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
- Sydney Ortega
Veterinary/Biomedical Sciences - TJ DeFrancesco
Lab Manager - Michelle Bojalad
Pre-Medicine
Lab Manager - Laura Stambaugh
Affiliate Faculty - Pei-Hsuan Lu
PhD, Music Education - Bryan Nichols, PhD
Lab Director - Eva George,PhD, Music Education
- Joey Kieran-Mendez
Biobehavioral Health (BBH) - Halle KandarBio-Behavioral Health
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).