A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you are in NYC, join us tonight at the @lincolncenter.bsky.social (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) for a conversation on arts and collective wellbeing. I am looking forward to -what is meant to be- an inspiring conversation with colleagues: lincolncenter.org/series/summe... (1/2)

Take a peek at our recent publication through the lens of a visual summary creatively crafted by the Jameel Arts and Health Lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this piece just published in Physics of Life Reviews, we came together as an interdisciplinary team of artists, art therapists, arts educators, and theoretical and clinical researchers to respond to Skov & Nadal’s recent critique of arts-based interventions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the latest -From Our Neurons To Yours- podcast episode! I discuss my work using large speech and language systems as "model species" to understand how the human brain processes language 🧠

Very happy to have contributed a chapter on the evolution of oxytocin receptor signalling for a new book on evolutionary and comparative neuroendocrinology. Great work from @aisartorius.bsky.social and @constantinatheo.bsky.social! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our flamenco/jazz event is just ONE WEEK AWAY (and it is free and open to everyone)! RSVP: lnkd.in/e5g5duZY

It was a huge pleasure to discuss with the amazing JD Talasek and David Leventhal about how dance is helping patients regain movement and other abilities, and what neuroscience research says about dance as a form of healing. Links to several podcast platforms: issues.org/music-and-he...

Thanks to the New York Academy of Sciences for this interview! www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...

Wonderful work and so revelant to our efforts to understand the neurobiology of speech & dance.

🚨 Paper Alert! 🚨 1/n Thrilled to share our latest research, now published in Nature Communications! 🎉 This study dives deep into how the cerebellum shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #motorcontrol #cerebellum #motoradaptation

So excited to have our work on conlangs out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Congrats, Saima, Maya, and the rest of the crew -- well done! Here is the MIT news story: news.mit.edu/2025/esperan...

💃🏽 FLAMENCO/JAZZ EVENT in NYC 🪭 📅 Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025  ⏰ Time/📍Location: 5 PM – Wine/beer reception at Abby 5:30 PM – Event at Caspary Auditorium The Rockefeller University (1230 York Ave, New York, NY 10065) 🎟 Audience: Free and open to the public 🔗 RSVP: lnkd.in/e5g5duZY

It is great to see dance being highlighted for its brain benefits in Discover magazine this month. Also delightful to see our research featured alongside that of superb collaborators. #dance #neuroscience

🚨New Preprint! 🎵🧠 Joint music listening enhances interpersonal affective and neural synchrony. A huge fNIRS hyperscanning study on shared music listening & pleasure with @federicocurzel.bsky.social , @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, Barbara Tillmann and Arnaud Fournel. 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...

Hugely indebted to Women in Science at Rockefeller for making me part of this Women's History Month Celebration. This initiative has made such an important impact on the university's culture, and I cannot wait to witness and contribute to what comes next. www.wiseratrockefeller.com/womens-histo...

🎶 Everything you ever wanted to know about Joint Music Making—but were afraid to ask! 🎶 A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).

Nature Human Behaviour Inhibitory control of speech production in the human premotor frontal cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a mechanistic understanding of reading difficulties: Deviant audiovisual learning dynamics... www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... fMRI study of brain network alterations underlying letter speech sound learning & their association with reading skills

Hot off the press! Our newest paper is out in Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful flamenco-jazz memories from the The Art and Science of Social Connection symposium (United Nations General Assembly Healing Arts 2024). Live brain electroencephalography showing two artists' brain responses in real time 🧠💃🏽🥁

Our latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63

Out now in Nature Comms. To learn a new word, we need to remember it. We track factors driving memory of novel words, showing which words we remember or forget is predictable across people, and isolate a distinct region of fusiform cortex sensitive to this memorability. 🧠📈 #VisionScience 🧠💬 🧵👇

Excited to kick off 2025 with new research in #MachineLearning, #Decoding, #MusicNeuroscience! Our paper, “Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma”, now in @sfnjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social! 🧠🎵 1/n

"Hidden assumptions of integer ratio analyses in bioacoustics and music" from Jadoul @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social et al. Looks like a thoughtful guide + method for testing hypotheses about rhythms using integer ratios 🥁🥁🥁 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.04464 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Our paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Check out our paper ‘Ignoring the cerebellum is hindering progress in neuroscience’ in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social ! With @0xwbj.bsky.social and @amandalebel.bsky.social we quantify the extent of cerebellar exclusion in the neuroimaging literature and discuss reasons/fixes

In an effort to bring #neuroskyence to @bsky.app I wanted to share our recent paper in Neuron tinyurl.com/LesionsOfM1 @markolas.bsky.social and I asked what forelimb M1 contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics using joystick tasks and CFA lesions @cmuscience.bsky.social @the-cnbc.bsky.social

In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field. www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight... #WomenInScience #February11

Explore The Origin of Love this Valentine's Day at our virtual CARTA Symposium! 🧡💗 Our speakers will dive into topics like oxytocin, pair bonding, monogamy, grandmaternal love, and the biological and evolutionary foundations of this powerful human experience. Register now to join us!

On this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, I am thankful that my words have been featured in the Greek press. I have translated some excerpts for my non-Greek-speaking friends here in the attached images. (1/2)

As Feb 14th approaches, I am delighted to be joining a great panel of speakers to explore our research through the lens of "The Origin of Love". At its core, love is expressed through two fundamental behaviors I study: speech and dance. Huge thanks to CARTA! carta.anthropogeny.org/events/origi....

It feels weird to be promoting myself in the midst of *gestures wildly*, but I've been working on this project for a while and I'm super proud of it! One possible answer to the question of "What to do about the low reliability of task fMRI?" a 🧵 #neuroskyence #fMRI #Neuroimaging (1/11):

Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? We are always looking for more recordings of pet parrots to help us understand language, musicality, and interaction of various information types in vocal signals. #manyparrots #bioacoustics www.manyparrots.org

Very happy to share my new paper, where I flesh out the hypothesis that dance-based interventions could have an untapped role in mitigating speech impairments. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

💃💃💃💃 NEXT WEEK 💃💃💃💃💃 Tune in next Tuesday, January 28th, 7 - 8:30 PM EST for the first seminar of 2025! Dr. Theofanopoulou @constantinatheo.bsky.social will dazzle us all with her incredible research on the effects of Dance on the Brain Register here --> harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thrilled to have our collaboration with Dr Laramie Duncan out in @natureneuro.bsky.social! We leveraged two landmark datasets (GWAS + snRNA-seq from 105 regions of human brain) to infer the cell types involved in the etiology of psychiatric phenotypes (SCZ, AUD, Sleep) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/

1/4 In TWO weeks, we will have our first NHN Seminar of the Year! 🔔 On January 28th, 7 – 8:30 PM EST, Dr. Theofanopoulou @constantinatheo.bsky.social will share her research and life work on dance and the brain 💃 Expect to learn about the role of music and rhythm on all kinds of nervous systems

And with this, HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE NHN! We have many, many more treats coming to you in 2025! Including... Constantina Theophanopoulou in @constantinatheo.bsky.social in JANUARY Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Very happy to be serving with this amazing group of leaders, and even happier to see this new cohort coming in so strong and creative! Also, so great to see some familiar faces (💙): @azaallsop.bsky.social @ismail-ahmed.bsky.social

🎙️ Big news: the ALBA Diversity Podcast is back in 2025! Season 2, supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social, explores the journeys of postdocs and PIs worldwide as they navigate the transition to set up their labs. 🗣️ Hosted by @lonelypipette.bsky.social 🎧 Listen to the trailer youtu.be/Urj-Csqigw4?...

In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:

I am looking for a PhD candidate interested in the genetics of language 🧬🧠🗨️ Get in touch if interested or please share with others who might be www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded a #DEI grant from @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social in support of our educational/artistic project "Rhythms of Exchange: The Latin American Influences on Flamenco Arts” seeking to honor the pivotal -but overlooked- role of Latin American art in shaping #flamenco.

Cross-hemispheric communication: Insights on lateralized brain functions: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience