Get into the groove!🎶😉 Study of people in 15 countries suggests the human #brain has a universal tendency to lean towards simple rhythms, but that biases can vary widely across different cultures🎶shorturl.at/nrEP5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Computational Auditory Perception Group Nori Jacoby Josh McDermott

Here are some of my thoughts on why Nori Jacoby et al.'s paper is so important and impressive (from this preprint from my forthcoming book: osf.io/preprints/psya…)

Nice news story about our recent paper Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Max Planck Society Computational Auditory Perception Group

👏 Congrats to this fantastic collab-work with 34 co-authors, incl. Nori Jacoby, Josh McDermott, and many more. The team researched #musicalperception by examining preferred #beat patterns across various nations and #cultural backgrounds. Out now in Nature Human Behaviour!

Some interesting thoughts by Pat Savage about out recent paper (together with Josh McDermott Nori Jacoby Jessica Grahn Eduardo A. Undurraga Elizabeth Margulis Shinya Fujii Pat Savage Kelly Jakubowski Andre Holzapfel Suvarna Alladi Bronwyn Tarr Manuel Anglada-Tort Peter Harrison Dr. Malinda J. McPherson)

A study of people in 15 countries reveals that the human brain favors rhythms with simple integer ratios, but biases can vary substantially across societies. Josh McDermott Nori Jacoby MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences

mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/03/04/exp…

Our work is finally out! With data from 923 participants from 39 participant groups in 15 countries across 5 continents, and 34 collaborators including psychologists, music researchers, ethnomusicologists and anthropologists from around the world. Max Planck Society Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Happy to share our recent mega-paper on consonance! nature.com/articles/s4146…

We’re excited to share that “Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales” is finally out in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…. With-
Raja Marjieh* Peter Harrison* HARIN, Fotini, and Nori Jacoby.

A nice cover of our PNAS paper by UC Davis here: ucdavis.edu/news/people-wh… see also very nice reflection about this collaboration by Seth Frey. Together with Ofer Tchernichovski, Nori Jacoby and Dalton Conley.

Four years in the making, my main PhD work is in Nature Human Behaviour!

Decades of work has shown both benefits and costs to group decision-making.

Can we restructure social networking algorithms so there are fewer costs and more benefits?

Paper: rdcu.be/dquI1

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Really exciting work from our Computational Auditory Perception Group group now in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…! Collaboration with Ofer Tchernichovski (@OTchernichovski,City University of New York), Seth Frey (@enfascination,UC Davis), Nori Jacoby (@norijacoby ,Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics) and Dalton Conley (@daltonconley,Princeton Sociology).

We’re excited to share an exciting paper led by Ilia Sucholutsky (@PrincetonCS). Collaborating with Nori Jacoby (@CompAudition), Raja Marjieh(@cocosci_lab), and a team from Cambridge University, Cambridge MLG, and The Alan Turing Institute.

📣 We're excited to announce the virtual component of our CogSci2023 workshop on LLMs! We'll be hosting a live panel with our speakers in an interactive town-hall on Zoom.

📅 Date: Friday, Oct 13 12-1:30 EST

👉 Register here: forms.gle/9Te7k3tYgg8jPu…

👇 Talk recordings below

(1/3) The McPherson Auditory Perception Lab is coming to Purdue Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences in Fall 2024, and I am recruiting graduate students and postdocs! If you are interested in studying how people perceive and remember complex sounds, please reach out.

hhs.purdue.edu/directory/mali…

We’re delighted to announce that our former postdoc Manuel Anglada-Tort from Computational Auditory Perception Group group is now a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Best wishes for this new chapter, Manu!

After 10 years, I'm back to Goldsmiths, University of London as a Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Psychology. It's been an incredible journey through TU Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and University of Oxford So happy to finally settle in this wonderful place!

On 8/28 (Mon) at #icmpc17 , HARIN will be talking about our new work on the global network of cultural diffusion observed through large-scale music discovery behaviors. This will also be a showcase of one of our ambitious data efforts. If you're around, come to the talk!