Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Such a pleasure to be part of this! Here is a snapshot of our co-writing session. The Lorentz Center was perfectly set up for this type of co-creating. 072
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2 25622
Reposted by Psyche LouiStephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 14/03/2026A bit belated, but it was such a pleasure seeing the lab showcase all their excellent hard work at #CNS2026! Go team!! 🚀 (+ guest appearance from @psycheloui.bsky.social ‘s awesome lab) 1133
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... #neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychsciskynewyorker.comWhat a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of MusicThe study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us. 27215
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 03/01/20264 select pics from each month of 2025! Thank you friends and family for all your positive energy. Let’s keep sticking together in 2026 020
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 26/11/2025We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain HealthAbout the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ... 01011
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/11/2025🎶 New paper 🚨: Perceiving Creativity in Novel Musical Sequences: An EEG Study. Using a sequencer in the non-traditional Bohlen Pierce Scale, we show that perceived creativity correlates with EEG neural synchronization at the note rate and harmonics, and with sequence-level information metricsnyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNYAS PublicationsPerceiving musical creativity involves multiple neural mechanisms underlying expectation and prediction error. Using the innovative Bohlen–Pierce Sequencer—a tool requiring no musical training—we fou... 1153
Reposted by Psyche LouiUC Merced Cognitive & Information Sciences @ucmcogsci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Our next MTS speaker @psycheloui.bsky.social, Prof. of Creativity and Creative Practice at @northeasternu.bsky.social, joins us Mon 10/27 to discuss her recent work on how/why humans across societies learn to love music in "Strange Scales: How Novel Music Reveals the Secrets of the Predictive Brain" 081
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks @psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...psychologytoday.comLet Music Be Your MedicineExploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. 0162
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicsciencenature.comLaurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not 1225
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025When the faculty “retreat” is on campus and basically a very long faculty meeting, and you’re told there’s food but please “bring a drink”media.tenor.coma man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .Alt: a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him . 150
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sandmedia.tenor.coma cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happeningAlt: a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening 0110
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...college.berklee.eduIntersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) 030
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 06/05/2025New book chapter for forthcoming edited volume on subjectivity and improvisation, edited by my cool Italian hosts in Cremona! “Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation” osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 061
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well! 080
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thanks to organizers for a great #CNS2025! proud of my labbies for repping that happy intersection of #music & #cognitive #neuroscience #musicscience. Here’s Arun Asthagiri: Synchronized Music & Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment 2151
Reposted by Psyche LouiKun Dong @kundong.bsky.social · 29/03/2025#CNS2025 | Happening now Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal (here in this context audiovisual) entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies! 182
Reposted by Psyche LouiCantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.comsciencehomecoming.comScience Homecoming 43905682
Reposted by Psyche LouiCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25469984077
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...nytimes.comDozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID OrderThe stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. 010
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Diary of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention. Latest #musicscience in which we analyze journal data to show feasibility of coupling lights in the gamma band with music for mild cognitive impairment doi.org/10.47513/mmd...doi.org Diary analysis of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention | Music and Medicine 040
Reposted by Psyche LouiTim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I think one thing that the general public doesn’t fully grasp yet is that American science funding was already teetering on the edge before all this started. www.eenews.net/articles/sci... A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out. 1/7eenews.net 14830
Reposted by Psyche LouiCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/02/2025It's a lot. Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic. Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength. 1473184
Reposted by Psyche LouiLucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Every day brings new horrors 011712
Reposted by Psyche LouiNeuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians. 095
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/01/20256 days until the extended deadline of 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 21 to 25 July 2025 www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍icmpc2025.abcogmus.com18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 021
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert: Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...jneurosci.orgAuditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal StructuresRhythm perception and synchronization to periodicity hold fundamental neurodevelopmental importance for language acquisition, musical behavior, and social communication. Rhythm is omnipresent in the f... 25520
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...news.northeastern.eduMusic can improve focus for people with ADHD. Here’s what to listen forNew research from Northeastern music professor Psyche Loui and Brain.fm pinpoints the musical characteristics that can help concentration. 5398
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 10/01/2025A beautiful blogpost about our lab’s #musicscience clinical trial for Alzheimer’s, from the first person perspective of a participant: alzblog.substack.com/p/5-trialalzblog.substack.com5. TrialI have mentioned in a previous post or two that I was exploring (and finally accepted into) clinical trials. 0170
Reposted by Psyche LouiMiriam Lense @miriamlense.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience! 082
Reposted by Psyche LouiMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...pnas.orgNon-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNASDisparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t... 21650294
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for an excellent #psynom24 in NYC! Proud to make it into the Saturday highlights, great writeup here www.psychonomic.org/page/2024Sat...psychonomic.org2024 Annual Meeting - Psychonomic SocietyIndividuals Experiencing Greater Social Jet Lag Are More Susceptible to the Continued Influence Effect of Misinformation 170
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Hello from #APCAM24 in NYC! This high school student just handled her technical difficulties like a boss! Lots of great #musicscience 0140
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Delighted to share that our edited volume, The Science Music Borderlands, won the 2024 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society! Thank you to all who helped on the project. 6312
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Thank you to Assal Habibi for an amazing event at USC: Segil Symposium: “Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and Music” keck.usc.edu/calendar/eve...keck.usc.edu2024 HCN Segil Symposium: Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and MusicWe warmly invite you to the 2024 HCN Segil Symposium. The theme, Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and Music, features esteemed speakers in the field. Enjoy musical interludes by Delirium Mu... 170
Reposted by Psyche LouiNick Kathios @nickkathios.bsky.social · 10/11/2024with an uptick in #musicscience interest on here i thought i’d take the time to introduce myself w a few recent pubs! im a 4th yr phd candidate @ northeastern u interested in music, reward, and development. to start off is a recently in press paper at memory: tinyurl.com/2r6jed9rtinyurl.comOn the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memoriesMusic-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar mu... 3187
Reposted by Psyche LouiNick Kathios @nickkathios.bsky.social · 10/11/2024this is a hypothesis we flesh out in a recent perspective paper, headed by ⭐️ undergrad student rishi kudaravalli with @psycheloui.bsky.social & juliet davidow. we argue increases in music reward valuation during adol. may support greater music-related memories from this time tinyurl.com/2r8ccs3dtinyurl.comFrontiers | Revisiting the musical reminiscence bump: insights from neurocognitive and social brain development in adolescenceMusic listening is enjoyed across the lifespan and around the world. This has spurred many theories on the evolutionary purpose of music. The Music for Socia... 131
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 26/10/2024How does background music help sustain attention? Our lab’s multi-method #musicscience collaboration with @brain.fm now out www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comRapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications BiologyRapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ... 2307
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 01/07/2024Belated #neuromusicviii photos thread #musicscience 1100
Reposted by Psyche LouiNick Kathios @nickkathios.bsky.social · 19/06/2024an exciting end to #neuromusicviii was receiving word that our (myself, kelsie lopez, @laurelgd.bsky.social, and @psycheloui.bsky.social) Music@Home - Retrospective scale validation paper was accepted at behavior research methods (preprint: tinyurl.com/2h6wajrp)! a short 🧵osf.ioOSF 1112
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 13/06/2024Loving everything about Estonia and my sabbatical so far… see you soon #neuromusic #neuroskyence 2140
Reposted by Psyche LouiAssociation for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 28/05/2024Feeling unprepared for the grant-writing process? Don't miss our June 5 webinar with @jaredmedina.bsky.social and @psycheloui.bsky.social Register: member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event... 021
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 30/04/2024Do musical anhedonics still feel the groove? Our new #musicscience w/ Peter Benson @nickkathios.bsky.social out this week just in time for Peter’s ugrad graduation. Cool drum breaks, even cooler modeling journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgPredictive coding in musical anhedonia: A study of grooveGroove, or the pleasurable urge to move to music, offers unique insight into the relationship between emotion and action. The predictive coding of music model posits that groove is linked to predictio... 0126
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 12/04/2024Pre-concert talk at the Boston Symphony Hall on gamma, #musicscience, #neuroskyence, and health! 0151
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 28/03/2024A big ol’ brain in front of the Psychology Building foregrounds the brain-mind duality? 140
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 23/03/2024Had a great time chatting #musicscience with Özge and @nickkathios.bsky.social & Matt S on this podcast #psyscisky 090
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Boston peeps: join us for our happy hour show! Chamber pop songs about life, love, trees, and random everyday stuff youtu.be/NakYL5oK8CU?...youtu.beWiggly Tendrils at The SubstationThe wiggly tendrils substation ad 010
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 03/01/2024Happy New Year! Here’s a delightful exchange: ▶️ www.facebook.com/reel/1566200...facebook.comPiano Lessons with Jon Batiste & Michelle Obama | Love, music, the...Love, music, the healing power of art… and a little bit of piano magic with Michelle Obama and Jon Batiste 🎹 🎶 American Symphony is now playing on Netflix. 000
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 31/12/2023Today I closed all my browser tabs on all my devices and now 2023 feels properly sent off 🎩🥳 081