Giacomo Novembre
@giacomonovembre.bsky.social
Leader of the Neuroscience of Perception & Action Laboratory (NPA Lab, http://npa.iit.it). Italian Institute of Technology. Rome, Italy.
URL: https://giacomonovembre.com
URL: https://giacomonovembre.com
The title says it all :)
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in Trends in Neurosciences - with @ateshkoul.bsky.social and @felixbigand.bsky.social
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in Trends in Neurosciences - with @ateshkoul.bsky.social and @felixbigand.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Interpersonal neural synchrony: one label, many phenomena
Brains synchronize interpersonally during social interaction, yet the term ‘synchrony’
is often used to describe phenomena with different origins and functional implications.
In this article, we brief...
www.cell.com
October 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The title says it all :)
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in Trends in Neurosciences - with @ateshkoul.bsky.social and @felixbigand.bsky.social
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in Trends in Neurosciences - with @ateshkoul.bsky.social and @felixbigand.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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Our new opinion piece with R. Zatorre and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is out.
We discuss four key steps toward understanding the evolutionary origins of human musicality ..🎶
We discuss four key steps toward understanding the evolutionary origins of human musicality ..🎶
Online Now: Four missing keystones in the evolutionary origins of music
Four missing keystones in the evolutionary origins of music
Music is pervasive across human history, cultures, and development, yet its evolutionary origins remain unresolved due to the interplay of cultural and biological influences. We argue that identifying uniquely human musicality requires cross-primate comparative research that integrates rhythm and melody processing with exposure, computational principles, and intrinsic reward.
dlvr.it
July 27, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Our new opinion piece with R. Zatorre and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is out.
We discuss four key steps toward understanding the evolutionary origins of human musicality ..🎶
We discuss four key steps toward understanding the evolutionary origins of human musicality ..🎶
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Very pleased that this fantastic study led by @trinhnguyen.bsky.social & @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Inofficial title: Tiny dancers 🕺💃🏻
Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year
Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full matu...
doi.org
July 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Very pleased that this fantastic study led by @trinhnguyen.bsky.social & @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Inofficial title: Tiny dancers 🕺💃🏻
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Very excited for my paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social on spontaneous emergence of #Interpersonal #Physiological #Synchrony (IPS). We show that, even without a structured task, your autonomic bodily signals synchronize with another person just by looking at them! doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵 1/6
NYAS Publications
Dyads merely looking at each other synchronize autonomic physiology, including heart rate, pupil diameter, breathing rate, and skin conductance. Synchrony in some of these measures co-occurs with syn...
doi.org
June 23, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Very excited for my paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social on spontaneous emergence of #Interpersonal #Physiological #Synchrony (IPS). We show that, even without a structured task, your autonomic bodily signals synchronize with another person just by looking at them! doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵 1/6
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@giacomonovembre.bsky.social shares with work about causally manipulating interbrain synchrony across species and how it regulates social choices
April 18, 2026 at 4:01 PM
@giacomonovembre.bsky.social shares with work about causally manipulating interbrain synchrony across species and how it regulates social choices
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Does our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Does our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg
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I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
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Are you interested in what to do with all that movement data you often get in your neuroscience measures? Is it just noise, or how can we make use of it? This December, we are organizing a workshop in Lübeck to discuss precisely these questions. (1/2)
June 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Are you interested in what to do with all that movement data you often get in your neuroscience measures? Is it just noise, or how can we make use of it? This December, we are organizing a workshop in Lübeck to discuss precisely these questions. (1/2)
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💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀
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#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience
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#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience
authors.elsevier.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience
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1/ Thrilled to start on Bluesky with our latest publication in Nature Neuroscience (@natneuro.nature.com) – and huge congratulations to RoryBufacchi who led this work (first at @ucl.ac.uk and then @iitalk.bsky.social) with extraordinary insight and fastidiousness.
