Christina der Nederlanden Interview | Tuning In: How Music and Attention Shape Language Therapy

A full video interview with Christina der Nederlanden, PhD, Psychology for "Tuning In: How Music and Attention Shape Language Therapy," is part of the Converging Careers Interview Series with Garrett Oyama.
Hosted by: Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP
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In this episode, Garrett Oyama, a speech therapist and musician, sits down with Christina, director of the LAMA Lab, to explore the intersection of her psychological research on attention, music, l and language with the world of speech therapy. They discuss how music can enhance language development, its potential for supporting individuals with language challenges, and communication's shared cognitive and neural foundations.
About the Guest: Christina directs the LAMA (Language, Music, Attention, Audition) Lab, studying the perceptual, cognitive, and neural processes underlying human communication, focusing on music and language. Her research explores how we attend to communicative signals like speech and song in real-world, noisy environments and how music can support language development, particularly in individuals with Dyslexia. Christina earned her PhD in Experimental Psychology (Human Development) from UNLV in 2016. She honed her neuroscience expertise (EEG, MEG) during her postdoc at the University of Western Ontario and as a visiting scholar at the Donders Institute.