Music, Mind & Brain 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.

Students in our MSc in Music, Mind, and Brain play a central role in all areas of our research.

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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, and develop the 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

Computing aesthetic taste

M. Anglada-Tort & H. Lee, N. Jacoby (2026)

Current Opinion in Psychology

In this paper, we discuss how recent advances in machine learning and large-scale human experiments are transforming the science of aesthetic taste, shifting the focus from measuring preferences to reconstructing the complex, high-dimensional representations that generate them. We introduce the concept of taste spaces as a framework for understanding how aesthetic taste is structured, learned, and transformed across individuals, cultures, and artificial intelligence systems.