@assalh.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist studying Music, Brain, and Development Tedx Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_WjzUqY-c
My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
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*Sharing for our departmentβs trainees*
π§ Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology?
β¨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!
π Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland
Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future
I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks
Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? Weβre looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what weβre working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/
31.08.2025 21:36 β π 35 π 33 π¬ 0 π 2Iβm hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. Iβm also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. Iβll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025βfeel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.
18.07.2025 16:09 β π 21 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.
23.05.2025 01:18 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 3Correction to our @currentbiology.bsky.social paper.
In short: same overall conclusion, but an error in the code (my bad π
) resulted in the language-specific estimates in Figure 4 being biased. Details and code to reproduce the error in the notice. Thanks to Sarah Creel for discovering the error!
Excited to share that dissertation work is published in Human Brain Mapping! Self-selected nostalgic music engaged the DMN, reward network, and MTL in younger and older adults. With @assalh.bsky.social, @jonaskaplan.bsky.social, Petr Janata, and Talia Ginsberg
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
π¨ Weβre hiring! π¨
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
π΅ Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
ππΊ Dance & joint music-making
π€ Spontaneous social behavior
β¬οΈ Apply through the link below! β¬οΈ
"If NIH's budget is cut 20% on March 14, the success rate would decrease by 80%."
Here's the paper I was trying to find yesterday when NIH's websites were down [1,2].
[1] nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/03/...
[2] pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Seconding thatβDr. Collins has been a pillar of strong leadership and unwavering commitment to science. This is a significant loss.
03.03.2025 00:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0![The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, aglobal corpus of vocal music
[author list]
AbstractA comprehensive cognitive science requires broad sampling of human behavior to justify general inferencesabout the mind. For example, the field of psycholinguistics relies on a rich history of comparative study, withmany available resources that systematically document many languages. Surprisingly, despite a longstandinginterest in questions of universality and diversity, the psychology of music has few such resources. Here,we report theExpanded Natural History of Song Discography, an open-access corpus of vocal music (n=1007 song excerpts), with accompanying metadata detailing each songβs region of origin, language (of 413languages represented here), and one of 10 behavioral contexts (e.g., work, storytelling, mourning, lullaby,dance). The corpus is designed to sample both broadly, with a large cross-section of societies and languages;and deeply, with many songs representing three well-studied language families (Atlantic-Congo, Austronesian,and Indo-European). This design facilitates direct comparison of musical and vocal features across cultures,principled approaches to sampling stimuli for experiments, and evaluation of models of the cultural evolutionof song. In this paper we describe the corpus and provide two proofs of concept, demonstrating its utility. Weshow that (1) the acoustical forms of songs are predictive of their behavioral contexts, including in previouslyunstudied contexts (e.g., childrenβs play songs); and (2) similarities in acoustic content of songs across culturesare predictable, in part, by the relatedness of those cultures.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v6qwaqo24zfrq5fj7ceibxqk/bafkreih7a2u3rxrlera5bc5n3yk3lhde3zkvq37gnk7axyblgtnjothrhy@jpeg)
The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, aglobal corpus of vocal music [author list] AbstractA comprehensive cognitive science requires broad sampling of human behavior to justify general inferencesabout the mind. For example, the field of psycholinguistics relies on a rich history of comparative study, withmany available resources that systematically document many languages. Surprisingly, despite a longstandinginterest in questions of universality and diversity, the psychology of music has few such resources. Here,we report theExpanded Natural History of Song Discography, an open-access corpus of vocal music (n=1007 song excerpts), with accompanying metadata detailing each songβs region of origin, language (of 413languages represented here), and one of 10 behavioral contexts (e.g., work, storytelling, mourning, lullaby,dance). The corpus is designed to sample both broadly, with a large cross-section of societies and languages;and deeply, with many songs representing three well-studied language families (Atlantic-Congo, Austronesian,and Indo-European). This design facilitates direct comparison of musical and vocal features across cultures,principled approaches to sampling stimuli for experiments, and evaluation of models of the cultural evolutionof song. In this paper we describe the corpus and provide two proofs of concept, demonstrating its utility. Weshow that (1) the acoustical forms of songs are predictive of their behavioral contexts, including in previouslyunstudied contexts (e.g., childrenβs play songs); and (2) similarities in acoustic content of songs across culturesare predictable, in part, by the relatedness of those cultures.
a figure from the paper with a world map, some phylogenetic trees, and a big heatmap
we just posted the Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, a corpus of audio & metadata. 1007 songs in many languages, for behavioral experiments, cross-cultural research, etc
preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2ftg_v1
corpus: zenodo.org/records/14927216
led by @milabertolo.bsky.social
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Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
25.11.2024 12:47 β π 74 π 34 π¬ 6 π 4
ICMPC website now up, including call for papers with abstract submission deadline of Jan 20. Hope to see you all in Brazil next July 21-25! www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
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