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Berlin School of Mind and Brain

The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is a graduate institution of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin). We offer a two-year Master’s degree “Mind and Brain” and a three-year doctoral program. The interdisciplinary research, education and training takes place in English. Our focus is on the interface between the humanities and behavioral sciences with the neurosciences. Our graduate school is a founding member of the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin and, together with HU Berlin, we are hosting the national Max Planck School of Cognition for 2018–2025. The DFG-funded Research Training Group 2386 “Extrospection” is affiliated to our graduate school for 2018–2024, and we collaborate closely with the doctoral program of Excellence Cluster 2002 “Science of Intelligence” at TU and HU Berlin for 2018–2025.

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Berlin graduate school of social sciences.

The graduate school´s mission is to train and promote doctoral researchers from Germany and abroad/the world for both scientific and professional careers. Doctoral researchers who participate in the training structure of the BGSS International Doctoral Program complete their doctoral degrees in either Sociology or Political Sciences. The degree is awarded by Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

BGSS has been funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments via the German Research Association from 2007 - 2014.

Starting from October 2020 applications for BGSS are seeked for on an ongoing basis .

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Mono-bachelor , Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Standard time for completing course

6 semesters

Start of study and entrance procedure

Cf. course catalogue

For this degree program, a subject-specific study ability test is carried out, which is described under   Studieneignungstest für den Bachelorstudiengang Psychologie (BaPsy) . Information on the test, such as content, participation requirements and procedure can be found on the corresponding information page of the institute , which is constantly updated.

Course structure

The bachelor’s course requires you to acquire 180 credit points (CP*)

Mandatory Modules: 120 CP (including bachelor’s thesis) Mandatory Elective Modules: 40 CP General Elective Modules: 20 CP

* One credit point (CP) equals a workload of 25 - 30 hours for preparation, follow-up and attendance at classes.

Course objectives

The course aims to convey the knowledge, skills and experiences that enable students to work in selected areas of Psychology. Graduates of the bachelor’s course in Psychology are qualified for jobs involving primary diagnostic and counselling duties in health and social care, education and training and administration, business and industry. Graduates can also work in the fields of scientific studies and subject-specific education, further training and continuing education as well. The career area options include human resources, health education, school system, counselling roles in education, clinical psychology and occupational psychology, as well as the area of surveys and market research. Students also acquire the skills that enable them to progress to post-graduate master’s or doctoral degrees, above all in psychological subjects.

The skills are taught through a combination of frontal teaching, virtual teaching and self-study, both alone and in groups. The HU Psychology course provides its students with the opportunity to contribute to research and development projects at an early stage.

The course is designed to enable students to spend the 5th - and potentially the 6th - semester abroad. The modules that last for semesters 5 and 6 can also be taken in a single semester.

Why should you study Psychology at Humboldt-Universität?

Psychology has a long tradition at Humboldt-Universität. Internationally-renowned academics such as Hermann Ebbinghaus, Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Lewin and Friedhart Klix taught here. The department is currently very well-staffed with 14 professors. This provides a good lecturer/student ratio. The tradition mentioned above means that Psychology at HU has a strong orientation to the natural sciences. This is expressed in a preference for empirical or experimental investigation techniques and in the examination of the physiological foundations of psychological processes or mental illnesses. This tradition also gives rise to a focus on clinical psychology, cognitive and biological psychology, occupational, operational and organisational psychology, as well as personality and developmental psychology. The university’s guiding principle of unifying teaching and research is a key feature of our programmes. Students are actively involved in research in a range of teaching sessions from the first year onwards. A further important feature of the department the very active body of student representatives (Student Representatives Psychology) who are committed to representing the students’ interests.

A clip about study at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in German you will find under: http://www.berufe.tv/studienberufe/gesellschafts-und-sozialwissenschaften/psychologie/

Course content

The best places to find information about course content is the annotated university calendar or the current timetables . They are online at hu.berlin/vorlesungsverzeichnis . The Course Advisory Service is also available to help you (see below: addresses). You’ll find module descriptions, the course curriculum and other details in the course and examination regulations , available online at www.amb.hu-berlin.de , no. 6/2020 .

