It's NoA Official: I got a F32 from NIMH! Super excited to get started (officially) on this multi-method project studying temporal prediction in autism, especially since I get to work on it with amazing folks like Miriam Lense, Reyna L Gordon, and Zack Williams!

🎶 Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a low genetic predisposition for 'musicality'.

We discuss challenges of polygenic score predictions at the individual level, and for someone who lived over 200 years ago: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

A new study shows Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a rather low genetic predisposition for beat synchronization.

Reyna L Gordon + Tara Henechowicz share findings in Current Biology
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Notes from Beethoven’s genome. New paper by Laura W. Wesseldijk & al. -Giacomo Bignardi , Simon Fisher -
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I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

New article out in International Society for Autism Research, INSAR's journal, and my first empirical piece on autism!

TL;DR: No direct link from rhythm to expressive communication in autism, but independent pathways through social skills and parent-child music-making.

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The research team of Valentina Persici Dr. Scott Blain John Iversen BAND-Lab Reyna L Gordon found a connection that suggests a relationship between a child's ability to understand #rhythm and their #grammar skills. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Catching up on the NIH Music as Medicine Workshop...
'NIH NIDCD also supports training in various types of music research. One example is an award to an early career investigator for a project that's called Musicality, Hearing, and Genetics project'.

It's me! I'm the one example!

I’m so happy to share our newest paper in which we found evidence that children’s neural tracking of musical rhythms is associated with their grammatical skills!! Congrats to 1st author Valentina Persici for her outstanding work and thank you NIH NIDCD for the support!!! VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

Check out our new paper 'The adaptation and validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) in Italian: The Gold-MSI-IT', co-led by Michela Santangelo and myself! Out in Psychology of Music 🎶 doi.org/10.1177/030573… Reyna L Gordon

Another chapter of my PhD thesis, where we investigated the shared genetics and evolution of language and rhythm, is out as a preprint! Thanks to all amazing co-authors for the great teamwork! 🥳

New #TRFpaper from Valentina Persici, Dr. Scott Blain, John Iversen , Alexandra P. Key, Sonja Kotz, J. Devin McAuley, & Reyna L Gordon 🧒🧠🥁🗣️

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Hey all ! Exciting moment, I will be presenting my poster at #SfN2023 on neural correlates of human singing and shaping a path toward its genetic underpinnings ! Fascinating work with Reyna L Gordon and Yasmina Nozha Mekki Please come by for a chat on Nov. 12th - Board n.° TT14 !

Last day of the excellent #WCPG2023 and all those present have had an excellent meeting

BUT getting a visa for Canada is difficult with long delays. Many people are absent because their visa didn’t arrive in time

We missed you.

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers and workshop proposals to EVOLANG XV is this Friday! More info here: evolang2024.github.io (there'll even be an opportunity to have me take you up flying!)

Nat'l Endow f/t Arts blogpost featuring our Daniel Gustavson-led paper on music engagement; executive function; and language!
Peyton Coleman John Iversen Miriam Lense Reyna L Gordon Hermine Maes

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Hi all, the #musiccognitionlab at Vanderbilt will soon hire a Research Coordinator with a Masters or PhD degree in hand, for an 'RA‐3' position at our lab. Ideally, the person will have broad interests in musicality; language; neurobiology; genetics; aging
Details below / pls RT

A moment of rest ánd focus at the #musicgens meeting at MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics | It will be a long trip, but with all those bright minds involved, we should get there! | See mcg.uva.nl/musicgens/ Reyna L Gordon Simon Fisher sam @mehr.nz Dr. Srishti Nayak 🇮🇳🇸🇬🇨🇦🇺🇲🏳️‍🌈 Rósa S. Gísladóttir, PhD etc. etc.