Professor of Psychology @ UNLV. Associate Editor for @jephpp.bsky.social and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Researching #Music/ #Auditory Cognition since the last century. Helped found UNLV's Neuroscience Ph.D. program.
Joel Snyder
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Good little article on vagus nerve stimulation
#neuroscience #health #stress
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
Social media hype about the vagus nerve tends to be oversimplified. The truth is more complex — and more interesting.
I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 care-2026.heysummit.com
We Are Experiencing a Helium Shortage: What This Could Mean for an "Irreplaceable" Element www.discovermagazine.com/we-are-exper...
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/inf...
Just yesterday I was talking to a colleague about a participant who reports their mental imagery shifts from black and white to color, triggered by self-reflection. This is the opposite but in the real world. Despite being the real world, this feels very surreal. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...
Maggie's study on perception of objects and settings in natural auditory scenes is now published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America!
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
This is an amazingly informative article about cephalopods in Nature today.
I had no idea about the anatomy of octopus nervous systems or that so many neurons are in their arms rather than their brains.
#neuroscience #brain #intelligence #consciousness #pain
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our study on how listening to groovy music *does not* modulate primary motor cortex is now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding
go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.
Auditory scene perception allows listeners to identify both the setting and the objects within a scene, supporting decision-making and situational awareness. Wh
Abstract. Groove is the pleasurable urge to move to the beat of music, a universally experienced human phenomenon. Because listeners are often inspired to move to music with groove, we asked whether h...
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
Amidst all the terrible things, do we still post pre-prints? Just in case yes, here's a new one by Maggie McMullin on perception of objects and settings in recordings of natural auditory scenes.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
At long last, we submitted our 2 experiment study failing to find EEG evidence that primary motor cortex is modulated by high-groove music. Wish us luck in peer review! Led by Samantha O’Connell.
