Psyche Loui
@psycheloui.bsky.social
neuroscientist, musician, question asker, mom. associate professor of #creativity @northeastern #psychology #cognition #musicscience 🇭🇰 she/her
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Our next MTS speaker @psycheloui.bsky.social, Prof. of Creativity and Creative Practice at @northeasternu.bsky.social, joins us Mon 10/27 to discuss her recent work on how/why humans across societies learn to love music in "Strange Scales: How Novel Music Reveals the Secrets of the Predictive Brain"
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our next MTS speaker @psycheloui.bsky.social, Prof. of Creativity and Creative Practice at @northeasternu.bsky.social, joins us Mon 10/27 to discuss her recent work on how/why humans across societies learn to love music in "Strange Scales: How Novel Music Reveals the Secrets of the Predictive Brain"
Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
Let Music Be Your Medicine
Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience
Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not
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August 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience
When the faculty “retreat” is on campus and basically a very long faculty meeting, and you’re told there’s food but please “bring a drink”
a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .
Alt: a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .
media.tenor.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
When the faculty “retreat” is on campus and basically a very long faculty meeting, and you’re told there’s food but please “bring a drink”
Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sand
a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening
Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening
media.tenor.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sand
Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...
Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT)
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May 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...
New book chapter for forthcoming edited volume on subjectivity and improvisation, edited by my cool Italian hosts in Cremona!
“Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation”
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“Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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May 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
New book chapter for forthcoming edited volume on subjectivity and improvisation, edited by my cool Italian hosts in Cremona!
“Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well!
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well!
Thanks to organizers for a great #CNS2025! proud of my labbies for repping that happy intersection of #music & #cognitive #neuroscience #musicscience. Here’s Arun Asthagiri: Synchronized Music & Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment
April 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Thanks to organizers for a great #CNS2025! proud of my labbies for repping that happy intersection of #music & #cognitive #neuroscience #musicscience. Here’s Arun Asthagiri: Synchronized Music & Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment
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#CNS2025 | Happening now
Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal （here in this context audiovisual） entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!
Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal （here in this context audiovisual） entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!
March 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#CNS2025 | Happening now
Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal （here in this context audiovisual） entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!
Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal （here in this context audiovisual） entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!
Reposted by Psyche Loui
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
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Science Homecoming
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February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Diary of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention. Latest #musicscience in which we analyze journal data to show feasibility of coupling lights in the gamma band with music for mild cognitive impairment doi.org/10.47513/mmd...
Diary analysis of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention
| Music and Medicine
doi.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Diary of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention. Latest #musicscience in which we analyze journal data to show feasibility of coupling lights in the gamma band with music for mild cognitive impairment doi.org/10.47513/mmd...
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I think one thing that the general public doesn’t fully grasp yet is that American science funding was already teetering on the edge before all this started.
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out.
1/7
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out.
1/7
www.eenews.net
February 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I think one thing that the general public doesn’t fully grasp yet is that American science funding was already teetering on the edge before all this started.
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out.
1/7
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out.
1/7
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It's a lot.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
February 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's a lot.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
Reposted by Psyche Loui
Every day brings new horrors
February 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Every day brings new horrors
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Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity
More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.
More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.
February 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity
More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.
More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.
6 days until the extended deadline of 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 21 to 25 July 2025
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Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com
Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍
18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
6 days until the extended deadline of 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 21 to 25 July 2025
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com
Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com
Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍
Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert:
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
Rhythm perception and synchronization to periodicity hold fundamental neurodevelopmental importance for language acquisition, musical behavior, and social communication. Rhythm is omnipresent in the f...
www.jneurosci.org
January 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert:
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...
Music can improve focus for people with ADHD. Here’s what to listen for
New research from Northeastern music professor Psyche Loui and Brain.fm pinpoints the musical characteristics that can help concentration.
news.northeastern.edu
January 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...
A beautiful blogpost about our lab’s #musicscience clinical trial for Alzheimer’s, from the first person perspective of a participant: alzblog.substack.com/p/5-trial
5. Trial
I have mentioned in a previous post or two that I was exploring (and finally accepted into) clinical trials.
alzblog.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A beautiful blogpost about our lab’s #musicscience clinical trial for Alzheimer’s, from the first person perspective of a participant: alzblog.substack.com/p/5-trial
Reposted by Psyche Loui
I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!
We now have a YouTube channel! First order of business was to post the 2024 SMPC Student Award winners and runners-up. As a part of their nominations, they were asked to make short videos describing their research. They were too good not to share!
www.youtube.com/@SMPC-Webmas...
www.youtube.com/@SMPC-Webmas...
SMPC Webmaster
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December 3, 2024 at 1:47 AM
I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!
Reposted by Psyche Loui
"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such
aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
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November 25, 2024 at 11:46 PM
"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...