Music & Emotion
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Memory for emotional music is strong at all ages
Hello Dear Reader, Today you find me on a train to lively Glasgow from my hometown of York: A long journey, nearly 4 hours in total. Plenty of time to get out of my work head and think about my lovely blog. I have missed the blog in the past few weeks. I managed to keep up with conferences, jobs/ studentships, and tools for you, Dear Reader, but finding time to read and write outside of my research is a tough task. Luckily I can rely on Mariani Foundation emails to keep me up to date as to the many latest releases out there in the world of music psychology…
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Music and increased generosity
Hello Dear Reader, Happy New Year! I hope that 2015 brings you happiness, prosperity and good health. I am starting the year with rather bad health. After a hectic end of the year at Sheffield University, a busy trip to Vietnam, and a full Christmas playing hostess to my family, my poor tired body gave in to a bad cold. Luckily I am in Spain with my future in-laws. This means I can get plenty of rest away from ‘normal life’ and my mother in law to-be spends her time spoiling me to try and fix me as quickly as possible. Such kindness and selfless behaviour is one of the…
