It's coming up so quickly, can't wait for the AMPS/APSCOM conference later this year at the Gold Coast! Abstracts are due later this month!!

Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS)@ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Announcing the AMPS/APSCOM 2026 Call for Papers! 🚨 🗣 Abstract submission site: airtable.com/appPhXqfNZqi... 🗓 Important Dates Abstract submission deadline – 24 April 2026 Abstract notifications – 29 May 2026 Conference: 9-11 December 2026 🌐 Conference website: amps.org.au/amps-apscom-...

Almost 5 years ago now, when we were little PhD students, a group of us had a paper idea. We huddled together in our cramped office meeting room to write an early version of this paper. MANY iterations later, we're all now postdocs, and the paper is now out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exploring geographic and cultural differences in preferences for valence and arousal in music using regional music charts - Lewis Nitschinsk, Dianna Vidas, Hugh T McGovern, Nicholas MA Smith, 2026

Music can evoke and enable emotional expression. Yet few studies have investigated which aspects of music preference are universal, and which aspects vary geogr...

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Great to see this paper out! Our team was awarded best paper last year at @ozchi-conf.bsky.social for this work, where we presented findings from focus group discussions with family caregivers of people living with dementia about AI-assisted music interventions: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

"I wouldn't like technology to give people a get out of jail free card": Caregiver Reflections on a Hypothetical AI-assisted Music Intervention for Dementia Care | Proceedings of the 36th Australasian...

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The final paper from my PhD is finally out! Huge thank you to my supervisors @genevieve132.bsky.social and @nicolenelson.bsky.social for their support with this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From Mozart to Fleetwood Mac: music listening is not detrimental to reading comprehension in university students

Most university students choose to study with music, yet whether this is detrimental or beneficial for studying remains unclear. We investigated the impact of music listening with 279 participants ...

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I'm honoured to have received the runner up award for the Australian Association of Gerontology Helen Barrie National Prize! Looking forward to presenting at the webinar with the other awardees. I'll be presenting on work I did as part of the amazing MATCH team at the University of Melbourne!

This week I had the opportunity to present at @ozchi-conf.bsky.social, and I'm excited to share that our paper received the Best Paper award! Great way to wrap up the year with this paper out of my work at the University of Melbourne. Currently available here: outbox.eait.uq.edu.au/uqsville/OzC...

I've finally made it over to bluesky!