Assistant Professor, Psychology UCD
Director Music Cognition Lab
Music | Agency | Dance | Identity | Wellbeing
#musicpsych #musictherapy #research
Claire Howlin 🎶🧠
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AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
Who creates meaning in music?
I've reviewed Janet Bourne's new book Who Listens?
A fascinating exploration of how musical meaning emerges through the experiences, identities, and cultures we bring to listening.
For music cognition, narrative, & music therapy.
journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/a...
We are hiring!
PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination:
jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Project summary here:
lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec...
Deadline: July 1st.
Is audience behaviour at concerts getting worse?
Dr Claire Howlin from UCD Psychology joined Newstalk’s Lunchtime Live to discuss the psychology behind crowd behaviour at live shows following reports that a record was thrown at Eric Clapton.
Listen from 1hr 45mins: bit.ly/4d9l433
Please repost: I have 3 @erc.europa.eu funded positions available on the neurocognitive decision architecture underpinning use/rejection of coercive interrogation practices using #fNIRS #hyperscanning and naturalistic #cognition #psychskyence #neuroskyence details via my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
We spent some time at the recent Embodied Minds Summit at UCLA discussing the need for 'self' in modelling decision processes.
But further work is needed to include rules/goals/rewards which are interoceptively driven
In other words, for AI learning the self also needs a body!
Follow our Cochrane Review on the effects of Music-Based Interventions (MBIs) for chronic pain management. Shared first authorship with Claire Howlin @dancingresearch.bsky.social
Thanks to all co-authors!
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
@musicinthebrain.bsky.social
@au.dk
Excited to share we have a new Cochrane Protocol published today!
Music‐based interventions for chronic pain management - Howlin C, Pando-Naude, V - 2026 | Cochrane Library www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
#music #pain #painmanagement @ucdpsychology.bsky.social
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Today is official publication day for the paperback of A TRICK OF THE MIND. Surreal as ever to see on the shelves (this time thanks to Waterstones Gower St for indulging me).
More here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #AcademicChatter
Academia in 2026:
Excessive verification that you are a human, when simply trying to access journal articles to read.
But no assurances that what I'm then reading is not AI-produced.
