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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 ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Mar 31

Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception

with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 31

Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645906v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 29

Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645824v1

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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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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Mar 5

Fantastic opportunity to work on music and the brain!

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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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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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · Dec 13

New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications

Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...

www.nature.com

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · Dec 8

Open-source software allows the calibration of eye trackers for subjects who can't follow instructions (infants, primates). Extension to Titta toolbox uses attention-grabbing videos for calibration, tested successfully with chimps, baboons & macaques
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Enhancing eye tracking for nonhuman primates and other subjects unable to follow instructions: Adaptive calibration and validation of Tobii eye trackers with the Titta toolbox - Behavior Research Meth...

Accurate eye tracking is crucial for gaze-dependent research, but calibrating eye trackers in subjects who cannot follow instructions, such as human infants and nonhuman primates, presents a challenge...

link.springer.com

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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Dec 5

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier

Emotions drive and influence social interactions. Actions and reactions driven by emotions are dynamically modulated by continuous feedback loops betw…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Nov 22

Fascinating work from Andrea Migliano’s group, out in Science, on cultural evolution, showing how population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
(Congrats @ceciliapad.bsky.social & colleagues not yet on this platform)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture

Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...

www.science.org

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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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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi all! Can I be added please?

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · Nov 15

Great musicians have a unique style and, with training, humans can learn to distinguish between these styles. What is this based on? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Also see huwcheston.github.io/Jazz-Trio-Da...

Image prompt: jazz pianist rhythm - ensemble synchronization - complexity; Bill Evans; Bud Powell; Kenny Barron; Oscar Peterson

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi there, Please add me!

Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Nov 16

Join the #musicscience community here #musicskyence !!!

David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Nov 7

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

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thank you!

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi all! Please, add me!

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · Nov 16

Done with Twitter. Just hopped onto #Bluesky🌤️ —find me and I’ll follow back. 🎶💡 #MusicScience, #auditoryscience, #neuroscience

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