I am super excited about this insightful spotlight paper by Erin Hannon (Erin Hannon) & Joel Snyder in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! They are reviewing our work in Nature Human Behaviour with Josh McDermott Computational Auditory Perception Group and 34 other collaborators ( x.com/norijacoby/sta…).

I am really excited about this new joint work with HARIN, that study cultural diversity in big cities with highly granular music data.

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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I am a very excited to share another joint project with
(Computational Auditory Perception Group), Josh Peterson, and Tom Griffiths (@cocosci_lab) spearheaded by Raja Marjieh.
The paper was selected as the Editor’s Choice article for the March issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General!!

Get into the groove!🎶😉 Study of people in 15 countries suggests the human #brain has a universal tendency to lean towards simple rhythms, but that biases can vary widely across different cultures🎶shorturl.at/nrEP5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Computational Auditory Perception Group Nori Jacoby Josh McDermott

Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that properties of rhythm representations are common across cultures, while variation from place to place related to local musical traditions exists. go.nature.com/43bDaut

Do you have a sense for rhythm? Most people enthusiastically state that they do not. Weird or WEIRD? See youtu.be/hnBZIERB8dM

Ed Large Erin Hannon Nori Jacoby Elizabeth Margulis Daniel Levitin Pat Savage sam @mehr.nz Reyna L Gordon Steven Pinker Scientific American et al.

A study of people in 15 countries reveals that the human brain favors rhythms with simple integer ratios, but biases can vary substantially across societies. Josh McDermott Nori Jacoby MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences

mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/03/04/exp…

Some interesting thoughts by Pat Savage about out recent paper (together with Josh McDermott Nori Jacoby Jessica Grahn Eduardo A. Undurraga Elizabeth Margulis Shinya Fujii Pat Savage Kelly Jakubowski Andre Holzapfel Suvarna Alladi Bronwyn Tarr Manuel Anglada-Tort Peter Harrison Dr. Malinda J. McPherson)

👏 Congrats to this fantastic collab-work with 34 co-authors, incl. Nori Jacoby, Josh McDermott, and many more. The team researched #musicalperception by examining preferred #beat patterns across various nations and #cultural backgrounds. Out now in Nature Human Behaviour!

Nice news story about our recent paper Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Max Planck Society Computational Auditory Perception Group

Here are some of my thoughts on why Nori Jacoby et al.'s paper is so important and impressive (from this preprint from my forthcoming book: osf.io/preprints/psya…)

Nice news item about our mega-collaboration with Computational Auditory Perception Group,Jessica Grahn,Dan Cameron,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Elizabeth Margulis,Shinya Fujii,Pat Savage,Kelly Jakubowski,Andre Holzapfel,Rohit.M.A,Suvarna Alladi,Bronwyn Tarr,Manuel Anglada-Tort,Peter Harrison,Dr. Malinda J. McPherson,Josh McDermott