Tuomas Eerola

Music psychology Professor at Durham University, UK. Research on music and emotions, rhythm, movement and other essentials of music. #musicscience

[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

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

@nielschr_ @Spotify I was demonstrating all the features during teaching on Wednesday (what is the saddest Christmas hit and the most acoustic Coldplay album and the slowest variant of Purcell's aria) and I thought I had exceeded my quotas when I hit "Forbidden (HTTP 403)"! Workaround is needed.

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

Just to note that I prefer to have my social media discussions at the other side, where the sky is blue and tone is civil and professional. You can find me by following #musicscience tag or firstnamelastname[dot]bsky[dot]social

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

Next we (Connor Kirts & @suvisaarikallio & @tuomas_ee) are developing tools to offer the community ways to evaluate the model predictions. The theory is out today #OpenAccess at @PsyofMus. See https://t.co/324cshIhLg 5/5 #musicscience #emotion #theory

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

Model offers predictions to guide empirical research on music’s emotional impact. This constructionist perspective provides ways to focus music and emotion research, supporting both applied directions & more personalised explanations of these experiences 4/5

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

The Episode Model further breaks down the 5 episodes into 6 schemes: 1 emotional qualia, 2 mechanisms, 3 listening modes & agency, 4 reward & exposure, 5 musical meanings, and 6 functional contexts. These emphasise the situated and contextual nature of these episodes 3/5

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

New theory out! What do you get when you mix music and emotion regulation literature with the functions of music and explanations of music-induced emotions? You get a new theory called the 'Episode Model of Emotional Experiences of Music' 1/5

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

This framework places the functions and situations of music listening at the centre & identifies 5 unique emotional episodes: 1) Enjoyment–Distraction–Relaxation, 2) Connection–Belonging, 3) Focus–Motivation, 4) Personal Emotional Processing, and 5) Aesthetic–Interest–Awe 2/5

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

I made a 1-minute YouTube video of how to create an index to a book with keywords, page proofs and python scripting.

https://t.co/gJN15SxaHQ #musicscience #book #WorkSmart

[Helen Prior @h_m_prior]

SEMPRE Student Study Day, 8th November 2024 - submit your proposals on any aspect of music psychology or music education by 27th September. Details here: https://t.co/2nnfiD9Wc6
Please share! 🙂 @sempreorguk @Music_Science_J @PsyofMus @RSMEjournal @ESCOMsociety @royalmusical

[Mason Youngblood @MasYoungblood]

Another incredible @CulturalEvolSoc conference! Had such a fun time DJing with @evogom 🐦 Massive thank you to the organizers for putting together such an engaging and inclusive conference, especially @sheinalew for the invite 🫶 Can't wait for #CES2026!

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

Cultural Evolution Society Conference @CulturalEvolSoc starting with a full house at Durham run by @Durham_DCERC. Lots of exciting talks, including those touching upon #musicscience @PatrickESavage @AngladaTort @MasYoungblood & others

[MAPLE Lab @MAPLE_Lab]

Dr Schutz during his keynote at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference in Banff. He discussed several of our projects, as well as ongoing collaborations with @DrJazz615, @tuomas_ee! @socmusicperccog @musicandthemind @mcmasterhum

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

📢 New paper in Memory & Cognition!📢

Musical pieces that have incongruent emotion cues (mode & timbre) are better remembered than congruent ones; consistent with desirable difficulty. Nice collab with Andrea Halpern from Bucknell University https://t.co/3BVH439fK1
#musicscience

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

@noindent @GamelanSP @escom_12 @bleizdelsette @jordieshier @tiianhk @c4dm I really enjoyed the richness of the descriptions from the digital instrument makers & was not proud of the rigidness of the academic coverage, but perhaps there is a way to meet in the middle. Great building blocks for enriching our concept for the sound colour #timbre

[Music, Mind, Body and Brain @CoE_MMBB]

Congratulations to Prof. Suvi Saarikallio, the new @ESCOMsociety president!

[Thomas M. Lennie, Ph.D @lennie_tm]

A really important talk on the importance of sharing data and analysis scripts in #musicscience.
More needs to be done and faster advancements in the field will follow.
@tuomas_ee @ #escom12

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

@dancingresearch @lennie_tm Yes please!, even if it would attract a minority of authors initially, it sends a strong signal about the value of planning and theorising, especially for studies that test theories

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

Final #escom12 keynote given by Bruno Mesz who took us on a whirlwind tour of #crossmodal interactions with music. So many mappings (#smell, #shape, #colour, #taste) make sense with music but the level of explanation is not always easy to define #musicscience

[Tuomas Eerola @tuomas_ee]

Wonderful big data take on tempo and age by @Geoff_Luck & Alessandro Ansani that show a hockey stick function of performed tempo across age that matches the changes in spontaneous motor tempo across life-span #musicscience #escom12