PD Dr. habil. Julia Merrill
Research Focus
- music and speech cognition and emotion
- song and speech perception
- vocal expression, voice aesthetics
Vita
Academic Education
| 07/2018 | Habilitation in Musicology, University of Kassel |
| 04/2013 | PhD (summa cum laude) in Cognitive Science, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 05/2010 | Diploma in Speech Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| 10/2004 | Diploma in Church Music, Hochschule für Kirchenmusik, Heidelberg, Germany |
Career
10/2015– 03/2016 | Substitute/Guest Professor (W3), Department of Speech Science and Phonetics, University of Halle, Germany |
| Since 2014 | Senior Research Fellow, Music Department, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Systematic Musicology, Institute of Music, University of Kassel, Germany |
| 2013–2014 | Lecturer for Speech Science and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Speech Science and Phonetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| 2008–2013 | PhD student and researcher, Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
Publications
Merrill, J., & Ackermann, T. (2020). “Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music (Advance online publication).Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi:10.1037/aca0000376.
Merrill, J., Omigie, D., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2020). Locus of emotion influences psychophysiological reactions to music. Plos Onse, 15 (8), e0237641. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237641
Merrill, J. (2019): Stimmen – schön schrecklich oder schrecklich schön? Beschreibung, Bewertung und Wirkung des vokalen Ausdrucks in der Musik. Kassel University Press, Kassel. https://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/katalog/abstract.php?978-3-7376-5087-8
Merrill, J. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2017). Vocal Features of Song and Speech. Insights from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. In Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1-11. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01108/full
Merrill, J. (2017). Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire Revisited. Acceptance of Vocal Expression. Acta Musicologica, 89(1), 95–117.
Merrill, J., Bangert, M., Sammler, D., Friederici, A. D. (2016):Classifying Song and Speech – Effects of Focal Temporal Lobe Lesions and Musical Disorder. In Neurocase. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2016.1237660
Merrill, J. (2016). Die Sprechstimme in der Musik – Komposition, Notation, Transkription. Systematische Musikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-12494-6
Hemming, J., Merrill, J. (2015). On the distinction of musical hallucinations, musical hallucinosis and involuntary musical imagery. In Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000112
Merrill, J. (2015). Musik und Sprache im Gehirn und in der Therapie. In Sprechen. Zeitschrift für Sprechwissenschaft, Sprechpädagogik, Sprechtherapie, Sprechkunst 60, 39-51.
Bose, I., Hirschfeld, U., Neuber, B., Stock, E. (2013, 2016; unter Mitarbeit). Einführung in die Sprechwissenschaft. Phonetik, Rhetorik, Sprechkunst. Tübingen: Narr-Verlag.
Merrill, J. (2013). Song and speech perception: Evidence from fMRI, lesion studies and musical disorder. PhD Thesis, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (MPI Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 148).http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/faces/viewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=escidoc:1739211:4
Merrill, J., Sammler, D., Bangert, M., Goldhahn, D., Lohmann, G., Turner, R., Friederici, A.D. (2012). Perception of words and pitch patterns in song and speech. In Frontiers in Psychology 3(76), 1-13. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00076/full
Merrill, J. (2012). Song and Speech Perception – Evidence from fMRI, Lesion Studies and Musical Disorder. In Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain 22(2), 190.
Awards & Grants
Projects
- On the Difference Between Perceived and Felt Emotions in Music
In this project we study the physiological and neuronal correlates of perceived musical expression and the feelings sparked by music listening. The assumption that the physiological and affective phenomena are congruent has been a cornerstone of ...
- Concert Research
Especially in cuturally Western regions of the world, the concert is a very important and influential social context of music listening. It is closely intertwined with the development of instrumental music and the notion of musical autonomy and ...
- Disliked Music
In Western cultures, musical taste, understood as a particular attitude towards music, is an important aspect of one’s self-concept and self-perception. As an affective and expressive medium, music not only serves to satisfy emotional and social ...