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Ceren Ayyildiz

@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate - University of Sydney | music, mental imagery 🎶🧠

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social tells us how older adults’ musical choices for alleviating loneliness are different from the music they like; and the key ingredients are greater autobiographical memories, positive affect, & meaning. Great talk! #MUSICONNEX #musicscience
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Amanda Krause @studylistening.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social--> comparing music selections older adults believe alleviate loneliness vs. music they simply like, there appears to be a difference in terms of the music being immersive/memory-based (lonely) and hedonic enjoyment/aesthetic (liked only) #MUSICONNEX #MusicScience
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm happy to share our latest paper, now published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio): Traffic jams: music and traffic noise interact to influence the vividness, sentiment, and spatiotemporal properties of directed mental imagery www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🎵🚦 💭
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Following the publication of our paper "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery", the University of Sydney has just shared a media release! How tiny tweaks in music shape what we imagine www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
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How tiny tweaks in music shape what we imagine
New research from the Sydney Music, Mind and Body Lab at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney has found that even the smallest of human touches in music can shape and enhance...
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉 "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery" Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery
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Amanda Krause @studylistening.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Glenn speaks of genres as communities -- that genres are "really based in people". That you can speak to characteristics but "they're a result of the people involved". The stats teacher in me loves that scatterplots underpin the plotted genre map: everynoise.com #MusicScience
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Every Noise at Once
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University of Sydney (USYD) @sydney.edu.au · 11/08/2025
“Whether we’re celebrating or grieving, music is something we can turn to." A new study led by @steffenherff.bsky.social from @sydney.edu.au's Sydney Conservatorium of Music has shown for the first time empirically that music can keep you company by facilitating imagined social interactions.
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Music is good company: new study shows music induces social imagination
Music keeps you company: a new study led by Dr Steffen A. Herff, cognitive neuroscientist at Sydney, Music, Mind and Body Lab at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, has shown for the first time empirically that music can indeed keep you company by facilitating imagined social interactions.
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I enjoyed chatting about the @smmb-lab.bsky.social’s recent research on music being good company at @abcnewsbot.bsky.social’s Weekend Breakfast! 🎥
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Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Wonderful to see our research being featured on the ABC's Weekend Breakfast. In a wonderful chat between @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social from the Sydney, Music, Mind, and Body Lab, and Fauziah Ibrahim & Tom Oriti from the ABC, they discussed how music can be good company. @sydney.edu.au
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My supervisor, Dr @steffenherff.bsky.social, and I wrote this piece for The Conversation on music and imagination: “Can music be good company?” …based on our lab’s recent work @smmb-lab.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-music-be...
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Can music be good company? Research shows it makes our imagination more social
When people listen to music, they’re more likely to imagine social interactions.
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Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Can music be good company? We contributed a small piece to the @theconversation.com drawing from recent work in the field of music and mental imagery. #musicscience #mentalimagery theconversation.com/can-music-be...
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Can music be good company? Research shows it makes our imagination more social
When people listen to music, they’re more likely to imagine social interactions.
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Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Delighted to share our new work 'Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions'. We show that music is indeed good company! #musicscience #mentalimagery www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Grateful for the chance to chat with Turkish News Agency Cyprus (TAK) about music psychology + my journey! 🎶🧠 The interview was re-published in several outlets (in Turkish). E.g., 🔗 www.yeniduzen.com/her-dinledig... Auto-translate gives a decent read if you’re curious!
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“Her dinlediğimiz müzikte zihnimizde bir şeyler değişiyor. Ben, o değişim anının peşindeyim”
Müzik çoğu için hobi ya da kaçışken, Ceren Ayyıldız için beynin işleyişine açılan bir kapı. Kıbrıslı Türk akademisyen, Sydney Üniversitesi’nde müzik psikolojisi doktorasıyla müziğin zihne etkilerini a...
