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Yiren Ren

@yirenr.bsky.social
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Music, memory and emotion

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New article with @yirenr.bsky.social ! Memory for pairs of visual stimuli can be strengthened by music as a contextual backdrop. Critically, this influence extends to indirect relational associations more---v @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Music enhances associative generalization: Evidence from a memory integration task - Memory & Cognition
Successful knowledge generalization requires integrating overlapping experiences into flexible memory representations that support inference beyond direct experience. Although context is known to infl...
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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I am thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of Notre Dame (@notredame.bsky.social) as an Assistant Professor of Psychology this July!☘️🧠 Please reach out if you're interested in joining my lab! More details to follow soon.
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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Please share - we hope to see you and your work in May!
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Yiren Ren @yirenr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The most meaningful research emails are not about data or methods—they’re from students who’ve watched music help their loved ones with dementia access memories they thought were lost. This is why music cognition research isn’t just academic curiosity—it’s hope.
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Yiren Ren @yirenr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🧠🎵 OUR NEW PREPRINT: Familiar melodies hijack your brain's learning networks—literally rewiring visual sequence processing from struggle mode to flow state. @thackerybrown.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Music Scaffolds Visual Statistical Sequence Learning Through Network-Level Reorganization in the Brain
Statistical learning—the ability to extract patterns from noisy continuous experiences—is fundamental to human cognition. Yet, how contextual factors shape this process remains poorly understood. Musi...
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