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🎶 New paper 🚨: Perceiving Creativity in Novel Musical Sequences: An EEG Study. Using a sequencer in the non-traditional Bohlen Pierce Scale, we show that perceived creativity correlates with EEG neural synchronization at the note rate and harmonics, and with sequence-level information metrics

What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data? If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#kernel #fNIRS #CognitiveNeuroscience

The ‘unsayable’ isn’t metaphysical; it’s neurocognitively grounded. It’s the domain where feeling, embodiment, and prediction become meaning, without passing through symbolic language. #MusicCognition #NeuroscienceOfEmotion #PredictiveCoding #Mahler #MusicAndMind

A Comprehensive Guide to Dynamic Causal Modeling in Cognitive Neuroscience Research to infer causal interactions between brain regions. It is a Bayesian framework that uses a generative model to explain observed neural activity. #DCM #CogntiveNeuroscience #neuroimaging

Findings from this newly-published study make a connection between music-based coping (esp active music making) and resilience in adults, both healthy and those with depression. #musicscience #musictherapy www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Xaq Pitkow shares his principles for studying cognition in our imperfect brains and bodies and how evolution’s messy constraints shape optimal brain algorithms, from Bayesian inference to ecological affordances. #cognition #neuroscience

Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...

Rhythmic auditory stimulation, like drumming or binaural beats, can alter consciousness. This review links isochronous rhythms to thalamo-cortical entrainment, resembling psychedelic and psychotic states.

Dr. Michael Yassa challenges long-held assumptions about Alzheimer's disease and shares a bold new vision for prevention and treatment rooted in precision medicine. youtube.com/watch?v=pjKX...

The brain tracks time across multiple scales via neural dynamics, enabling mental time travel, a uniquely human capacity to recall the past and simulate future events. Coupled with language and spatial reasoning, this ability shapes cognition, culture, and beliefs in supernatural forces.

Astrocytes sense neuromodulators to orchestrate neuronal activity and shape behavior

This year’s most powerful scientific experiments, in 14 images #Science #Other hashtag 1 2 3

New Toy! #fNIRS #KernelFlow2 #cogneuro #music

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that. www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells. news.mit.edu/2025/overloo...

Finally, some positive news! 😊 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Recent technological advances provide a range of new and different information about brain physiology. But taking full advantage of these gains depends on collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists. www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience, fMRI must break out of its silo.

Musica non grata: What Happens When We Break the 12-Tone Rule? Creativity often emerges in the liminal space between structure and chaos: the “space between the notes” where new possibilities unfold. musiccognition.science/Blog/#wb

A Letter to Prince: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. musiccognition.science/Blog/A-Lette...

Dancing With Radiohead - When Classical Movement Meets Avantgarde-Rock Rooted in a tradition that speaks to modern sensibilities: a ground for rethinking how we study, teach, and experience performance, especially in a world increasingly defined by genre fluidity and cultural variations.

ISU Research Symposium 2025 Modes of Communication During a Joint-Rhythm Task Modulate Cognitive Control Resources. In a world where remote communication is here to stay, the challenge isn’t just connecting - it’s synchronizing. musiccognition.science/Blog/Modes-o...

🎉 New Publication Alert! 🎉 Incredibly excited to share our new paper, "Music as Social Surrogate? A Qualitative Analysis of Older Adults’ Choices of Music to Alleviate Loneliness", now published in Musicae Scientiae! 📰 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This review established links between speech and song learning in humans and birds, highlighting gaps in understanding auditory feedback in vocal production. With over 2K citations, its impact is shaping research on vocal learning by showing how feedback drives vocal adaptation, even in adulthood.

Some of our research from the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in The Guardian today! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Ève Poudrier and Daniel Shanahan’s new 🎼 research shows that rhythmic complexity influences how we perceive mood, energy, and ⚡ movement. 🎓 🖌️ The cognitive, affective, and motoric correlates of rhythmic complexity, doi.org/10.1080/0929... #MusicCognition 🥁 #Rhythm #MusicR…

Join our webinar with Franziska Albrecht from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Explore her latest research on rsfNIRS and its impact on detecting resting-state changes in neurodegenerative diseases. Secure your spot now: buff.ly/4jHFe59 #Neuroscience #Webinar

If you conduct studies involving music, audio or sleep you are invited to fill out this survey for the development of a standardised format for managing data in these fields! It takes around 15 minutes 🎶💤 #musicscience #sleepscience

Elsevier Academy offers free courses on paper writing and publishing. 1. How to write a literature review (60 min video) Link: lnkd.in/gRsWFvdy 2. How to identify research gaps (12 min video) Link: lnkd.in/gvxgD95D 3. How to conduct evidence-based research (38 min video) Link: lnkd.in/gMUxXybm

We're recruiting now for our MA programmes in #MusicPsychology available in onsite and online formats. With the newly launched #MusesMindMachine research centre, our postgraduate community is thriving - do get in touch if you'd like to come and join us! www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/postgr...

“Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it - turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.” -Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD), Roman Emperor & Stoic Philosopher

I’ve been adding groups to this starter pack for #musicscience labs as I’ve found them. If there are any that I’ve missed drop them in the comments! go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

Research Participant Opportunity 🫵 Australian music psychology research (@studylistening.bsky.social) exploring consumers' audio-visual preferences and practices. Complete one anonymous survey online here: bit.ly/Listen-AV

New advance online publication in #MusicPerception! "Reverberation Time and Musical Emotion in Recorded Music Listening," by Hannah Wilkie and Peter Harrison online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/d... #perception #musicscience @AusMusPsySoc @ucpress @socmusicperccog @ESCOMsociety

If you are between the ages of 20 and 40 and live in or close to Aarhus, Denmark, you can join this study on "The role of dopamine in the pleasurable urge to move, rhythm perception and production". Questions? Reach out to Pelle, [email protected]

Hello! For my PhD at the @musicinthebrain.bsky.social we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep. 🎶💤 Click on the link if you’re more than 18 and listen to music for sleep! It takes around 15 minutes ☀️ survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto... Thank you! #musicscience @lullabyte.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading “Music and Science - A Guide to Empirical Music Research | 2025 | by Tuomas Eerola.” #musicscience #musiccognition #musicpsychology

Posting this great piece by @analog-ashley.bsky.social for prospective grad students this cycle medium.com/the-spike/ch... #neuroscience

full text links Trost, W et al 2024 Live music stimulates the affective brain.. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2316306121. Live music stimulated a dense functional neural network with the amygdala as central node influencing other brain systems. Many other interesting findings. #neuroskyence

Out now in Psychol Med 🍪 We show that depression-related changes in food wanting and liking are associated with the macronutrient content of the food. #neuroskyence 🩺 Work w/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The effects of an acute Tai Chi on emotional memory and prefrontal cortex activation: a fNIRS study Frontiers www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...

Paralyzed man flies virtual drone with thought-controlled finger movements www.rdworldonline.com/paralyzed-ma...

If you would like to know more about Durham’s upcoming ReproducibiliTea journal club meetings, follow our OSF and Zotero repositories. reproducibilitea.org/journal-club...

💡 Latest research shows that babies are already learning how sounds are physically produced BEFORE tuning in to their native language. This discovery challenges previous beliefs and opens up new possibilities for early intervention. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/msx2vw7a @eylemaltuntas.bsky.social