Frank A. Russo
@thinkauditory.bsky.social
Psych Prof @TorontoMet #auditorycognitiveneuroscience #musicscience #speech #emotion #hearing
🎶 New RCT: Choir singing & music appreciation training improve speech-in-noise + FFRs in older adult hearing aid users.
Findings add evidence that music-based interventions can support listening—contrasting recent cross-sectional nulls. 👉 thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
Findings add evidence that music-based interventions can support listening—contrasting recent cross-sectional nulls. 👉 thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
Thieme E-Journals - Seminars in Hearing / Abstract
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September 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🎶 New RCT: Choir singing & music appreciation training improve speech-in-noise + FFRs in older adult hearing aid users.
Findings add evidence that music-based interventions can support listening—contrasting recent cross-sectional nulls. 👉 thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
Findings add evidence that music-based interventions can support listening—contrasting recent cross-sectional nulls. 👉 thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
Congratulations to Maxime Perron for leading our latest publication on listening effort! 🧠👂 The title hints at a contrarian insight that challenges thinking about the nature of frontal activations observed in older adults under challenging listening conditions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Age-related increased frontal activation in sentence comprehension reflects inefficiency, not compensation
Cognitive aging is associated with increased prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity, often interpreted as either a compensatory mechanism or a sign of neura…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Congratulations to Maxime Perron for leading our latest publication on listening effort! 🧠👂 The title hints at a contrarian insight that challenges thinking about the nature of frontal activations observed in older adults under challenging listening conditions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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SingWell's @thinkauditory.bsky.social was on BBC
@channel4.bsky.social #SecretsOfTheSuperagers series yesterday, offering a look at how group singing can help aging adults combat #hearingloss🦻
Older adults in his study saw a 10-20% gain in speech understanding after 10wks of choir 🗣️
#healthyaging
@channel4.bsky.social #SecretsOfTheSuperagers series yesterday, offering a look at how group singing can help aging adults combat #hearingloss🦻
Older adults in his study saw a 10-20% gain in speech understanding after 10wks of choir 🗣️
#healthyaging
July 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
SingWell's @thinkauditory.bsky.social was on BBC
@channel4.bsky.social #SecretsOfTheSuperagers series yesterday, offering a look at how group singing can help aging adults combat #hearingloss🦻
Older adults in his study saw a 10-20% gain in speech understanding after 10wks of choir 🗣️
#healthyaging
@channel4.bsky.social #SecretsOfTheSuperagers series yesterday, offering a look at how group singing can help aging adults combat #hearingloss🦻
Older adults in his study saw a 10-20% gain in speech understanding after 10wks of choir 🗣️
#healthyaging
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Paper out Today in Scientific Reports 🥳: In a new study of people with Parkinson’s disease, both yoga and choir improved mood and reduced stress. But only group singing led to stronger feelings of social closeness and a surge in oxytocin
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparing the biopsychosocial impact of group singing and yoga activities in older adults living with Parkinson’s disease - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Comparing the biopsychosocial impact of group singing and yoga activities in older adults living with Parkinson’s disease
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Paper out Today in Scientific Reports 🥳: In a new study of people with Parkinson’s disease, both yoga and choir improved mood and reduced stress. But only group singing led to stronger feelings of social closeness and a surge in oxytocin
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Job alert -- the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Mental Health. Rank = Full Professor. Provides $1M CAD per year for the term (inclusive of salary, benefits, and research expenses). Deadline is August 15, 2025.
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job alert -- the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Mental Health. Rank = Full Professor. Provides $1M CAD per year for the term (inclusive of salary, benefits, and research expenses). Deadline is August 15, 2025.
New @SingWellProject study alert! 📢 Our paper in @FrontNeuro shows that group singing reduces cortisol and alpha amylase in patients with Parkinson's; In addition, pain threshold increases following singing were related to cortisol.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
May 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New @SingWellProject study alert! 📢 Our paper in @FrontNeuro shows that group singing reduces cortisol and alpha amylase in patients with Parkinson's; In addition, pain threshold increases following singing were related to cortisol.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Our new plate washer in action!
May 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Our new plate washer in action!
Congratulations to @karlinave.bsky.social @eehannon.bsky.social @auditoryjoel.bsky.social on advancing this registered report on tagging neural entrainment to beat (and meter) -- an immense amount of work on the part of the organizers and from the many contributing labs made this possible.
It's got a boring title but this preprint is being submitted for Stage 2 consideration at AMPPS, and is in fact very exciting!
Karli Nave led a group of labs that replicated an influential EEG study on auditory beat perception by Nozaradan et al. (2011).
We found:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Karli Nave led a group of labs that replicated an influential EEG study on auditory beat perception by Nozaradan et al. (2011).
We found:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Registered Report: Replication and Extension of Nozaradan, Peretz, Missal and Mouraux (2011)
Cognitive neuroscience research has attempted to disentangle stimulus-driven processing from conscious perceptual processing for decades. Some prior evidence for neural processing of perceived musical...
www.biorxiv.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Congratulations to @karlinave.bsky.social @eehannon.bsky.social @auditoryjoel.bsky.social on advancing this registered report on tagging neural entrainment to beat (and meter) -- an immense amount of work on the part of the organizers and from the many contributing labs made this possible.
