdrop flowers. I have seen shoots so far but no flowers so my spring excitement (it is my favourite season you see) will have to wait but hopefully for just a few more days…. I have been enjoying some time in the Twitter-scape recently, which is one way to hear about new, hot-off-the-press papers in music psychology. One fellow music psychologist on Twitter is Professor Tuomas Eerola (@tuomas_ee)…
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Evidence for a sensitive period in the musical brain
Hello dear reader, I very much hope that your January is going well. We have had some snow here in London which was nice but everyone is getting a little tired of the freezing conditions by now. This week I am trying to do some testing but it is going very slowly as people are frequently not turning up for sessions (grrrr). One advantage of this is that I have some extra reading time and thanks to this I came across a new paper that is all about the issue of whether there is a ‘sensitive period’ for musical training. Does earlier musical training have greater effects on the brain…