Mono-bachelor's Course with 180 CP

Mandatory subjects (125 cp), subject-specific mandatory elective modules (30/35 cp), interdisciplinary mandatory elective modules (20/25 cp).

Students must take interdisciplinary mandatory elective modules worth 25 CP (20 CP if the module ‘Epistemological Foundations of Psychology’ is taken). These are listed in the relevant module catalogues of other subject areas (see "Überfachlicher Wahlpflichtbereich" on http://agnes.hu-berlin.de/ ). The students can freely select the subject areas of the modules. We recommend a combination with Business Administration, Biology, Educational Sciences, Protestant Theology, Gender Studies, Computer Science, Cultural Studies, Mathematics, Musicology, Media Studies, Philosophy, Law, Rehabilitation Sciences, Social Sciences, Sports Sciences or Economics in particular.

Alternatively, students can take advantage of the services of the Career Center (e.g. presentation techniques and moderation techniques) or the Language Centre of Humboldt-Universität.

Psychology as a cross-disciplinary mandatory elective module in other bachelor’s courses

As a cross-disciplinary mandatory elective module, the study of Psychology offers students of other subjects an overview of the content, issues and research methods of Psychology. Each of the following modules can accommodate up to five students from other subject areas:

Master’s degree

HU offers a master’s programme Psychology (M.Sc. - 120 CP) (www.amb.hu-berlin.de no. 22/2021 ) or, after completing suitable modules, the M.Sc. Psychologie: Schwerpunkt Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie (www.amb.hu-berlin.de no. 48/2021 , 1. correction AMB no. 40/2022 ). You’ll find other programmes in the current course catalogue .

Important addresses

Department of Psychology , Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de/ Course Advisory service and classification and recognition of studies and qualifications, Dr. Manuel Arnold, [email protected] Applications: Applications: www.hu-berlin.de/interessierte , www.hu-berlin.de/en/studies

Links to job market : Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (https://studium.dgps.de), careers information centre , employment market reports , Hochschulteam calendar of events Version: March 2024 Back to Course catalogue

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Psychology: clinical psychology and psychotherapy full time, master of science.

Master Degree

4 semesters

Standard period of study (amount)

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Overview and admission

Admission semester.

Winter Semester only

Area of study

• Clinical Psychology
• Therapies, Miscellaneous

Psychological Diagnostics and Assessment, Applied Psychotherapy, Outpatient and inpatient practice of psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic research, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Procedural Theory of Mental Disorders

Target group

The degree course is aimed at students and graduateswith a Bachelor's degree in Psychology who want to work as a psychotherapist. Admission requirements are a bachelor's degree that meets the requirements of the Reformed Psychotherapists Act and includes a completed psychotherapy profile area.

Since the winter semester 2021/22, PHB (Berlin Psychological University) has offered the new Master's degree course, which conforms to the requirements for licensing, MSc Psychology: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy The degree course is designed in accordance with the requirements of the reform of the Psychotherapists Act and prepares students for the new licensing examination and a procedure-specific further training as a specialist psychotherapist. In small year groups and seminar groups, students at PHB receive close and personal support from professors and lecturers who are both first-class scientists and experienced psychotherapists in the clinical field and thus represent the Scientist Practitioners approach. Furthermore, diversity of procedures is one of the main priorities of PHB. Accordingly, the exchange with and between representatives of different psychotherapeutic directions is promoted. In the new clinical Master's degree course, students now have extra time and space to get to know the four scientifically recognised procedural directions, to orient themselves and thus to find out which direction suits them best. Finally, with the academic degree, students are optimally prepared for the newly designed licensing examination. Subsequently, a procedure-specific further qualification can be completed directly at the PHB in three procedure disciplines if desired.

Admission modus

open admission

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Admission requirements

Admission requirements include a bachelor's degree in psychology that meets the requirements of the current semester the Psychotherapists Act Reform and includes a psychotherapy profile area.

Lecture period

• 08.04.2024 - 19.07.2024
• 09.10.2023 - 02.02.2024

Tuition fee

935.00 EUR / Month

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Tuition fees at the PHB (Berlin Psychological University) are only incurred for the duration of the standard period of study. This especially benefits students who need more time for their studies for personal, family or professional reasons. After the standard period of study has expired, only a monthly administration fee is payable, which is currently EUR 50.

