Individual differences in speech monitoring: Functional & structural correlates of delayed auditory feedback www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Delaying auditory feedback (DAF) disrupts impairs fluency > here a word production task with/out DAF & MRI>what brain structures link with a susceptibility index?

Individual differences in speech monitoring: Functional and structural correlates of delayed auditory feedback | PNAS

Sensory feedback is essential for the fine-tuning of motor actions, and speech production is no exception. It depends on continuous self-monitoring...

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Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory. n.pr/4kpKWtv

This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms

Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory.

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We are recruiting participants for a new study, Dance for Parkinson’s Disease, exploring how dance impacts brain function and behavior in people with Parkinson’s Disease! Spread the news to anyone who might be a good fit. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📌  NEW PREPRINT OUT 📌 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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)

Festival Orchestra Pre-Show Discussion · Lincoln Center

In what ways do the arts foster belonging, resilience, and healing within communities? Join leading artists, researchers, and lived experience experts in a 3-part series of…

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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...

Comment on 'Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique' by Skov and Nadal - A critique of the critique: Towards a more nuanced evaluation of current research...

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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 🧠

@stanfordbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

What can AI teach us about how the brain understands language? In today's podcast, we explore how LLMs are helping neuroscientists study how we process language with Stanford psychologist and faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/what-ch...

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...

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Synchrony between neuronal activity and the respiratory cycle has been observed in numerous brain regions and across many species. Tort et al. discuss the mechanisms by which brain activity is modulat...

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

Constantina Theofanopoulou@constantinatheo.bsky.social · last yr.

💃🏽 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 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...

Music and Health: Dancing Together

How can dancing help Parkinson's patients regain their ability to walk? What does neuroscience say about the healing power of dance?

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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.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last yr.

“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪

🚨 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

Cerebellar output shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation - Nature Communications

Functional role of the cerebellum in motor adaptation is not fully understood. The authors show that cerebellar signals act as low-dimensional feedback which constrains the structure of the preparator...

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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...

To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and Dothr...

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💃🏽 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...

Constantina Theofanopoulou — WISeR

WISeR: “What sparked your initial interest in science, and what drew you to your specific field?” CT: “Since the beginning, my main driving force has been an unceasing passion for uncovering truth t...

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🎶 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...

Inhibitory control of speech production in the human premotor frontal cortex - Nature Human Behaviour

In natural conversations, people are able to stop speaking at any time. Using high-density electrocorticography, Zhao et al. found a distinct neural signal in the human premotor cortex that inhibits s...

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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

Towards a mechanistic understanding of reading difficulties: Deviant audiovisual learning dynamics and network connectivity in children with poor reading skills

Mastering the associations between letters and their corresponding speech sounds (LSS) is pivotal in the early stages of reading development, requiring an effective reorganisation of brain networks. C...

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

Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males

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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

A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis

Nature - New data on brain-wide circuits centred around two interconnected hypothalamic neuron populations provide significant mechanistic insights into the emergence of social need during social...

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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 🧠💬 🧵👇

Memorability of novel words correlates with anterior fusiform activity during reading - Nature Communications

To learn new written words, we need to be able to remember their associated letters. Here, the authors show the factors that predict how memorable or forgettable new words are and show a region of hum...

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