Miriam Lense
@miriamlense.bsky.social
Researcher and psychologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; focus on social interaction, communication, caregiving and well-being; #musicscience, child development, autism, Williams syndrome, Down syndrome. Views my own
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Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).
📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025
👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418
Please share!
📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025
👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418
Please share!
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).
📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025
👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418
Please share!
📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025
👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418
Please share!
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New paper alert! Systematic epidemiological analyses of up to 39,000 people illuminate biological/clinical links between impaired musical rhythm abilities & disorders affecting speech-language development. International collaboration led by @drsrishtin.bsky.social, out in @natcomms.nature.com. 👇🧪
Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations - Nature Communications
Impaired musical rhythm abilities and developmental speech-language related disorders are biologically and clinically intertwined. Here, the authors explore the correlation between the two traits, finding evidence of epidemiological associations and genetic overlap.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New paper alert! Systematic epidemiological analyses of up to 39,000 people illuminate biological/clinical links between impaired musical rhythm abilities & disorders affecting speech-language development. International collaboration led by @drsrishtin.bsky.social, out in @natcomms.nature.com. 👇🧪
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The Human and Organizational Development department at Vanderbilt University is hiring a senior and junior faculty member whose research focus is on social innovation and/or entrepreneurship for strengthening communities. Apply if you’d like to work in an incredibly interdisciplinary department!
September 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Human and Organizational Development department at Vanderbilt University is hiring a senior and junior faculty member whose research focus is on social innovation and/or entrepreneurship for strengthening communities. Apply if you’d like to work in an incredibly interdisciplinary department!
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I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.
Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316
Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.
Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316
Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316
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Exciting paper on genetic influences on speech fluency, out now in @natgenet.nature.com. In a big step forward for the field, genome scans of almost 100,000 people with self-reported stuttering, & 1 million controls, identify 57 associated loci. Great work by @piperbelow.bsky.social & her team.🗣️🧬🧪
Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses in over one million self-reported cases and controls identify genetic variants associated with stuttering and find genetic correlations with autism, depression and impaired musica...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Exciting paper on genetic influences on speech fluency, out now in @natgenet.nature.com. In a big step forward for the field, genome scans of almost 100,000 people with self-reported stuttering, & 1 million controls, identify 57 associated loci. Great work by @piperbelow.bsky.social & her team.🗣️🧬🧪
Our team is growing! Looking to hire a Speech-Language Pathologist (including clinical fellowship candidates) or Clinical postdoctoral fellow (psychology or communication sciences) with a strong interest in clinical-translational research in autism! See link below for more info!
Interest Form
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July 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our team is growing! Looking to hire a Speech-Language Pathologist (including clinical fellowship candidates) or Clinical postdoctoral fellow (psychology or communication sciences) with a strong interest in clinical-translational research in autism! See link below for more info!
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We are looking for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team in 2025 or 2026 to help with studies of mood disorders and suicidal behavior in youth and families (using EEG 🧠 and EMA 📱 methods).
See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.
See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.
Mood, Emotion & Development Laboratory
The Mood, Emotion & Development Lab at Vanderbilt University is directed by Dr. Autumn Kujawa. Our research examines social and emotional development and the ways in which alterations in emotion contr...
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July 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We are looking for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team in 2025 or 2026 to help with studies of mood disorders and suicidal behavior in youth and families (using EEG 🧠 and EMA 📱 methods).
See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.
See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.
We are hiring! Two open positions at Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab for opportunities spanning coordinator, clinical assessment/intervention, and research analyst for studies into communication and social engagement in autism, as well as rhythm and early musical experiences. See below for links!
June 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We are hiring! Two open positions at Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab for opportunities spanning coordinator, clinical assessment/intervention, and research analyst for studies into communication and social engagement in autism, as well as rhythm and early musical experiences. See below for links!
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This role could serve as a lunchpad for a PhD within my lab!
Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful.
Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com
Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful.
Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com
We are hiring a post-bacc research coordinator to help on projects exploring EEG and MRI measures of neuroplasticity supporting sensory and language learning in the first 2 years of life! Please repost to help us spread the word! more info here: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us
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April 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This role could serve as a lunchpad for a PhD within my lab!
Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful.
Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com
Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful.
Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com
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Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑🤝🧑
“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. 🧪
Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment - Nature Communications
Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.
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March 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑🤝🧑
Interested in rhythm and communication? Infant-directed speech and song? Social and language development in autism? Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab is recruiting a postdoc focused on these areas! #musicscience redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=N...
Interest Form
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March 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Interested in rhythm and communication? Infant-directed speech and song? Social and language development in autism? Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab is recruiting a postdoc focused on these areas! #musicscience redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=N...
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We’re hiring! Seeking a full-time project coordinator to run EEG study sessions with research participants, administer diagnostic interviews, and assist with the organization and analysis of study datasets. More info below:
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Research Technician - Full-Time, Term
This full-time research technician position is part of the Mood, Emotion, and Development Lab housed in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University a...
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March 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We’re hiring! Seeking a full-time project coordinator to run EEG study sessions with research participants, administer diagnostic interviews, and assist with the organization and analysis of study datasets. More info below:
ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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What leads to parenting musically? Ashley Boyne & @camilaalviar.bsky.social find parent social motivation promotes an early musical home, esp. for infant-directed singing! And singing is associated with child language! Out now in @infantstudies.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Parental Social and Musical Characteristics, the Home Music Environment, and Child Language Development in Infancy
Parents use music, especially singing, to interact with their young children, supporting parent-child bonding and social communication. Little is known about the parental attributes that support musi...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What leads to parenting musically? Ashley Boyne & @camilaalviar.bsky.social find parent social motivation promotes an early musical home, esp. for infant-directed singing! And singing is associated with child language! Out now in @infantstudies.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert:
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
Rhythm perception and synchronization to periodicity hold fundamental neurodevelopmental importance for language acquisition, musical behavior, and social communication. Rhythm is omnipresent in the f...
www.jneurosci.org
January 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert:
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
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Genomic advances offer a novel route for investigating biological overlaps between musicality- and language-related traits. Here's a nice blog by my fab co-author Reyna Gordon, not (yet) on Bluesky, in which she breaks down our recently published @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on this topic. 🧪
Our musical rhythm and language skills share genomic underpinnings
Our new study by Alagöz et al. in Nature Human Behaviour digs into shared biological underpinnings of musical rhythm and language skills through genomic, neural, and evolutionary perspectives.
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January 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Genomic advances offer a novel route for investigating biological overlaps between musicality- and language-related traits. Here's a nice blog by my fab co-author Reyna Gordon, not (yet) on Bluesky, in which she breaks down our recently published @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on this topic. 🧪
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What's your favourite example of a basic science discovery yielding practical results later on — but that one didn't know it would be used for at the time?
December 5, 2024 at 5:18 AM
What's your favourite example of a basic science discovery yielding practical results later on — but that one didn't know it would be used for at the time?
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The 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
São Paulo, Brazil
21-25 July 2025
The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format, with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely.
Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2025
São Paulo, Brazil
21-25 July 2025
The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format, with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely.
Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2025
18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - Submissions - // Call for Papers
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November 21, 2024 at 8:22 PM
The 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
São Paulo, Brazil
21-25 July 2025
The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format, with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely.
Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2025
São Paulo, Brazil
21-25 July 2025
The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format, with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely.
Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2025
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I used to run a summer internship for expanding psychology... if you don't remember here it is: som.yale.edu/news/2018/09...
The news is that we're back up and running in partnership with the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at Northwestern: www.summerpsych.com
Applications are open!
The news is that we're back up and running in partnership with the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at Northwestern: www.summerpsych.com
Applications are open!
the Summer Internship
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November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
I used to run a summer internship for expanding psychology... if you don't remember here it is: som.yale.edu/news/2018/09...
The news is that we're back up and running in partnership with the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at Northwestern: www.summerpsych.com
Applications are open!
The news is that we're back up and running in partnership with the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at Northwestern: www.summerpsych.com
Applications are open!
I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!
We now have a YouTube channel! First order of business was to post the 2024 SMPC Student Award winners and runners-up. As a part of their nominations, they were asked to make short videos describing their research. They were too good not to share!
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December 3, 2024 at 1:47 AM
I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!
Interested in infant-directed speech and song and language development in autism? Rhythm and communication? I’m reviewing PhD applications in Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt! 🎶🗣️Deadline to apply is Dec 1. For more info on the PhD program: medschool.vanderbilt.edu/hearing-spee...
PhD Program
The Ph.D. program in Hearing and Speech Sciences is administered through the Vanderbilt University Graduate School. The program emphasizes preparation for research and teaching careers in audiology…
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November 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Interested in infant-directed speech and song and language development in autism? Rhythm and communication? I’m reviewing PhD applications in Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt! 🎶🗣️Deadline to apply is Dec 1. For more info on the PhD program: medschool.vanderbilt.edu/hearing-spee...
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Breitfeld, Comptonn, & @jennysaffran.bsky.social (2024): toddlers learned words better from adults who previously behaved in an engaging way ➡️ engaging social experience w/ speakers supports toddlers’ subsequent learning #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Toddlers' prior social experience with speakers influences their word learning
Toddlers prefer to learn from familiar adults, particularly their caregivers, and perform better on word learning tasks when taught by caregivers than by strangers. However, it remains unclear why to...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Breitfeld, Comptonn, & @jennysaffran.bsky.social (2024): toddlers learned words better from adults who previously behaved in an engaging way ➡️ engaging social experience w/ speakers supports toddlers’ subsequent learning #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our paper out today in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social integrates data from large-scale genome scans of dyslexia & rhythm skills, as a novel way to investigate biological overlaps between human traits related to language & musicality. Co-led by Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt). 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a battery of statistical tools, Alagöz et al. examine the genetic overlap between dyslexia and rhythm impairment and shed light on how the genome influences the neural bases of human language an...
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November 21, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Our paper out today in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social integrates data from large-scale genome scans of dyslexia & rhythm skills, as a novel way to investigate biological overlaps between human traits related to language & musicality. Co-led by Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt). 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ICMPC website now up, including call for papers with abstract submission deadline of Jan 20. Hope to see you all in Brazil next July 21-25! www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - Submissions - // Call for Papers
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
ICMPC website now up, including call for papers with abstract submission deadline of Jan 20. Hope to see you all in Brazil next July 21-25! www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
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Help us learn more about why we like listening to music! Our collaborative study at Northeastern University is seeking participants ages 7-17 years old local to the Boston area. For more info, email mindlabwes@gmail.com & pls share! 🎸🕺🎧
October 3, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Help us learn more about why we like listening to music! Our collaborative study at Northeastern University is seeking participants ages 7-17 years old local to the Boston area. For more info, email mindlabwes@gmail.com & pls share! 🎸🕺🎧