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Study programmes, bachelor psychology bsc., master psychology msc., what makes studying psychology at sfu so special.

All our psychology degree programmes are based on the same principles, objectives and values: basic training (Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes) is practice-oriented and takes place as far as possible in direct connection with existing practice and care facilities. All courses with a practising character are conducted in small groups. The individual supervision of students by professors and assistants, which is entirely geared towards personal support, is guaranteed by our open-door policy. Studying psychology prepares students for a wide range of career opportunities. This wide spectrum of career prospects is matched by a broad range of research-based and research-guided teaching, especially in the Bachelor’s programme. In order to promote a readiness for interdisciplinarity from the very beginning, teaching is also offered in subjects that directly border on psychology: sociology, political science, historical anthropology, economics, etc. In contrast to the primarily natural science-oriented study programmes at Austrian and German state universities and colleges, the curricula of our psychology study programmes are also more oriented towards social science, cultural science and the humanities.

Please note that the study programmes in psychology at SFU Berlin are offered in German.

Publications

Watzlawik, M. & Salden, S. (Hrsg.).(2022). Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology. Springer

Jensen, E.A., Wagoner, B., Pfleger, A., Herbig, L. & Watzlawik, M. (2021). Making sense of unfamiliar COVID-19 vaccines: How national origin affects vaccination willingness

Jensen, E. A., Pfleger, A., Herbig, L., Wagoner, B., Lorenz, L., & Watzlawik, M. (2021). What Drives Belief in Vaccination Conspiracy Theories in Germany?

Wieser, M. (2021). „Deutsche Seelenheilkunde“ und die Erfindung des „behandelnden Psychologen“

Wieser, M., & Malich, L. (2021). Editorial: Rückblick im Umbruch. Zur Geschichte der Psychologie und Psychotherapie in Deutschland

Wieser, M. (2021). IM-Arbeit und das Problem der „Verbrüderung“: Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Norm und Praxis der Operativen Psychologie

Bamberg, M., Demuth, C., & Watzlawik, M. (Hrsg.). (2021). The Cambridge Handbook of Identity.

Mazur, L. B. (2021). The Epistemic Imperialism of Science.

Mazur, L. B. (2021). Where the violence happened matters.

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Pursuing a Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Topics

Every year, the Foundation to Promote University Psychoanalysis grants doctoral scholarships to support the next generation of scholars and researchers. A new addition is a scholarship for doctoral candidates who are pursuing their Psychotherapy Training Program at the same time as the doctorate.  

All information on applying for the doctoral scholarships can be found in the attached document. The application deadline is 3 November 2023 . Call for Doctoral Scholarships . In 2023, the Foundation to Promote University Psychoanalysis expanded its funding options for dissertation projects. Additional scholarships will be awarded to candidates who are pursuing their psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the same time as their doctorate. The funding is intended for graduate students who, under the German transitional rules, must complete their Psychotherapy Training Program by 2032. The goal of elevating psychoanalysis to a more prominent status at the university level is long-term, even generational. It requires a new generation of scholars who can represent and further develop psychoanalysis in a scientific way. This goal was already present when the Foundation to Promote University Psychoanalysis founded the IPU in 2009. From the beginning, the IPU wanted to produce young academics by providing excellent training so that they would go on a seek further qualifications after graduating. Since 2017, the foundation has been funding dissertation projects that explore psychoanalytic issues. “Studying at the IPU is great preparation for training to become a psychotherapist, but it can also be the first step towards a doctorate,” explains Prof. Dr. Christa Rohde-Dachser, founder of the IPU. The awarding of doctoral scholarships to IPU graduates is decided by a commission comprised of two board members and one member designated by the IPU. According to the founder of the IPU, “of course, the scholarship applications must be justified at length.” Only projects that can be completed within the duration of the scholarship will be selected. As such, applicants are required to submit an exposé and academic recommendation by their doctoral supervisor.

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PhD in Psychology

Reimagining professional practice.

