Digital Music Lab

Huge congratulations to Dr. Jo Spyra for successful defending her PhD yesterday! 🎉

Good luck in what you do next. You'll surely be missed. ❤️

The McMaster Digital Music Lab demonstrated the Dance for Parkinson's Dance for Parkinson's system to groups of young students from McMaster's Mini-University camp. Spreading the idea of using dance video games for motor rehabilitation and inspiring the next generation of brilliant researchers!

Dance Technology for People with Parkinson's

Congratulations to authors Michael Barone, Jotthi Bansal, and Matthew Woolhouse who have just published a new DML journal article in Frontiers of Psychology!

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00931/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=251858

Acoustic Features Influence Musical Choices Across Multiple Genres Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners’ preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-define...

A big welcome back to all McMaster students!
The Digital Music Lab is always open to hardworking students who are interested in music, dance and psychology research. If you would like to inquire about the lab, or about joining our team, please feel to message DML right here on Facebook.

Good luck with classes and have a wonderful fall term!

Welcome to the Digital Music Lab!

Founded and directed by Dr. Matthew Woolhouse of McMaster University, the DML undertakes interdisciplinary research into how music is used, embodied, and experienced by individuals and society. The lab's current research covers four main areas: (1) global music consumption, (2) prosocial effects of music, dance and entrainment, (3) music and dance for the palliative treatment of people with Parkinson’s Disease, and (4) musical pitch perception.

Our page will be a vessel to communicate research from the lab's team, and update our followers on trending news and new discoveries in music and psychology!

We invite you to share our page with anyone who is interested in the realm of research and the arts!