Johanna Will
Research Focus
- Music in early childhood development
- Development of rhythm abilites
- Perception of consonance and dissonance
Vita
Academic Education
| 2017–2020 | Master of Science in Psychology at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen with focus on „development and disorders in childhood“, Master Thesis „ Perception of musical consonance and dissonance in 4-year-old children: Investigating discrimination ability and preference“ |
| 2014–2017 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Bachelor Thesis: „The interrelation between musical aptitude, music lessons and personality: A comparison between 9- to 10-year old children and adults” |
Career
| Since 04/2020 | PhD Student, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main |
Publications
Conference Papers & Poster Presentations
Will, J. K.. & Degé, F. (2022, September). The development of rhythm perception and rhythm production in 5- to 8-year-old children and adults [Poster session]. 38th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Würzburg, Germany.
Will, J. K.. & Degé, F. (2022, August). The development of rhythm perception and rhythm production in 5- to 8-year-old children and adults [Poster session]. Biennial Conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2022), Portland, OR, USA.
Will, J.K., Roeske, T., & Degé, F. (2021, September). Preference for consonance in preschool children. 37th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), online.
Will, J.K., Roeske, T., & Degé, F. (2021, July) Innate or acquired preference for consonance? [Talk]. 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and 11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-ESCOM 2021), online.
Will, J.K., Degé, F., Roeske, T., & Schwarzer, G. (2021, April) Consonance and dissonance Perception in preschool children [Poster session]. 2021 Virtual Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), online.
Will, J.K., Degé, F., & Schwarzer, G. (2020, September) How do 4-year-old children perceive consonance and dissonance? [Poster Session]. 36th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), online.
Projects
- Musical development in children
How do children learn to sing melodies and produce rhythms? How do they develop musical taste? How do they learn to understand and use music in various situations? Can we boost spontaneous, implicit musical learning with educational ...