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Musical times, they are a-changin’…
Hello, dear reader. This week I thought I would write about the changing world of defining and measuring musicality. Once upon a time it was a simple case of asking someone how many years they had been training as a musician. Maybe you might stretch to how often they had practised in the past or now. But essentially, that was it; one or two numbers which defined an individual’s musicality. And we learned a lot using this method. If it did not work, if it did not throw up fascinating group differences, then it would have disappeared a long time ago. But the fact is that it fostered decades of…
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PhD place at Goldsmiths Music, Mind and Brain lab
Hi All, This week I am posting about a unique PhD opportunity that is coming up in my lab (Music, Mind and Brain), to work with me and my boss on our earworm project. You can read more about our project by glancing through my previous blogs (put ‘earworm’ into the search box above) or by looking at our uni site or our online data collection point. The job post details are as follows: PhD Studentship Investigating Spontaneous Musical Imagery (Earworms) Goldsmiths, University of London – Psychology Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship starting in September 2012 to undertake research on Spontaneous Musical Imagery (or ‘earworms’), as part of…