𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if animals find beauty in the world, just like we do? Brief article in Psyche: psyche.co/ideas/what-i...

Commentaries for Marcos Nadal's and my recent paper "Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" have begun to roll in. To keep track of them I am starting this thread. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very nice meta-analysis of the neural correlates of negative aesthetic judgments from Zaira Cattaneo's lab. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Here's a link to freely access my recent comment on debates in arts and health research. Yes free. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@mskov01.bsky.social and @mnadal.bsky.social recently reviewed arts-based interventions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I got the opportunity to write a comment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TLDR: ABIs hold some promise but must be tested with the same rigor as other treatments.

David Huron (1954-2025), pioneer in music cognition. He will be missed! No words (but music): www.mcg.uva.nl/symposium/pr...

For #InternationalDanceDay, a new paper out on @cp-iscience.bsky.social entitled: “Toward a neuroaesthetics of interactions: Insights from dance on the aesthetics of individual and interacting bodies”. A big thanks to Prof. Matteo Candidi. 🧠🕺🏻👥 #neuroaesthetics #review www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

The published version is now out in the recent issue of Physics of Life Reviews. Stay tuned for a round of commentaries + a response from @mnadal.bsky.social and I. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thought-provoking new study from @giacomobignardi.bsky.social et al.

💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience

"Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" by @mnadal.bsky.social and I has been accepted for publication in Physics of Life Reviews. The pre-proof version is online at the following URL: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Healthy participants (N = 49) receiving electrical shocks report lower pain when exposed to virtual nature compared to matched urban or indoor control settings". Cool new imaging study by Steininger et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Communications Biology The human reward system encodes the subjective value of ideas during creative thinking www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I invite you to attend the Toronto Aesthetics Sciences Conference (TASC) at @uc-uoft.bsky.social on April 8th, 2025. Registration is free but required. sites.google.com/view/tasc2025/ Please join us for a day of nerding out over empirical aesthetics! @uoftpsychology.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social

Five years in the making: our meta-analysis of 10 fMRI datasets across Asia, Europe, and North America (N=2,433). We find creative ability emerges from dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks, with optimal creativity at a "sweet spot."

🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨 "Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity" Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

Here is the MIT Tech Review article covering the data collection linked to this new Phd Opportunity at our new International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign: www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...

The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity is coming to Europe (Paris) for the first time! Abstracts are due Feb. 1. We welcome neuroscience, behavioral, and computational work. @tsfnc.bsky.social www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2025-cre...

Very interesting paper.

Very disturbing development.

A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists’ model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised. #MIT "Dopamine release plateau and outcome signals in dorsal striatum contrast with classic reinforcement learning formulations" #NatureCom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience Perspective by Marcos Nadal (@mnadal.bsky.social) & Martin Skov (@mskov01.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/3ZfccAG PDF: rdcu.be/d13QD

Aesthetic experience reconsidered: The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience. doi.org/10.1038/s441... #Neuroaesthetics #EmpiricalAesthetics #AestheticExperience @natrevpsych.bsky.social

Marcos Nadal and I are pleased to announce that our new paper, "The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience", is now out in Nature Reviews Psychology. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

To celebrate my (long overdue) move to Bsky, here is the link to a new and very interesting paper on "Neural dissociation between computational and perceived measures of curvature". www.nature.com/articles/s41...