Music, Mind and Brain Group (MMB)

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The Music, Mind and Brain (MMB) Group at Goldsmiths, University of London, studies the biological and cognitive foundations of musical experience and behaviour, as well as their impact on society and culture. It describes itself as a highly interdisciplinary group, combining theoretical and experimental insights from psychology, neuroscience, computer science, musicology, music therapy, and education. The group uses diverse methods, including EEG, eye tracking, computational modelling, and cross-cultural research, to explore topics such as music-evoked emotions, musical pleasure, performance, and cross-cultural responses to music.

Based in the Department of Psychology, it investigates how music shapes human behaviour from the earliest stages of life, using EEG and motion capture in the Goldsmiths InfantLab to study how infants perceive, move to, and socially engage with music, and it studies how streaming platforms, social media, and generative AI are transforming music diffusion, innovation, and consumption worldwide. The group maintains two research tools that it offers for free use by others: the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI), a self-report inventory of musical sophistication, and the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS), a scale for measuring the experience of earworms.

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Goldsmiths, University of London
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