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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺

@dquiroga.bsky.social
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Imagination, working memory, brains, audition, music, (i)EEG, MEG. Postdoc at University of Copenhagen. Former UC Berkeley, Aarhus Uni. Salsa dancer. Colombian. www.neurodavid.com

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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What do individual human neurons do when a sound violates expectations? In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... #MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.
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PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.
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PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience investigating the neuronal mechanisms of auditory imagination with #EEG #iEEG and beyond: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Honored to receive a @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social fellowship to study the brain basis of auditory imagination and its dysfunction in schizophrenia with #EEG, #iEEG, single neuron recordings and TMS: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... PhD call below #neuroskyence #compneurosky #musicscience
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A Neuronal Mechanism for Auditory Imagination
Some people can vividly imagine sounds; others cannot at all. But how does the brain regulate the experience of sounds that come from within? And is there a mechanism that could be exploited to treat ...
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.
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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#MusicScience AND #NeuroJobs, together at last! I can personally recommend several excellent chocolateries nearby: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Postdoctoral position studying music processing with iEEG - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Implications of recursive Bayesian Sensory Inference www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG! 📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET 💐 Free but mandatory registration Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes!
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience
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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excellent work by @dquiroga.bsky.social! Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music 🎶 #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience
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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
#iEEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
For all the newcomers, a list of #musicscience researchers bsky.app/profile/did:...
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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 Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2025
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Ever slam on the brakes after seeing a speed trap? Or better yet, slow down ahead in anticipation? In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC. tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv
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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Randolph is fantastic, and this will be an incredible opportunity to work on cutting edge science! Definitely consider applying
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." -- @nplusonemag.com 🙏🏽 www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
An insightful & enjoyable conversation with computational cognitive scientists Dr @olivia.science & Prof @irisvanrooij.bsky.social about their paper 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia' Give it a listen❗ Share this & the paper w university leadership & administrators❗
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds? Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex
Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...
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Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...
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Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications
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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres. He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates
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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv! Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation
Harmonicity is an important feature for auditory perception as it influences pitch processing, memory and hearing in noisy environments. However, the neural substrates of processing harmonic and inhar...
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17/04/2025
as an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito... the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech
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Pierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Dear #eeg #neuroskyence #neurosky people: we've just set up a feed that focuses on intracranial EEG research. Please check it out: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j3iraqfrxtckpozvwlzbtihc/feed/aaabu2nq26lhy Use the tags #iEEG, #ECoG, #sEEG or #stereo-EEG to post. (this time with the correct link 😅)
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Silvia Genovese @silviagenovese.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very excited to share with you our new paper on sleep strategies in the general population! #musicscience #sleepscience
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/02/2025
Colombia President Claims Cocaine No Worse Than Whiskey theonion.com/colombi...
“While we’re ranking things, I’ve always thought Sprite was better than meth.”

Dennis Pardo, Tax Evader
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Silvia Genovese @silviagenovese.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hello! For my PhD at the @musicinthebrain.bsky.social we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep. 🎶💤 Click on the link if you’re more than 18 and listen to music for sleep! It takes around 15 minutes ☀️ survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto... Thank you! #musicscience @lullabyte.bsky.social
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/02/2025
Powerful, provocative piece from @cbo.bsky.social this morning.
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Best use of AI so far youtube.com/watch?v=bL9i... "AI granny speaks to scammer"
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#musicscience folks: Unhappy with the long and secretive review process of traditional journals? Tired of paying nonsensical APCs for open access? I hear rumors of a diamond OA @peercommunityin.bsky.social in Systematic Musicology. Anyone interested? @js.bamford.id.au @stupacher.bsky.social
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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
You can read our new paper on modelling multiple data streams with varying dimensionality (alternately titled "What am I going to do with all these dimensions?!") if you want to. It's not even a little bit illegal.
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Victor Pando-Naude @pandonaude.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Check out @musicinthebrain.bsky.social new paper published in Physics of Life Reviews on the Major - Minor dichotomy in music perception. I share first authorship with Giulio Carraturo. Thanks to all co-authors and to @dg.dk #musicscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception
In Western tonal music, major and minor modes are recognized as the primary musical features in eliciting emotional responses. The underlying correlat…
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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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Jimmy @james-hickey.com · 02/12/2024
It often makes me laugh that Fuck Around, Find Out is simply and quite literally how the scientific method actually works. #AcademicSky #Science
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Some #musicscience humor to start the week
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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’ve created a starter pack to collect the #musicscience and #musicpsychology related organizations and labs together in one place. Let me know if there is anyone to add! go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New preprint out with Rebecca Jane Scarratt 🥳🎉 Using a text mining approach to YouTube comments, we investigated how different motivations for using sleep music can influence the type of music used for sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/11/2024
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Welcome to bsky @musicinthebrain.bsky.social ! You can find a bunch of the #musicscience #musicskyence folks here:
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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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