Is aversion to rough sounds inherent? We tested this with Lithuanian Sutartinė singers on their preferred “clashing major 2nd interval” and found that they do prefer these but still experience these as negative automatically. PLOS ONE #musicscience IOA
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Neural encoding of musical expectations in a non-human primate 🎶🐒

Now out in Current Biology!
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with Giacomo Novembre Nate Zuk Félix Bigand @AndreaRavignani Alexandra Battaglia Mayer F.Arnese E.Quarta S.Grasso

#neuroscience #musicscience #Macaque #brain
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¿Es la predicción un mecanismo cognitivo mediante el cual los nuevos sonidos se vuelven gratificantes?
#musicscience

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🥁🪇Integrating theory and models of musical group interaction #MusicScience
📨 Letter in Trends in Cognitive Sciences outlines a ‘telescopically tiered’ research strategy for studying musical ensemble performance

Until 9 Nov: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hnu24sIRvPM…
Then here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

Did you ever have a melody stuck in your head?

Then you may be interested in our new #musicscience work.

We used decoding techniques to investigate how the brain represents held and manipulated musical thoughts:

doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Check it out! Feedback is welcome.

What an incredible line-up of speakers at this upcoming, #FREE , #public , #online , #musicscience event from NIH:

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Really looking forward to talks from some current colleagues, past mentors, and people I'm happy to call friends!

Funded PhD studentship in music and autobiographical and collective memories with me Keele Psychology -open to psych grads only, sorry- closes 4 Dec. #musicscience And my colleagues have some cool projects too! findaphd.com/phds/programme…

So honored and excited to talk about #musicscience as a keynote speaker at #IAEA2024 !

Lullabies have similar characteristics around the world; what about other kinds of songs? New research finds that cross-cultural recognition is high for lullabies, dance songs, and healing songs - but love songs proved to be more diverse. #musicscience news.yale.edu/2023/09/07/whe…

Do musical anhedonics still feel the groove? Our new #musicscience w/ Peter Benson Nick Kathios (@nickkathios.bsky.social) out this week just in time for Peter’s ugrad graduation. Cool drum breaks, even cooler modeling journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Looking forward to this workshop on “Music as Medicine” from NIH Nat'l Endow f/t Arts and The Kennedy Center ! Presentations and discussions of the latest #musicscience plus musical presentations!

Glad to announce that Cognitive Science has published our study on dyadic dance coupling! The paper investigates the relationship between visual social perception and kinematic motor coupling. 🕺💃 #musicscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Our review of the neuroscience of dance is out! Over 3 years in the making, we summarise current findings, and propose a conceptual framework for dance research 💃🕺🎶🧠
Peter Keller Hedonia Research Peter Vuust Center for Music in the Brain #musicscience #dancescience
doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…

Exciting #musicscience days at Università di Pavia !
A huge pleasure to welcome Robert Zatorre zatorrelab & Virginia Penhune for great talks and discussions about ongoing research and future neuroscience of music projects 🎶🧠

The red gown and hat 🎩 make it official! 👩‍🎓 Dr Annaliese Micallef Grimaud is here for all your Music Psychology needs 🌟🌟🌟

#PhD one #PhD #graduation #musicpsychology #musicscience Durham University MusicScienceDurham PhD Voice - Independently Run #durham

I'm delighted to share that our lab has contributed to a groundbreaking anthology that explores the profound effects of music and art on health and the human experience! 'Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness' edited by Renée Fleming. #musicscience

How an NEC Violin Student Used Cutting-Edge Neuroscience to Understand the Unspoken Connection Between Performer and Audience | this ⁦New England Conservatory⁩ ⁦Northeastern U.⁩ #musicscience just got presented at ⁦CNS 2025 Annual Meeting⁩ necmusic.edu/news/how-nec-v…

🎶 New paper in Biology Letters
'Sex-related communicative functions of voice spectral energy in human chorusing'
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…
#MusicScience

With Giacomo Novembre Jennifer Lee
Rasmus König & the St Thomas Choir of Leipzig

🎤How are musical melodies shaped through transmission across people? We systematically study the evolution of sung melodies by developing a technology to analyse online recordings on the fly. 12 experiments and a whopping ~2,000 participants! #musicscience

hello? is anyone still on here? if so, check out a fun project I did with dr. iliza butera and team on the speech-to-song illusion in cochlear implant users! #musicscience tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…