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