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Music Psychology Research Team
Team Leaders
- Nikki Rickard
- Samia Toukhsati
Research Assistants
- Elena Hartley
- Anneliese Gill
- Leila Greenfield
PostGraduate Students
- Sherilene Carr
- Isba Husein
- Renee Kharsas
- Jenny Patterson
Fourth Year Students
- Christina Morris
- TanChyuan Chin
- I Ting Tsao
- Harriet Downing
- Lauren Velik
- Christine Hammond
- Chathuska Fonseka
- Martin Lynch
- Monika Knausenberg
- Evaluation of music therapy on cognitive, psychological and electrophysiological outcomes in elderly, Alzheimer's and learning-disabled populations
- Evaluation of high quality music education on academic, socio-emotional and psychological outcomes of primary and secondary school students
- Auditory preferences and enrichment for laboratory animal welfare
- Relationship between music engagement and cognitive performance (and prevention of age-related cognitive deficits)
- Modulation of memory via emotionally arousing or calming music
- Decomposition of components of music and other auditory stimuli responsible for cognitive enhancement
- Physiological concomitants of intense emotional responses to music
The Laboratories
The music psychology facilities consist of specialized equipment for testing responses to auditory stimuli in both humans and animals. The human music laboratory is situated within the Sleep Laboratory at the Caulfield campus of the school. This provides a perfect environment for studying people's responses to music since the laboratory is a soundproofed, light-controlled setting furnished for comfortable and natural listening. In addition to having facilities for obtaining a range of physiological measurements (such as heart rate, muscle tension, skin temperature and arousal hormones), the laboratory also has electroencephalography equipment enabling measurement of brain wave activity. The animal laboratories are located at the Clayton campus within the Animal House, and are suitable for various behavioural tests of animal preference and cognitive performance.
- Dr Bruce Barber, National Ageing Research Institute
- Mr Fintan Murphy, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Monash University
- Ms Marilyn Keogh, Music Director, Castlemaine Secondary College
- Dr Marie Gibbs, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Monash University
- Prof Daniel O’Connor (HOD, Kingston Centre, Ageing and Mental Health)
- Prof Michael Thaut (Director, Centre for Biomedical Research in Music, Colorado State University)
- Dr Pauleen Bennett, Senior Lecturer, SPPPM, Monash University
The Music Psychology research team is part of the PRIMAL Network® of Music Researchers. Music Psychology seminars (Music, Auditory Cognition & Mind) are held at the University of Melbourne monthly (see http://www.macam.unimelb.edu.au/).
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