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 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026From 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 060 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Thanks to the great students in my lab, and support from NSF & NIH 🙏 000 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/11/2025EEG 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 #mussciskynyaspubs.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... 130 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I 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 🎹🧠 040 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Kudos 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 🙌 110 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025We 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 100 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025but 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.media.tenor.coma purple background with the word laurel in whiteALT: a purple background with the word laurel in white 100 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Turns out 1) everyone dislikes the repeated speech more after repetition, 2) ppl w/ musical anhedonia didn’t change their ratings more than controls 100 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025We 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. 100 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The 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. 100 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I read this aloud to @richardhwest.bsky.social and he says he now doesn’t believe the first part 😂😂😂🇸🇪🗄️💪 030 0
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 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I 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. 💪 060 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Also 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!) 050 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Last 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 2111 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Here’s Kaye Han: Joint Connectivity between Sensorimotor and Auditory-Reward Networks During Resting State and Music Listening 140 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Here’s Jinyu Wang: Brain Structural Predictors of Musical Reward Sensitivity in Older and Young Adults 150 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Here’s Corinna Parrish: Effects of Theta-Band Amplitude Modulation on Sustained Attention 140 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 25469974076 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Like 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...cambridge.orgThe World Health Organization adult ADHD self-report scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge CoreThe World Health Organization adult ADHD self-report scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population - Volume 35 Issue 2 010 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Reposted by Psyche LouiLucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Every day brings new horrors 011512 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Here’s a podcast about individual differences in musical engagement, hope it’s informative! mpetersonmusic.com/podcast/epis...mpetersonmusic.comEp. 170: Unraveling the Enigma of Musical Anhedonia: The Brain, Predictions, and the Missing Joy of Music; with Psyche Loui, PhD - MINDY PETERSON, NCTMDive 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,... 000 0
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 0
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 0