Christ Billy

I am also proud to tell you all that my article has the abstract in Indonesian language! I hope this can improve the reach of my article to my fellow Indonesians.

You can also access the full-text view-only version of "How is musical expertise related to executive functions? A systematic review and meta-analysis" here: rdcu.be/e4rIX

I am pleased to announce that our systematic review and meta-analysis on musical expertise and executive functions is published in @springernature.com PB&R! Thanks Kinar, @cvonbastian.bsky.social, Emma, and Renee for the hard work and supervisions!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer... Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer... Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.

I presented part of the CoTraiLS project data at #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social around 2 weeks ago. I’m happy to be part of this cognitive-stimulating conference with a fun and friendly environment! The joy of the conference remains to this day!
#Latepost

I’m going to present at the Blitz Talk on Friday, 6pm, at #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social. The very last session, yet I’m sure with a lot of excitement! Come to listen whether engaging in your hobby predict your cognitive abilities. 🧠

Photo from the airport in a sunny and cloudy conditions.

Sunny with a glimpse of gloomy cloud, thanks England for the warm welcome. Here for @escop.bsky.social #ESCOP2025 conference! Looking forward to meeting familiar faces, new faces, and of course listening to cognitively stimulating presentations!

🧠 Day 4, Session 1 – ASTra International Lecture Series
🎵 Music and the Mind: Exploring Executive Functions and Sensory Skills
🗓 June 5, 2025 | 🕘 09.30 (Jakarta Time)
📍 Via Zoom

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/ASTra-June-2...
📩 E-certificate available | 🗣 Held in English | 🌐 Open to public

If you're a native speaker of English, you might not have experienced any language barriers in your scientific career, but their negative impacts on early-career scientists nonfluent in English are big, as summarized in the figure below created by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social and colleagues. (1/10)

Christ Billy Aryanto, S.Psi, M.A., M.Si., Ph.D, AFHEA Dr. Christ Billy Aryanto is a distinguished psychologist specializing in music psychology, cognitive psychology, and educational motivation. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, focus...

I finally have my own professional website! It's still under development, but let me promote this first so the world knows who I am. cbaryanto.com

I will present part of my PhD research at the Saraswati International Conference on Music Education 2024 in Yogyakarta! I’m happy that after receiving my degree a few months ago, I got a chance to become a keynote speaker.

Logo of “Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya” with the buildings as the background.

Today is Pancasila Sanctity Day, commemorating Indonesia‘s foundational 5 principles.

Also, today is my first day back at work, and I’m officially the head of the master in psychology program at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. Break a leg, me!

Psychonomics is one of the world's most prominent cognitive psychology communities, and I know how competitive J. Frank Yates Award is.

Congratulations, Satwika, so proud of you! 💖

Indonesians rule cognitive psychology! 🇮🇩

#ThrowbackThursday to #ESCOM12
@escom12.bsky.social this early July. Discussing #musicscience with music peeps!
📸:
1. Uni of Sheffield’s Psychology of Music 2015 gang reunited!
2-3. With music and memory multilab collaborators
4. With Music, Mind, and Machine lab, led by Renee Timmers

#ThrowbackThursday to last month #ICWM #ICWM2024. Lovely conference with lovely people!

📸:
1-2. Cognitive and Plasticity Lab spearheaded by
@cvonbastian.bsky.social
3. My conference buddy, Alice.
4. With colourful
@noraplethora.bsky.social
🌈

Done with the presentation for @escom12.bsky.social #ESCOM12! So happy to share my study with fellow music researchers and have a fruitful discussion.

Thanks Joy, César, and Persa for taking the lovely pics!

The 4th International Conference on Working Memory #ICWM #ICWM2024 is over, but the euphoria has not ended yet!

Yesterday’s highlight: Graham Hitch and Alan Baddeley talks! Who would’ve thought I would meet the researchers I studied during my undergrad cognitive psychology class?

Find me at #ICWM #ICWM2024 in the Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. I’m presenting my poster (no 21) on musical skill, sensory discriminations, and working memory during lunch this afternoon.

Thanks Nora! We'll meet soon at the ICWM! 😄 Looking forward to it!

Thanks Angelika! Big thanks for your help with Bayesian statistics! 💖

My thesis titled “The Structure and Mechanism of the Relation between Music Making, Executive Functions, and Sensory Discriminations”.

Standing from left to right: Vanessa Loaiza, Emma Blakey, César Lima, Claudia von Bastian, and Clare Howarth. Sitting: Me!

With my 3rd supervisor, Renee Timmers.

Billy in traditional Javanese attire.

#PhDone

Thanks to my lovely supervisors
@cvonbastian.bsky.social, Emma Blakey, and Renee Timmers
for your huge support!

Also thanks to my examiners @vmloaiza1.bsky.social (internal), César Lima (external), and Clare Howarth (chair) for the enjoyable viva and fruitful discussions!

I am so lucky to have this tremendous opportunity to learn from this incredible project during my PhD! It is an honour to be the research assistant.

Post-its that moved on a Kanban from "Data Collection" to "Analyses"

👀 So, this happened! 😱 💃20 months and more than 500 participants recruited across 3 sites, in 3 languages, we officially completed data collection in our ORA ESRC/DFG/SSHRC processing speed training study (gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref... )!!! 🎉🥂🎉 Let the analyses begin 😍😍😍

I wonder how, I wonder why. Yesterday you told me about the blue blue sky. And now, I'm in Bluesky! #YouSingYouLose