Excited to share our latest paper in PLOS Biology: "The human auditory system uses amplitude modulation to distinguish music from speech." doi.org/10.1371/journa… Many thanks to my fantastic and supportive collaborators! Xiangbin Teng M. Florencia Assaneo David Poeppel

Negation/saying no/denial is a fundamental but not super-well understood part of cognition/language. New paper by Arianna Zuanazzi Jean-Rémi King Pablo Ripollés Laura Gwilliams WyMin Lin: behavior+MEG highlight important aspects. Not a bad paper. #PLOSBiology plos.io/45lpkqJ

A #postdoc position careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R100… in my lab (cailab-miami.org) at UMiami-Psychology on an exiting project of decoding spontaneous thoughts! Rich fMRI dataset, extention to basic or clinical directions, collaboration with Nico Schuck and Quentin Huys! #compneuro #fMRI

Even the best in the world only win ~ 54% of the shots they play. Very interesting lessons in resilience and perseverance.

Interested in music/speech perception? Check our preprint! With M. Florencia Assaneo, we investigated neural tracking of natural music and speech signals across anatomical regions and frequency bands (slow/fast) using a publicly available EcoG dataset. 🧠🎻🗣️🎬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

HKU psychology hiring 3 faculty: Associate/Assistant Prof. in Clinical Psychology - jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/5267… Aug31 Professor/Associate/Assistant Prof. in Educational/School Psychology - jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/5267… Aug31 Associate Prof. (Research): jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/5262… June30 👇

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Experience the vibrant energy of Hong Kong while doing some research! Apply for the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship : ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/fundin… (HKD 420,000 per year, ~10% tax!) Immerse yourself in the unique blend of urban excitement and natural beauty of our campus (and my lab😉).

I've been excited about this project/paper for a long time: Segmenting and Predicting Musical Phrase Structure Exploits Neural Gain Modulation and Phase Precession. EverSoClever expt by Xiangbin Teng Pauline We/brains track notes & beats-but structure? jneurosci.org/content/44/30/…

I put some introductory #EEG / #MEG videos together, based on our introduction to #neuroimaging at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit : youtube.com/playlist?list=…. They should cover the most common aspects of EEG/MEG analysis, including pre-processing, source estimation and functional connectivity.

Entrainment echoes come from the cerebellum, which drives the left IFG after but not during intelligible speech! New paper with Omid Abbasi, Joachim Gross, and Sonja Kotz from BAND-Lab: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New research by Iballa Burunat, Daniel Levitin and Petri Toiviainen reveals how our brains process musical boundaries, turning endless sound into captivating, structured experiences. (1/2)