ecstatic to share that i successfully defended my dissertation yesterday! a huge thank you to all who supported me during my phd, esp advisors drs. @psycheloui.bsky.social, @laurelgd.bsky.social, + juliet davidow. excited for my next steps as a t32 postdoc fellow with dr. assal habibi at USC! 🎸

I am excited to share I successfully defended my dissertation, earning my PhD. Many thanks to my advisors and colleagues at Northeastern and the Institute for Cognitive & Brain Health. I look forward to my next chapter as a post doctoral research fellow at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital!

Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2

Delighted that PINE Lab will be accepting applications for PhD students to start Fall 2026! Please share with applicants looking for developmental & neuroscience programs? Our website is updated with current studies, questions, and guidance about fit: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience

Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not

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celebrating my birthday this yr with a recent first author paper acceptance! here, we found that perceptual biases towards lower frequencies—but not individual differences in music reward sensitivity—modulate the perception of the classic speech-to-song illusion. preprint 🔗 tinyurl.com/3sca8vr2

Last but certainly not the least, @nickkathios.bsky.social on Finding the Self in Others' Music: Self and Other Representations in Theory of Mind Network During Music Listening

New preprint! Do individuals with musical anhedonia perceive illusory speech in song? Sort of! They rate all speech stimuli as less musical than controls, but hear increased musicality with repetition. And they don't like hearing speech, whether or not it transforms into song. osf.io/preprints/ps...

You can read our new paper on modelling multiple data streams with varying dimensionality (alternately titled "What am I going to do with all these dimensions?!") if you want to. It's not even a little bit illegal.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sarah Faber, A.R. McIntosh, et al: Mapping multi-modal dynamic network activity during naturalistic music listening direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Dear musician friends, My PhD student, Aliya, is doing a survey asking musicians to describe how they use imagining music in their heads in their work. It will likely take you less than 20 minutes, and you can win an Amazon voucher. Thanks in advance! durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Help us learn more about why we like listening to music! Our collaborative study at Northeastern University is seeking participants ages 7-17 years old local to the Boston area. For more info, email mindlabwes@gmail.com & pls share! 🎸🕺🎧

🚨 New-er pub! We studied the effects of an art intervention on teen mental health This comes from my post-bacc at U of Minnesota working w/ a team of incredible scientist & artists (none on 🦋) Feel free to check it out - it’s open access! All thoughts welcome 💖 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Impact of a Creativity Camp Intervention on Depression and Well-Being in Adolescents - Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Depression is a serious public health problem that often emerges during adolescence. Many adolescents do not respond to standard treatments, necessitating the development of novel interventions. We co...

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with an uptick in #musicscience interest on here i thought i’d take the time to introduce myself w a few recent pubs! im a 4th yr phd candidate @ northeastern u interested in music, reward, and development. to start off is a recently in press paper at memory: tinyurl.com/2r6jed9r

On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories

Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar mu...

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For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence

#ASFP2024 Roll Call! I’m a PhD student at Northeastern U who’s helping underrepresented PhD applicants through @asfp.io because there shouldn't be a hidden curriculum in applying to graduate school!

The applicant portal is OPEN! Applicants, here's what to expect after you submit your statement drafts. ✅ Remember to submit at www.asfp.io/applicants/s... by Oct. 31! #CognitivePsychSky #ClinicalPsychSky #DevelopmentalPsychSky #SocialPsychSky

Help us learn more about why we like listening to music! Our collaborative study at Northeastern University is seeking participants ages 7-17 years old local to the Boston area. For more info, email mindlabwes@gmail.com & pls share! 🎸🕺🎧

Revisiting the Musical Reminiscence Bump: Insights from neurocognitive and social brain development in adolescence: http://osf.io/c6d4e/

an exciting end to #neuromusicviii was receiving word that our (myself, kelsie lopez, @laurelgd.bsky.social, and @psycheloui.bsky.social) Music@Home - Retrospective scale validation paper was accepted at behavior research methods (preprint: tinyurl.com/2h6wajrp)! a short 🧵

Do musical anhedonics still feel the groove? Our new #musicscience w/ Peter Benson @nickkathios.bsky.social out this week just in time for Peter’s ugrad graduation. Cool drum breaks, even cooler modeling journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Predictive coding in musical anhedonia: A study of groove

Groove, or the pleasurable urge to move to music, offers unique insight into the relationship between emotion and action. The predictive coding of music model posits that groove is linked to predictio...

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Do musical anhedonics dislike all sounds? Our latest #musicscience w/ @nickkathios.bsky.social & Ani Patel, now out in Cognition: Musical anhedonia, timbre, and the rewards of music listening www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why do we love music? Our lab’s 9-study suite on learning rewards from levels of predictions in a new musical system, out today in @psychscience.bsky.social #musicscience #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence, @nickkathios.bsky.social & Matt Sachs w/ Tia Ou, Euan Zhang journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Enjoyed chatting about Musical Anhedonia with Mindy Peterson on this podcast, Enhance Life with Music, covering work with @nickkathios.bsky.social @amybelfi.bsky.social, @patrickesavage.bsky.social, Ani Patel, and more 🎻🧠 open.spotify.com/episode/640E...

Ep. 170: Unraveling the Enigma of Musical Anhedonia: The Brain, Predictions, and the Missing Joy of ...

Listen to this episode from Enhance Life with Music on Spotify. Dive into the intriguing world of musical anhedonia with Dr. Psyche Loui as she unveils the mysteries of why some people simply don't f...

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Pine_lab had a big week! Shout-out to @nickkathios.bsky.social and @KelsieLopez who submitted our manuscript with the incredible @psycheloui.bsky.social validating our new scale: Music@Home-Retrospective for indexing childhood musical environments as adults! preprint here: osf.io/eq496/?view_...

Babies, Bopping, and Bayes Theorem, oh my! Groovy times this weekend at Neuromusic in McMaster LIVE lab. #musicscience #neuroskyence check out the inspiring posters www.neuromusic.ca