Kelly Jakubowski

Kelly Jakubowski is Associate Professor of Music Psychology at Durham University, where she co-leads the Music and Science Lab. Specializing in empirical musicology, her research examines music-evoked memories, musical imagery, cross-cultural perception, and absolute pitch.

Key research areas:

• Mechanisms of involuntary musical imagery (earworms)
• Autobiographical memories triggered by music
• Cross-cultural rhythm cognition
• Interpersonal entrainment in performance

Funded by Leverhulme Trust and AHRC, her work employs diverse methods from diary studies to motion capture. She has published in Nature Human Behaviour and Psychological Science, with media coverage in The New York Times and BBC.