Manuel Anglada Tort

Manuel Anglada Tort is a Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a visiting researcher in the Computational Auditory Perception Group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. His research bridges micro and macro-level cultural dynamics of music, focusing on cognitive processes, cultural transmission, and big data analysis.

His work explores how individual cognition shapes population-level musical systems through large-scale experiments and social network modeling. He also utilizes global music discovery data from Shazam to investigate societal changes and cultural trends.

Manuel actively contributes to advancing methodologies in cultural evolution and cognitive science, emphasizing scalability and diversity in research approaches.