The Pitch Exploration Lab is a space for undergraduates or graduates from any major on campus to explore music, brain, and psychology topics. We especially welcome research questions related to pitch.
Work related to topics in the lab has been published in Psychology of Music, Psychomusicology, Musicae Scientiae, Journal of Research in Music Education, UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Contributions to Music Education.
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Meet our Members
Max Davis
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Allison Larrimer
Psychology
Rehan Sai
Information Science & Technology
Bryan Nichols, PhD Lab Director
Halle Kandar
Bio-Behavioral Health
Emily Canavan Psychology
Michelle Bojalad Lab Manager
Pre-Medicine
Laura Stambaugh Affiliate Faculty
Joey Kieran-Mendez
Project Coordinator Biobehavioral Health (BBH)
An example of a paradigm in music perception
Here is Diana Deutsch’s sound circularity equivalent of visual descent from an impossible staircase (Penrose & Penrose).
