Lara Pearson
banner
musicalgesture.bsky.social
Lara Pearson
@musicalgesture.bsky.social
Musicologist at the University of Cologne, thinking about music through movement, gesture and interaction.
Reposted by Lara Pearson
This is an awe-inspiring and fascinating study that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. However, the overall framing in terms of "innate versus learned” is unnecessary. The innate versus acquired dichotomy is outdated and has been for a long time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.
www.nature.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...

@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social

Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
EnvisionBOX overview2025
YouTube video by Wim Pouw
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
Counterpoint: what if studies run in the lab just tell you how behaviour unfolds in that context, because context constitutes part of behaviour? And you aren’t just getting a clean look at the contributions of the organism?
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.
January 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
One thing that has stuck with me from my reading this fall is a point that Jeff Mielke makes in his 2008 book: "linguists often confuse their shared assumptions with linguistic universals." Since I care about features, I thought I should read Jeff's book in more detail. A thread.

1/n

#linguistics
December 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
Any European PhDs interested in working with me as a post-doc via the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, drop me a line (a.d.wilson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk or on here). Happy to chat topics, with a focus on perceptual learning, affordances, etc (please RT :)
December 5, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
Elon might be bothered by the journalists coming here but the true heads know that a social media ecosystem's health is most clearly signalled by the frequency of arguments about affordances
The term “affordance” has become so widespread and diluted that it’s become a problem, & I’m not sure what the solution is

Are affordances just generally opportunities for action? Are there different kinds of affordances & we need to carve the space up? Are most people wrong when they use the term?
December 4, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
My 3-month sabbatical has ended! Our first gesture-vocal biomechanics paper got a 100 citations. And... I am slowly getting back on the academic job market.

For this occasion, I have updated my pub page, eg search bar, embedded abstracts, AND multi-pdf downloads! wimpouw.com/publications...
December 1, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
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
November 7, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Lara Pearson
Here is a start for our gesture researcher starter pack! Please let
me know if you would like to be included :) #gesture go.bsky.app/B9S5W94
November 17, 2024 at 11:49 PM