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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New @SingWellProject study alert! 📢 Our paper in @FrontNeuro shows that group singing reduces cortisol and alpha amylase in patients with Parkinson's; In addition, pain threshold increases following singing were related to cortisol. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Please join us 12-1.30 ET this Friday for the SingWell Project's next seminar. Co-hosted with Choral Canada / Canada Choral. This seminar takes us back to our roots, focusing on singing to support hearing in people with #hearingloss. Featuring Ben Zendel and Sina Fallah.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Honoured to be inducted to my Uni's Open Access Hall of Fame today! Grattitude to @DV_PhD who showed me that #OpenScience practices really aren't that hard and the staff @librarytmu for help getting started with our RShare repository @researchTMU @TMUPsych @arts_tmu

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

⁦@SingWellProject⁩ Speaker Series, Speaker Series | Ep.1, complete ⁦@researchTMU⁩ @ChoralCanada⁩ ⁦@uturnpd⁩ ⁦@arts_tmu⁩

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

It's been a real treat working with @SeanAGilmore1. He graduated today and I was there to hood him. 'Deaf gain in da house' @TMUPsych @arts_tmu

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Our latest fNIRS work presented at fNIRS 2024 in Birmingham, UK: "The effect on hearing aids on accuracy, response time and brain activation during speech emotion perception in older adults"

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Great way to end the week! @SingWellProject PhD student, Alex Pachete, hits submit on new manuscript to Aphasiology: “Understanding group singing in older adults with aphasia from a psychosocial perspective”. Behold the sweet feeling of accomplishment/relief 👏😅🎉

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Congrats to @SeanAGilmore1 who successfully defended his PhD yesterday —An Investigation into Vibrotactile Beat Perception in Deaf Individuals — And big 🙏🏼 to the examining committee who asked about the science and the story behind it. @john_iversen @MollyJHenry @coghearinglab

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Most of the lab came together to send off three of our most esteemed junior lab members -- all moving on to start their PhD journeys @rhi_ueberholz @TaraRaessi and Lucy Muir. Go get em!

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

The lab had a fabulous #smpc2024 meeting in Banff last week. Big thanks to the organizers @brynmdhughes @LindseyReymore @svanhedger for making this happen.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

The SMART Lab and @SingWellProject managed to sign up more than 60 new recruits for our participant database at the 50+ festival. Thanks to lab members and all those who visited us.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

So lucky to have been working with @TaraRaessi these past few years. She will receive the Governor General’s academic silver medal for her exemplary accomplishments as an undergraduate student. She’s kind of unstoppable! Photo @TMUPsych Awards Night at Arts and Letters Club.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Had a great couple of days with @thelucidproject in Montreal! Great food, even better company, and wonderful new connections. Making work an adventure is easy to do so with these folks. Looking forward to many more experiences with this fantastic team! #LUCID #TeamOuting

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

A few generations of ⁦@CanAcoustical⁩ Presidents

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Heading to Ottawa for an @acousticsorg meeting and my train seat is next to the delightful @hm_sokolowski from TMU. And we're not even going to the same meeting. Our offices @TorontoMet are also across the hall from each other. What strange but very good luck :)

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Reunited with the best 2 undergrads ever. Now crushing their own PhD adventures #smarties

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

What a happy coincidence -- we had a few generations of lab administrators present for today's lab meeting and I just learned that today is Administrative Professionals Day! We'd be lost without them #Rhiannon #Kay #Fran

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Thanks to Simone Dalla Bella @BRAMS_Montreal for a great talk in our Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium Series @TMUPsych.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Will you be at CNS? Come visit our posters! #CNS2024

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

That’s a wrap. Francis Collins and “pink Freud” take us out of MusicasMedicine meeting with “if not now, then when” . Let the oxytocin, sharing and connectedness flow …@soundhealthnet @SingWellProject

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

We had an excellent TARG (Toronto Auditory Research Group) meeting yesterday @TorontoMet. Here are some of us happily assembled at the post-meeting in the library …

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Attempting a simple task with your PI can be frustrating — you never know when they’re going to attempt a “trick shot” 😅 #PIProblems

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Lab Fall/Winter'23 writing retreat was a great success! We have some new exciting papers that we'll be submitting ...

