Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

Very pleased that this fantastic study led by @trinhnguyen.bsky.social & @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Inofficial title: Tiny dancers 🕺💃🏻

Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year

Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full matu...

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Wie Babys auf Musik reagieren 🎶 Ein int. Forschungsteam unter Leitung von @trinhnguyen.bsky.social & Stefanie Höhl der #univie ist zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass das Gehirn #Musik zwar schon ab dem dritten Lebensmonat verarbeitet, getanzt wird aber erst gegen Ende des ersten Lebensjahres. 🕺💃 Mehr: ⤵️

Wann beginnen wir zu tanzen? – Wie Babys auf Musik reagieren

Gehirn verarbeitet Musik schon ab dem dritten Lebensmonat, getanzt wird aber erst gegen Ende des ersten Lebensjahres

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Our findings from our upcoming paper are featured on the Naked Scientist Podcast!!! 🤩

The science of sound and music

How has music evolved throughout history?

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Liebe JuMis der Entwicklungspsychologie! 👋 Unser virtueller JuMi-Mittagstisch ist aus der Pause zurück. Nächstes Thema: „Auslandsaufenthalt in der PhD- & Postdoc-Phase“ 🌍✈️ 📅 Freitag, 08.05.2026 ⏰ 12:30 Uhr

Thanks to @vdscobene.bsky.social for inviting me to give a keynote talk at the last PhD Academy Conference @univie.ac.at. I felt so honoured to be surrounded by so many bright young minds in this marvellous historic venue ✨

Lunch Lectures Entwicklungspsychologie! 📅 10.03.2026 ⏰ 12:00 Uhr via Zoom Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag von Prof. Louisa Kulke (Universiät Bremen; @loukulke.bsky.social ) zum Thema: Social development – Insights from infants, robots and videochats Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1gfrH...

🎓 Die Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie (DGPs) vergibt derzeit bis zu 4 MiniGrants à 1.500 € zur Förderung von Vernetzung und Laborbesuchen in frühen Karrierephasen. Die Grants ermöglichen Einblicke in neue Arbeitsgruppen, Methoden und Forschungsprozesse durch Aufenthalte.

‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find #Science #Biology #Neurobiology #Newborns #MusicCognition #Neuroscience https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/05/newborn-babies-can-anticipate-rhythm-in-music-researchers-find

‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says

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Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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From birth, respiration constitutes an intrinsic rhythm. We suggest that vocalizations and bodily movements are interactively coordinated with this respiratory rhythm, providing a temporal framework ...

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Here is our latest work on newborns and music perception!

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 8mo ago

Does our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg

Come study with us! We are excited to announce the international application period for our Master’s Degree in Music and Science is now open! www.jyu.fi/en/study-wit... You can apply until 21 January 2026. Please distribute to anyone interested!

Master's Degree Programme in Music and Science

The Master's Degree Programme in Music and Science at the University of Jyväskylä aims to help students understand the various functions of music in modern everyday life by examining music through a c...

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Der #EPSY Vorstand stellt sich vor! Heute:Trinh Nguyen (Jungmitgliedervertretung) Ich habe Psychologie an der Universität Heidelberg studiert und an der Universität Wien promoviert, mit Forschungsaufenthalten in Cambridge und Hamilton.

Our new study on self-touch is out in IEEE TAFFC 🤩🥳🧠 A great effort by PhD student @adamenmalm.bsky.social in collaboration with @trinhnguyen.bsky.social We explore the differences between self-touch and touching-while-being-touched using fNIRS and self-report. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

Self-touch Is Different from Giving and Receiving Touch Simultaneously – insights from Neural, Behavioral, and Physiological Measures

Distinguishing between self and other is fundamental for social interaction through touch and central to bodily self-awareness. Self-touch is known to feel different from being touched by others—typic...

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This was so much fun! Bringing 7+ years of @kinderstudien.bsky.social research together into one paper: Interpersonal neural synchrony from a developmental perspective! 🧠🧠👶👨‍🍼👩‍🍼👩‍👩‍👧‍👧

Stefanie Hoehl@stefaniehoehl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🥳 So pleased to share our new publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The whole @kinderstudien.bsky.social lab got together to do a little scientific retreat last year and this is the result - a truly developmental perspective on the phenomenon of interpersonal neural synchrony 🧠🧠 👨‍🍼👩‍🍼

🥳 So pleased to share our new publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The whole @kinderstudien.bsky.social lab got together to do a little scientific retreat last year and this is the result - a truly developmental perspective on the phenomenon of interpersonal neural synchrony 🧠🧠 👨‍🍼👩‍🍼

A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony

Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS), the temporal alignment of brain activities between individuals, has been proposed as a biomarker for successful …

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Neue Fachgruppenleitung der EPSY gewählt! #DGPs #EPSY #EPSY_news #Entwicklungspsychologie #Fachgruppe

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS). Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇 This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu Reposts are very welcome 🙏 #Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling

People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

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🥁 New preprint 👇 got the whole @kinderstudien.bsky.social lab working together 🤗 plus some friends, guests & alumni. Our developmental take on interpersonal neural synchrony - from basic entrainment to communicative rhythms to shared representations 🧠🧠

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · last yr.

A Developmental Framework of Interpersonal Neural Synchrony: https://osf.io/m7uyq

New Article alert🧚We explored how motor synchrony in group settings affects preschoolers’ social learning & closeness. TLDR It didn't — likely due to the complexity of group (triadic) synchrony for young children. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Frontiers | Motor synchrony, social learning and closeness in group play settings

IntroductionPlayful activities provide critical opportunities for rhythmic interactions, which may affect social and cognitive development in early childhood...

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A starter pack for people interested in inter-brain synchrony and simultaneous brain recording of all kind! Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know! #hyperscanning #dualeeg go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS

The preprint is now out on eLife as well 🥰: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Trinh Nguyen@trinhnguyen.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶 While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested in what to do with all that movement data you often get in your neuroscience measures? Is it just noise, or how can we make use of it? This December, we are organizing a workshop in Lübeck to discuss precisely these questions. (1/2)

This work has been done together with my amazing colleagues @trinhnguyen.bsky.social @yfpan.bsky.social Filip Melinscak, David Steyrl, Yi Hu, Bettina Sorger, @stefaniehoehl.bsky.social and Frank Scharnowski, with great support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at 🙌

Our latest work, "Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback", is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🧠💡🎉 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠

Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback

Abstract. Social interaction is of fundamental importance to humans. Prior research has highlighted the link between interbrain synchrony and positive outcomes in human social interaction. Neurofeedba...

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EEG of the Dancing Brain - new paper out! 🧠🕺 Thrilled to share our latest work on disentangling the neural basis of real-time social dance!! www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2... A full @giacomonovembre.bsky.social NPA Lab production 🎬 #dance #socialinteraction #hyperscanning #motioncapture

Here it is our new preprint on neural encoding of musical expectations in newborns! in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab check it out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶 While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life

Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore: 🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques) 💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making 🤝 Spontaneous social behavior ⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️