Free full text: rdcu.be/eo3G3
Free full text: rdcu.be/eo3G3
Egocentric value maps of the near-body environment
Nature Neuroscience - Some neurons act like body-proximity sensors. The authors show that these neurons reflect the value of contacting or avoiding objects. Together, these neurons compose a...
rdcu.be
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
1/ Thrilled to start on Bluesky with our latest publication in Nature Neuroscience (@natneuro.nature.com) – and huge congratulations to RoryBufacchi who led this work (first at @ucl.ac.uk and then @iitalk.bsky.social) with extraordinary insight and fastidiousness.
Free full text: rdcu.be/eo3G3
Free full text: rdcu.be/eo3G3
One of my proudest works—especially thinking back to neuroscience classes 10–20 years ago, when we were taught that measuring EEG during naturalistic behavior wasn’t feasible. Hopefully, this helps make it less of a taboo.
EEG of the Dancing Brain - new paper out! 🧠🕺
Thrilled to share our latest work on disentangling the neural basis of real-time social dance!!
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
A full @giacomonovembre.bsky.social NPA Lab production 🎬
#dance #socialinteraction #hyperscanning #motioncapture
Thrilled to share our latest work on disentangling the neural basis of real-time social dance!!
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
A full @giacomonovembre.bsky.social NPA Lab production 🎬
#dance #socialinteraction #hyperscanning #motioncapture
May 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
One of my proudest works—especially thinking back to neuroscience classes 10–20 years ago, when we were taught that measuring EEG during naturalistic behavior wasn’t feasible. Hopefully, this helps make it less of a taboo.
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Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life
Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
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Honoured and grateful to have received a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out my LEARNINSYNC project! Together wih @giacomonovembre.bsky.social at the IIT (Rome) we will look at LEARNing IN social interaction and the role of inter-brain SYNChrony.
#MSCA #EuropeanCommission #Horizon
#MSCA #EuropeanCommission #Horizon
The 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship call results are in.
With a budget of €417 million, we are funding nearly 1,700 researchers from 🇪🇺 and beyond.
They will strengthen EU research in key areas such as social inclusion, AI, and cancer research ↓
europa.eu/!BmWRkh
With a budget of €417 million, we are funding nearly 1,700 researchers from 🇪🇺 and beyond.
They will strengthen EU research in key areas such as social inclusion, AI, and cancer research ↓
europa.eu/!BmWRkh
April 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Honoured and grateful to have received a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out my LEARNINSYNC project! Together wih @giacomonovembre.bsky.social at the IIT (Rome) we will look at LEARNing IN social interaction and the role of inter-brain SYNChrony.
#MSCA #EuropeanCommission #Horizon
#MSCA #EuropeanCommission #Horizon
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Here it is our new preprint on neural encoding of musical expectations in newborns!
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
March 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here it is our new preprint on neural encoding of musical expectations in newborns!
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
in collaboration with B. Toth & I. Winkler's hungrain team and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social 's NPAlab
check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#musicscience #Neuroscience #MusicCognition #Neurodevelopment
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🚨New Preprint! 🎵🧠 Joint music listening enhances interpersonal affective and neural synchrony. A huge fNIRS hyperscanning study on shared music listening & pleasure with @federicocurzel.bsky.social , @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, Barbara Tillmann and Arnaud Fournel. 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
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osf.io
March 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🚨New Preprint! 🎵🧠 Joint music listening enhances interpersonal affective and neural synchrony. A huge fNIRS hyperscanning study on shared music listening & pleasure with @federicocurzel.bsky.social , @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, Barbara Tillmann and Arnaud Fournel. 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
🎶 Everything you ever wanted to know about Joint Music Making—but were afraid to ask! 🎶
A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).
A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).
March 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎶 Everything you ever wanted to know about Joint Music Making—but were afraid to ask! 🎶
A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).
A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:
🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior
⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
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How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc
How accurately can we estimate spontaneous body kinematics from video recordings? Effect of movement amplitude on OpenPose accuracy - Behavior Research Methods
Estimating how the human body moves in space and time—body kinematics—has important applications for industry, healthcare, and several research fields. Gold-standard methodologies capturing body kinem...
t.ly
February 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc