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Psyche Loui

@psycheloui.bsky.social
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neuroscientist, musician, question asker, mom. associate professor of #creativity, associate dean of research @northeastern #music #arts #media #design #psychology #cognition #musicscience 🇭🇰 she/her

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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Such 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.
a group of researchers with laptops open
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
From Lab to Concert Hall: Effects of Live Performance on Neural-Acoustic Phase-Locking and Engagement. 1st MIND Lab × NEC collab, led by @arun-asthagiri.bsky.social Open access ⬇️ #neuroskyence #musicscience #psyscisky 2/2 academic.oup.com/scan/advance-article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsag021/8529477
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Why 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
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A 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)
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Thrilled 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 #psychscisky
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What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
The study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
4 select pics from each month of 2025! Thank you friends and family for all your positive energy. Let’s keep sticking together in 2026
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We 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...
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Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About 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 ...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thanks to the great students in my lab, and support from NSF & NIH 🙏
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
EEG beta band activity and frequency-tagged activity at the note rate tracks listeners’ creativity judgments across participants, as well as interval entropy and prediction error. Paper: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #neurosky #EEG #MusicScience #musscisky
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NYAS Publications
Perceiving 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...
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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 metrics
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NYAS Publications
Perceiving 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...
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UC Merced Cognitive & Information Sciences @ucmcogsci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our 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"
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Let 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...
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Let Music Be Your Medicine
Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I should add that this would not have happened without federal support from the National Science Foundation’s Career award which not only paid the participants, but also enabled the combined #psychology and #music major @northeasternu.bsky.social #psyscisky to grow #musicscience 🎹🧠
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Kudos to the great @nickkathios.bsky.social & Ben Kubit for pushing this through, Ani Patel & Adam Tierney for bringing their 🪄, and the students for embarking on some publishable-quality work in my Music and the Brain course! #musicscience ftw 🙌
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We think it’s because Laurel hearers are attend more to the low frequencies within speech, which also give rise to the song-like qualities of speech. I also think it’s pretty cool to use these illusions as a way to understand individual differences in perception
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
but curiously 3) ppl who heard Laurel instead of Yanny in the famous Laurel-Yanny illusion were more like to perceive the speech-to-song transition.
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a purple background with the word laurel in white
ALT: a purple background with the word laurel in white
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Turns out 1) everyone dislikes the repeated speech more after repetition, 2) ppl w/ musical anhedonia didn’t change their ratings more than controls
Musicality (A) and liking (B) ratings before and after repetition for song illusion and control stimuli for individuals with musical anhedonia and matched controls.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We set out asking whether people with musical anhedonia might experience the speech to song illusion differently, and whether the speech to song illusion might be accompanied by any changes in liking, not just in musicality ratings.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The speech to song illusion, famously started when Diana Deutsch played herself saying “sometimes behave so strangely” on loop, describes the curious #musicscience phenomenon where speech seems to turn into song when repeated.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New 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 #musicscience
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Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
When 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”
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a 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 .
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sand
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a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening
Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...
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Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT)
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New 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...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I read this aloud to @richardhwest.bsky.social and he says he now doesn’t believe the first part 😂😂😂🇸🇪🗄️💪
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well!
The Northern lights Steamed arctic char with Vin Jaune sauce and trout roeA group of scientists cross-country skiing, including one towing a toddler
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I should add that this work is funded in large part by taxpayers through NSF and NIH. Their support is crucial to our work towards innovative solutions to problems ranging from Alzheimer’s Disease to depression, anxiety, and ADHD. 💪
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Also check out the precision gesturing by postdoc Ben Kubit on Earworms, Memory Consolidation, and Neural Replay for Recently Heard Music (very cool work he did @margulisa.bsky.social before joining my lab!)
Man gestures in a very precise way while holding coffee, standing in front of a poster with brains on it
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@arun-asthagiri.bsky.social
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Last but certainly not the least, @nickkathios.bsky.social on Finding the Self in Others' Music: Self and Other Representations in Theory of Mind Network During Music Listening
Nick’s actual poster title is Finding the Self in Others' Music: Self and Other
Representations in Prefrontal & Parietal Cortices During Music (two people discussing a poster with lots of brain images)
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here’s Kaye Han: Joint Connectivity between Sensorimotor and Auditory-Reward Networks During Resting State and Music Listening
Colorful regions of interest functional connectivity plots
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here’s Jinyu Wang: Brain Structural Predictors of Musical Reward Sensitivity in Older and Young Adults
White matter and grey matter predictors of musical reward
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here’s Corinna Parrish: Effects of Theta-Band Amplitude Modulation on Sustained Attention
Enthusiastic cognitive neuroscientist presenting poster on EEG and fMRI and behavioral testing on background music and its effects on sustained attention
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thanks 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
Smiling presenter on Synchronized Music and Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Kun 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!
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join 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.com
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Science Homecoming
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. 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...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH 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
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Like the ASRS (ADHD self-report scale)? www.cambridge.org/core/journal... yes, we used it here www.nature.com/articles/s42... and here’s the TLDR www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience...
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The World Health Organization adult ADHD self-report scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
The World Health Organization adult ADHD self-report scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population - Volume 35 Issue 2
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The 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.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Diary 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...
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Diary analysis of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention | Music and Medicine
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I 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. 1/7
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/02/2025
It'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.
A sea otter looks at the camera, hands to its face.
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Every day brings new horrors
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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Belden, 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.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
6 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 😍
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18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Cool #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...
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Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
Rhythm perception and synchronization to periodicity hold fundamental neurodevelopmental importance for language acquisition, musical behavior, and social communication. Rhythm is omnipresent in the f...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Here’s a podcast about individual differences in musical engagement, hope it’s informative! mpetersonmusic.com/podcast/epis...
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Ep. 170: Unraveling the Enigma of Musical Anhedonia: The Brain, Predictions, and the Missing Joy of Music; with Psyche Loui, PhD - MINDY PETERSON, NCTM
Dive into the intriguing world of musical anhedonia with Dr. Psyche Loui as she unveils the mysteries of why some people simply don't find pleasure in music. Explore the brain's intricate connections,...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The @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...
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Music can improve focus for people with ADHD. Here’s what to listen for
New research from Northeastern music professor Psyche Loui and Brain.fm pinpoints the musical characteristics that can help concentration.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A 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-trial
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5. Trial
I have mentioned in a previous post or two that I was exploring (and finally accepted into) clinical trials.
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