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Elise Piazza

@elisepiazza.bsky.social

-Assistant Professor @URochester studying naturalistic, interactive human communication and speech/music perception 🧠 -PI of the SoNIC Lab (piazzalab.com) -BA @Williams | PhD @UCBerkeley | Postdoc @Princeton -Halfling bard irl 🎶 -she/her 🌈

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Elise Piazza@elisepiazza.bsky.social · 6d ago

The last time Northwestern hosted #SMPC was 22 years ago (2004). My mom recently pointed out that I was actually there. Not as a conference-goer, but as a prospective undergrad, to audition for their conservatory (for clarinet performance).

UR Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences@uor-braincogsci.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 Congrats to Elise Piazza, who has received the Early Career Award from the Society for Music Perception & Cognition (SMPC). Read more: www.musicperception.org/awards

UR Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences@uor-braincogsci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Please share: New postdoc position in human intracranial neuroscience is open in the Castellucci Lab. www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/pos... #Postdoc #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #HiringAcademics #JobSearch #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #STEMjobs #ScienceJobs

Postdoctoral Research Positions

The Department offers a wealth of opportunities for postdoctoral research in the wide range of scientific disciplines represented in the Brain & Cognitive Scien

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Elise Piazza@elisepiazza.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My cousin is a social worker at a public school in Rochester, and she can't stop talking about how much this no-cellphone policy has already transformed her school community: kids are looking up and interacting more in the halls, engaging more in the classroom, seem happier, etc. Start of a new era?

Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · 12mo ago

NY schools face a new “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban this year. Tell us your school’s plan — and what you think will happen when it takes effect.

Elise Piazza@elisepiazza.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to share a new preprint from our lab! Led by @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social, with @coralineiordan.bsky.social + @aaronstevenwhite.io

Qingzhi Ruby Zeng@qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social · 12mo ago

/1 New preprint alert! 💫“Expertise Shapes the Multidimensional Perception of Stories”! 💫 We generated a novel corpus of improvised spoken stories using diverse prompts designed to elicit creative and complex narrative structure. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Jamal A. Williams@jayneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Music-evoked reactivation during continuous perception is associated with enhanced subsequent recall of naturalistic events

Music is a potent cue for recalling personal experiences, yet the neural basis of music-evoked memory remains elusive. We address this question by using the full-length film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to examine how repeated musical themes reactivate previously encoded events in cortex and shape next-day recall. Participants in an fMRI study viewed either the original film (with repeated musical themes) or a no-music version. By comparing neural activity patterns between these groups, we found that music-evoked reactivation of neural patterns linked to earlier scenes in the default mode network was associated with improved subsequent recall. This relationship was specific to the music condition and persisted when we controlled for a proxy measure of initial encoding strength (spatial intersubject correlation), suggesting that music-evoked reactivation may play a role in making event memories stick that is distinct from what happens at initial encoding. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. National Institutes of Health, https://ror.org/01cwqze88, F99 NS118740, R01 MH112357

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Elise Piazza@elisepiazza.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social for winning a Best Poster Award at UR's Graduate Research Day. This is actually the second time Ruby has won this award, in two different years and for two different projects. Wow!!

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UR Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences@uor-braincogsci.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to Ruby Zeng who won a best poster award for her poster “Prosodic and other paralinguistic features of speech differ across social contexts and roles” at the Graduate Research Day. This is a fantastic achievement Ruby, well done!! 🎉 @elisepiazza.bsky.social

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · last yr.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Miriam Goldstein@miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · last yr.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
Elise Piazza@elisepiazza.bsky.social · 2y ago

Awesome paper alert! Excited to finally see those wobbling blobs make their debut...and in PNAS!

Coraline Rinn Iordan@coralineiordan.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Caterina Gratton@caterinagratton.bsky.social · 2y ago

📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience 🧵below...

Using precision approaches to improve brain-behavior prediction

Predicting individual behavioral traits from brain idiosyncrasies has broad practical implications, yet predictions vary widely. This constraint may be driven by a combination of signal and noise in b...

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George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2y ago

Two anchors of the trans rights movement, and the anchors for our package, are @erininthemorning.bsky.social and @zoandbehold.bsky.social. Their essay will blow your socks off. I could literally feel my resolve strengthening as I read. Do not miss this.

You Are Who We Are Fighting For — Assigned

In the midst of these hard times, Erin Reed and Zooey Zephyr fight for you. Just as the trailblazers of the past fought for all of us to have a better world, they’re fighting for the trans community a...

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Taylor Webb@taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to announce that I'll be starting a lab at the University of Montreal (psychology) and Mila (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms) starting summer 2025. More info to come soon, but I'll be recruiting at the Masters and PhD levels. Please share / get in touch if you're interested!

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