The Music Lab

our latest music game, Rhythm Radar, is about how melodies and rhythms work together to make a perfect rhythmic fit 🎶🧠 give it a try and post your score!

Rhythm Radar Which rhythms fit best? Test your musical intuitions!

#WOYC2024 - Music Monday Archives - Early Learning Nation Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project Helps Parents Write Love Songs to Their InfantsK.C. Compton·Mar 28, 2024·10 min readWhen we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe...

Sam Mehr, the director of The Music Lab, comments in Nature's recent piece: 'Gamifying experiments can make behavioural research more inclusive, rigorous and reproducible–if it's done right'.

How games can make behavioural science better Wordle, Minecraft and Scrabble are played online by millions. Gamifying experiments can make behavioural research more inclusive, rigorous and reproducible — if it’s done right.

Could the purpose of music really cross cultures? Lab director Sam Mehr and researcher Manvir Singh found evidence that people can hear universal traits in music. Check out other scholars' comments about the study in The Atlantic🎶 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/the-search-for-universal-qualities-in-music-heats-up/551447/