Imre Lahdelma

Imre Lahdelma is a post-doctoral researcher at Durham University, specializing in music psychology and cross-cultural perception studies. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research examines how cultural backgrounds influence musical perception, particularly regarding consonance, dissonance, and emotional responses to harmonic structures.

His research bridges multiple disciplines:

• Experimental investigation of chord perception
• Cross-cultural comparisons of musical preferences
• Psychoacoustic analysis of auditory roughness
• Emotional responses to harmonic structures

Lahdelma's extensive publication record focuses on understanding universal versus culture-specific aspects of music perception. Recent work explores how cultural familiarity affects consonance preferences and emotional responses to chords across different populations.

He has received the prestigious Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellowship and conducted research at institutions including Durham University, University of Washington, and the UW Laboratory for Music Cognition, Culture & Learning.