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Nashra Ahmad

@nashraa.bsky.social
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PhD scholar in Music Psychology at Durham University. Interested in Cross-Cultural Studies, Rhythm Perception and Synchronisation.

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Can you believe #SysMus26 is over?! An absolute joy getting to know these wonderful lot & interact with their passions & curiosities first hand #musicology #MIR #musicscience #musiceducation #musicculture #musicperformance #disabilitystudies #neuroscience AND MORE! @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
End of conference photo taken by our keynote, Assoc. Prof. Eamonn Bell. 
In person attendees sat in rows, passing of the SysMus flag from this year’s organisers at Durham to the Helsinki organisers for next year, and our online attendees on the big screensDay-3 post-lunch walk to Durham Cathedral around the river. Bright sunny day with our attendees waving and smiling.Day-1 post-lunch walk up Observatory Hill to get a good look at Durham. A bright day with Durham Cathedral and Penshaw Monument visible in the background, with our attendees 
standing on the slope of the hill smiling and waving
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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congratulations to @nashraa.bsky.social on successfully defending her #PhD on long rhythmic cycles in North Indian Classical Music! Many thanks to Rainer Polak (RITMO, Oslo University) for the insightful examination and discussion. #musicscience
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Looking forward to hosting everyone at SysMus26 🎉
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SysMus26 registration deadline extension!! #musicscience #musicpsych
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Published my latest paper in the Routledge Open Research Journal, with transparent peer review and published all article versions. Felt a bit strange without an Action Editor, but I appreciated being able to track the process and see the open reviews. routledgeopenresearch.org/articles/4-9...
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #musicpsych @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
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The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns
The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy to be a part of this cross-cultural research on the perception of tension in harmonic intervals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #musicpsych
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The perception of tension in harmonic intervals across Indian and Western listeners: the roles of psychoacoustics and musical expertise
A fundamental task for research on music cognition is to pinpoint the exact roles of nature and nurture in the perception of consonance/dissonance, i.e., the relative agreeableness and stability ve...
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Participating in #ICMPC18 online and watching the winning papers of the conference by @harinlee.info and Lalit Mohan. Both making some great contributions to #musicscience #musicpsychology and moving beyond WEIRD.
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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set now published and available to read! link.springer.com/article/10.3... 🧞‍♀️🚀 #MusicPsych #MusicScience
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MUSIFEAST-17: MUsic Stimuli for imagination, familiarity, emotion, and Aesthetic STudies across 17 genres - Behavior Research Methods
Musical stimuli are commonly used in psychological research for investigating a range of emotional, cognitive, and physiological processes. Despite this widespread use, many studies continue to rely o...
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Had a great time presenting my work on chunking and memory, as well as the effect of cycle length in cross-cultural rhythm perception @rppw.bsky.social Both of these talks explored long and complex temporal patterns in North Indian classical Music. With: Martin Clayton & @tuomaseerola.bsky.social
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RPPW20 @rppw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@nashraa.bsky.social from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social is presenting next at #RPPW20
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lovely time presenting my work on temporal learning of North Indian Classical Rhythmic Patterns at #SysMus25
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A great initiative by our lab members. #openresearch #openscience is what we need ❤️
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Raga Appreciation Society at Durham (RASAD) @rasadurham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Dear all, After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the re-launch of our monthly events, starting with our first session (online via Zoom) on December 3rd, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM GMT.
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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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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Would you like to play an online game on Auditory Memory for Indian Rhythms? I am looking for musicians unfamiliar with Indian music to participate in this fun study. You will get a score on completion. 🤓 #musicpsych Click to participate: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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