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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! Multi-Brain Stimulation, Social Interaction, and a lot of other cool stuff! :) Please share!

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

inspired by all the brilliant work from auditory visual processing and groups from @cnspworkshop.bsky.social

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This thread is also a perfect time to share this recent spot-on piece by @escross.bsky.social — and I'm grateful to see our dancing brain featured! Couldn’t agree more: thrilled to see dance stepping into the neuroscience spotlight! More to come…!

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

These findings show how computational neuroscience can reveal the brain mechanisms behind real-world movement and social behavior — helping us understand how the brain supports dynamic, interactive moments.

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This brain result echoes our earlier behavioral finding: that bounce might play a key role in how we naturally sync up with others when we dance! (see our Current Biology paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Finally, we found one dance move that stands out: vertical bounce! Using PCA, we found that bounce explains over 80% of the brain responses tied to both moving and watching a partner. This is noteworthy as bounce was explaining even less than 1% of the kinematic variance!

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We also uncovered a new brain signal for social coordination! 🧠👯 This signal tracks how well dancers move in sync, beyond just reacting to your own or your partner’s movements. It shows up when partners make eye contact, comes from visual areas, and is driven by watching (not initiating) movement.

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We linked the mTRF results to well-known brain signals using classic ERP analysis. The first three processes reflect known ERPs: (I) frontotemporal P50-N100-P200 for sound, (II) central-lateralized motor potentials for movement initiation, and (III) occipital N170 for movement observation.

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

mTRFs teased apart four key processes: (I) auditory tracking of music, (II) control of self-generated movements, (III) visual monitoring of partner movements, and (IV) visual tracking of social coordination accuracy. Importantly, these are all independent of eye, face and neck muscle activity!

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We recorded EEG, 3D full-body kinematics, EOG, and EMG signals from 80 participants freely dancing in pairs to music. Then we used advanced denoising techniques and multivariate temporal response functions (mTRFs) to to tease apart neural signals related to music, movement, and social partners.

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

EEG of the Dancing Brain - new paper out! 🧠🕺 Thrilled to share our latest work on disentangling the neural basis of real-time social dance!! www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2... A full @giacomonovembre.bsky.social NPA Lab production 🎬 #dance #socialinteraction #hyperscanning #motioncapture

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Here it is our new preprint on neural encoding of musical expectations in newborns! in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab check it out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore: 🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques) 💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making 🤝 Spontaneous social behavior ⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hi! Thanks for this, I'd be happy to be in :) working on hyperscanning and dance

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hi Marta, thanks for putting this together! I'd be happy to be added. interested in (and working on) dance, music and movement, combining neuroimaging and 3D kinematics methods!

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Dr Joshua S. Bamford @js.bamford.id.au · 18/11/2024

What is the synchrony-bonding effect, and why did I move to Finland to watch people dancing in silent discos? Find out in my first ever article in @uk.theconversation.com 🎧🎶 #musicscience theconversation.com/silent-disco...

theconversation.com

Silent disco: why dancing in sync brings us closer together

The synchronisation involved in music and dance may be the “active ingredient” in their social bonding effects.

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thanks for this! :) I'd be happy to be in the list (I'm studying dance and music)

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Proposes that human-parrot similarities in movement to music &the neurobiology of advanced vocal learning hold clues to the evolutionary foundations of human dance.

A person and a parrot rhythmic dancing to music

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Basta Twitter, let's chat here! Some groovy moves to come 🕺🪩 #musicscience #dance #neuroscience

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Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thanks so much for this, and hi everyone! Would love to be added too!

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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Join the #musicscience community here #musicskyence !!!

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A comparison of EEG encoding models using audiovisual stimuli and their unimodal counterparts journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... Does visual information influence auditory encoding? EEG of 11 people listened to & watched movie trailers in audiovisual (AV), visual (V) only, & audio (A) only conditions

A cartoon like image of a person wearing an EEG cap and pressing keys on a computer keyboard - there is a monitor with some wavy lines and a load speaker

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