btillm.bsky.social
@btillm.bsky.social
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Our new study is out in this week’s issue of PNAS!
People in therapy for heroin and cocaine addiction felt more groove – the pleasurable urge to move to music – when listening to complex rhythms and harmonies, compared to people without drug addiction.
Open access: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Individuals with substance use disorders experience an increased urge to move to complex music | PNAS
Substance use disorders disrupt the dopaminergic system of the human brain, which plays a central role in movement and reward processing, altering ...
www.pnas.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Tomorrow evening I'll be delivering a public talk about the 'Science of 'Earworms': reasons to care about the 'sounds' of silence': www.cafe-sci.org.uk Ideas relating to our work at the @innermusicgroup.bsky.social
Cafe Sci Leeds
www.cafe-sci.org.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Please, for the love of science in infant cognition, make videos of your stimuli available (even if you do live puppet shows). I'm trying to read through a paper right now, and there is no way someone could replicate it in good faith because there are no videos and so few details.
May 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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inspired by all the brilliant work from auditory visual processing and groups from @cnspworkshop.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.
Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion | Western Sydney University
www.westernsydney.edu.au
May 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Check out our review to learn about all things joint music making! 🎶
🎶 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).
March 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🚨 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! ⬇️
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
November 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Do you know of any great examples of ‘earworms’ or deliberately playing music in your head which come from film, tv, literature, theatre, poetry etc? We’d love to add them to our website.

Please follow the link below to find out more.
December 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM