Massimo Grassi
@masssimo006.bsky.social
Perception and cognition at University of Padua. Open Science, kayak, and Venetian rowing, possibly mixed together. Coordinator of “The Music Ensemble” multilab.
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Cognitive Science Arena: Brixen-Bressanone (IT), February 5-7 2026 [Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute it widely!] Dear colleague! We are pleased to invite you to the fourteenth edition ...
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Cognitive Science Arena 2026
📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT)
📅 February 5–7
📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Cognitive Science Arena 2026
📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT)
📅 February 5–7
📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join Us!
After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋
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New version of tenzing, with support for acknowledgments sections, is now live at tenzing.club. Please try to break it, @martonkovacs.bsky.social has already fixed all the errors I found!
tenzing Documenting contributorship with CRediT
tenzing.club
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
New version of tenzing, with support for acknowledgments sections, is now live at tenzing.club. Please try to break it, @martonkovacs.bsky.social has already fixed all the errors I found!
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Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
journals.sagepub.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social
I'm reading an old, classic psychoacoustic experiment (N=3). It is written by 3 authors, and 2 are also subjects. In the procedure authors write: "Subjects [...] were encouraged to "bracket" the match before making the final adjustment".
I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.
I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I'm reading an old, classic psychoacoustic experiment (N=3). It is written by 3 authors, and 2 are also subjects. In the procedure authors write: "Subjects [...] were encouraged to "bracket" the match before making the final adjustment".
I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.
I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.
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Check out this really cool multilab project about the difference in short-term memory between musicians and non-musicians! By @masssimo006.bsky.social, @francescatalamini.bsky.social, and researchers from 33 institutions around the world.
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
journals.sagepub.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Check out this really cool multilab project about the difference in short-term memory between musicians and non-musicians! By @masssimo006.bsky.social, @francescatalamini.bsky.social, and researchers from 33 institutions around the world.
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Fantastic display of collaboration in #musicpsych!!
Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Fantastic display of collaboration in #musicpsych!!
Reposted by Massimo Grassi
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
journals.sagepub.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Reposted by Massimo Grassi
@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!
tenzing Documenting contributorship with CRediT
tenzing.club
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!
Reposted by Massimo Grassi
Does this happen in your country (Italy here)? Do you receive communications from the head of the university that include sentences such as "working actively for the continuous improvement of" teaching, research or dissemination. Which is usually translated into a set of nonsense numerical indexes?
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Does this happen in your country (Italy here)? Do you receive communications from the head of the university that include sentences such as "working actively for the continuous improvement of" teaching, research or dissemination. Which is usually translated into a set of nonsense numerical indexes?
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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😃 to share this new @plos.org Medicine 📄 written in collaboration with the super cool @kahin-tai.bsky.social (from the super cool @sharectd.bsky.social doctoral network), Gérard Legoff, @annelelouarn.bsky.social & @synthymama.bsky.social.
Open science must include effective results dissemination to study participants
Open science often centers around publications and data transparency. This Perspective discusses how and why disseminating results to study participants is essential for maximizing the values and bene...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
😃 to share this new @plos.org Medicine 📄 written in collaboration with the super cool @kahin-tai.bsky.social (from the super cool @sharectd.bsky.social doctoral network), Gérard Legoff, @annelelouarn.bsky.social & @synthymama.bsky.social.
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Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
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The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.
We are back! 🎉
Cognitive Science Arena 2026
📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT)
📅 February 5–7
📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join Us!
After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋
RT RT RT
Cognitive Science Arena 2026
📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT)
📅 February 5–7
📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join Us!
After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋
RT RT RT
call_for_papers2026
Cognitive Science Arena: Brixen-Bressanone (IT), February 5-7 2026 [Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute it widely!] Dear colleague! We are pleased to invite you to the fourteenth edition ...
docs.google.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We are back! 🎉
Cognitive Science Arena 2026
📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT)
📅 February 5–7
📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join Us!
After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋
RT RT RT
Cognitive Science Arena 2026
📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT)
📅 February 5–7
📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join Us!
After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋
RT RT RT
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A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Little stat I update every now and then (source Scopus).
In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19.
I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.
In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19.
I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Little stat I update every now and then (source Scopus).
In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19.
I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.
In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19.
I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.
My cat has a rather peculiar habit. He pees in his litter box and then cleans the area outside it.
I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box
I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My cat has a rather peculiar habit. He pees in his litter box and then cleans the area outside it.
I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box
I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box
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You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.
September 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.
For those working with headphones and that need precise intensity level. Calibrate your equipment often, and replace it regularly!
I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬
I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
For those working with headphones and that need precise intensity level. Calibrate your equipment often, and replace it regularly!
I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬
I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬
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A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September
opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...
opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...
FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments
opensciencestudies.eu
September 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September
opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...
opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...
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📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
One small step and it is done. Just one more small step. What a journey!
July 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
One small step and it is done. Just one more small step. What a journey!
G*Power. Unbelievable. Every time I read a power analysis calculated with G*Power, no matter the input values, the output is invariably N=24.
Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?
Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?
July 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
G*Power. Unbelievable. Every time I read a power analysis calculated with G*Power, no matter the input values, the output is invariably N=24.
Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?
Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?