Constantina Theofanopoulou
Neuroscientist 🧠 neurobiology of speech and dance 🗣💃🏽
▪️Herb and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor -Rockefeller University
▪️Visiting Scholar -NYU
▪️Research Associate -Emory & US Dept of Veteran Affairs
🔗https://www.constantinatheofanopoulou.com/
- We are recruiting participants for a new study, Dance for Parkinson’s Disease, exploring how dance impacts brain function and behavior in people with Parkinson’s Disease! Spread the news to anyone who might be a good fit. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- 📌 NEW PREPRINT OUT 📌 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouA new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- If you are in NYC, join us tonight at the @lincolncenter.bsky.social (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) for a conversation on arts and collective wellbeing. I am looking forward to -what is meant to be- an inspiring conversation with colleagues: lincolncenter.org/series/summe... (1/2)
- Take a peek at our recent publication through the lens of a visual summary creatively crafted by the Jameel Arts and Health Lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- In this piece just published in Physics of Life Reviews, we came together as an interdisciplinary team of artists, art therapists, arts educators, and theoretical and clinical researchers to respond to Skov & Nadal’s recent critique of arts-based interventions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouCheck out the latest -From Our Neurons To Yours- podcast episode! I discuss my work using large speech and language systems as "model species" to understand how the human brain processes language 🧠
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- Reposted by Constantina Theofanopoulou🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouGlobal coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our flamenco/jazz event is just ONE WEEK AWAY (and it is free and open to everyone)! RSVP: lnkd.in/e5g5duZY
- 💃🏽 FLAMENCO/JAZZ EVENT in NYC 🪭 📅 Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 ⏰ Time/📍Location: 5 PM – Wine/beer reception at Abby 5:30 PM – Event at Caspary Auditorium The Rockefeller University (1230 York Ave, New York, NY 10065) 🎟 Audience: Free and open to the public 🔗 RSVP: lnkd.in/e5g5duZY
- It was a huge pleasure to discuss with the amazing JD Talasek and David Leventhal about how dance is helping patients regain movement and other abilities, and what neuroscience research says about dance as a form of healing. Links to several podcast platforms: issues.org/music-and-he...
- Thanks to the New York Academy of Sciences for this interview! www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...
- Wonderful work and so revelant to our efforts to understand the neurobiology of speech & dance.
- “What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪
- Reposted by Constantina Theofanopoulou🚨 Paper Alert! 🚨 1/n Thrilled to share our latest research, now published in Nature Communications! 🎉 This study dives deep into how the cerebellum shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #motorcontrol #cerebellum #motoradaptation
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- 💃🏽 FLAMENCO/JAZZ EVENT in NYC 🪭 📅 Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 ⏰ Time/📍Location: 5 PM – Wine/beer reception at Abby 5:30 PM – Event at Caspary Auditorium The Rockefeller University (1230 York Ave, New York, NY 10065) 🎟 Audience: Free and open to the public 🔗 RSVP: lnkd.in/e5g5duZY
- It is great to see dance being highlighted for its brain benefits in Discover magazine this month. Also delightful to see our research featured alongside that of superb collaborators. #dance #neuroscience
- Reposted by Constantina Theofanopoulou🚨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...
- Hugely indebted to Women in Science at Rockefeller for making me part of this Women's History Month Celebration. This initiative has made such an important impact on the university's culture, and I cannot wait to witness and contribute to what comes next. www.wiseratrockefeller.com/womens-histo...
- Reposted by Constantina Theofanopoulou🎶 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).
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- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouHot off the press! Our newest paper is out in Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Wonderful flamenco-jazz memories from the The Art and Science of Social Connection symposium (United Nations General Assembly Healing Arts 2024). Live brain electroencephalography showing two artists' brain responses in real time 🧠💃🏽🥁
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouOur latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouOut now in Nature Comms. To learn a new word, we need to remember it. We track factors driving memory of novel words, showing which words we remember or forget is predictable across people, and isolate a distinct region of fusiform cortex sensitive to this memorability. 🧠📈 #VisionScience 🧠💬 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouOur paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouCheck out our paper ‘Ignoring the cerebellum is hindering progress in neuroscience’ in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social ! With @0xwbj.bsky.social and @amandalebel.bsky.social we quantify the extent of cerebellar exclusion in the neuroimaging literature and discuss reasons/fixes
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouIn an effort to bring #neuroskyence to @bsky.app I wanted to share our recent paper in Neuron tinyurl.com/LesionsOfM1 @markolas.bsky.social and I asked what forelimb M1 contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics using joystick tasks and CFA lesions @cmuscience.bsky.social @the-cnbc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouIn honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field. www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight... #WomenInScience #February11
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- On this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, I am thankful that my words have been featured in the Greek press. I have translated some excerpts for my non-Greek-speaking friends here in the attached images. (1/2)
- As Feb 14th approaches, I am delighted to be joining a great panel of speakers to explore our research through the lens of "The Origin of Love". At its core, love is expressed through two fundamental behaviors I study: speech and dance. Huge thanks to CARTA! carta.anthropogeny.org/events/origi....
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- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouDo you know a parrot that talks or sings? We are always looking for more recordings of pet parrots to help us understand language, musicality, and interaction of various information types in vocal signals. #manyparrots #bioacoustics www.manyparrots.org
- Very happy to share my new paper, where I flesh out the hypothesis that dance-based interventions could have an untapped role in mitigating speech impairments. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouHow strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Constantina Theofanopouloupostdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
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- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouCheck out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/
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- Very happy to be serving with this amazing group of leaders, and even happier to see this new cohort coming in so strong and creative! Also, so great to see some familiar faces (💙): @azaallsop.bsky.social @ismail-ahmed.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouIn a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouI am looking for a PhD candidate interested in the genetics of language 🧬🧠🗨️ Get in touch if interested or please share with others who might be www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded a #DEI grant from @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social in support of our educational/artistic project "Rhythms of Exchange: The Latin American Influences on Flamenco Arts” seeking to honor the pivotal -but overlooked- role of Latin American art in shaping #flamenco.
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- Reposted by Constantina Theofanopoulou#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouA starter pack for people interested in inter-brain synchrony and simultaneous brain recording of all kind! Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know! #hyperscanning #dualeeg go.bsky.app/T1LTrQSat://did:plc:iym4vkf4zkubkfzgv2ptdjt6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbwd5bgfxy2u
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouAnne Churchland and Felicia Davatolhagh discuss why we must address the gender gap in neuroscience citations. www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...
- Reposted by Constantina TheofanopoulouIf you're a native speaker of English, you might not have experienced any language barriers in your scientific career, but their negative impacts on early-career scientists nonfluent in English are big, as summarized in the figure below created by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social and colleagues. (1/10)
- 🧠 Our new study on dance mobile electroencephalography is out 💃🏽 bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 📹 Check out the trailer we put together to explain the background. youtu.be/zqFVYiuILj4 Subtitles available in English, Spanish, and...Greek! (1/5) #neuroscience #womeninneuro
- Cool article on the @theguardian.com covering our recently published study on recording brain activity during dance production, alongside important parallel efforts in the realm of dance perception. bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #dance #neuroscience
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