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Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We had a great time in São Paulo! A massive thanks to all attendees, both in person and online, as well as the organisers of the #icmpc18 who made this such a rich experience. #musicscience
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Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In addition to her talk on the effect of rhythmic layering on mental imagery, @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social from the SMMBL also contributed a poster showing compelling interactions between musical micro variations and individual absorption tendencies on mental imagery #icmpc18 #musicscience
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Ugur @ugurmkaya.bsky.social from our lab just gave a great talk at #ICMPC18 on how vocalists draw on their own intuitions to influence the vividness and emotional quality of listeners’ mental imagery. 🎤 @smmb-lab.bsky.social
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Ade (@adefathiawati.bsky.social) from our lab highlighted updated trends in Music Performance Anxiety among tertiary music students across Australia, as well as the mitigation strategies students use 📊 #ICMPC18 @smmb-lab.bsky.social
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Gerard Madden @gerardmadden.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Dr. Steffen Herff from @smmb-lab.bsky.social shares very rich findings at #icmpc18 about expertise-related muscle activation in drummers. This work has important implications for biofeedback interventions to help musicians develop their skills and avoid playing-related injury. #musicscience
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My wonderful PhD supervisor, @steffenherff.bsky.social, gave a fantastic talk at #ICMPC18 on “Expertise predicts more efficient muscle spike shapes in drummers” today! 🥁 Incredible to see how nuanced motor control evolves with skill 💪 #ICMPC18 @smmb-lab.bsky.social
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My lab colleague Fernando Castellar presented his poster on ‘The prevalence of music, mental imagery, and their combined use as a mental training technique by athletes and coaches’ at #ICMPC18 today! 🏋️🏌️‍♂️⛹️‍♀️🎶🎧💭 it’s inspiring to see how far his research has come! @smmb-lab.bsky.social
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
It is amazing to be in São Paulo at #ICMPC18 this year to be presenting my research on layering rhythms and mental imagery! @smmb-lab.bsky.social 🎶
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Sydney Music, Mind, and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We are very much looking forward to the #ICMPC18. The program looks excellent. Members of the SMMBL are also involved in 9 contributions this year, if any pique your interest, drop by! #MusicScience
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
@miriamolsen.bsky.social from our @smmb-lab.bsky.social presented a talk on ‘The efficacy of using biofeedback to reduce playing-related musculoskeletal pain and improve performance in musicians: A systematic review and meta-analysis’ at #ICMPC18! 🎶👩‍🎤💪
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Sydney Music, Mind and Body Lab @smmb-lab.bsky.social is at #icmpc18 in São Paulo! 🇧🇷 The conference started with a great keynote by Vinoo Alluri!
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Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We are offering an exciting #Cross-Cultural #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney for our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
On the left, a Papua New Guinean musician in ceremonial clothes is performing on the Kundu drum (a long hourglass-shaped wooden drum). In the background, members of the community are enjoying the show. On the right, in the background, are plots showing the results of computational analyses of the effects of different music-acoustical features on perceived music stability in several different communities. On the right, in the foreground, a young woman from PNG is wearing headphones and taking part in a music cognition experiment.
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Grateful to be on this journey! Big thanks to @steffenherff.bsky.social for the support and guidance along the way. Read more about our research and reflections here:
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🎉 New paper out! Our study explores how older adults use music to cope with loneliness, highlighting how music can act as a social surrogate by evoking emotional support and social connection. 🔎 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1029... #MusicPsychology #SocialSurrogacy #Loneliness
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Music as social surrogate? A qualitative analysis of older adults’ choices of music to alleviate loneliness - Ceren Ayyildiz, Olivia Geibel, Steffen A. Herff, Sarah Hashim, Tuomas Eerola, Mats B. Küss...
People are living longer than ever. Loneliness is prevalent across various age groups, posing a serious threat to both wellbeing and health. The social surrogac...
