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Joshua S. Bamford

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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford

Originally from Perth, Western Australia, I grew up in a household full of birds, fish, reptiles, two dogs, and my biologist parents. My first job was as a chorus singer with the West Australian Opera company, but I've always been fascinated by the social effects of music. This interest led me to complete a doctorate at the University of Oxford where I studied the cognitive processes underlying the synchrony-bonding effect. In my research, I like to combine multidisciplinary perspectives from psychology, biology and anthropology, to understand why people make music together.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and also a research affiliate with the Social Body Lab at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (University of Oxford, UK).

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Postdoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä
  • 2023–present
    Postdoctoral affiliate, University of Oxford
  • 2020–2021
    Visiting researcher, University of Western Australia
  • 2016–2017
    Research assistant, University of Vienna

Education

  • 2023 
    University of Oxford, DPhil in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
  • 2017 
    University of Jyväskylä, MA in Music, Mind and Technology
  • 2014 
    University of Western Australia, BSc/BMus(Hons) in Psychology and Musicology

Publications

  • 2024
    Love songs and serenades: a theoretical review of music and romantic relationships, Frontiers in Psychology
  • 2023
    Turning heads on the dance floor: synchrony and social interaction using a silent disco paradigm, Music & Science
  • 2023
    The synchrony-prosociality link cannot be explained away as expectancy effect: response to Atwood et al. (2022), Open Mind
  • 2021
    Cochlear SGN neurons elevate pain thresholds in response to music, Scientific Reports
  • 2021
    A crowd-sourced database of coronamusic: documenting online making and sharing of music during the COVID-19 pandemic, Frontiers in Psychology
  • 2019
    Trait empathy associated with agreeableness and rhythmic entrainment in a spontaneous movement to music task: preliminary exploratory investigations, Musicae Scientiae

Professional Memberships

  • European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM)
  • Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS)