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On the cover, our Editorial: Why Roe v. Wade must be defended hubs.li/Q01b9FLr0

(Italy) Enjoy 5-year-old Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani performing some Mozart.🎶🎵

Vale Distinguished Professor Anne Cutler. Brilliant researcher, gifted science communicator, mentor, passionate & powerful advocate. My deepest sympathy to Anne’s collaborators, friends, family. I am grateful to have worked with Anne and learned so much from her.

Idée pour les gastroentérologues: peut-être que vous pourriez obtenir le même résultat en poussant une comptine et en tapotant avec votre colonoscope avant? Ça prendrait une étude. 🤔 (inspiré par une judicieuse question de Jonathan Personne)

Moving in synchrony to a musical beat is a highly polygenic trait, with 69 genomic loci identified in this GWAS of beat synchronization from Maria Niarchou (she/her) @CrunchyNeuroSci et al #musicscience #genomic #GWAS @VUMCgenetics VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery 23andMe Research buff.ly/3xU5rHW

It’s sometimes referred to as having a tin ear, but being unable to hear music is mostly about the brain. nam kiwanuka spoke with Tim Falconer and Frank Russo (Toronto Metropolitan University) about the science behind being able to hear, and sing, a happy song. youtu.be/v122ZI8Zp34

There is a science behind tone deafness. Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University prof. and director of the SMART Lab Frank Russo discusses neuro mechanisms and #psychology behind tone deafness in singing lessons. bit.ly/3Sle7PP Frank Russo

As Sam Mehr summarizes: "The study offers an “elegant” way to test people’s musical abilities. “It definitely feels like a real phenomenon, not some kind of contrived thing that a bunch of psychologists made up in the lab. science.org/content/articl…

Phenomenal new study in PNASNews by the brilliant Miriam Lense and team, showing how incredibly sensitive infants are to the beat of music in song already at 2 months of age, and how the beat entrains their social engagement! #musicscience VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery @Vanderbilt_KC

Dr. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden Christina VBdN / christinavbdn.bsky.social from U of T Mississauga will be our next BRAMS-CRBLM lecture series speaker! “Speech vs. Song: What’s the difference and why does it matter?” Wed, Nov 23, 2022 @ 3pm In-person attendance + Zoom/FB Live For more info: brams.org/2022/10/28/bra…

Official doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… 1/ Individuals in a sync task exploit the group average for stability. Temporal wisdom of crowds @DelasantaLana 2/ A new pulse-coupled Kuramoto model accounts for ind and group var. The group average exploits the individuals Ed Large Dan Cameron

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to BRAMS member Sandra Trehub, who passed away unexpectedly. She was a great friend to many at BRAMS, and her contributions to the field of music cognition are legendary. We will miss her deeply. Our condolences to family & friends.

MDPI journals have been included in the list of predatory journals. It was about time. predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of…

“This situation has significantly eroded Canada’s position as a global hub for the attraction and retention of research-enabled talent,” #BouchardReport said. “Canada is at serious risk of another brain drain without reinvestment.” globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281633…

Overjoyed for Isabelle Peretz from Université de Montréal on her National Academy of Sciences induction. Son œuvre inspirante et inspirée a créé la « neurocognition de la musique ». Grâce à vous, #Montréal est la capitale mondiale de l’étude du « cerveau musical ». #DiploQc #NAS160 #QcUS

Newborn babies sense ‘the beat’ | The ability to recognize a beat in music is not simply due to the statistical learning ability of newborns, but that beat perception is actually a separate cognitive mechanism that is already active at birth sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Stanislas Dehaene of NeuroSpin Center winner of a 2024 National Academy of Sciences Atkinson Prize for his groundbreaking work on brain circuitry! #NASaward #academia Bravo, Stan!

As sam doesn't use this site anymore 🦋 said “There’s always something there in the minds of people all over the world, wherever they are, whatever their background, that prepares them to hear music, understand music and motivate them to produce music” youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg?si… via YouTube

Come be my colleague! UTMPsychology is hiring in the perception & cognition area. Retweets appreciated! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…