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Erica Flaten (She/Her)

@flatenerica.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Infant Studies Centre, University of British Columbia, researching rhythm in early language development πŸ‘ΆπŸŽΆπŸ§  Recently received my PhD at McMaster University, in the Auditory Development Lab.

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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....

25.03.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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? πŸ‘€πŸ§ πŸ‘Ά

20.06.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We'll be there! πŸ‘‡
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...

12.06.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

02.04.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited for this one! πŸ§ πŸ‘Ά

06.04.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

19.03.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Are you a Early Career #Researcher, #PhD, or #Psychology student? Are you interested in #Developmental Psychology? Join us on social media for news, updates and developmental psychology content! @bpsdevsection.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDChat #DevPsych

20.03.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Congrats all. Very cool work!

14.03.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨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. πŸ‘‰ osf.io/preprints/os...

14.03.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.03.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

28.02.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜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...

03.02.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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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/...

09.01.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Interested in being the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Associate Editor at Developmental Science... Join us!

16.12.2024 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

13.12.2024 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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25.11.2024 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 9
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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 β€˜Analyzing Neural Time Series Data’ on youtube. youtube.com/@mikexcohen1... Super handy as it is considered one of the EEG bibles for cognitive neuroscientists.

25.11.2024 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

20.11.2024 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 2
Postdoc (100%, 2 years) - arousal and attention regulation in ADHD Postdoc (100%, 2 years) - arousal and attention regulation in ADHD

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

22.11.2024 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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…

πŸ“„ 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...

25.11.2024 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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

21.11.2024 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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!

19.11.2024 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

19.11.2024 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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)? πŸ‘Ά

19.11.2024 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ‘Άγ€°οΈπŸ§ πŸ₯

#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky

16.02.2024 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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! 🧠⏰

20.11.2023 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why emotions stirred by music create such powerful memories Psychologists used music to manipulate emotions of volunteers and found the dynamics of their emotions molded otherwise neutral experiences into memorable events. The tug of war between integrating me...

#TRFpaper supported by UCLA and Columbia University about #emotion #music and #memorability πŸ₯ΉπŸŽΆπŸ“ www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

22.11.2023 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Frontal oscillatory beta bursts have rhythmically distinct regimes with differing functional relevance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.13.566594v1 The importance of studying the transient burst-like nature of beta- and gamma-band oscillations has

Frontal oscillatory beta bursts have rhythmically distinct regimes with differing functional relevance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.13.566594v1

15.11.2023 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Join us, Nov. 29th @ 10:00 a.m. EST for our next #vJC with
Mattia Rosso and Samuel Post, for a couple of neural talks on entrainment and temporal encoding πŸ§ γ€°οΈβ±οΈ

Register here ⬇️
mailchi.mp/afc50a249ddd...

02.11.2023 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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PhD Admissions & Requiremens, Behavior, Cognition, & Neuroscience Admissions and degree requirements for the PhD in Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience at American University in Washington, DC.

Interested in how babies understand the visual/social world? πŸ§ πŸ‘ΆπŸ€– I'm anticipating accepting a new PhD student! 🚨 Grow your #DevPsyc, #eeg, #fNIRS, & #compneuro skills, contribute to NSF/NARSAD funded research in lovely DC 🌸
Deadline 12/1: www.american.edu/cas/neurosci... (GRE op.)
Team: bayetlab.com

01.11.2023 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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