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Sylvie Nozaradan @sylvienozaradan.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. I’m also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.

COCOCOlab @co3lab.bsky.social · Jul 18

The @co3lab.bsky.social at Cornell is hiring a lab manager.
Focus: Computational music cognition
Skills: Python, R, machine learning, strong work ethic
Role: Run global experiments, develop experiments, grow as a researcher.
I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out!

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Jun 7

Excited to share our new research—led by @harinlee.info —using rare @researchdeezer.bsky.social data to uncover how music choices reflect both individual preferences and city-level cultural patterns. A unique collaboration between science and industry! 🎶📊 #BigData @co3lab.bsky.social

Harin Lee @harinlee.info · Jun 4

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social

Highlights ⬇

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Jun 6

I am proud to share that my PhD student @harinlee.info co-supervised by Marc Schönwiesner, has won the student best paper award at #ICMPC!
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
If you are interested in doing cutting edge work on music and culture consider joining us on @co3lab.bsky.social

18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - Submissions - // ICMPC AWARD

www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · May 11

1/3 Chimpanzee percussion is rhythmic and different between western and eastern chimpanzees. These differences are maintained despite environmental changes (24 years analyzed), the authors point to a cultural or social origin.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · May 8

We are recruiting postdoctoral researchers to join an exciting research program focused on large-scale behavioral experiments. Come build and explore your own experimental social networks with us! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/672009/p...

Postdoctoral Associate - Ithaca, New York job with Cornell University Department of Psychology | 672009

The postdoctoral associate will design and implement large-scale online, behavioral experiments.

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · May 7

PsyNet is fully operational and particularly well-suited for advance users. It offers three key advantages: (a) a high-level Python interface for designing experiments, (b) fully automated deployment processes, and (c) native support for complex designs with inter-trial data dependencies.

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Apr 29

We are seeking candidates with quantitative or computational training in behavioral, cognitive, social sciences, or computer science. Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07059 n/n

Cornell University, Psychology

Job #AJO28959, WDR-00049313 Postdoctoral Associate in Computational Collective Behavior, Psychology Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Apr 29

The goal of the research is to use large-scale online experiments to make collectives more creative, intelligent when they can choose their own governance. 2/n

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Apr 29

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

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Harin Lee @harinlee.info · Mar 17

Tomorrow at Cambridge! Visiting the Centre for Music & Science led by @pmcharrison.bsky.social

www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...

Understanding music in the age of machine learning (Harin Lee, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science) | Faculty of Music

We live in an exciting time where the abundance of digital media and advanced computational tools, such as machine learning, enables the study of music and culture on an unprecedented scale.

www.mus.cam.ac.uk

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 22

We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring an NSF-funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

Paper link: Harrison, P. M. C., R. Marjieh, F. Adolfi, P. van Rijn, M. Anglada-Tort, O. Tchernichovski, P. Larrouy-Maestri & N. Jacoby. Gibbs sampling with people. **Oral presentation**, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 34. arxiv.org/abs/2008.02595

Gibbs Sampling with People

A core problem in cognitive science and machine learning is to understand how humans derive semantic representations from perceptual objects, such as color from an apple, pleasantness from a musical c...

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

Paper link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial representations | PNAS

An essential function of the human visual system is to locate objects in space and navigate the environment. Due to limited resources, the visual s...

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

Paper link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries - Nature Human Behaviour

Measuring rhythm priors in 39 participant groups from 15 countries, the authors find that properties of rhythm representations are common across cultures, while variation from place to place related t...

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

Paper link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas | PNAS

Collective intelligence challenges are often entangled with collective action problems. For example, voting, rating, and social innovation are coll...

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

We are recruiting PhDs for the December 1st deadline. And at least one postdoc here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

Cornell University, Psychology

Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring an NSF-funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

Cornell University, Psychology

Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.

academicjobsonline.org

Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

I am seeking PhD students to join my new lab at Cornell! Work with me at @co3lab.bsky.social on perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large scale online experiments, cross cultural experiments or computational music cognition. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested!

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’ll be teaching an undergraduate course on perception next semester and would love to hear any ideas you might have. If you have any syllabi, slides, demos, or other resources, I’d greatly appreciate it!

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

Are you interested in perception, culture, & big-data analysis? Join my new lab at Cornell: COCOCO: COrnell COmputational COgnition! Multiple PhD & Postdoc opportunities available: . Please retweet & spread the word! @CO3lab 1/6

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

We are recruiting two postdocs for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior. Joint project with @enfascination(@ucdavis), @daltonconley (@Princeton), Ofer Tchernichovski(@CUNY) and @norijacoby (@Cornell). Please forward this thread to relevant people! 1/n

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

We are excited that our paper “Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.” is finally published in Nature Human Behaviour. . @JoshHMcDermott @CompAudition

Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

We are excited to share our new paper “Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas” , just published in PNAS, @OTchernichovski, @enfascination, @norijacoby, and @daltonconley 1/n

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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · Nov 19

Music people: what is the earliest explicit representation of a heartbeat in music that you know of?