Tim Byron

@drtimbyron

Lecturer in the School of Psychology at UoW interested in psychology and music.

Sydney, Australia Joined August 2009

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Tim Byron @drtimbyron Jan 13, 2025

I have a paper now out in Music Perception which separated the tracks (drums, vox etc) in pop song recordings, and then asked participants to rate how attention-grabbing and memorable particular phrases were (1). dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.202…

online.ucpress.edu Popular Music Excerpts Are Rated As More Memorable And Salient If They Involve Vocals, Compound... Hooks are a widely recognized feature of popular music. Despite this, few empirical studies have investigated what makes musical material likely to be a hook. Definitions of hooks consistently refer...

Tim Byron @drtimbyron Nov 21, 2024

Very nice to get a print copy of the Cambridge Companion to Music In Australia in which Jadey and I have a chapter, edited by @AmandaHarrisSyd and @ClintBracknell

Tim Byron @drtimbyron Aug 12, 2024

I’m going to be chatting on ABC Illawarra at 3:20pm today with @doctormcdougall as part of Science Week - talking (you guessed it) about music, psychology and science!

Tim Byron @drtimbyron May 25, 2024

Jadey O'Regan and I have a chapter in this about the Australian singles charts - cover looks very nice!

Amanda Harris @AmandaHarrisSyd May 24, 2024

Cover reveal for the Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia that @ClintBracknell and I have edited. Featuring Kaylene Whiskey's artwork 'Dolly visits Indulkana'. The book is out in August! cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

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Tim Byron @drtimbyron May 22, 2024

I am in The Conversation talking about how spoken samples can become earworms (thank you to @sunanda_creagh for editing my very quick thoughts into something): theconversation.com/im-looking-for…

theconversation.com ‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm When you sample speech and put it on a loop, we stop paying attention to the meaning of the words. We start paying attention to the sound, the rhythm and the melody. We hear speech as music.