PitchLabPennState

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.

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Former lab member doing great things. Bravo, Logan!

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Undergraduate research in action!

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Happy new year, we’re back at it!

[Bryan E. Nichols @bnickPSU]

Join me and make a gift to the Pitch lab for GivingTuesday 2025. #psugt https://t.co/xgXImMnXPN

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Undergraduate student Joanna “Joey” Kieran Mendez is the labs project coordinator featured in the news at Penn State today. Go Joey!

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Here we demonstrate the variable roles of intentional, flexibility, and pitch imagery in musician skills like error, detection, and melodic dictation. Fresh off the press today!

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We report a combination of musical instrument experience yields musical benefits later in life - now out in Frontiers in Psychology👏

🔗 Read the article: https://t.co/4vzYry5dPa

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Coming soon in 2026! Unmuted—A new ADRI podcast mini-series from Penn State’s College of Arts & Architecture on the arts and why we need them.

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Our latest—cognitive correlates in musicianship skills in @FrontiersIn Psychology!

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Joey is conducting research this summer in Toronto, focusing on the neurophysiological mechanisms of absolute pitch. She will explore how the brain processes pitch and supports vocal performance. Following this, she will be a Columbia University Summer Public Health Scholar 👩‍🏫

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Great visit from a Penn State alum at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota!

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Undergraduate student team presents on music psychology at the Suncoast Symposium for music, wellness, and sustainability. “Bravi!”

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Good work, everyone!

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It’s giving Tuesday check us out: https://t.co/Jv3QU8v5XX

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

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 https://t.co/4jcBWMAkhg R & Python code at https://t.co/lFVeYBQ1UE

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Great talk by lab coauthor and collaborator Laura Stambaugh. Thanks for a great visit today!

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Our friend Bill Foan at @PennStateADRI is doing beautiful work over here!

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Lab alumna Annie doing good work!

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I recently had the opportunity to write about @laufey visiting Princeton for The Scholar’s Take! This was an incredible conversation & a stunning performance by my favorite artist.

https://t.co/78qKtCI8ao

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Our next meeting on how sleep consolidation benefits musicians (and artists) as they work to maintain and refine their motor skills: