This page is a list of my media appearances, speaking engagements, and recognitions.
Media coverage
Heart rate synchronization
- PNAS news – How stories and narrative move the heart – literally
- Wall Street Journal – Storytelling Makes Hearts Beat As One
- PNAS News – When listeners pay close attention to stories, their heart rates synchronize
- Science news – People synchronize heart rates while listening attentively to stories
- US News – Stories Get Listeners’ Hearts in Sync
- IFL Science – Your Heart Rate Syncs With Other Movie Watchers, Even When Not Watching Together
- Science Focus – A good story, well told, can cause listeners’ heart rates to sync up
- ZME Science – Home Health & Medicine Mind & Brain Our heart rates synchronize when closely listening to the same storie
- Cosmos Magazine – How do you get your hearts to beat together? Tell a great story
- The Hill – Heart rates sync up when listening attentively to stories
- Neuroscience News – People Synchronize Heart Rates While Listening Attentively to Stories
- Good News Network – Stories or Music Can Synchronize the Heartbeats of Everyone Listening into a Single Rhythm
- Technology Networks – Films Can Synchronize Viewers’ Heartbeats, Even If They Don’t Watch Together
Measuring attention online using eye movements
- Nuevo Periodico – Los investigadores demuestran cómo medir la atención de los estudiantes durante el aprendizaje remoto
- 7th space – CCNY researchers demonstrate how to measure student attention during remote learning
- Read IT once – CCNY scientists show how to determine trainee attention throughout remote knowing
Tech and Science post – Researchers demonstrate how to measure student attention during remote learning - Cracked resources – Researchers demonstrate how to measure student attention during remote learning
- Phys.org – Researchers demonstrate how to measure student attention during remote learning
Music synchronizes brainwaves
- Earth.com news – Music can synchronize listeners’ brainwaves
- Industry reporter – Music Directly Affects Brain Waves and Synchronizes Listeners
- The Sydney Morning Herald – Music makes your brain hum in perfect harmony with fellow listeners
- Psychology today – Fresh Music Captivates Our Minds by Synchronizing Brainwaves
- CCNY news – Music captivates listeners and synchronizes their brainwaves
Online learning
Music and Emotion
- Musik giver bedre hverdag til mennesker med demens
- Nu har COMPUTEREN følelse for MUSIKKEN
- Radio24syv – AK 24syv 11.05.2015
- Ingeniøren – DTU forsker bag matematisk model der kan finde følelserne i musikken
- Gramex.dk – følelser i musikken sat på formel
- Videnskab.dk – Matematik kan tilpasse playlisten til dit humor
- Sciencenordic.com – Mathematician will regulate your emotions with music
- Technologist.eu – Algorithm to find your favorite tracks?
- DTUavisen – Algorithm to find your favorite tracks?
Talks and posters
2024
- Jens Madsen, “Brain-body interaction during auditory narratives drives autonomic function”, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Toronto, April 2024 (talk + poster)
2023
- Jens Madsen, “Brain-body interaction during natural story listening”. CogHEAR, University of Maryland, Maryland, June 2023 (talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Brain-body interaction during natural story listening”. Auditory SPLASH Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2023 (talk)
2022
- Jens Madsen, Maximilian Nentwich, Lucas C. Parra, “How to measure and improve attention in remote video-based learning”, International Mind, Brain and Education Society Conference 2022, Montreal, Canada, July 2022. (Poster – received best poster award)
- Jens Madsen, “Cognitive Processing of a Common Stimulus Synchronizes Hearts, Brains and Eyes”, The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 29th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2022 (talk and poster)
- Jens Madsen, “Storytelling makes hearts (and brains) beat as one”, 2022 joint meeting of Neuroergonomics and NYC Neuromodulation Conferences, New York, USA, July 2022 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen and Lucas C. Parra, “Synchronization of pupil size during auditory narratives predicts memory”, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum, Paris, France, July 2022 (poster)
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized behavior predicts students test scores in online education”, Technical University of Denmark, Cognitive Systems, Denmark, June 2022 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Cognitive processing of a common stimulus synchronizes eyes, brains and hearts”, SUNY downstate, September 2022 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized brain activity during music listening”, Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME) workshop “Learning music: structure and sequences”, New York University, October 2022 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Brain-body interaction during natural story listening”, The Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation (C-BIN), Nathan Kline Institute, New York, November 2022 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized behavior predicts students test scores in online education”, Educational Neuroscience Initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, San Francisco, December 2022 (invited talk)
2021
- Jens Madsen and Lucas C. Parra, “Characterizing Physiological Synchrony of the Eyes, Mind and Heart”, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Global Connectome 2021, online conference, January 2021 (online poster)
- Jens Madsen, “Inter-subject synchronization during video presentation”, Nathan Kline Institute, Work-in-Progress seminar series, online, January 2021 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education”, STEM teachers seminar, Queen College of New York, online, March 2021 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Using webcam eye tracking in real life”, Gorilla Experiment Builder, online panel discussion, March 2021 (invited panelist)
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education”, Graduate center of City University of New York, online talk, April 2021 (invited talk)
2020
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education”, Biomedical Engineering seminar at City College of New York, August 2020 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Inter-subject correlation of eye movements predicts test scores in online video education”, Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, online, May 2020. (online poster)
- Jens Madsen, “Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education”, Human Cortical Physiology and Neurorehabilitation Section, NINDS, NIH, online, August 2020 (invited talk)
2019
- Jens Madsen, Samantha S. Cohen, Sara Uldry Julio, Pawel Gucik, Richard Steinberg, Lucas C. Parra, “Students watching educational videos with high inter-subject correlation obtain high test scores”, SfN Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, October 2019. (poster)
- Jens Madsen, “Modeling cognitive aspects of music”, Department of Psychology”, Columbia University, March 2019 (invited talk)
- Jens Madsen, “Fra musik og følelser til lyd og sundhed”, Lyd & Sundhed, The Sound of Music i Sundhedsvæsenet, Århus, Denmark 2018 (invited talk)
2018 and before
- Jens Madsen, Jens B. Nielsen, Bjørn S. Jensen, and Jan Larsen, “Modeling expressed emotions in music using pairwise comparisons.” in 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR) Music and Emotions, 2012 (oral presentation)
- Jens Madsen, Bjørn S. Jensen, Jan Larsen and Jens B. Nielsen, “Towards Predicting Expressed Emotion in Music from Pairwise Comparisons.” 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) Illusions, 2012. (oral presentation)
- Jens Madsen, Bjørn S. Jensen, and Jan Larsen, “Modeling Temporal Structure in Music for Emotion Prediction using Pairwise Comparisons.” in the 15th International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2014 (poster)
- Jens Madsen, “Modeling the Expressed Emotions in Music”, Pitch competition, London, United Kingdom 2015 (pitch)
- Jens Madsen, Bjørn S. Jensen, and Jan Larsen, “Learning Combinations of Multiple Feature Representations for Music Emotion Prediction.” in the ACM Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia workshop (ASM) an ACM MM’15 workshop, 2015. (oral presentation)
- Jens Madsen, “Designing (cognitive) music services”, Danish sound day pitch competition, May 2015. (winner of competition)