Please join us 12-1.30 ET this Friday for the SingWell Project's next seminar. Co-hosted with Choral Canada / Canada Choral. This seminar takes us back to our roots, focusing on singing to support hearing in people with #hearingloss. Featuring Ben Zendel and Sina Fallah.
March 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Please join us 12-1.30 ET this Friday for the SingWell Project's next seminar. Co-hosted with Choral Canada / Canada Choral. This seminar takes us back to our roots, focusing on singing to support hearing in people with #hearingloss. Featuring Ben Zendel and Sina Fallah.
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Fascinating paper that is useful to share with undergrads or grads contemplating their next move in academia. Mentees trained in big groups have lower "survival rates" but they do have higher fecundity and citations. arxiv.org/pdf/2208.05304
arxiv.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Fascinating paper that is useful to share with undergrads or grads contemplating their next move in academia. Mentees trained in big groups have lower "survival rates" but they do have higher fecundity and citations. arxiv.org/pdf/2208.05304
Excited to share what should be my lab's last study published in 2024. We found that rhythm perception, pitch perception, and working memory all positively contribute to speech in noise for older adults with hearing loss. https://buff.ly/41Lctht
December 23, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Excited to share what should be my lab's last study published in 2024. We found that rhythm perception, pitch perception, and working memory all positively contribute to speech in noise for older adults with hearing loss. https://buff.ly/41Lctht
Excited to see our Registered Report Protocol published online today. This 7-site study will assess whether group singing supports speech in noise and psychosocial wellbeing in older adults with hearing loss. www.singwell.ca #musicscience #hearing journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Speech-in-noise, psychosocial, and heart rate variability outcomes of group singing or audiobook club interventions for older adults with unaddressed hearing loss: A SingWell Project multisite, random...
Background Unaddressed age-related hearing loss is highly prevalent among older adults, typified by negative consequences for speech-in-noise perception and psychosocial wellbeing. There is promising ...
journals.plos.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Excited to see our Registered Report Protocol published online today. This 7-site study will assess whether group singing supports speech in noise and psychosocial wellbeing in older adults with hearing loss. www.singwell.ca #musicscience #hearing journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
KT/KMb activity last week for World COPD day on the topic of #singing and lung health. www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ye...
COPD Live 2024
YouTube video by Lung Health Foundation
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November 26, 2024 at 2:56 AM
KT/KMb activity last week for World COPD day on the topic of #singing and lung health. www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ye...
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I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Honoured to be inducted to my Uni's Open Access Hall of Fame today! Grattitude to @DV_PhD who showed me that #OpenScience practices really aren't that hard and the staff @librarytmu for help getting started with our RShare repository @researchTMU @TMUPsych @arts_tmu
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Honoured to be inducted to my Uni's Open Access Hall of Fame today! Grattitude to @DV_PhD who showed me that #OpenScience practices really aren't that hard and the staff @librarytmu for help getting started with our RShare repository @researchTMU @TMUPsych @arts_tmu
@SingWellProject Speaker Series, Speaker Series | Ep.1, complete @researchTMU @ChoralCanada @uturnpd @arts_tmu
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
@SingWellProject Speaker Series, Speaker Series | Ep.1, complete @researchTMU @ChoralCanada @uturnpd @arts_tmu
It's been a real treat working with @SeanAGilmore1. He graduated today and I was there to hood him. 'Deaf gain in da house' @TMUPsych @arts_tmu
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
It's been a real treat working with @SeanAGilmore1. He graduated today and I was there to hood him. 'Deaf gain in da house' @TMUPsych @arts_tmu
A randomized control trial to assess the effectiveness of music with auditory beat stimulation for reducing state anxiety in students with trait anxiety
osf.io/preprints/psya…
osf.io/preprints/psya…
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
A randomized control trial to assess the effectiveness of music with auditory beat stimulation for reducing state anxiety in students with trait anxiety
osf.io/preprints/psya…
osf.io/preprints/psya…
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Our latest fNIRS work presented at fNIRS 2024 in Birmingham, UK: "The effect on hearing aids on accuracy, response time and brain activation during speech emotion perception in older adults"
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Our latest fNIRS work presented at fNIRS 2024 in Birmingham, UK: "The effect on hearing aids on accuracy, response time and brain activation during speech emotion perception in older adults"
Great way to end the week! @SingWellProject PhD student, Alex Pachete, hits submit on new manuscript to Aphasiology: “Understanding group singing in older adults with aphasia from a psychosocial perspective”. Behold the sweet feeling of accomplishment/relief 👏😅🎉
November 26, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Great way to end the week! @SingWellProject PhD student, Alex Pachete, hits submit on new manuscript to Aphasiology: “Understanding group singing in older adults with aphasia from a psychosocial perspective”. Behold the sweet feeling of accomplishment/relief 👏😅🎉
Musical training does not enhance neural sound encoding at early stages of the auditory system: A large-scale multisite investigation
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
November 26, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Musical training does not enhance neural sound encoding at early stages of the auditory system: A large-scale multisite investigation
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…