Nori Jacoby

Excited to share our new research revealing automatic categorization of rhythm in human brain activity!
Led by @francescabarbero.bsky.social, @tomaslenc.bsky.social and the Rhythm and Brains Lab, in collaboration with @norijacoby.bsky.social, Rainer Polak and @manuelvarlet.bsky.social

I’m hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. I’m also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.

Excited to share our new research—led by @harinlee.info —using rare @researchdeezer.bsky.social data to uncover how music choices reflect both individual preferences and city-level cultural patterns. A unique collaboration between science and industry! 🎶📊 #BigData @co3lab.bsky.social

18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - Submissions - // ICMPC AWARD

I am proud to share that my PhD student @harinlee.info co-supervised by Marc Schönwiesner, has won the student best paper award at #ICMPC!
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
If you are interested in doing cutting edge work on music and culture consider joining us on @co3lab.bsky.social

1/3 Chimpanzee percussion is rhythmic and different between western and eastern chimpanzees. These differences are maintained despite environmental changes (24 years analyzed), the authors point to a cultural or social origin.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Postdoctoral Associate - Ithaca, New York job with Cornell University Department of Psychology | 672009 The postdoctoral associate will design and implement large-scale online, behavioral experiments.

We are recruiting postdoctoral researchers to join an exciting research program focused on large-scale behavioral experiments. Come build and explore your own experimental social networks with us! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/672009/p...

PsyNet is fully operational and particularly well-suited for advance users. It offers three key advantages: (a) a high-level Python interface for designing experiments, (b) fully automated deployment processes, and (c) native support for complex designs with inter-trial data dependencies.

We are seeking candidates with quantitative or computational training in behavioral, cognitive, social sciences, or computer science. Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959
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The goal of the research is to use large-scale online experiments to make collectives more creative, intelligent when they can choose their own governance. 2/n

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

Tomorrow at Cambridge! Visiting the Centre for Music & Science led by @pmcharrison.bsky.social

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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

Gibbs Sampling with People A core problem in cognitive science and machine learning is to understand how humans derive semantic representations from perceptual objects, such as color from an apple, pleasantness from a musical c...

Paper link: Harrison, P. M. C., R. Marjieh, F. Adolfi, P. van Rijn, M. Anglada-Tort, O. Tchernichovski, P. Larrouy-Maestri & N. Jacoby. Gibbs sampling with people. **Oral presentation**, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 34. arxiv.org/abs/2008.02595

Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial representations | PNAS An essential function of the human visual system is to locate objects in space and navigate the environment. Due to limited resources, the visual s...

Paper link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries - Nature Human Behaviour Measuring rhythm priors in 39 participant groups from 15 countries, the authors find that properties of rhythm representations are common across cultures, while variation from place to place related t...

Paper link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas | PNAS Collective intelligence challenges are often entangled with collective action problems. For example, voting, rating, and social innovation are coll...

Paper link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are recruiting PhDs for the December 1st deadline. And at least one postdoc here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

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

I am seeking PhD students to join my new lab at Cornell! Work with me at @co3lab.bsky.social on perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large scale online experiments, cross cultural experiments or computational music cognition. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested!

I’ll be teaching an undergraduate course on perception next semester and would love to hear any ideas you might have. If you have any syllabi, slides, demos, or other resources, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Are you interested in perception, culture, & big-data analysis? Join my new lab at Cornell: COCOCO: COrnell COmputational COgnition! Multiple PhD & Postdoc opportunities available: . Please retweet & spread the word! @CO3lab 1/6

We are recruiting two postdocs for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior. Joint project with @enfascination(@ucdavis), @daltonconley (@Princeton), Ofer Tchernichovski(@CUNY) and @norijacoby (@Cornell). Please forward this thread to relevant people! 1/n

We are excited that our paper “Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.” is finally published in Nature Human Behaviour. . @JoshHMcDermott @CompAudition

We are excited to share our new paper “Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas” , just published in PNAS, @OTchernichovski, @enfascination, @norijacoby, and @daltonconley 1/n

Music people: what is the earliest explicit representation of a heartbeat in music that you know of?

A twitterless friend is looking for scientists specializing in obtaining&analyzing DNA from historical art objects
/instruments in order to determine provenance - any tips are very welcome! Object is from the early 19th c. & contains ivory and various woods. @columbiacss @ps2270

Thrilled to announce that @CompAudition will be moving to @CornellPsychDpt, where I will be an assistant professor from Fall 2024. I will be recruiting for my new lab @Cornell, so please reach out/forward if relevant. @CompAudition will also continue at the @MPI_ae through 2025.

The brilliant Rainer Polak is recruiting a postdoc for the DjembeDance () project at RITMO. This is a great opportunity to work on the computational analysis of Malian music and dance (video, audio and motion capture)!

Neurips rebuttal ⁦@CompAudition⁩ ⁦@polvanrijn⁩ ⁦@RajaMarjieh⁩ ⁦@sucholutsky⁩

We are excited to share our new preprint, "Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by global comparison of rhythm priors" @JoshHMcDermott @CompAudition

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