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The Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music is a strategic interdisciplinary research group in Montreal, Canada. info@crblm.ca

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CRBLM@crblm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Which tweet do you like best? not on here - in nature! Play this game to test whether you like the same calls as other species www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/havoc According to new research out today in Science - you'll ace it! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals

Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin...

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samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 5mo ago

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

cOMPaRatiVe cOGNitiONHumans share acousticpreferences with other animalsLogan S. James1,2,3,4* Sarah C. Woolley 1,2, Jon T. Sakata1,2,Courtney B. Hilton5,6, Michael J. Ryan3,4, Samuel A. Mehr5,7,8Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefersome sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergentevolution may generate similarities in preference across speciesand underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “havenearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study,we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a rangeof animals, that the strength of human preferences correlateswith that in other animals, and that humans respond fasterwhen in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we foundgreatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, andlower-frequency sounds. humans’ music listening experiencewas associated with preferences. These results are consistentwith theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acousticpreferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunchabout the conservation of aesthetics in nature
CRBLM@crblm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's not all-work-and-no-play here at the CRBLM. Sometimes people build brains, craft neurons, play boardgames about neurolinguistics and bet on which animal sounds are preferred by other species. When the public joins us for outreach events like these, we're really in our CRBeLeMent!

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CRBLM@crblm.bsky.social · last yr.

Great talk yesterday by Víctor Fernández-Dueñas from @ub.edu on the "Translational investigation of music-based interventions for chronic pain under opioid treatment." - thanks to all who joined the discussion

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CRBLM@crblm.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to @lenapl.bsky.social, @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social and the whole team on the boost from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the DIALOG initiative douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/underst...

Understanding Psychiatric Disorders Through Language: $9.8M from The Wellcome Trust for DIALOG Initiative - The Douglas Research Centre

Montreal, April 23, 2025   The Douglas Mental Health University Institute is proud to announce that the Wellcome Trust has awarded $9.8 million to Dr. Lena Palaniyappan in support of ... Read more

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CRBLM@crblm.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to BRAMS co-director Robert Zatorre on the Honorary Doctorate to be awarded by the University of Barcelona May 12 @ub.edu

Universitat de Barcelona@ub.edu · last yr.

#HonorisUB | 🧠 Robert Zatorre, un dels referents mundials en neurociència cognitiva, serà investit doctor honoris causa per la #UniBarcelona 📅 12 de maig 🕛 11:30 📍 Edifici Històric, Paranimf 👉 web.ub.edu/ca/web/actua... @psicologiaub.bsky.social @ubneuro.bsky.social