Agata Zelechowska

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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A

Academic interests

Music cognition, Psychoacoustics, Neuroscience, Body movement, Rhythm perception, Bodily rhythms, Menstrual cycle, Animal cognition

Current project

My PhD project was part of Human Bodily Micromotion in Music Perception and Interaction research project, which aimed at studying subtle body motion during music listening, mainly with the use of motion capture technology. I explored several topics related to psychoacoustics and interpersonal differences in music perception. My goal was to provide new data and perspectives that could help us better understand who, why and when have an urge to move their bodies to music, and also to what extent such movement can be controlled. I was particularly interested in the mechanism of entrainment to musical rhythm and its evolutionary origins.

Background

I hold a master's degree in psychology from the University of Warsaw, with specialization in Social Experimental Psychology. The topic of my master thesis was "The effects of musical training in early childhood on brain structure and cognitive performance". From 2013 to 2016 I was working in a research team based at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Laboratory of Psychophysiology and Laboratory of Brain Imaging), where we were examining neural correlates of developmental dyslexia and general linguistic development in 6-11 year old children. I also hold a professional piano diploma from a state music school in my hometown in Poland, which I attended for 11 years. Additionally, I have spent some time studying sound engineering, in order to couple my knowledge of music performance and psychology with a more technical understanding of sound as a physical phenomenon.

Outside of the academia I am interested in art, nature and folk music, particularly in the archaic polyphony and other traditional singing forms from the Slavic regions of Europe.

PhD Dissertation

On the 10th of December 2020 I defended my doctoral dissertation titled Irresistible Movement: The Role of Musical Sound, Individual Differences and Listening Context in Movement Responses to Music. The dissertation can be downloaded here. It is also possible to watch my trial lecture and the presentation of my dissertation that I gave during the public defence.

Tags: Audio Perception, Micromotion, Music and Movement, Music and nature, Music Cognition, Music Psychology, Psychoacoustics, Rhythm and Groove

