Music, Mind, and Brain (MMB) Group

The Music, Mind, and Brain (MMB) Group at Goldsmiths, University of London , studies the biological and cognitive foundations of musical experience and behaviour, as well as their impact on society and culture.

Led by Diana Omigie and Manuel Anglada-Tort, the MMB Group collaborates with leading researchers in music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, arts and humanities. Students in our MSc in Music, Mind, and Brain play a central role in all areas of our research.

Meet the Team

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The MSc in Music, Mind, and Brain is a unique masters degree that combines music psychology with neuroscience, focusing on both the biological and cognitive aspects of musical behaviour.

Students lead innovative research projects across diverse areas within music psychology, developing all necessary skills to prepare them for impactful careers in both academia and the industry.

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Research

We are a highly interdisciplinary group, combining theoretical and experimental insights from psychology, neuroscience, computer science, musicology, music therapy, and education.

We use diverse methods—including EEG, eye tracking, computational modeling, and cross-cultural research—to explore topics such as music-evoked emotions, musical pleasure, performance, and cross-cultural responses to music.

Featured Publications

Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution

M. Anglada-Tort, P.M.C. Harrison, H. Lee, N. Jacoby (2023)

Current Biology

We use large-scale online singing experiments to study oral transmission mechanisms in US and Indian participants. The results show how individual participant biases—vocal, cognitive, and cultural—shape the evolution of musical structures but that social biases are crucial for determining differences and similarities in resulting structures.