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Happy to share insights with my @Torontomet colleagues at the Royal Society of Canada-G7 Research Summit on Healthy Aging. Psychology / Nursing (@suebb934) / Urban Planning (@s_biglieri) @researchTMU all well represented.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Thanks to @AssalHabibi and her team at the @USC Brain and Creativity Institute for being fabulous hosts these last few days. Great to learn about your fantastic #musicscience and to cap it all off with Barber of Seville at the LA Opera.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Zombie prof knows little but sees all

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

This doesn’t happen very often: A lab wedding! Congrats to #pacheteduet, and thank you for sharing your day with us!!!

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Thanks to #csbbcs2023 for hosting a great annual meeting!

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

This month @HannahShatzer will be leaving to take up a new TT position at @msudenver. It's been absolutely great working with Hannah these past few years! We had a SMART/TMARC sendoff last week. We're going to miss Hannah's many contributions to research and culture in the lab.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

Congrats to all new ⁦@arts_tmu⁩ grads!

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 28/05/2023

Thanks to @PatrickESavage and @sfujiidr for hosting me in Tokyo/Yokohama. Was fun to be a part of the x-Music Night revival, meet some of your excellent students, and share some updates about the work we are doing @thelucidproject and @singwellproject. #musicscience

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 20/03/2023

My lab has been trashed and expanded. Actually, this is first look at the new TMARC (Toronto Metropolitan Auditory Research Centre) with @coghearinglab and @MollyJHenry

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 03/03/2023

Happy World Hearing Day from Scottsdale, AZ at the 50th Anniversary of the @amaudsoc. [Morning view from Camelback]. This year's WHO theme highlights the importance of ear and hearing care within primary care. who.int/campaigns/worl…

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 13/02/2023

Should be great @AROMWM symposium today at 2PM:“Music to Our Ears: Does Musical Training Improve Auditory and Speech Processing and Perception?" in Ocean's Ballroom 1-4 featuring @dbaskent1; Oxenham; @EBJCoffey; @EG_Schellenberg; Habibi; @KellyWhiteford; Harding; Torppa; and me.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 24/01/2023

Just heard tonight that Sandra Trehub has passed away. I'm hopeful that those of us working in #musicscience will continue to be inspired by her legacy. She was a role model to so many, and it wasn't just the science. Carpe diem.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 16/11/2022

Spotted in downtown Boston last month

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 03/11/2022

Join @SingWellProject for a 1-day event Nov 11, 11.30-5 ET to learn about how group singing is being used to benefit communication&wellbeing. Keynote by @StephenClift on the need for robust critique. Workshop on knowledge mobilization. Register @SSHRC_CRSH tinyurl.com/pwt8tw3e

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 10/10/2022

Joy Hirsch gives keynote address at Society for fNIRS tracking her own evolution as a NIRS researcher and her pioneering work in social dynamics ⁦@nirs2022⁩

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 30/09/2022

Awesome lab retreat over the last few days. Lucky to be working with this inspiring group of researchers. #gratitude #betteratthelake

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 14/08/2022

Good times at #ihcon2022 and making elaborate plans for the next with NIHR Nottingham crew. @HannahShatzer @Chi_Yhun_Lo @EmmaEMcLean @Haleykmorris @hlh1

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 09/08/2022

Proud of Chi Yhun Lo (right), a postdoc in my lab who was awarded a Sig Soli (left) scholarship to attend the #IHAS #IHCON2022 meetings in Lake Tahoe this week. Sig Soli (1946-2022) contributed to development of CI & hearing aid technology, and the Hearing-in-Noise Test (HINT).

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 09/06/2022

We lost a GIANT of Cognitive Psychology last month. Roger Shepard was responsible for many important contributions to perception, memory, representation, learning and generalization. Did I mention he was an accomplished artist? At an art show of his a few years back in Arizona.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 09/03/2022

New RCT with @adiel_mallik on the effects of music and auditory beat stimulation on anxiety. We find that combining these two treatment modalities is more effective than either one on its own @thelucidproject journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 15/12/2021

We had an in-person lab meeting today. These are very good. And then some of us went skating.

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Frank A. Russo @thinkauditory.bsky.social · 30/11/2021

After a long hiatus, TARG (Toronto Auditory Research Group) happened today. And it was great!👂🧠🤩

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