Projects
Trying to understand why hearing that song from the 8th grade dance elicits such awkward nostalgia ... and why music from the past lights up the lives of Alzheimer's patients ...
This is an ambitious long-term project to understand how we relive our personal memories and emotions through music. Learn about the research we do on how our brains track music to bring back memories, and let us know if you'd like more information about ways to contribute!
Templeton Advanced Research Program
The mathematical underpinnings of musical relationships are complex, fascinating, and usually difficult to understand. One musical structure we are trying to gain an understanding of is the torus (the ubiquitous icon around our site), which we use to model tonal movement in music ... peek inside to see animations!
We have less of an understanding of rhythmic space, but we are working on an oscillator model that lets one compare behavioral data directly with the music model.
Insofar as possible, we like to understand our physiological data using analyses of features that derive directly from actual audio recordings. If you would like to use our programs for your own analyses, please visit the respective project locations.