Degree Description

Meridian University's PhD in Psychology program offers an immersive and transformative experience, empowering you on a journey from vocation to the realization of your future profession.

Within the rising complexities of our contemporary world, the domain of psychology yearns for an inspiring transformation, a paradigm shift that liberates it from traditional confines, reigniting the profound connection between the human soul, the boundless realm of imagination, and scholarly investigation into the intricate nature of the human psyche. At Meridian University, we embrace this challenge with innovation and integration, weaving a diverse tapestry of orientations into a meta orientation known as 'Integral-Imaginal Psychology.' This holistic approach transcends conventional boundaries, inviting you to embark on a profoundly transformative journey, becoming an integral part of a new era in psychological exploration.

The carefully crafted curriculum of Meridian’s PhD in psychology program extends over 108 academic credits and blends academic rigor with personal growth and hands-on practical experience. As an integral part of our comprehensive program, you'll have the opportunity to engage in fieldwork, applying theoretical knowledge within real-world client interactions. This interweaving of theory and practice, personal and relational experiences, and the dynamic interplay of research and application makes this program so uniquely holistic. As you advance through the program, your academic journey culminates with the completion of an original research dissertation, serving as a testament to your scholarly achievement and contribution to the domain of psychology.

Meridian’s curriculum is a vibrant tapestry, woven with diverse threads, drawing from somatic psychology, spiritual psychology, ecopsychology, depth psychology, energy psychology, transpersonal psychology, humanist psychology, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. But we don't stop there; we also weave in spiritual traditions, mystical philosophy, deep ecology, cultural history, mythology, indigenous wisdom traditions, poetic imagination, and social critique. This rich blend of psychological domains and orientations lays the foundation for a transformative learning experience like no other.

Meridian’s PhD in Psychology program is highly transdisciplinary and perfect for those seeking a blend of intellectual exploration and creative expression. It is an invitation to integrate knowledge, wisdom, and personal growth into a powerful force for positive change. Meridian’s larger vision is for you to become an active agent of change and healing, fostering a profound connection between self and society.

Meridian’s integral and participatory approach to education will prepare you for Psychologist licensure educational eligibility and/or Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counseling (LPCC) educational eligibility across multiple states.

At Meridian, we place a profound emphasis on the quest for meaning, recognizing it as the cornerstone of psychological life. Whether you're immersed in qualitative research or immersed in clinical practice, your work centers around understanding and nurturing this very human pursuit.

At Meridian University, we invite you to follow your sacred purpose, to develop both conceptual understanding and the capacities to undertake participatory research that can breathe new life into personal and cultural transformation. This program is far more than just a degree; it's a transformative journey that begins with your inner calling toward becoming a catalyst for healing, transformative change, and meaning making in a rapidly evolving world that needs a new kind of integral practitioner enabled by the capabilities you will develop through Meridian’s PhD in Psychology.

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• To develop conceptual understanding and the capacities and skills to undertake participatory research that can create new meaning and serve to potentially revitalize personal and cultural transformation.
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• Students who enter with a Bachelor’s degree must complete 133 credits (1080 hours) of which 25 credits are from fieldwork (750 hours).
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• The completion of an original research Dissertation is required.
• Students have a maximum of eight (8) years from their initial date of enrollment to complete this degree.
• Doctoral students must complete 60 hours of personal exploration in a psychotherapeutic process.

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Meridian’s academic structure gives students the flexibility to navigate the University’s curricular architecture in ways that match their passions, professional goals, and other life commitments.

The structure is designed to serve a diverse student body, who live around the globe, have varied cultural and clinical visions for their careers, and are at different stages in their professional journey.

Students enroll in a degree program, can elect a concentration, and register for one or multiple courses each quarter. In addition to core courses for the specific degree program and anchor courses that represent the Transformative Learning intent of Meridian’s curriculum, students select elective courses that align with their Meridian concentration, background, and career path.

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Meridian's graduate degree programs are offered in two formats, Hybrid and Online. Each quarter, students take one or multiple seven-week online courses. This schedule provides students with time between quarters to rest, engage, and prepare.

