Recent years have seen growing interest in the interdisciplinary field of music cognition, both in scholarly circles and in bestselling books for nonspecialist audiences. Research in this area, however, is often conducted by psychologists without a solid background in music theory and history—or by musicologists without a solid background in psychological research methods and statistics.

This workshop brings these two disciplines together, as a forum for exploring empirical research and theoretical questions. Graduate students from both music and psychology departments share their work here and also engage with research presented to the workshop by University of Chicago faculty and external guest speakers.

By combining psychological and musicological perspectives, we aim to develop new methodological and conceptual frameworks, new ways of understanding the complex processes involved in experiences of music.

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