Yiren Ren
yirenr.bsky.social
Yiren Ren
@yirenr.bsky.social
Music, memory and emotion
The most meaningful research emails are not about data or methods—they’re from students who’ve watched music help their loved ones with dementia access memories they thought were lost. This is why music cognition research isn’t just academic curiosity—it’s hope.
August 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
🧠🎵 OUR NEW PREPRINT: Familiar melodies hijack your brain's learning networks—literally rewiring visual sequence processing from struggle mode to flow state.

@thackerybrown.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Music Scaffolds Visual Statistical Sequence Learning Through Network-Level Reorganization in the Brain
Statistical learning—the ability to extract patterns from noisy continuous experiences—is fundamental to human cognition. Yet, how contextual factors shape this process remains poorly understood. Musi...
www.biorxiv.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM