Roberta Bianco
@robertabianco.bsky.social
MarieCurie Fellow @IITalk | Neuroscience, Audition, Music and Memory
Neuroscience of Perception & Action Lab, Rome
Neuroscience of Perception & Action Lab, Rome
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
Postdoc position on multi brain stimulation in Rome in an amazing lab!! Do apply!!!
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Postdoc position on multi brain stimulation in Rome in an amazing lab!! Do apply!!!
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life
Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645906v1
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645824v1
March 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645824v1
Here it is our new preprint on neural encoding of musical expectations in newborns!
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
March 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here it is our new preprint on neural encoding of musical expectations in newborns!
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
Fantastic opportunity to work on music and the brain!
🚨 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! ⬇️
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 1:14 PM
Fantastic opportunity to work on music and the brain!
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
🚨 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! ⬇️
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
🚨 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! ⬇️
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! ⬇️
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc
How accurately can we estimate spontaneous body kinematics from video recordings? Effect of movement amplitude on OpenPose accuracy - Behavior Research Methods
Estimating how the human body moves in space and time—body kinematics—has important applications for industry, healthcare, and several research fields. Gold-standard methodologies capturing body kinem...
t.ly
February 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:13 PM
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
Open-source software allows the calibration of eye trackers for subjects who can't follow instructions (infants, primates). Extension to Titta toolbox uses attention-grabbing videos for calibration, tested successfully with chimps, baboons & macaques
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Enhancing eye tracking for nonhuman primates and other subjects unable to follow instructions: Adaptive calibration and validation of Tobii eye trackers with the Titta toolbox - Behavior Research Meth...
Accurate eye tracking is crucial for gaze-dependent research, but calibrating eye trackers in subjects who cannot follow instructions, such as human infants and nonhuman primates, presents a challenge...
link.springer.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Open-source software allows the calibration of eye trackers for subjects who can't follow instructions (infants, primates). Extension to Titta toolbox uses attention-grabbing videos for calibration, tested successfully with chimps, baboons & macaques
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier
Emotions drive and influence social interactions. Actions and reactions driven by emotions are dynamically modulated by continuous feedback loops betw…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
Fascinating work from Andrea Migliano’s group, out in Science, on cultural evolution, showing how population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
(Congrats @ceciliapad.bsky.social & colleagues not yet on this platform)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(Congrats @ceciliapad.bsky.social & colleagues not yet on this platform)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Fascinating work from Andrea Migliano’s group, out in Science, on cultural evolution, showing how population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
(Congrats @ceciliapad.bsky.social & colleagues not yet on this platform)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(Congrats @ceciliapad.bsky.social & colleagues not yet on this platform)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring an NSF-funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959
November 22, 2024 at 4:50 PM
We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring an NSF-funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959
Reposted by Roberta Bianco
Great musicians have a unique style and, with training, humans can learn to distinguish between these styles. What is this based on? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Also see huwcheston.github.io/Jazz-Trio-Da...
November 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Great musicians have a unique style and, with training, humans can learn to distinguish between these styles. What is this based on? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Also see huwcheston.github.io/Jazz-Trio-Da...
Join the #musicscience community here #musicskyence !!!
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just comment below if you want to be added!
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November 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Join the #musicscience community here #musicskyence !!!
Done with Twitter. Just hopped onto #Bluesky🌤️ —find me and I’ll follow back. 🎶💡 #MusicScience, #auditoryscience, #neuroscience
November 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Done with Twitter. Just hopped onto #Bluesky🌤️ —find me and I’ll follow back. 🎶💡 #MusicScience, #auditoryscience, #neuroscience