The University's multiple format options are designed to enable students to pursue their graduate education at a flexible pace, combining asynchronous coursework via the University's custom social learning platform, live course video calls with faculty, synchronous student community engagement, and optional onsite or online Transformative Learning Labs in-person.

Students can optionally select Transformative Learning Lab dates, locations, and formats based on their learning style, personal interests, and professional aspirations, if they choose to, based on availability of offerings.

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In Meridian's online learning format, students can complete 100% of their coursework degree requirements online, via Meridian’s unique online learning platform and faculty-led learning model. Meridian’s online format is designed to be highly engaging and deeply human . Students build connections with faculty and fellow graduate students while taking advantage of the flexibility built-in to the University’s online courses model.

Online Transformative Learning Labs are also optionally available (often multiple times a year), sometimes as a 3+ hour live class, and sometimes over multiple days.

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Meridian’s hybrid learning format combines online courses with optional onsite Transformative Learning Labs which are one-week or less. By combining Meridian’s innovative online education methodologies with rich video calls and deep onsite connections, the hybrid format enables students to contribute locally and perceive globally.

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Work with the Principal Investigator and collaborators to advance our understanding of the brain and behavior mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders. In particular there is a focus on autism spectrum disorder mood disorders and sleep difficulties. Under the general supervision of the Principal Investigator assist in the acquisition and analysis of participant information including assessments and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning. Interview participants to gather information. Prepare and maintain study records. Enter data and participate in qualitative/quantitative scoring and analysis of data. Opportunities to prepare and participate in presentations and posters may be available. Assist with coordination of research activities. This research experience would be helpful for candidates interested in applying for graduate and/or medical school in the future.

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Marquette Graduate School launches Applied Psychology Data Analytics program

May 15, 2024

Applications for the program are now open and available online .

The purpose of the Applied Psychology Data Analytics program will be to combine analytical skills with a deep understanding of human behavior to drive meaningful change in the world.

“We are excited about our new graduate program offering in Applied Psychology Data Analytics,” said Dr. Scott D’Urso, acting vice provost for graduate and professional studies and dean of the Graduate School. “This unique master’s degree program will leverage the use of big data and advanced statistical techniques to give graduates a professional edge in applying their psychology degree to jobs in a wide variety of fields, including health care, business, education social media.”

This program will teach students to conduct, evaluate and communicate high-quality research using datasets to help organizations better understand challenges they confront, address important issues and promote positive social change. Students will engage in interdisciplinary coursework between the Psychology and Computer Science departments and will earn a data science certificate upon completion of the program. This program will provide hands-on experience allowing students to work with community organizations to apply psychological principles to real-world problems by using data. Community placements will take place in a student’s last year in the program.

Marquette undergraduate students can enter Applied Psychology Data Analytics Accelerated Degree Program during their junior year and earn their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in as few as five years.

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Marquette University: Marquette Graduate School launches Applied Psychology Data Analytics program

MILWAUKEE — The Marquette University Graduate School has announced it is accepting applications for a new Master of Science in Applied Psychology Data Analytics degree program. The program, housed in the Department of Psychology, will begin in fall 2025 and include an accelerated degree option for Marquette undergraduate students.

Applications for the program are now open and  available online .

The purpose of the Applied Psychology Data Analytics program will be to combine analytical skills with a deep understanding of human behavior to drive meaningful change in the world.

“We are excited about our new graduate program offering in Applied Psychology Data Analytics,” said Dr. Scott D’Urso, acting vice provost for graduate and professional studies and dean of the Graduate School. “This unique master’s degree program will leverage the use of big data and advanced statistical techniques to give graduates a professional edge in applying their psychology degree to jobs in a wide variety of fields, including health care, business, education social media.”

This program will teach students to conduct, evaluate and communicate high-quality research using datasets to help organizations better understand challenges they confront, address important issues and promote positive social change. Students will engage in interdisciplinary coursework between the Psychology and Computer Science departments and will earn a  data science certificate upon completion of the program. This program will provide hands-on experience allowing students to work with community organizations to apply psychological principles to real-world problems by using data. Community placements will take place in a student’s last year in the program.

Marquette undergraduate students can enter Applied Psychology Data Analytics  Accelerated Degree Program  during their junior year and earn their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in as few as five years.

