PitchLabPennState

Happy new year, we’re back at it!

Join me and make a gift to the Pitch lab for GivingTuesday 2025. #psugt givecampus.com/schools/PennSt…

Undergraduate student Joanna “Joey” Kieran Mendez is the labs project coordinator featured in the news at Penn State today. Go Joey!

Here we demonstrate the variable roles of intentional, flexibility, and pitch imagery in musician skills like error, detection, and melodic dictation. Fresh off the press today!

We report a combination of musical instrument experience yields musical benefits later in life - now out in Frontiers in Psychology👏 🔗 Read the article: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Coming soon in 2026! Unmuted—A new ADRI podcast mini-series from Penn State’s College of Arts & Architecture on the arts and why we need them.

Our latest—cognitive correlates in musicianship skills in @FrontiersIn Psychology!

Joey is conducting research this summer in Toronto, focusing on the neurophysiological mechanisms of absolute pitch. She will explore how the brain processes pitch and supports vocal performance. Following this, she will be a Columbia University Summer Public Health Scholar 👩‍🏫

Great visit from a Penn State alum at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota!

Undergraduate student team presents on music psychology at the Suncoast Symposium for music, wellness, and sustainability. “Bravi!”

Good work, everyone!

It’s giving Tuesday check us out: givecampus.com/schools/PennSt…

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 doi.org/10.4324/978100… R & Python code at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

Great talk by lab coauthor and collaborator Laura Stambaugh. Thanks for a great visit today!

Our friend Bill Foan at @PennStateADRI is doing beautiful work over here!

Lab alumna Annie doing good work!

Our next meeting on how sleep consolidation benefits musicians (and artists) as they work to maintain and refine their motor skills:

Lab alumna Annie Liu publishes first first-author paper. Yay Annie!

Data collection training completed!