Elise Piazza
@elisepiazza.bsky.social
-Assistant Professor @URochester studying naturalistic, interactive human communication and speech/music perception 🧠
-PI of the SoNIC Lab (piazzalab.com)
-BA @Williams | PhD @UCBerkeley | Postdoc @Princeton
-Halfling bard irl 🎶
-she/her 🌈
-PI of the SoNIC Lab (piazzalab.com)
-BA @Williams | PhD @UCBerkeley | Postdoc @Princeton
-Halfling bard irl 🎶
-she/her 🌈
The daily news is so rapid and horrific that I almost missed that Jane Goodall passed away today. One my greatest scientific achievements to date was being interviewed on NPR's Science Friday right after her. www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/oct...
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The daily news is so rapid and horrific that I almost missed that Jane Goodall passed away today. One my greatest scientific achievements to date was being interviewed on NPR's Science Friday right after her. www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/oct...
The SoNIC Lab is in San Francisco for #CogSci2025; come check out our latest research!
July 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The SoNIC Lab is in San Francisco for #CogSci2025; come check out our latest research!
Congratulations to @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social for winning a Best Poster Award at UR's Graduate Research Day. This is actually the second time Ruby has won this award, in two different years and for two different projects. Wow!!
April 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Congratulations to @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social for winning a Best Poster Award at UR's Graduate Research Day. This is actually the second time Ruby has won this award, in two different years and for two different projects. Wow!!
Congratulations to @rcassanocoleman.bsky.social for winning an Open Scholarship Award for making her research accessible and reproducible to the community! Our lab is so proud of her! opensci.lib.rochester.edu/open-scholar...
Stay tuned for some updates to our lab "resources" page.
Stay tuned for some updates to our lab "resources" page.
April 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Congratulations to @rcassanocoleman.bsky.social for winning an Open Scholarship Award for making her research accessible and reproducible to the community! Our lab is so proud of her! opensci.lib.rochester.edu/open-scholar...
Stay tuned for some updates to our lab "resources" page.
Stay tuned for some updates to our lab "resources" page.
This is a beast of a study! E.g., Experiment 3 alone uncovers new fundamentals of musical event segmentation (a relatively understudied topic). One takeaway here: musicians are more likely than non-musicians to perceive long-timescale (multi-phrase) events.
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
This is a beast of a study! E.g., Experiment 3 alone uncovers new fundamentals of musical event segmentation (a relatively understudied topic). One takeaway here: musicians are more likely than non-musicians to perceive long-timescale (multi-phrase) events.
In general, we show that non-musicians use context quite effectively, which is surprising b/c this is relatively high-level tonal context (not driven by dynamics/timbre/tempo/pitch proximity). But musicians do perform better overall across tasks (including identifying the degree of scrambling).
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
In general, we show that non-musicians use context quite effectively, which is surprising b/c this is relatively high-level tonal context (not driven by dynamics/timbre/tempo/pitch proximity). But musicians do perform better overall across tasks (including identifying the degree of scrambling).
Our lab has a new #musiccognition preprint out! This is a comprehensive look at how listeners integrate musical context across multiple timescales to complete a diverse array of tasks: memory, prediction, and event segmentation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Our lab has a new #musiccognition preprint out! This is a comprehensive look at how listeners integrate musical context across multiple timescales to complete a diverse array of tasks: memory, prediction, and event segmentation. osf.io/preprints/ps...