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Laura Fernández-Merino

@laufdezlaura.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University. Former PhD at @BCBL. - Early language acquisition, oscillations, speech-brain synchronization w/ cute babies and now brain-to-brain coupling w/ cute infant-caregiver dyads - M/EEG and fNIRS 🧠

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Laura Fernández-Merino @laufdezlaura.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy to share our new preprint! @nicolaml.bsky.social @bcbl.bsky.social

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Laura Fernández-Merino @laufdezlaura.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Excited to share that the book Rhythms of Speech and Language, edited by @languagecycles.bsky.social and Antje Strauß, has just been published! Happy to have contributed a chapter titled “Rhythmic Structure in Cross-Modal Infant-Directed Communication” with Marina Kalashnikova and Sofia Russo. +

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Jonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@sarahjessen.bsky.social of the Babylab @uniluebeck.bsky.social took Martin Orf and me from the @jonasobleser.bsky.social lab along an intriguing journey into the neural fate and consequences of a mother‘s voice in her infant’s brain. Under review now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Laura Fernández-Merino @laufdezlaura.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Happy to share my very first first-author paper! In this study, we show that rhythms can shape how our brains track speech (in very simple words). Work with Marina Kalashnikova, @nicolaml.bsky.social and Mikel Lizarazu. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech

This study demonstrates that regular musical rhythms can act as a temporal guide for brain oscillations, enhancing synchronization with the speech envelope. This effect was observed across different ...

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