Is musical anhedonia specific to music? In 4 studies we find that musical anhedonics have blunted pleasure for synthesized sounds, and use semantic knowledge as a compensatory mechanism for affective processing

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A groundbreaking study reveals how the brain's reward system shapes our enjoyment of new music through prediction and familiarity. This research offers insight into the universal appeal of music. dlvr.it/SzqNXT

Why do we love music? Our lab’s multi-method story on learning rewards from levels of predictions in a new musical system, out today in Association for Psychological Science #musicscience #neuroscience , shared first authors Nick Kathios (@nickkathios.bsky.social) Matt sachs w/ Tia Ou, Euan Zhang journals.sagepub.com/eprint/MEP8DVB… 1/

Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab had a big week! Shout-out to Nick Kathios (@nickkathios.bsky.social) and Kelsie Lopez who submitted our manuscript with the incredible Psyche Loui validating our new scale: Music@Home-Retrospective for indexing childhood musical environments as adults! preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

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🎼so sad to be missing ICMPC17_APSCOM7 in Japan but for those going please be sure to check out our students Kelsie Lopez and Nick Kathios (@nickkathios.bsky.social) presenting some really fun developmental music collaborations with Psyche Loui! First up, how do dimensions of adversity impact music perception?

For those of you who attended our (me + Nick Kathios (@nickkathios.bsky.social)) talk this morning at ISDP or are interested in learning more about our POSDEV scale, check it out here: plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/pos-dev #ISDP2023

Love seeing a a new, more nuanced method for capturing positive experiences and excited to see the validation of Kelsie Lopez and Nick Kathios (@nickkathios.bsky.social)’s pos dev scale in younger populations!! #ISDP2023

The #NIH #NIDCD funding awarded to me ( #newPI ), my team (to be hired), and my co-investigators VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, will enable exciting new discoveries in #musicscience and its impact on health, specifically #hearing health. More about the project and acknowledgments ⬇️