Elizabeth Margulis (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Elizabeth Margulis

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What do you see when you listen to music? Music isn’t a truly universal language, it turns out. A team of researchers led by Elizabeth Margulis, director of Princeton’s Music Cognition Lab, found that culture and background influence what we visualize when we listen to instrumental music we’ve never heard before.

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David Kelly Crow

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