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Two interesting job opportunities
Visiting Fellowship: Creative Musical Performance (Kings College London) The AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) is offering Visiting Fellowships on a competitive basis to musicologists, musicians and those working in cognate fields from the UK and overseas who wish to spend up to three months undertaking collaborative research at any one of the Centre’s partner institutions, i.e. University ofCambridge, King’s College London, University of Oxford, and Royal Holloway,University of London. Visiting Fellows will have the opportunity to gain exposure to CMPCP’s research activities, to share their work with CMPCP staff and students both at the institution where they are based and throughout CMPCP, and to contribute…
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Music reward and personality
Article: Montag, C., Reuter, M., & Axmacher, N. (2011). How one’s favorite song activates the reward circuitry of the brain: Personality matters! Behavioural Brain Research, 225, 511-514. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from Scholars Portal Journals This new journal article makes an interesting contribution to recent findings regarding music and reward in the brain. We know that the brain’s core reward system reacts strongly to our very favourite pieces of music – now it appears that this effect can be modulated by our personality. In January of this year I wrote a blog about an article by Valorie Salimpoor and colleagues, which examined the effect of listening to a favourite piece…
