Harin Lee

Doctoral researcher

International Max Planck Research School NeuroCom

Main Focus

Music Cognition, Music Information Retrieval, Cross-cultural Research, Cultural Evolution

My interests are about the cross-cultural diversity in music and the methods we can apply to quantify its characteristics. I combine datasets of music around the world with large-scale behavioural experiments to tackle questions about inter-individual and cross-cultural differences in music cognition. I'm also a visiting researcher at the Computational Auditory Perception group in Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and lead the project GlobalPOP where we investigate how popular music have evolved in different parts of the world since the 1950s. By gathering large datasets on auditory information retrieved from raw audio using machine learning (e.g., mood, chord progression, rhytm), lyrics, and other meta data, the GlobalPOP project aims to uncover how musical preferences and perceptions are shaped in a similar or dismilar way across different cultures.

Past

MSc in Music, Mind and Brain, Goldsmiths, University of London

Publications

van Rijn, P., Lee, H. (equal contribution), & Jacoby, N. (2022). Bridging the prosody GAP: Genetic Algorithm with People to efficiently sample emotional prosody. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04820

Lee, H., Hoeger, F., Schoenwiesner, M., Park, M., & Jacoby, N. (2021). Cross-cultural Mood Perception in Pop Songs and its Alignment with Mood Detection Algorithms. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 366–373. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5625680

Lee, H., Launay, J., & Stewart, L. (2020). Signals through music and dance: Perceived social bonds and formidability on collective movement. Acta Psychologica, 208, 103093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103093

Lee, H., & Müllensiefen, D. (2020). The Timbre Perception Test (TPT): A new interactive musical assessment tool to measure timbre perception ability. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02058-3

Projects

Past and on-going projects can be found on my website