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ICMPC 12: Day 1 afternoon (arrival and reception)
Hi All! You find me today in VERY sunny Greece – which makes a huge change from London where we have had the wettest April-July on record. I am in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city, for one reason; ICMPC 12!!! The 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition is one of the largest gatherings of music scientists in the world. ICMPC only happens every two years and it moves in a cycle from Asia, to America and Europe. Two years ago I was lucky enough to generate enough grant money to get all the way to Seattle for ICMPC 11, and you can read my many blogs about that…
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Earworm interview
Hello dear reader This week I begin my new job as a postdoctoral fellow on a 3 year project investigating the earworm phenomenon. I am sure my readers are well aware by now, an earworm refers to the experience of having a tune or a part of a tune stuck in your head. To kick off the project I thought I would reproduce for you an interview that I recently completed for the Spanish popular science magazine Redes para la Ciencia. The author of the article is Octavi Planells and this interview is reprinted with her permission. If you would like a PDF copy of the Spanish language article then just drop a comment…
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