Camila Bruder
Main research areas
- Aesthetic preferences
- Music cognition/perception
- Singing performance
Vita
Education
| 2014–2018 | Master of Arts in Systematic Musicology at Universität Hamburg |
| 2009–2013 | Bachelor’s degree in Music - Singing at the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP, Brazil) |
| 2005–2007 | Master of Sciences - Human Physiology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil) |
| 2000–2004 | Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil) |
Career
| Since 2018 | Ph.D student, Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
| 2009–2016 | freelance singer and voice teacher |
| 2002–2003 | Laboratory technician and research assistant in Cellular Biology laboratory. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology - Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP, Brazil) |
Publications
Publications
Bruder, C., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2025). CoVox: A dataset of contrasting vocalizations. Behavior Research Methods, 57: 142. doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02664-9.
Bruder, C., Frieler, K., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2024). Appreciation of singing and speaking voices is highly idiosyncratic. Royal Society Open Science, 11: 241623. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241623
Bruder, C., Frieler, K, & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2024, May 08-10). Measuring shared taste across contrasting types of vocalizations [Conference presentation]. Biennial Conference of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Palma, Spain.
Bruder, C. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2024, May 02-04). The unique vocal quality of lullabies voices [Conference presentation]. Interdisziplinäre Tagung Schlafmusik / Sleep Music, Regensburg, Germany
Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J., Benetos, E., Proutskova, P., et al. (2024). Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech: A registered report. Science Advances,10(20): eadm9797. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adm9797.
Bruder, C., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2023). Perceptual (but not acoustic) features predict singing voice preferences [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qvp8t
Bruder, C., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2023). Classical singers are also proficient in non-classical singing. Frontiers in Psychology,14: 1215370. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1215370.
Bruder, C. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2023, September 06-09). Attractiveness and social appeal of synthetic voices [Conference presentation]. 23rd. Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Porto, Portugal.
Bruder, C. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2023, March 26-29). What grounds singing voice preferences? [Conference presentation]. 65. TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen; Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Trier, Germany.
Bruder, C., Poeppel, D. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2022, August). The role of typicality in singing voice preferences [Paper presentation]. 14th. Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC), Tallinn, Estonia.
Bruder, C. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2022, September). Acoustic characteristics of contrasting singing styles [Poster session]. 38. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, Würzburg, Germany.
Bruder, C., Jacoby, N., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2021, September). Predicting aesthetic ratings from the acoustics of sung melodies [Paper presentation]. 26th. Conference of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, online.
Bruder, C., Jacoby, N., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2021, July). Predicting aesthetic ratings from the acoustics of sung melodies [Paper presentation]. 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and 11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-ESCOM2021), online.
Bruder, C., Jacoby, N., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2021, November). What makes a singer your favorite one? [Paper presentation]. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus21), online/Aarhus, Denmark.
Bruder, C. & Wölner, C. (2019). Subvocalization in singers: Laryngoscopy and surface EMG effects when imagining and listening to song and text. Psychology of Music. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0305735619883681
Bruder, C. & Wöllner, C. (2018, September). Subvocalization in singers: a study using EMG, laryngoscopy and expert ratings. Poster session presented in: 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, Gießen, Germany.
Bruder, C. & Ribeiro-do-Valle, L. E. (2009). Influence of separate and mixed experimental designs on reaction times to two simple visual stimuli. Psychology & Neuroscience, 2(1), 3-9.
Awards & Grants
Awards & Grants
| 2017/ 2018 | Degree completion grant from Universität Hamburg |
| 2018 | Forumpreis für hervorragende Hausarbeit, awarded by the Forum Musikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg, for the essay “Subvokalisation: eine laryngoskopische und elektromyographische Pilotstudie“ |
| 2013 | Music Department’s Award of Excellence for the Bachelor Thesis in Music: “Analysis and performance of the Lied ‘Der Hirt auf dem Felsen’, by Franz Schubert” |
| 2006–2007 | Research scholarship, Coordination for Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES, Brazil) |
Projects
- Sounds and meanings
Whether it is music, speech, screams, or environmental sounds, we categorize acoustic information that unfolds over time to make sense of sounds. ...
- Music-language categories
Although we quickly identify sounds as music or speech, how we form such abstract categories is not so clear. Also, continuous streams of sounds are parsed in units of different length yet to be defined. By examining ambiguous material, such as ...
- Singing voice preferences
As suggested by the many singing contests and music programs in the media, the singing voice attracts ample attention. Recent studies showed that Western lay and expert listeners share similar definitions of what is “correct” when listening to ...