Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind and The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction, and the forthcoming Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams (Liveright, 2026) directs the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University. Her research pursues questions that lie at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences. She was also trained as a pianist.
Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams
A revelatory work—grounded in the author’s own pathbreaking research—that explores the capacity for meaning-making and connection through “musical daydreams.”
Forthcoming in May, 2026
