[CogSci] Fwd: Call for applications: Harvard Music Lab Summer Internship 2020

[Samuel Mehr]

Dear CogSci, please circulate the below call for applications to any
interested students.
(apologies for cross-posting)

thanks,
Sam

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Samuel Mehr
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
*Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org <http://themusiclab.org/>!*

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Harvard Music Lab Summer Internship 2020

At the Music Lab, we study the basic science of music in an effort to
understand how and why humans produce and perceive music at all ages and
across all cultures. We are recruiting research assistants in
psychology/cogsci, evolutionary biology, music theory, ethnomusicology,
anthropology, linguistics, and/or computer science to spend their summer
with us!

Summer interns will be working on studies investigating the impact of music
on infant affect and behavior, universals and cross-cultural variation in
music perception and music production, people's use of music in daily life,
and long-term effects of the use of music in the home on parent and infant
health. Prospective interns are encouraged to read our papers at
themusiclab.org before applying.

As an intern, you will have the opportunity to work on both ongoing and new
studies from design to manuscript stage. Here's a non-exhaustive list of
example projects we'll be working on this summer:
1. In-lab studies exploring the degree to which music can function as a
tool for parents to use when their infants are upset.
2. Crowd-sourced online studies about music categorization and perception
using both traditional study pools of online workers and "citizen science"
approaches.
3. Mobile app-based data collection from parents of infants and young
children concerning infant/child temperament, parenting behaviors, and
their relations to one another.
4. Studies examining the possibility of links between synchronous activity
(music or otherwise) and cooperation, prosociality, and interpersonal
affinity.
5. Expanding our diverse collection of audio recordings for the Natural
History of Song project, designing and implementing online experiments
using these recordings, and conducting phylogenetic analyses of the corpus.
6. Interns are encouraged to propose their own independent projects
building on current research at The Music Lab, especially if these projects
are amenable to online data collection.

The internship is 11 weeks long, from 1 June to 14 August 2020 and is open
to both undergraduate and graduate students. Interns will work 35 hours per
week. Some evening and weekend work may be required. All applicants are
encouraged to apply for funding from their home university; we will support
such applications and for exceptional students, we may supplement external
funding with up to a US$2,200 stipend. Depending on performance and
contribution levels, co-authorship on papers is also a possibility.
International students are welcome to apply.

Visit tinyurl.com/musiclab2020 to apply. For full consideration, please
apply by 20 February 2020. If you have any questions, please contact us at
musiclab+summer at g.harvard.edu.
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