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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Apologies, here is the right link to apply for postdoc positions in the lab:
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February 19, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Apologies, here is the right link to apply for postdoc positions in the lab:
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Please repost to help us spread the word!
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Please repost to help us spread the word!
Interested in autism and social contingency? Our new paper reviews social feedback loops through the lifespan in autism and considers intervention and future research approaches: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Great to collaborate for this special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org !
Great to collaborate for this special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org !
Social communication development in a contingent world: insights from autism
Abstract. Children learn to communicate via real-time behavioural feedback loops with their social partners (e.g. infant vocalizes, caregiver responds and
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February 10, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Interested in autism and social contingency? Our new paper reviews social feedback loops through the lifespan in autism and considers intervention and future research approaches: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Great to collaborate for this special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org !
Great to collaborate for this special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org !
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📣 I am searching for a postdoc!! 📣
📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
Preliminary details below - please get in touch if you're interested!
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📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
Preliminary details below - please get in touch if you're interested!
www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-f...
📣 I am searching for a postdoc!! 📣
📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
The full announcement will come… | Anna...
📣 I am searching for a postdoc!! 📣
📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
The full announcement will come out in ...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📣 I am searching for a postdoc!! 📣
📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
Preliminary details below - please get in touch if you're interested!
www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-f...
📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
Preliminary details below - please get in touch if you're interested!
www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-f...
So much amazing work from @drsrishtin.bsky.social and her team! Check out her thread for highlights!
Haven't used bluesky much yet but now is as good a time as any to start!
I lead the Behaviour, Health, Speech, and Hearing (BHaSHa) group in the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab, and this is a thread of 10 things I want to highlight from our work in 2025!
I lead the Behaviour, Health, Speech, and Hearing (BHaSHa) group in the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab, and this is a thread of 10 things I want to highlight from our work in 2025!
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
So much amazing work from @drsrishtin.bsky.social and her team! Check out her thread for highlights!
Wondering what’s been going on in the Music Cognition Lab? Check out our latest newsletter! Community engagement updates, research studies for all ages, and even an end of year matching gift opportunity! 🎵🎉
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Year End Updates from the Music Cognition Lab
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December 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Wondering what’s been going on in the Music Cognition Lab? Check out our latest newsletter! Community engagement updates, research studies for all ages, and even an end of year matching gift opportunity! 🎵🎉
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🎶 New paper! InCHORRRuS Framework: Infant-directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure
Led by Camila Alviar, we consider how caregivers modulate their communication to 👶, including through song: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Led by Camila Alviar, we consider how caregivers modulate their communication to 👶, including through song: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
In the InCHORRRuS (Infant-directed (ID) Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure) framework, increased rhythmicity in ID speech and the beat-based m....
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December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎶 New paper! InCHORRRuS Framework: Infant-directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure
Led by Camila Alviar, we consider how caregivers modulate their communication to 👶, including through song: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Led by Camila Alviar, we consider how caregivers modulate their communication to 👶, including through song: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖
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Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖
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Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing.
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Project Coordinator - Term
The Communication and Language Lab (https://www.thecommunicationandlanguagelab.com/) in the Department of Psychology and Human Development is looking for a full-time Project Coordinator. The Communica...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing.
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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
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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...
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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?