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Sarah Jessen @sarahjessen.bsky.social · Jun 30

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)

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Emily S. Cross @escross.bsky.social · Mar 22

💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience

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Iannetti Lab @iannettilab.bsky.social · Jun 4

1/ Thrilled to start on Bluesky with our latest publication in Nature Neuroscience (@natneuro.nature.com) – and huge congratulations to RoryBufacchi who led this work (first at @ucl.ac.uk and then @iitalk.bsky.social) with extraordinary insight and fastidiousness.

Free full text: rdcu.be/eo3G3

Egocentric value maps of the near-body environment

Nature Neuroscience - Some neurons act like body-proximity sensors. The authors show that these neurons reflect the value of contacting or avoiding objects. Together, these neurons compose a...

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · May 22

Amazing work, @felixbigand.bsky.social ! And thanks to all our lab collaborators: Sara Abalde, @robertabianco.bsky.social and @trinhnguyen.bsky.social !

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · May 22

One of my proudest works—especially thinking back to neuroscience classes 10–20 years ago, when we were taught that measuring EEG during naturalistic behavior wasn’t feasible. Hopefully, this helps make it less of a taboo.

Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · May 22

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

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Trinh Nguyen @trinhnguyen.bsky.social · May 8

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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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 5

🚨 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! ⬇️

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Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Apr 1

Honoured and grateful to have received a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out my LEARNINSYNC project! Together wih @giacomonovembre.bsky.social at the IIT (Rome) we will look at LEARNing IN social interaction and the role of inter-brain SYNChrony.
#MSCA #EuropeanCommission #Horizon

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Feb 11

The 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship call results are in.

With a budget of €417 million, we are funding nearly 1,700 researchers from 🇪🇺 and beyond.

They will strengthen EU research in key areas such as social inclusion, AI, and cancer research ↓

europa.eu/!BmWRkh

A visual announcing the results of the 2024 call for MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Postdoctoral Fellowships. It highlights 1,696 selected proposals and a €417 million budget. The European Commission and MSCA logos are included, along with scientific-themed visuals.

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Laura Ferreri @lauraferreri.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨New Preprint! 🎵🧠 Joint music listening enhances interpersonal affective and neural synchrony. A huge fNIRS hyperscanning study on shared music listening & pleasure with @federicocurzel.bsky.social , @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, Barbara Tillmann and Arnaud Fournel. 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 7

Link to paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models

Across different epochs and societies, humans occasionally gather to jointly make music. This universal form of collective behavior is as fascinating …

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 7

🎶 Everything you ever wanted to know about Joint Music Making—but were afraid to ask! 🎶

A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 5

Apply here: iit.taleo.net/careersectio...

Postdoctoral position in “Neuroscience of Music”

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 5

🚨 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! ⬇️

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Atesh Koul @ateshkoul.bsky.social · Feb 17

How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc

How accurately can we estimate spontaneous body kinematics from video recordings? Effect of movement amplitude on OpenPose accuracy - Behavior Research Methods

Estimating how the human body moves in space and time—body kinematics—has important applications for industry, healthcare, and several research fields. Gold-standard methodologies capturing body kinem...

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