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it used to be a bit tricky to find audio from our Natural History of Song corpus (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…) excerpted version is now OA on Zenodo! zenodo.org/record/7265514 it contains dance, healing, love, lullaby songs from 86 societies, ready for use in experiments 🔬

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TGIF! 😄 Humans may share a ‘musical grammar’.🎶 Smithsonian magazine featured our lab's recent study showing that across 60 cultures, songs sung in similar social contexts have shared musical features. Check out the article for details: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sci…🤩

Science explains why babies love to hear their grandparents sing🧔🏽‍♂️👵. The New York Times digs into it with our lab director, Sam Mehr, and other scientists. nytimes.com/2018/08/15/wel…

The Music Lab is kicking off a very exciting study with babies and parents! 🍼🐣 Musical Babies is a 10-week study that explores how singing to a baby may improve the baby’s and parent’s mood and overall mental health. Sign up here: forms.gle/aFP6S9TdrV52Ld…

Are you a parent of a baby or expecting a baby soon? Sign up for our Musical Babies study to explore how singing benefits you and your baby! Learn more about the study here: 🎶 forms.gle/aFP6S9TdrV52Ld…

Check out a recent study by Eun, one of our postdocs at the Music Lab. As a collaborative work with Dr. Beatriz Ilari, the Associate Professor at USC, this study shows the effects of music education on positive youth development: music.usc.edu/usc-research-i…

new PhD opportunity with us in Auckland! 🇳🇿🥝

Calling for parents with babies under 4 months old! Musical Babies is a 10-week study that explores how singing to a baby may improve the baby’s and parent’s mood and overall mental health. Sign up here🎶 forms.gle/LmTpAWYxvTNKMT…

WRCH FM Connecticut radio Lite 100.5 WRCH recently featured the Music Lab and our study, Musical Babies, on their Spotlite Show! youtu.be/-XBVGVWXo-c

Do you think you might be tone-deaf? Or pitch-perfect? Test your pitch perception with our game! (Average time: 2.5 minutes) themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

Got Rhythm? Test your drumming skills and challenge your friends to beat your score. concerthotels.com/got-rhythm

here's @bergelsonlab's interview with Marco Werman about our new Current Biology paper on how speaking a tonal language affects music processing abilities theworld.org/media/2023-05-…

new preprint led by Eun Cho and Lidya Yurdum in a 6-week experiment we randomly assigned parents of infants to get music enrichment this caused more singing at home; more singing in response to baby fussing; and, best of all, happier babies osf.io/zdsxj

check out our newest citizen-science experiment, Tone Guesser! 🎶🧪🧠 this game, led by @courtneybhilton, taps your visual and auditory perception to test intuitions for how color tones and music tones fit together. get your score at themusiclab.org/quizzes/tonegu…