Elizabeth Margulis
Professor of music cognition at Princeton University and author of Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams, known for research on musical imagery, groove, and cross-cultural musical imagination.
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Apr 16, 2026 • 1h 22min
#112 - No. 1 Music Neuroscientist: How Music Hijacks Our Collective Unconscious, Emotion and Imagination
Dr. Elizabeth Margulis, Princeton music cognition professor and author, studies musical daydreams and groove. She describes why strangers imagine the same vivid stories to the same music. She contrasts US and rural China responses, explains speech-to-song shifts, explores why music makes us move, and links music to psychedelics, therapy, and consciousness.
