MAPLE (Music, Acoustics, Perception & LEarning) Lab at McMaster University. Devoted to innovation and training in music cognition research.

Hamilton, ON
Joined June 2012
🚨New study alert!🚨 Our very own @michael_schutz and colleague @tuomas_ee developed a computational model that extracts 'relative mode', opening doors for studying musical emotion.🤖🎶 Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @DurhamU34989
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Juslin (2025) reviews the current theories of emotion causation, highlighting BRECVEMAC as the theoretical framework better suited for explaining emotions to music. Check out the link below to read their full review! doi.org/10.1525/MP.2025.2396…
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Kirk and Timmers (2024) investigated the characteristics of music used for sleeping and what separates this type of music from relaxing music more generally. Click the link below to read more! doi.org/10.1177/102986492412…
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Vuoskoski and Peltola (2024) constructed a standardized questionnaire to measure the intensity of a person's aversive musical experiences. Click the link below to read more! doi.org/10.1177/030573562412…
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Xu et al. (2025) investigated the effect of using music as a cross-modal prime for autistic children when recognising facial emotions. Check out the link below to read more! doi.org/10.1177/030573562513…
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Hey everyone, we're incredibly excited to host award-winning solo percussionist Matthew Lau on campus this Friday! Matthew will perform at 2:30 PM this Friday, March 14th, in L.R. Wilson Hall. Admission is free, and the Eventbrite link can be found below: eventbrite.ca/e/matthew-lau-…
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Kuch and Wöllner (2024) investigated the effects of mobile music listening and how this could affect a person's perception of themselves and their environment. Click the link below to read more! doi.org/10.1177/102986492412…
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Turrell et al. (2025) investigated the relationship between peak pleasurable moments in music and experienced tension using electronic dance music (EDM). Click the link below to read more and to find out their results! doi.org/10.1525/MP.2024.AA00…
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Could multisensory alarms reduce alarm fatigue? A system using sound + vibrations lowered workload without hurting performance—though partial integration seemed best. Read more: linkhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10877-023-01014-4
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🚨 New study alert! 🚨 Heng and McAdams (2024) investigated whether and how timbre—or a tone's quality—affects perceived emotion in music. Click the link below to read more and to see their results! doi.org/10.1177/102986492412…
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