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Kira Vibe Jespersen

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Research on music, health, sleep, insomnia and relaxation in all combinations. Associate Professor at Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University.

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Happy to announce one PhD and one postdoctoral position at the Rhythm & Brains Lab (PI: Pr. Sylvie Nozaradan), Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Brussels. Belgium. Connected to the ERC Consolidator Grant HUMAN RHYTHM.
More info attached. Please share!
#hiring #Neuroscience #MusicCognition

06.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎡⏳ 10 Days Left for Early Bird (Reduced Fare)
Early bird registration for #ConfMusSleep ends on 15/03/26.
Join us for engaging research at the intersection of science and sound.
✨ Includes welcome reception and conference dinner.
We’d love to see you there!
Info: confmussleep.au.dk
#musicscience

06.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful, congratulations!πŸ₯³

27.02.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“… Updated Conference Programme!

We’ve released a new version of the programme of the #ConfMusSleep with updated session times.

You can find it and download it here: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...

#musicscience

20.02.2026 10:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We found that sleep- and relaxation-related comments were associated with having no melody, slower tempo, fewer than five instruments, and a repetitive structure. Conversely, distraction-and mood-related comments were linked to music with higher dynamic variation and more than five instruments

16.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Motivations for Using Music for SleepA Text Analysis of YouTube Sleep Music Comments Traditionally, sleep music is viewed as being soft, calm, and with minimal pitch and dynamic changes. However, recent research has shown that this is not necessarily the case. This variation could be ...

New paper out in Music Perception πŸŽΆπŸ˜€
With @musicinthebrain.bsky.social colleagues, we analyzed YouTube comments and found the first evidence of a link between sleep music motivations and sleep music characteristics 🎷🎸🎻😴
online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/d...

16.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please put on your headphones and help us rate these small music pieces for sleep use 🎢

04.02.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Registration for the Music and Sleep conference is open! Early bird reduced fee until the 15th of March πŸ•ŠοΈ

26.01.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to generous conference grants from the Carlsberg Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation, we are offering 8 travel scholarships (up to €400 each) for participants of #ConfMusSleep πŸŽ“βœˆοΈ
The scholarships can cover travel, accommodation, and the conference fee for attendance.
#musicscience

18.12.2025 11:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

@musicinthebrain.bsky.social

03.12.2025 11:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These findings suggest reduced flexibility in the neural dynamics of whole-brain activity in insomnia disorder and highlight the importance of using methods that account for temporal dynamics to advance our understanding of this complex disorder.

03.12.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Specifically, the brain activity of insomnia participants showed more time in a global activation state and less time with the Default Mode Network and a fronto-parietal network.

03.12.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Using Hidden Markov Modelling, we evaluated whole-brain dynamics in participants with insomnia disorder compared to good sleeper controls. Results showed that people with insomnia transitioned significantly less between brain states during wakeful rest.

03.12.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New paper out in Cerebral CortexπŸ₯³πŸ§ πŸ’€
Reduced switching between brain states in insomnia: evidence from modeling of fMRI brain dynamics url: academic-oup-com.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/cercor/artic...

03.12.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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⏳Deadline extended!

The submission deadline for the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep has officially been extended to the 10/12/25.

More info here: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...

#ConfMusSleep #musicscience

01.12.2025 12:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...

We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps πŸ§ πŸŽΆπŸ€–

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

26.11.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
International Conference on Music and Sleep

🚨 Deadline alert: 01/12
Submit your abstract to the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep!
πŸ”— Info: confmussleep.au.dk (β€˜Call for Contributions’)
Open to all relevant fields: musicology, music tech, music therapy, psychology, neuroscience, sleep medicine & more.
#ConfMusSleep #musicscience

26.11.2025 11:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Out now in @commsbio.nature.com!

We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking.

Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments!

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25.11.2025 10:01 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!πŸ₯³
Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo".
Read more here:
www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

18.11.2025 12:54 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Help us learn more about the experience of sleep music. Follow the link: lgfl4ra6vi.cognition.run

14.11.2025 09:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The effectiveness of auditory stimulation in sleep varies with thalamocortical spindle phase Slow oscillations and sleep spindles are neural events that both occur during non-rapid eye movement sleep and are implicated in sleep-dependent memor…

Interesting new research on closed-loop auditory stimulation in sleep
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

13.11.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent keynote by MΓ©lanie Strauss on auditory perception during sleep at the #ConfMusSleep πŸŽΆπŸŽΊπŸ‘‚

10.11.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TuneTwins Test your musical memory! Can you find the matching tunes and clear the board? Play TuneTwins to find out β€”Β a science game from the University of Amsterdam.

🎢 Test your musical memory! 🎯
tunetwins.amsterdammusiclab.nl

@musiccognition.bsky.social and others have made something wonderful: a science game for matching familiar melodies from around the world.

Play TuneTwins and help us advance research on music cognition. (Seen at #ICMPC, more to come!)

30.10.2025 09:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to hearing Prof. Marcus Pearce and the #ConfMusSleep may next year!

30.10.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?

We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.

Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#neuroskyence #musicscience

22.10.2025 05:25 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸŽΆπŸ›οΈ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info πŸ‘‰ confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience

08.10.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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The emotional geography of National anthems - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The emotional geography of National anthems

Did you know? Emotions in national anthems reveal surprising patterns in geography and culture. 1/2 (continues in comments)

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Musicscience #MusicPsychology #MIR #NationalAnthems #Emotion

02.10.2025 08:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share that Peter Vuust will give the welcome lecture at the 1st Int. Conf. on Music & Sleep! πŸŽΆπŸ’€
Director of MIB, Prof. at AU and RAMA, and acclaimed jazz musician, Vuust unites science & creativity. His lecture will explore music neuroscience & predictive coding of music.
#ConfMusSleep

01.10.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Our Assistant Professor Anna Zamorano has written a really nice piece for videnskab.dk and The Conversation - enjoy the read :-)
theconversation.com/neuroscience...

30.09.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression Sleep disturbances are both a primary symptom of and risk factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). Sleep alterations in MDD include the presence of insomnia or hypersomnia and aberrations in sleep ...

Very interesting review on the intimate relationship between sleep and depression.
Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

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