Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? Find the answer in our latest work, just out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews: Leonor Neves @DanielArturAM sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Good times at the ESCAN #ESCAN2022 opening party. So nice to see so many old friends and meet new people! Also really looking forward to our symposium tomorrow with César Lima, Paola Sessa, Themis Efthimiou, and Claudia Massaccesi.

⚠️New paper at Nature Human Behaviour⚠️ Can posed smiles make people feel happier? In a global adversarial collaboration, we found overwhelming support for this controversial hypothesis. But we couldnt resolve one thing: concerns about a popular pen-in-mouth smiling task. 🧵

Our new review paper ‘Music training and nonmusical abilities’ is out in Annual Review of Psychology Annual Reviews. With E. Glenn Schellenberg annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool Review by Charles Fernyhough & Anna Borghi @cfernyhough annaborghi OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

Does human auditory cortex process the singing voice as more than sung speech, and if so, why? A new paper by Ilana Harris, Efe Niven, Alex Griffin and me - read it here nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢 Exciting News! 🧠⚡ Happy to share our latest preprint! We show that Zygomaticus activation through facial neuromuscular electric stimulation (fNMES) induces happiness perception in ambiguous facial expressions osf.io/preprints/psya…

I’m so happy to share our newest paper in which we found evidence that children’s neural tracking of musical rhythms is associated with their grammatical skills!! Congrats to 1st author Valentina Persici for her outstanding work and thank you @NIDCD for the support!!! VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

Many people on Twitter helped us develop this questionnaire, and now Ceci Qing Cai 蔡晴 @marie_ahoi César Lima and I are delighted to present the Laughter Perception and Production Questionnaire, to measure people’s experiences of laughter discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1018…

Ofereceram-me algo sem preço: uma árvore plantada em meu nome na floresta de Be’eri, onde teve lugar o massacre do Festival Nova. Porque é preciso que nasça vida. Sinto-me profundamente honrada.

Our paper on individual differences in musicality is now published in Nature Communications! 🧠🎶 We found that variations in musical perceptual abilities in the general population are linked to diffs in brain network systems largely dedicated to working memory and other exec functions /1

Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? It enhances fine-motor skills & auditory memory; it doesn't improve emotion recognition, other cognitive abilities, or socioemotional functioning. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…