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.
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
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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
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)
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.
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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
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 🧠🎶🤖
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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/...
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Thanks to the great students in my lab, and support from NSF & NIH 🙏
🎶 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