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Lu Lucuța @lu-lucuta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Big news if interested in the theories behind predictive processing in #music and #speech! We recently published a preprint of our critical review on the Neural Bases of Prediction in Music and Speech. @anna5ash.bsky.social @annekosem.bsky.social @perikeller.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being part of a multilab study with >100 authors is very cool, but having a co-authored paper with almost everyone in our field does limit potential reviewer options 😂 @masssimo006.bsky.social @francescatalamini.bsky.social - do you have this problem yet? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📢 New publication alert ! 📢 🎵🧠 Is "having rhythm" one skill or several? *spoiler, we found differences between perception and production tasks, and groups of participants with strong beat-based, but weak memory-based perception. More here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A set of rhythm tasks administered via the internet showed evidence for distinct rhythmic competencies relating to perception versus production as well as sequence memory-based perception compared to...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🎶 📢 Check out our new pre-print, led by PhD candidate Francesca Cantoni, where we introduce the *popBAT* - a short, child-friendly task with groovy pop music, designed to provide an ecological measure of beat perception. See: osf.io/preprints/ps... and get in touch if you want to use it! 🎶🧪🧠

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Only 2 weeks left to apply for a 2-year postdoc to come to Dijon 🇫🇷 🥐 to work with me and our lab on music and language! #musicscience 🎶🧪 More info and application here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

📣 Happy to share our new pre-print investigating rhythmic competencies in an internet-based sample of 300 participants - Check it out here! osf.io/preprints/ps... Nice collaboration with Nick Foster, Reyna Gordon, Simone Dalla Bella, and Barbara Tillmann 😁 🎵🧪 #musicscience 🎶

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Very happy to have been a part of this nice project 😊😊 #musicscience 🎶

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Francesca Talamini @francescatalamini.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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/...

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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...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Here we go! Looking forward to #icon2025 in Porto 🥳

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Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Expressions of Interest for a ✨New✨ AMPS Committee Position: Community Engagement Chair 👥🤝 The chair position supports the organisation’s community engagement efforts: amps.org.au/engagement/ Please use this form to submit your nomination before 11 July 2025: jcu.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thank you @rppw.bsky.social for this opportunity, and thank you all for your questions 😊

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Arrived in Helsinki on the way to @rppw.bsky.social! Looking forward to it 🎊🎊

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 21/05/2025

Two (tenure track) Junior Professorship Chair in Nice, France on: 'Modeling in Neurosciences and Cognition' math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/... 'Mathematics of Life" math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/...

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Junior Professorship Chair: Modeling in Neurosciences and Cognition | Mathématiques et Interactions à Nice

The J. A. Dieudonné research unit and the NeuroMod Institute at Université Côte d'Azur are proud to announce the opening of a Junior Professorship Chair on

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Very proud to share the 1st pre-print from my DECRA project @marcsinstitute.bsky.social w/ @andytonality.bsky.social, Luiza Lucuța, Uğur Mustafa Kaya, & @perikeller.bsky.social. We investigated content & timing predictions in music & speech, for musicians & non-musicians! 🎵🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Looking forward to this upcoming ECR event from the @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social with Professor Gary McPherson! Wednesday 5th March at 4pm Sydney time - Sign up below! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...

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AMPlify 2025 March Seminar: Professor Gary McPherson

Join us for an interactive Q&A session with Professor Gary McPherson to AMPlify your doctoral journey in music psychology!

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Amanda Krause @studylistening.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

get stuck into your #MusicScience writing with us. #GetYourMamuscriptOut

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Super excited to announce that I am starting a new tenure-track position as Chaire de Professeur Junior (Junior Professor Chair) with the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) at the Université Bourgogne Europe in the LEAD team in Dijon, France! :D

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Looking forward to the Rhythm Perception and Production workshop next June in Jyväskylä, Finland!! Abstract submissions close 24th Jan - link here: www.rppw.org/rppw20.html

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Got one reviewer invitation Christmas Eve and one Christmas Day 😅 #merrychristmas 🎄

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MUSIC:ED @musiced.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

European music sector urges new EU Commissioner to prioritise music in policy and funding www.musiceducation.global/c/news/europ...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Why oh why did I make a 2x2x2x2x2 design 😅😅 #musicscience 🎶 so many interactions!

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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🎶💬 New research by Dr Anna Fiveash and team has found that listening to rhythmic #music can help children with #language processing difficulties improve their ability to repeat sentences. | Read: tinyurl.com/4x44tryj @anna5ash.bsky.social #MusicScience #Language #SpeechTherapy #MusicTherapy

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Lots of folks have joined since I first shared the #musicskyence starter pack below (up to 110 now). Worth checking out the new arrivals. To stay up to date you can also pin the #musicscience feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... and the #musicscience list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Haha this is amazing 🎶 🧠

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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Music communicates emotions across cultures, but how much is universal vs cultural? ✨Newly funded #ARC #Discovery Project will explore music's impact on #health, #wellbeing, and the global #music industry. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5 #MusicScience @katestevartssci.bsky.social

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 18/11/2024

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.

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GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio

discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Please consider signing this petition - the Australian Govt is trying to remove music therapy from being supported through the National Disability Insurance Scheme 🎶 🧠 chng.it/rjhN6kLcYp

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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/

Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence

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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

✈️ This week, we welcomed our final #International #VisitingFellow for 2024 and bid farewell to three others - just in time to announce that applications for 2025 scheme are now open! Apply to come and visit for 2-3 months. PhD Candidates & ECRs welcome. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3ztnrufd

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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

On the way to @acnsau.bsky.social conference in Newcastle! Let me know if you're there too and want to meet up! 😊

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language & musical rhythm www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The results revealed 16 pleiotropic loci..jointly associated with rhythm impairment and dyslexia, and intricate shared genetic and neurobiological architectures" @anna5ash.bsky.social 😀

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The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm - Nature Human Behaviour

Using a battery of statistical tools, Alagöz et al. examine the genetic overlap between dyslexia and rhythm impairment and shed light on how the genome influences the neural bases of human language an...

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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dear musician friends, My PhD student, Aliya, is doing a survey asking musicians to describe how they use imagining music in their heads in their work. It will likely take you less than 20 minutes, and you can win an Amazon voucher. Thanks in advance! durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#ACNS2024 is only a few days away! There is still time, however, to register and submit a late-breaking poster (Friday, November 22). In the spirit of promoting sustainability, please consider bringing along your own water bottle, coffee cup and lanyard.

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Not only are we back with a new episode but with a brand new series called "A conversation with a luminary", where we chat with a trailblazing developmental cognitive scientist. We're kicking things off with a conversation with the Rubinstein Professor Jenny Saffran! Enjoy! itsinnate.fireside.fm/21

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Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Need some writing motivation before the end of the year? Come along to the 🆓 #AMPSWritingGroup! Only two more sessions to go this year - fortnightly on Thursdays 10AM-12PM AEDT ⏲️✍️💻 Register now: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writi...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Happy to share our new #musicscience article w/ Nathalie Bedoin & Barbara Tillmann! We discuss why a recent rhythmic priming implementation in English failed. Key factors: ⏱️ added delays after primes, 📝 relaxation instructions, and 📈 small sample size 🧠 🎵🎶 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Examining methodological influences on the rhythmic priming effect: A commentary on Kim, McLaren, and Lee (2024)

The rhythmic priming effect (RPE) refers to improved language performance (typically grammaticality judgements) following regular rhythmic primes comp…

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I feel like I was at quiet party and then a bunch of awesome people arrived 🥳🥳🥳

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Shared Mechanisms for the Processing of #Rhythm in #Music and #Speech! Check out our new pre-print to be published in "Rhythms of Speech and Language: Culture, Cognition, and the Brain", edited by Lars Meyer and Antje Strauss 🎶🧪 🧠 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Check out our (with Barbara Tillmann) new pre-print: Syntax and Prediction in #Language and #Music - to be published in the Oxford Handbook of Language and Music. #musicscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

This looks amazing! 🎶🧪 - only for US citizens/residents.

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