Explaining cultural variation in perception. Perceptual niche construction as an ecocultural view of perceptual plasticity. Happy to see this article published! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Culture in psychology and neuroscience: Concepts, relevance, and empirical evidence in rhythm perception

Perceptual systems adapt through individual experience across the lifespan, an ability referred to as plasticity. To understand perceptual plasticity,…

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Excited to share our review is now in press at Physics of Life Reviews. Building on the preprint @sylvienozaradan.bsky.social shared months ago — co-written with A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, and J London. doi.org/10.1016/j.pl... #RhythmPerception #CulturalEvolution

Excited to share our review is now in press at Physics of Life Reviews. Building on the preprint @sylvienozaradan.bsky.social shared months ago — co-written with A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, and J London. doi.org/10.1016/j.pl... #RhythmPerception #CulturalEvolution

Intracerebral recordings in humans reveal emergence of musical beat representation across the dorsal auditory pathway Outstanding work from @tomaslenc.bsky.social, with Bruno Rossion and collaborators from CHU Nancy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Feedback welcome #MusicScience #iEEG #neuroscience

New preprint from the Rhythm and Brains Lab, with Flora Rosenzweig, @tomaslenc.bsky.social, Cédric Lenoir! How stimulus envelope, esp. duty cycle (sonic duration/inter-onset duration ratio), impacts neural processing of musical beat osf.io/preprints/ps... Feedback welcome #MusicScience #EEG #cogsci

Beyond Onset Timing: Longer Sound Envelope Duration Enhances Neural Representation of the Musical Beat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.12.721298v1

Happy to announce one PhD and one postdoctoral position at the Rhythm & Brains Lab (PI: Pr. Sylvie Nozaradan), Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Brussels. Belgium. Connected to the ERC Consolidator Grant HUMAN RHYTHM. More info attached. Please share! #hiring #Neuroscience #MusicCognition

How to think about culture in psychology and neuroscience? What about seeing it as a source and product of perceptual plasticity? Such an inspiring journey to co-write this paper with R Polak, A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, J London. osf.io/preprints/ps... Feedback welcome!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elise E. Van Caenegem, Robert M. Hardwick, et al: Greater neural overlap between motor imagery and working memory than with movement execution: A meta-analytic comparison doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Culture in psychology and neuroscience: Concepts, relevance, and empirical evidence in rhythm perception: https://osf.io/sqbzn

New publication from the Rhythm and Brains Lab, and great research by Emmanuel Coulon, with colleagues Sacha Baum, Tomas Lenc and Rainer Polak. Using EEG, we show that pattern repetition sharpens neural activity to the musical beat. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our new research in The Journal of Neuroscience, comparing brain processing of the beat across the senses: audio rhythm elicits slow brainwaves that represent the beat to a greater extent than tactile rhythm #perception #neuroscience #rhythm #sensory

Excited to share our new research revealing automatic categorization of rhythm in human brain activity! Led by @francescabarbero.bsky.social, @tomaslenc.bsky.social and the Rhythm and Brains Lab, in collaboration with @norijacoby.bsky.social, Rainer Polak and @manuelvarlet.bsky.social

📢 PhD Position Available A #PhDPosition is now open to work in the team of Prof. Sylvie Nozaradan (@sylvienozaradan.bsky.social) in the field of #CognitiveNeuroscience For detailed information regarding the position, application requirements and procedures, see the attached image👇 #AcademicSky 🧠🟦