Such a pleasure to be part of this! Here is a snapshot of our co-writing session. The Lorentz Center was perfectly set up for this type of co-creating.

Henkjan Honing@musiccognition.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week, we had an inspiring, curiosity-driven workshop at the Lorentz Center, sponsored by NWO (Dutch Research Council), @lorentzcenter.bsky.social, and @illc-uva.bsky.social. More in a few months. Can't wait? See the workshop overview in Workshop files at tinyurl.com/2jyk8ryy

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

A bit belated, but it was such a pleasure seeing the lab showcase all their excellent hard work at #CNS2026! Go team!! 🚀 (+ guest appearance from @psycheloui.bsky.social ‘s awesome lab)

Stephanie Noble@sneuroble.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On our way to Vancouver #CNS2026! Catch us at ✨Su 8am @strfabs.bsky.social’s data blitz (4) on a power curve generation tool ✨Su 3pm @halleeshearer.bsky.social’s poster on inflation-corrected effect sizes in fMRI ✨T 8am @alexkfischbach.bsky.social’s poster on robustness of local CSF correction

Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... #neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky

What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music

The study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us.

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4 select pics from each month of 2025! Thank you friends and family for all your positive energy. Let’s keep sticking together in 2026

We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

🎶 New paper 🚨: Perceiving Creativity in Novel Musical Sequences: An EEG Study. Using a sequencer in the non-traditional Bohlen Pierce Scale, we show that perceived creativity correlates with EEG neural synchronization at the note rate and harmonics, and with sequence-level information metrics

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Perceiving musical creativity involves multiple neural mechanisms underlying expectation and prediction error. Using the innovative Bohlen–Pierce Sequencer—a tool requiring no musical training—we fou...

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Our next MTS speaker @psycheloui.bsky.social, Prof. of Creativity and Creative Practice at @northeasternu.bsky.social, joins us Mon 10/27 to discuss her recent work on how/why humans across societies learn to love music in "Strange Scales: How Novel Music Reveals the Secrets of the Predictive Brain"

Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks @psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...

Let Music Be Your Medicine

Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.

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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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When the faculty “retreat” is on campus and basically a very long faculty meeting, and you’re told there’s food but please “bring a drink”

a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .

Alt: a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .

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Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sand

a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening

Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening

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Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...

Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT)

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New book chapter for forthcoming edited volume on subjectivity and improvisation, edited by my cool Italian hosts in Cremona! “Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well!

Thanks to organizers for a great #CNS2025! proud of my labbies for repping that happy intersection of #music & #cognitive #neuroscience #musicscience. Here’s Arun Asthagiri: Synchronized Music & Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment

#CNS2025 | Happening now Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal （here in this context audiovisual） entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

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Diary of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention. Latest #musicscience in which we analyze journal data to show feasibility of coupling lights in the gamma band with music for mild cognitive impairment doi.org/10.47513/mmd...

I think one thing that the general public doesn’t fully grasp yet is that American science funding was already teetering on the edge before all this started. www.eenews.net/articles/sci... A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out. 1/7

It's a lot. Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic. Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.

Every day brings new horrors

Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.

6 days until the extended deadline of 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 21 to 25 July 2025 www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍

18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

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Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert: Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures

Rhythm perception and synchronization to periodicity hold fundamental neurodevelopmental importance for language acquisition, musical behavior, and social communication. Rhythm is omnipresent in the f...

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The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...

Music can improve focus for people with ADHD. Here’s what to listen for

New research from Northeastern music professor Psyche Loui and Brain.fm pinpoints the musical characteristics that can help concentration.

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A beautiful blogpost about our lab’s #musicscience clinical trial for Alzheimer’s, from the first person perspective of a participant: alzblog.substack.com/p/5-trial

5. Trial

I have mentioned in a previous post or two that I was exploring (and finally accepted into) clinical trials.

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