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Instru(mental)
What if you didn’t have to be a scientist or a musician to use music in your everyday life? Every episode of Instru(mental) explores music psychology research and how it shapes your brain, your body, and your life. This podcast isn’t just about what music sounds like, it’s about what music does to you. Hosted by board-certified music therapist, Brea Murakami.
Podcasting since 2018 • 20 episodes
Instru(mental)
Latest Episodes
#19 - Split Second Music Judgments
What can we deduce from hearing less than 1 second of music? Learn how accurately listeners can identify music genres from excerpts that are less than a quarter of a second long, and see how your brain does in a mini version of the experimental...
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Episode 19
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24:09
#18 - Music as Moral Evidence
Can music change our moral judgments of others? In this episode, we explore how knowing about someone's, or something's, musicality shifts our moral decision-making. This episode's research study includes four related experiments involving musi...
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Episode 18
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28:39
Instru(mental) Trailer
What if you didn’t have to be a scientist, or a musician, to use music in your everyday life? Hi there, I’m Brea, a board-certified music therapist and this is Instru(mental) – a podcast that explores the science of music and how it shapes your...
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#17 - The Best Wedding Music
What's the best music for a wedding? In this episode, I explain how I lightly manipulated my guests with music to make my wedding as fun, engaging, and memorable as possible. We'll cover research about the music and social bonding hypo...
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Episode 17
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33:37
#16 - Music as a Social Surrogate
How can music serve as a social surrogate when we can't directly interact with others? This episode explores how listening to music can serve as a social proxy and provides ideas for how to strengthen your social relationships in the age of soc...
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Episode 16
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17:42
