Erica Flaten (She/Her)

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library By combining multiple EEG measures of rhythm perception, we show novel evidence that adults' metre perception is shaped by complex interactions between attention and enculturated biases. In conjuncti...

The last remaining study from my PhD is now out openly in Psychophysiology 🥳🧠🎶🥁

We show novel evidence that the way the adult brain organizes musical rhythms is influenced by complex interactions between attention and enculturated biases.

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Investigating Generalizability of Top–Down Neural Representation of Meter in Infancy Abstract. Music and speech rhythms are hierarchically organized, including grouping beats to create metrical structures. Previously, we showed that infants can be primed via loudness accents to interp...

Another from my PhD out now! We tested infants on their ability to generalize a learned metre to new stimuli at different tempos, measured by EEG responses. Overall, infants failed to generalize, but we found links with music experience and priming. Check it out!👶🧠🎶

doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech This study demonstrates that regular musical rhythms can act as a temporal guide for brain oscillations, enhancing synchronization with the speech envelope. This effect was observed across different ...

Happy to share my very first first-author paper! In this study, we show that rhythms can shape how our brains track speech (in very simple words). Work with Marina Kalashnikova, @nicolaml.bsky.social and Mikel Lizarazu.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hey #DevSci #Neuroskyence people, wondering if I know anyone who has experience running combined EEG and Eyetracking with infants and if I could pick your brain on a couple things? 👀🧠👶

We'll be there! 👇
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

Thoughtful and generative piece on lateralization by @basilpreisig.bsky.social and Martin Meyer. An important perspective on issues that remain complex. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited for this one! 🧠👶

Registered Report: Replication and Extension of Nozaradan, Peretz, Missal and Mouraux (2011) Cognitive neuroscience research has attempted to disentangle stimulus-driven processing from conscious perceptual processing for decades. Some prior evidence for neural processing of perceived musical...

It's got a boring title but this preprint is being submitted for Stage 2 consideration at AMPPS, and is in fact very exciting!

Karli Nave led a group of labs that replicated an influential EEG study on auditory beat perception by Nozaradan et al. (2011).

We found:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Congrats all. Very cool work!

🚨New Preprint! 🎵🧠 Joint music listening enhances interpersonal affective and neural synchrony. A huge fNIRS hyperscanning study on shared music listening & pleasure with @federicocurzel.bsky.social , @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, Barbara Tillmann and Arnaud Fournel. 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...

A very cool postdoc opportunity!
#musicscience #neuroscience #DevSci

Anyone in the developmental psychology/infant research community know of any existing parent-report questionnaires on infant babbling (i.e., syllable production), specifically for English families? #DevSci

‘Enigmatic’ cave art was made by ice age children Charcoal doodling appears 14,000 years ago, as adults drew more proficiently nearby

Enigmatic’ cave art was made by ice age children www.science.org/content/arti...

The Active Infant's Developing Role in Musical Interactions: Insights From an Online Parent Questionnaire Musical interactions between caregivers and their infants typically rely on a limited repertoire of live vocal songs and recorded music. Research suggests that these well-known songs are especially e...

Excited to share a paper from myself and
@lkcirelli.bsky.social focused on caregiver-infant musical interactions in the home! (1/6)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Hi hello, asking the community for recommendations of developmental neuroscience books/review papers/chapters that focus on infants' general neural development, particularly ones that include good information on changes in brain activity patterns (e.g., oscillations). Thanks! #neuroscience #DevSci

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Mike X Cohen Welcome to my youtube channel, which hosts video lectures on time series analysis, programming, statistics, and data science. Many of my videos are excerpts from full-length courses. You can find mor...

Don’t forget that Mike X Cohen has posted tutorials and lectures on all the chapters in his EEG book ‘Analyzing Neural Time Series Data’ on youtube. youtube.com/@mikexcohen1... Super handy as it is considered one of the EEG bibles for cognitive neuroscientists.

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials (Compiled by Carlos Aizenman, Brown University, Dept. of Neuroscience) Maintaining a current list of digital educational resources is tricky. Softwar...

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you are looking for an EEG Post Doc position, and have both an applied and fundamental interest, Roeljan Wiersema's lab is the place to be.

Deadline is Monday 25-11, so be quick! #EEG #neuroskyence

The impact of EEG electrode density on the mapping of cortical activity networks in infants Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used for assessing infant's brain activity, and multi-channel recordings support studies on functional cortical…

📄 Our new paper examines the impact of #EEG density on the resolution and fidelity of cortical network mapping in infants. More electrodes are better in theory, but less convenient in practice. What is the compromise?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice! I think balloons might be a choking hazard for the little ones but not a bad way to display branding 🤌🏻

Ouu, a bib is a good idea. We have t-shirts and onesies with branding but some parents have mentioned that they are less interested in clothing. A bib is a bit more versatile though maybe!

Yes, the diplomas with the pictures have been great for us too, especially the EEG studies :)

Question for the #DevSci, #CogDev, #DevPsy communities. Working with infants, we send home families with little prizes (e.g., books, bath toys) for their participation. I am curious what other labs have found to be the most successful (most popular, not too expensive, good across ages)? 👶

It's official, I'll be presenting a poster at the Infant Studies (ICIS) conference in Glasgow this coming July! Excited to present some of the final results of my PhD with the Infancy community 👶〰️🧠🥁

#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky

Hi #PsychSciSky just reintroducing ourselves again and reminding all folks studying all things time, timing, or rhythm perception to give us a follow and tag us in all your awesome psychology, neuroscience etc. research! 🧠⏰