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Music is remarkably resistant to forgetting". @steffenherff.bsky.social 📰🎵 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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Unlike words and faces, musical memories don't fade with time
Music lovers show how special musical memories are, with recollections going back decades. Here's how music from childhood can form lifelong memories
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🎉 New Publication Alert! 🎉 Incredibly excited to share our new paper, "Music as Social Surrogate? A Qualitative Analysis of Older Adults’ Choices of Music to Alleviate Loneliness", now published in Musicae Scientiae! 📰 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Music as social surrogate? A qualitative analysis of older adults’ choices of music to alleviate loneliness - Ceren Ayyildiz, Olivia Geibel, Steffen A. Herff, Sarah Hashim, Tuomas Eerola, Mats B. Küss...
People are living longer than ever. Loneliness is prevalent across various age groups, posing a serious threat to both wellbeing and health. The social surrogac...
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Ade S. Fathiawati @adefathiawati.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hi! I'm conducting a study on music performance experiences and need more participants! If you're studying music degree (instrument/vocals) in Australia, please join this anonymous survey: redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=A... Feel free to share the study with your musician network. Many thanks! ☺️
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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
It was a pleasure talking with Prof. Minna Huotilainen, a wonderful researcher in the field, on their podcast, Brain, Music and Learning! 🧠🎶🎼✏️ Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/54H0...
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Music-Guided Imagery Can Give You Mountain Views
Brain, Music and Learning · Episode
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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Morning #musicskyence, I’m gearing up to create a new Music Psychology (undergrad) course next term and am looking for studies to consider for student replication projects. Any recommendations for intriguing research that lends itself well to replication? #Psychology #MusicCognition #TeachingIdeas
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Caroline Owen @carocaronet.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
🎶Just reposting this one… please share! What does music make you feel or imagine? @UniOfYork our second listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11 is now online. Help Splat 👾 the alien learn about what music means to Earthlings! Info and link: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Extremely excited for this project and to be working with amazing people!!! 🥳🥳👵👴🎈🎈💭🎶 @matskussner.bsky.social @steffenherff.bsky.social Sarah Hashim #musicscience #mentalimagery
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Screaming! Our abstract for Swiftposium has just been accepted! 😄🎶 “Assess the Equation of You”: A Data-Driven Investigation of the Relationship between Lyrics and Audio Features across Taylor Swift’s Discography Luiza Lucuta #musicscience
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Had my first PhD talk at the Music and Science Symposium, University of Newcastle! 🎙️🎶🥁 Already looking forward to next year!
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Interested in a #musicscience / #musicology internship in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies at HU Berlin? Apply for one of our projects before 10 Dec and join our team in the summer of 2024: hic.hu-berlin.de/en/internshi...
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Iza Korsmit @izakorsmit.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Hello 🎵🧪-folks! I am so excited to share that the first paper coming from my PhD studies is online now! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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A comparison of dimensional and discrete models for the representation of perceived and induced affe...
In musical affect research, there is considerable discussion on the best method to represent affective response. This discussion mainly revolves around the dimensional (valence, tension arousal, energ...
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Yesterday, it was great to watch creative music therapy masters students at Western Sydney University presenting their research proposals, ranging topics from schizophrenia to cultural impacts on therapy. Future music therapists being very interested in research made me happy 😊🥁🔷 #musicscience
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Steffen Herff @steffenherff.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Welcome to PhD students @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social (researching how 🎵 rhythm & instrumentation affect directed mental imagery) & @ugurmkaya.bsky.social (how vocal techniques shape vividness & sentiment of mental imagery) who just joined our #mentalimagery and #musicscience communities on 🟦sky.
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Steffen Herff @steffenherff.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Dear #mentalimagery community, I've set up a custom feed for research and discussion related to mental imagery. Just write #mentalimagery in your post, and it'll show up. You can add it to your feeds by clicking on 'feeds' on the left and search for 'mentalimagery' :-).
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
+++ Luiza and I met *virtually* two years ago at SysMus21, and now we’re doing our PhDs together at the MARCS Institute, not only attended #SysMus23 together until 4 am Sydney time, but virtually sat together! 👯‍♀️🎶🎙️👀 #musicscience
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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
It was great attending #SysMus23 and presenting our recent research on the prevalent role of imagined social interactions during music listening @steffenherff.bsky.social Liila Taruffi! ✨✨✨🎶🧠 #musicscience
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