Join us tonight, May 18, at the Nashville Symphony for a discussion on music and health ! www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/conc...

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

Happy to announce one PhD and one postdoctoral position at the Rhythm & Brains Lab (PI: Pr. Sylvie Nozaradan), Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Brussels. Belgium. Connected to the ERC Consolidator Grant HUMAN RHYTHM. More info attached. Please share! #hiring #Neuroscience #MusicCognition

New #AJSLP study examined prosodic speech production in children with Down syndrome using a structured imitation task designed to elicit sentence-level fundamental frequency contrasts. https://on.asha.org/4b6cJfh #OpenAccess

Prosodic Imitation in Children With Down Syndrome: Evidence From Sentence Repetition and Pitch Contour Modeling

Purpose: This study examined prosodic speech production in children with Down syndrome (DS) using a structured imitation task designed to elicit ...

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Apologies, here is the right link to apply for postdoc positions in the lab: forms.gle/Hb8rS9hD3BV7... Please repost to help us spread the word!

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam@laurelgd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PINE Lab is hiring up to two postdoctoral fellows to join our community in Boston summer 2026! If you are a senior graduate student interested in doing postdoctoral studies with PINE Lab, please submit an application here: lnkd.in/evTakygw

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 !

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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📣 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...

📣 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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So much amazing work from @drsrishtin.bsky.social and her team! Check out her thread for highlights!

Dr. Srishti Nayak@drsrishtin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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!

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! 🎵🎉 mailchi.mp/vumc/2025yea...

🎶 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/...

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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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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 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

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. ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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!

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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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!

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

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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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!

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.

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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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!

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

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam@laurelgd.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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 🧬🎶🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last yr.

“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. 🧪

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...

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...

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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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

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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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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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?

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

18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - Submissions - // Call for Papers

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