No two musicians experience music in exactly the same way. I’m investigating how expert musicians experience music, with or without music-colour synaesthesia. 🎁 £50 voucher on completion of Session 2 🔗 carolinecurwen.com/music-imagination-study/ @leverhulme.ac.uk @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
Caroline Curwen
@curwen01.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Music Psychologist Durham University, PhD, Accountant - Researching musical imaginings and Synaesthesia
I’m recruiting professional or highly trained musicians in any genre for my @leverhulme.ac.uk study at @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social The online study involves: 📝 10-minute screening 🎧 60-minute listening session 🎁 £50 Amazon voucher on completion of Session 2 carolinecurwen.com/music-imagin...
We've got a 0.5 Teaching Fellow in Music Psychology role going for this coming academic year. Please spread the word, and feel free to get in touch with me if you want to know more: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Teaching Fellow in Music Psychology
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Who creates meaning in music? I've reviewed Janet Bourne's new book Who Listens? A fascinating exploration of how musical meaning emerges through the experiences, identities, and cultures we bring to listening. For music cognition, narrative, & music therapy. journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/a...
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @curwen01.bsky.social’s project @durham.ac.uk challenges and expands current models of music cognition and explores how music and synaesthesia shape our imagination and creativity.
Musical evoked imaginings in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic expert musicians
Caroline Curwen’s project challenges and expands current models of music cognition and explores how music and synaesthesia shape our imagination and creativity
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Considering psychology of music? Have a look at Sheffield.
I’m delighted to share that my new article is now available in Psychology of Music (SAGE) Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship and supported by @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Synaesthesia #Musicscience
Seeing sound, shaping stories: The role of ideasthesia and event segmentation in musically evoked narratives - Caroline Curwen, 2025
Musically evoked narrative imaginings (MENI) are mental stories that listeners construct in response to shifts in musical features such as dynamics, tempo, and ...
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Delighted to represent @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social at the Kautilya Foundation’s Synesthesia Soirée. Shared some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded work on synaesthesia and musically evoked narrative imaginings. #Synaesthesia #Musicscience My talk starts from 35mins 😉 youtu.be/ZgOzid86qOA
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Great opportunity to present "Seeing Sound, Shaping Stories: The Role of Ideasthesia and Event Segmentation in Musically Evoked Narratives" at #ICMPC - the theoretical grounding for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project #musicscience
@curwen01.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo about her @leverhulme.ac.uk project connecting music-evoked narrative imaginings and synaesthesia! #musicscience
Great to see @curwen01.bsky.social’s Leverhulme ECF project from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social on musical imaginings in synaesthesia featured here!
The Trust's 2024 Annual Review is now available online. The fantastic spread of projects featured provides a glimpse into the research we support across the disciplines. Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review
Fabulous to see my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project featured in @leverhulme.ac.uk 2024 Annual review! #MusicCognition #Synaesthesia #Musicscience @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
Flights and hotels booked — excited to present my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded research at @ICMPC18 São Paulo in July — proudly representing Durham University @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #icmpc18 #icmpc_saopaulo #MusicCognition #Synaesthesia #Musicscience
We're recruiting now for our MA programmes in #MusicPsychology available in onsite and online formats. Do get in touch if you'd like to come and join us! www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/postgr...
Masters courses
Studying music as a postgraduate in Sheffield means becoming part of a large international community. We offer 4 onsite and 1 distance-learning masters courses across a wide range of disciplines.
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We're hoping to get in touch with some of our past music psychology MA graduates who have studied with us part-time or by distance learning to help us with a small piece of research. We know there are loads of you, so if you're out there in the blue skies, give us a follow so we can find you! 👋
Calling student members, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty in #musicscience 📣 Our Early Career Researchers’ Group (ECRG) is being established to provide support, networking, and mentorship across institutions and countries. Join up below!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Call for Early-Career Researchers in ESCOM
We invite all student members, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty (or equivalent) who are beginning their journey in music psychology research to join a newly formed "Early C...
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@leverhulme.ac.uk funded postdoctoral researcher @curwen01.bsky.social spoke today at #SEMPRE about music-colour synaesthesia and how this may impact event segmentation in MENI generation #musicscience
Present, past, & farther afield members of @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social brought together by conferences! This time, SEMPRE25 in the RNCM 🎶🔬 Day 1 done with some really super presentations from everyone 💫🔭 @charasteliou.bsky.social @curwen01.bsky.social @kirtsconnor.bsky.social