I am music scholar working in the field of empirical musicology, music psychology and music and science. My topics of interest are music and emotions and how we perceive music, especially the central elements such as melody, timbre, rhythm, metre and dissonance. My institutional homepage can be found at Durham University and I am co-director of Music and Science Lab. Here is a dynamic database of my publications. My Academic CV is also available here. I mainly work with empirical data and my aim is to carry out research as transparently as possible, which includes commitment to

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