The MPaC Lab aims to understand how listeners process various aspects of music. Some of our research topics include:

• Influence of musical expertise and age on music perception and cognition
• Perception of global vs. finer details of melodies
• Memory for melodies
• Memory for rhythm
• Memory for timbre
• Feature-binding in encoding of novel music
• Perception of tonality and its time course
• Cross-cultural aspects of music perception and cognition
• Stylistic differences in music perception using multidimensional statistical tools (e.g., MuDICA, DiSTATIS)
• ERPs in perception of music
• Perception of emotion in music
• fMRI of music perception and cognition