Publications

  • Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Laeng, Bruno; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). Who Moves to Music? Empathic Concern Predicts Spontaneous Movement Responses to Rhythm and Music. Music & Science. ISSN 2059-2043. 3. doi: 10.1177/2059204320974216. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). Standstill to the ‘beat’: Differences in involuntary movement responses to simple and complex rhythms, AM '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 978-1-4503-7563-4. p. 107–113. doi: 10.1145/3411109.3411139. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zelechowska, Agata (2020). Poruszeni muzyką. Badania nad ruchem ciała w kontekście percepcji muzyki. In Kaleńska-Rodzaj, Julia & Chełkowska-Zacharewicz, Maria (Ed.), Psychologia Muzyki. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. ISSN 9788301213374. p. 87–104.
  • Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez-Sanchez, Victor E.; Laeng, Bruno & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). Headphones or Speakers? An Exploratory Study of Their Effects on Spontaneous Body Movement to Rhythmic Music. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11(698). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00698. Full text in Research Archive
  • Luniewska, Magdalena; Chyl, Katarzyna; Debska, Agnieszka; Banaszkiewicz, Anna; Zelechowska, Agata & Marchewka, Artur [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). Children With Dyslexia and Familial Risk for Dyslexia Present Atypical Development of the Neuronal Phonological Network. Frontiers in Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-4548. 13, p. 1–19. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01287. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2019). Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill. Journal of Motor Behavior. ISSN 0022-2895. doi: 10.1080/00222895.2019.1689909. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Muscle activity response of the audience during an experimental music performance. In Cunningham, Stuart (Eds.), Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2018 on Sound in Immersion and Emotion. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 978-1-4503-5373-1. doi: 10.1145/3243274.3243278. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Correspondences Between Music and Involuntary Human Micromotion During Standstill. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01382. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Martin, Charles Patrick; Zelechowska, Agata; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria Kristine Å & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Bela-based augmented acoustic guitars for sonic microinteraction. In Dahl, Luke; Bowman, Doug & Martin, Tom (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference On New Interfaces For Musical Expression. Virginia Tech. ISSN 2220-4792. p. 324–327. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Zelechowska, Agata & Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo (2017). The Musical Influence on People's Micromotion when Standing Still in Groups. In Lokki, Tapio; Pätynen, Jukka & Välimäki, Vesa (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2017. Aalto University. ISSN 978-952-60-3729-5. p. 195–200. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik (2017). Exploring the Myo controller for sonic microinteraction. In Erkut, Cumhur (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Aalborg University Copenhagen. ISSN 2220-4792. p. 442–445. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Zelechowska, Agata (2021). Moved by music. Charaktery.
  • Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez, Victor & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2021). Championship of Standstill: A paradigm to study involuntary responses to music with the use of motion capture.
  • Upham, Finn; Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez, Victor & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2021). Quiet Breathing to Heard Music.
  • Zelechowska, Agata & Pileberg, Silje (2021). Some music makes it impossible to stand still.
  • Zelechowska, Agata & Pileberg, Silje (2021). Denne musikken gjør at du ikke klarer å stå i ro.
  • Zelechowska, Agata & Pileberg, Silje (2021). Some music makes it impossible to stand still.
  • Zelechowska, Agata & Pileberg, Silje (2021). Some music makes it impossible to stand still.
  • Zelechowska, Agata (2020). Irresistible Movement: The Role of Musical Sound, Individual Differences and Listening Context in Movement Responses to Music.
  • Zelechowska, Agata (2020). What is musical entrainment?
  • Gonzalez, Victor; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). MICRO Motion capture data from groups of participants standing still to auditory stimuli (2015).
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). MICRO Motion capture data from groups of participants standing still to auditory stimuli (2012).
  • Malec, Monika & Zelechowska, Agata (2020). Pocztówka dźwiękowa. [Radio]. Polskie Radio Lublin.
  • Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2020). Standstill to the ‘beat’: Differences in involuntary movement responses to simple and complex rhythms.
  • Zelechowska, Agata & Lokna, Maria (2019). Vi er konstant absorbert i en annen verden.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Erdem, Cagri; Zelechowska, Agata; Lan, Qichao; Fuhrer, Julian Peter & Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo (2019). Entraining Guitars.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Martin, Charles Patrick; Erdem, Cagri; Lan, Qichao; Fuhrer, Julian Peter & Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). Self-playing Guitars.
  • Martin, Charles Patrick; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata; Erdem, Cagri & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Stillness under Tension.
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Muscle activity response of the audience during an experimental music performance.
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Martin, Charles Patrick; Zelechowska, Agata; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). Bela-based augmented acoustic guitars for sonic microinteraction.
  • Zelechowska, Agata; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2018). How music moves us? Studying human body micromotion in music perception.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2018). Sverm-Pluck.
  • Jack, Robert; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Zelechowska, Agata & Martin, Charles Patrick [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). Sverm-Resonans: interactive installation with resonating guitars and Bela. [Internet]. Bela blog.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Martin, Charles Patrick; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Johnson, Victoria (2017). Sverm-Resonans.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Martin, Charles Patrick (2017). Sverm-resonans.
  • Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2017). The influence of music in people's standstill.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Martin, Charles Patrick (2017). Sverm-Resonans.
  • Martin, Charles Patrick; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Kelkar, Tejaswinee; Zelechowska, Agata; Berggren, Stig Johan & Hopgood, Christina [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2017). Ensemble Metatone - Improvised Touchscreen Performance.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Martin, Charles Patrick (2017). Sverm-Resonans.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Martin, Charles Patrick (2017). Sverm-Puls.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik; Johnson, Victoria; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Martin, Charles Patrick (2017). Sverm-Resonans.
  • Zelechowska, Agata (2017). Combining eye-tracking and motion capture to study human bodily micromotion in music perception.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Zelechowska, Agata & Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo (2017). The musical influence on people’s micromotion when standing still in groups.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Gonzalez Sanchez, Victor Evaristo; Zelechowska, Agata & Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik (2017). Exploring the Myo controller for sonic microinteraction.
  • Zelechowska, Agata (2020). Irresistible Movement: The Role of Musical Sound, Individual Differences and Listening Context in Movement Responses to Music. 07 Gruppen.
  • Zelechowska, Agata; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Laeng, Bruno & Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina (2020). Irresistible Movement: The Role of Musical Sound, Individual Differences and Listening Context in Movement Responses to Music. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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