Psyche Loui
Biographic Data
| ID | 3423866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Psyche Loui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Psyche |
| FAMILY NAME | Loui |
| SIGNATURE | LOUI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7664-6092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Music-induced spontaneous thought reflects individual differences in creativity
Creativity has traditionally been difficult to measure, partly because it is linked to a diverse set of mental processes that are considered stimulus-independent, like daydreaming and imagining. Music, however, provides a tractable window into these varieties of spontaneous thought. During music listening, people regularly imagine fictional scenarios that feel highly personal, but are actually prompted by features of the music. Here we show that …
Sequence Generation and Evaluation
Music is often considered an important domain for creativity. Traditional studies of musical creativity have examined musical improvisation using jazz as a model. While this approach has yielded many valuable insights about creativity's cognitive and neural mechanisms, it has limited the study sample to those with the means to engage in improvisation within one specific Western style. Here we introduce a novel tool for assessing musical creativit…
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Individual Differences in Musical Reward
Music is an important source of pleasure, yet sensitivity to the rewards of musical experiences varies greatly across individuals. The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ) is a frequently used scale to assess individuals’ sensitivity to musical reward. While the BMRQ has been translated into seven languages to date, its five-factor structure has not yet been compared across cultures. Here we compared musical reward sensitivity and its rela…
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world
Human imagination is generative and creative yet deeply rooted in culture and familiarity.Recent studies have quantified the effects of culture on stories that are imagined during music listening, but the music used in previous work was always drawn from a tradition familiar to participants from at least one of the cultures.Here we report the first study of imagined stories to music written in a musical system that is novel to participants from e…
On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories
Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar music evokes more MEAMs than music listeners have not heard before, music that is unfamiliar to the listener can also sporadically cue autobiographical memory. Here we examined whether music that sounds familiar even without previous exposure can produce …
Musical anhedonia, timbre, and the rewards of music listening
New music system reveals spectral contribution to statistical learning
Musical Enculturation in the Social Coevolution of Emotions
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community
This past summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in the United States led to public outcry and international protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and broader awareness of the effects of systemic racism. Following these events, many organizations have reflected critically on how they participate in practices that marginalize underrepresented members of their community. The Society for Musi…
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Learning and Liking an Artificial Musical System
We report an investigation of humans' musical learning ability using a novel musical system. We designed an artificial musical system based on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, a scale very different from Western music. Melodies were composed from chord progressions in the new scale by applying the rules of a finite-state grammar. After exposing participants to sets of melodies, we conducted listening tests to assess learning, including recognition tests,…
On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories
Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar music evokes more MEAMs than music listeners have not heard before, music that is unfamiliar to the listener can also sporadically cue autobiographical memory. Here we examined whether music that sounds familiar even without previous exposure can produce …
Learning and Liking an Artificial Musical System
We report an investigation of humans' musical learning ability using a novel musical system. We designed an artificial musical system based on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, a scale very different from Western music. Melodies were composed from chord progressions in the new scale by applying the rules of a finite-state grammar. After exposing participants to sets of melodies, we conducted listening tests to assess learning, including recognition tests,…
Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community
This past summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in the United States led to public outcry and international protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and broader awareness of the effects of systemic racism. Following these events, many organizations have reflected critically on how they participate in practices that marginalize underrepresented members of their community. The Society for Musi…
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
New music system reveals spectral contribution to statistical learning
Musical Enculturation in the Social Coevolution of Emotions
Musical anhedonia, timbre, and the rewards of music listening
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world
Human imagination is generative and creative yet deeply rooted in culture and familiarity.Recent studies have quantified the effects of culture on stories that are imagined during music listening, but the music used in previous work was always drawn from a tradition familiar to participants from at least one of the cultures.Here we report the first study of imagined stories to music written in a musical system that is novel to participants from e…
On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories
Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar music evokes more MEAMs than music listeners have not heard before, music that is unfamiliar to the listener can also sporadically cue autobiographical memory. Here we examined whether music that sounds familiar even without previous exposure can produce …
Music-induced spontaneous thought reflects individual differences in creativity
Creativity has traditionally been difficult to measure, partly because it is linked to a diverse set of mental processes that are considered stimulus-independent, like daydreaming and imagining. Music, however, provides a tractable window into these varieties of spontaneous thought. During music listening, people regularly imagine fictional scenarios that feel highly personal, but are actually prompted by features of the music. Here we show that …
Sequence Generation and Evaluation
Music is often considered an important domain for creativity. Traditional studies of musical creativity have examined musical improvisation using jazz as a model. While this approach has yielded many valuable insights about creativity's cognitive and neural mechanisms, it has limited the study sample to those with the means to engage in improvisation within one specific Western style. Here we introduce a novel tool for assessing musical creativit…
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Individual Differences in Musical Reward
Music is an important source of pleasure, yet sensitivity to the rewards of musical experiences varies greatly across individuals. The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ) is a frequently used scale to assess individuals’ sensitivity to musical reward. While the BMRQ has been translated into seven languages to date, its five-factor structure has not yet been compared across cultures. Here we compared musical reward sensitivity and its rela…
Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Musical (8 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 works) · Music and Audio Processing (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Communication (4 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)