The Psychology of Music

The posters will be presented personally by staff and students of the Center for Systematic Musicology and will address current research questions in music psychology such as:

How do classical pianists communicate emotion?

How do children benefit from music practice?

Can music improve sport stamina?

What kind of beat makes you want to dance?

Does time fly when you are listening to music?

Does “musicality” begin in infancy or even before?

What structural features characterize Armenian traditional music?

Music psychologists investigate the perception and performance of music using psychological research methods. Music psychology has a long history – even ancient philosophers asked psychological questions about music. The academic discipline of music psychology emerged in late 19th- and early 20th-century Germany. After the “cognitive turn” in 1960s psychology, music psychology established itself internationally with societies, conference series and peer-reviewed journals (Music Perception, Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie, Psychology of Music, Musicae Scientiae, Musica Humana, Empirical Musicology Review, Music Performance Research). Our posters present examples of current research and consider their theoretical and practical implications.