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Novel global study using investigators as participants finds shared acoustic relationships among the world’s languages and music

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Release Date: May 15, 2024

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A University at Buffalo psychologist is part of a global research team that has identified specific acoustic relationships that distinguish speech, song and instrumental music across cultures.

The study published in the journal Science Advances , which involved experts in ethnomusicology, music psychology, linguistics and evolutionary biology, compared instrumental melodies along with songs, lyrics and speech in 55 languages. The findings provide an international perspective supporting ideas about how the world’s music and languages evolved into their current states.

“There are many ways to look at the acoustic features of singing versus speaking, but we found the same three significant features across all the cultures we examined that distinguish song from speech,” said Peter Pfordresher, PhD , a professor of psychology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, and one of the 75 contributors to a unique project that involved the researchers assuming the dual roles of investigator and participant.

The three features are:

• Singing tends to be slower than speaking across all the cultures studied.
• People tend to produce more stable pitches when singing as opposed to speaking.
• Overall, singing pitch is higher than spoken pitch.

The exact evolutionary pressures responsible for shaping human behaviors are difficult to identify, but the new paper provides insights regarding the shared, cross-cultural similarities and differences in language and music − both of which are found in highly diverse forms across every human culture.

Pfordresher says the leading theory, advanced by the paper’s senior author, Patrick Savage, PhD, senior research fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is that music evolved to promote social bonding .

“When people make music, and this is the case around the world, they tend to do so collectively. They synchronize and harmonize with each other,” says Pfordresher. “The features we found that distinguish music from speech fit well with that theory.”

Think about tempo as a mechanism to encourage music’s social aspects. Being in sync becomes more difficult as tempo increases. When the tempo slows, the rhythm becomes predictable and easier to follow. Music becomes a more social enterprise.

It’s the same with pitch stability, according to Pfordresher.

“It’s much easier to match a stable pitch with someone else, to be in sync with the collective, than is the case when a pitch is wavering,” he says.

Similarly, it’s possible that the higher pitches found in singing happen as a byproduct of songs being produced at a slower rate.

“Slower production rates require a greater volume of air in the lungs,” explains Pfordresher. “Greater air pressure in the vocal system increases pitch.”

Conversational speech, in contrast, is not synchronized. Conversations generally alternate between people.

“I would speculate that conversational speech is faster than song because people want to hold on to the stage. They don’t want to provide false cues that they’ve finished, in essence handing the conversation off to another speaker,” says Pfordresher. “Pausing in a conversation or speaking slowly often indicates that it’s another person’s turn to speak.”

The study’s novel structure, with its investigators as participants, is part of the increasingly global nature of music cognition research. Savage and Yuto Ozaki, PhD, the lead author from Keio University in Japan, recruited researchers from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and the Pacific, who spoke languages that included Yoruba, Mandarin, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Ukrainian, Russian, Balinese, Cherokee, Kannada, Spanish, Aynu, English and dozens more .

“First, we used this structure to counteract the unfortunate tradition of extractive research in cross-cultural musical studies in which researchers from the developed world collect, or extract, data from a culture in the developing world, and use the data to promote their own success,” says Pfordresher.

The second reason has more to do with the validity of the data.

“Our analyses require annotation of syllable and note onsets in songs and speech from around the world,” says Pfordresher. “No single investigator knows all of these languages. By having each investigator participate and thus check their own annotations, we add additional validity to our study.”

Each investigator-participant chose a song of national significance from their culture. Pfordresher selected “America the Beautiful.” Savage chose “Scarborough Fair.” Ozaki sang the Japanese folk song “Ōmori Jinku.”

Participants sang the song first; performed an instrumental version next on an instrument of their choice; and then recited the lyrics. They also provided an explanation for their choice as a free-form speech condition of the study. All four conditions were recorded and then segmented.

To avoid the possibility of bias creeping into the data, Pfordresher explained that not all investigators were involved in generating the study’s initial set of hypotheses. All of the authors looked at the data, but did so to make sure there were no differences between the initial group and those others.

“We do hope to follow up this study with other research that has authors from around the world sample data from within their cultures,” says Pfordresher.

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