The Pitch Exploration Lab is a space for any major at Penn State to explore music, brain, and psychology topics related to the construct of pitch.
State College, PA
Joined March 2020
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We are pleased to announce the third episode of the research incubator’s new podcast, Unmuted. Check it out on Spotify! Today's episode is about human development and evolutional biology. What role did the human voice play in evolution? Have we always used speech to communicate?
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Join me and make a gift to the Pitch lab for GivingTuesday 2025. #psugt givecampus.com/schools/PennS…
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Our latest—cognitive correlates in musicianship skills in @FrontiersIn Psychology!
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I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience out, titled Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Music Research. It covers methods in music psychology to open research & computational analysis, see doi.org/10.4324/978100329380… R & Python code at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
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Happy to be featured in this Brazilian video by @josegoisjr instagram.com/reel/C_T33f9SO…
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In the news: I’m on today’s episode of BBC World’s Unexpected Elements talking about singing research around 14-15 min in: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5q…
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Livestream on Feb 22 at 12pm EST, the IAM Lab is hosting a discussion about how the arts/aesthetic experiences can measurably change the body, brain, and behavior - IAM Lab's Susan Magsamen, renowned soprano Renée Fleming and Dr. Nina Kraus, Neurobiologist tinyurl.com/2cvdx9hj
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#GivingTuesday feature: Pitch Exploration Lab! The Pitch Lab is a space for undergrad or grad students to explore music, brain, and psychology topics. Gifts to the Pitch Lab will help to support data collection, travel, and general student activities. give.communityfunded.com/o/a…
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This team presented a great symposium on error detection and melodic dictation skill @icmpc17 in Tokyo
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Our project coordinator, Sharleen, will spend the summer studying the genomic function in brain development and disease at Penn. During her time in their lab, she hopes to use mouse models to gain further knowledge on the genetic basis of Rett syndrome, autism, and/or stress.
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Check out our Undergrad Student Spotlight: Sharleen Banatte! She has worked as a project coordinator for the Pitch Exploration Lab with faculty affiliate Dr. Bryan Nichols. @PitchLabPSU @PSULiberalArts @bnickPSU @psuarts_arch
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Similarities found between analyzing mutations in DNA and analyzing "mutations" in folk music🤔take a read (or listen) to what Patrick E. Savage means by that here!
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Do you like singing like Chris Stapleton? What a low key he chose for the national anthem! We wrote about this in the population of college musicians we teach:
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Lab member Rainamei discusses music teaching for differently abledl learners at a meeting of music ed academics:
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Lab member Xin presents on psychological constructs like self-efficacy at a meeting of music education professors. Brava!
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Some of our work cited in this journal, Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences!
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"Even non-musicians have really accurate musical memory. It’s not that they are deliberately trying to memorize the piece of music, they’re just getting exposed so much that they become musical experts in a different sort of way"
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