MAPLE Lab

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

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Dr. Schutz proposes a unique alternative approach for the next generation of alarm design in his TEDx talk. Give it a watch!

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The beeps and boops of medical devices can be annoying enough that people tune them out or turn them off — sometimes with deadly consequences. @Michael_Schutz of McMaster's @MAPLE_Lab says better beeps could help save lives. | @mcmasterhum https://t.co/TrLeMS0Sbz

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🚨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 https://t.co/otBoHdTAQA

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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!
https://t.co/EPHQ72EbUm

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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.

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https://t.co/HpzEm2FwzK

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Vuoskoski and Peltola (2024) constructed a standardized questionnaire to measure the intensity of a person's aversive musical experiences.

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https://t.co/CDOV6ciIcd

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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!
https://t.co/Z2nci618LU

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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:
https://t.co/3VVNYQLDL9

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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.

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https://t.co/Dj2li29gjt

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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!
https://t.co/odUvQthpdI

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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!
https://t.co/2vcUef4az3

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Carraturo et al. (2025) analyzed existing research covering the perceptual differences between the two predominant modes in Western tonal music—major and minor—and provided a new framework.

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https://t.co/g8zUDtUQq1

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Wilkie and Harrison (2025) investigated how reverberation time (RT) affects listeners' emotional experience when listening to music with headphones.

Click the link below to read more and to find out the results!

https://t.co/3rrDA2JYwX

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Weining et al. (2025) investigated how audience members in a classical concert use different "listening modes" to listen to the music being played.

Check out the link below to read more and find out the implications of this study!
https://t.co/vOMu2qeFna

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Koomen et al. (2021) address ICU alarm fatigue with a "networked-device paradigm," reducing alarms by integrating and prioritizing them across devices. This aviation inspired approach aims to improve patient care and reduce noise. Read all about it here: https://t.co/CBByqeGM0y

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Lyu and Egermann (2024) investigated the recognition of musical emotions cross-culturally between Chinese and Western listeners.

Click the link below to read more and to find out their results!

https://t.co/GvPADLq4Ba

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Jakubowski et al. (2024) investigated music-evoked thoughts, and how depending on the music being listened to, one can have varying quantities and qualities of thoughts.

To read more, click the link below!
https://t.co/ndhqEv6IAN

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Sauvé et al. (2023) explore methodological and ethical issues in cross-cultural music science research, including the effects of positivism and implicit cultural biases, and give recommendations.

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https://t.co/MEu1boDqQe

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Philibotte et al. (2023) investigated how preference and familiarity ratings for song segments represented the entire song and to what extent these results relied on how the segment was sampled.

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https://t.co/wYHT1omKG0

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Navarro-Cáceres et al. (2024) compared different music information retrieval (MIR) methods to uncover the mode—such as major or minor—of different Irish folk music pieces.

Check out the link below to read more!

https://t.co/hktR9m515Y

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🚨 New study alert! 🚨

Liu et al. (2023) propose a new emotion-based framework for personalized music recommendation that revolves around a user's emotional needs and works to improve their mental status.

Check out the link below to read more!

https://t.co/snCZEMYEpj