Constance Bainbridge

Curriculum Vitae

• Education

• 2020-present: University of California, Los Angeles - PhD in Communication
• 2020-2022: University of California, Los Angeles - MS in Communication
• 2008-2012: Boston University - BM (Bachelor of Music) in Violin Performance
• 2010 (Fall Term): Royal College of Music in London, United Kingdom
• 2007 (Summer): Boston University Tanglewood Institute
• 2000-2007: Levine School of Music


• Additional certification and coursework
• Front-End Web Development Graduate Certificate - Harvard Extension School
  • CSCI E-12: Fundamentals of Website Development
  • CSCI S-3: Introduction to Web Programming Using JavaScript
  • DGMD E-28: Single-Page Applications and Interfaces with Vue.js
  • CSCI E-31: Web Application Development using Node.js

• Papers & Abstracts

• Papers
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Bryant, G. A., & Dale, R. (In prep). Reconsidering intrapersonal communication through an interdisciplinary lens.
  • Dale, R. & Bainbridge, C. M. (In prep). Inevitability of intrinsic communication.
  • Bainbridge, C. M. & Bryant, G. A. (In prep). Perception of group size across different co-vocalization types.
  • Bainbridge, C. M. (2025). Review of “Evolutionary Psychology: The Basics” by Will Reader and Lance Workman. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 100(1), 39-40. [Link]
  • Bainbridge, C. M. & Dale, R. (2023). Thinking about life in COVID-19: An exploratory study on the influence of temporal framing on streams-of-consciousness. PLoS ONE, 18(4): e0285200. [Link]
  • Bryant, G. A. & Bainbridge, C. M.. (2022). Laughter and culture. Philosophical Transactions B. [Link]
  • Bryant, G. A. & Bainbridge, C. M.. (2022). Signals and cues of social groups: Commentary on Pietraszewski. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Link]
  • Hilton, C. B., Moser, C., Bertolo, M., Lee-Rubin, H., Amir, D., Bainbridge, C. M., ..., Mehr, S. A. (2022). Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures. Nature Human Behavior [Link]
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Bertolo, M., Youngers, J., Atwood, S., Yurdum, L., Simson, J., Lopez, K., Xing, F., Martin, A., Mehr, S. A. (2020). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies. Nature Human Behavior. [Link]
  • Mehr, S. A., Singh, M., Knox, D., Ketter, D. M., Pickens-Jones, D., Atwood, S., Lucas, C., Egner, A., Jacoby, N., Hopkins, E. J., Howard, R. M., Hartshorne, J. K., Jennings, M. V., Simson, J., Bainbridge, C. M., Pinker, S., O'Donnell, T. J., Krasnow, M. M., & Glowacki, L. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science. [Link]
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., Oliva, A. (2015). Quadri-stability of a spatially ambiguous auditory illusion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. [Link]
  • Bylinskii, Z., Isola, P., Bainbridge, C.M., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2015). Intrinsic and Extrinsic Effects on Image Memorability. Vision Research. [Link]
  • Borkin, M., Bylinskii, Z., Kim, N. W., Bainbridge, C. M., Yeh, S. C., Borkin, D., Pfister, H., Oliva, A. Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2015). [Link]


• Talks
  • Bainbridge, C. M. (2024). The self as sender and receiver: Does traditional communication apply to self-directed behavior? Communicating Within the Self: Theories, Methods, and Open Questions, UCLA workshop, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Bainbridge, C. M. & Dale, R. A. (2023). Computational approaches to studying streams-of-consciousness. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP), San Francisco, CA.
  • Bainbridge, C. M. & Bryant, G. A. (2023). Perception of group size across different co-vocalization types. Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Palm Springs, CA.
  • Bainbridge, C. M. & Bryant, G. A. (2022). The perception of group vocal emotional signals. International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), Los Angeles, CA.
  • Bainbridge, C. M. & Bryant, G. A. (2022). Laughter production and perception across cultures. Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR), San Diego, CA.


• Posters
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Youngers, J., Bertolo, M., Atwood, S., Yurdum, L., Lopez, K., Xing, F., Martin, A., & Mehr, S. A. (2020, August). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Youngers, J., Bertolo, M., Atwood, S., Yurdum, L., Lopez, K., Xing, F., Martin, A., & Mehr, S. A. (2020, July). Cultural invariance in infant responses to world music. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Congress of Infant Studies (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
  • Jessani, G., Simson, J., Bainbridge, C. M., & Mehr, S. A. (2020, April). Motivation and music: Does motivation matter? Poster presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Symposium.
  • Moser, C., Lee-Rubin, H., Infant-Directed Vocalization Collaboration, Bainbridge, C. M., Atwood, S., Krasnow, M. M., Mehr, S. A. (2019, March). Acoustical regularities in infant-directed vocalizations worldwide. Poster presented at the 177th Meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY, USA.
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Atwood, S., Xing, F., Bertolo, M., Lopez, K., Bitran, A., Youngers, J., & Mehr, S. A. (2019). Infant responses to foreign lullabies differ from responses to other foreign vocal music. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Oliva, A. (2014). "Perceptual Biasing of a Continuous Auditory Quadri-stable Illusion." Journal of Vision, 14 (10), 435. VSS (Vision Sciences Society).
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., & Oliva, A. (2013). "Introducing a Quadri-stable Auditory Spatial Illusion: Imagining Objects Moving Through Space." Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 1074. VSS (Vision Sciences Society).
  • Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., & Oliva, A. (2013). "Tricking the Ear: Using a Quadri-stable Auditory Illusion to Influence Sound Localization." Poster in the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM), as part of the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.


• Press and Media
  • Oyama, G. (2025, January 9). Exploring intrapersonal communication in speech therapy. Speech Therapy PD [Live video podcast]. https://www.speechtherapypd.com/ [Link to recording]
  • Kalantari, S. (2021, April 1). Episode 88: How music soothes us. The Science of Happiness [Audio podcast]. [Link]
  • Compton, K.C. (2021, January 19). Infants the world over can spot a lullaby—in any language. Early Learning Nation. [Link]
  • Anderer, J. (2020, November 13). Goodnight, buenas noches: Foreign language lullabies help babies relax too. StudyFinds. [Link]
  • Bakalar, N. (2020, October 28). A lullaby by any other name would sound as sweet. The New York Times. [Link]
  • Higginbotham, E. (2020, October 26). Infants are soothed by unfamiliar and foreign lullabies. The Naked Scientists [Audio podcast] [Link]
  • Aggarwal-Schifellite, M. (2020, October 19). Frère Jacques, are you sleeping? Research shows lullabies in any language relax babies. The Harvard Gazette [Link]

• Funding, scholarships, and honors

• 2024: Communication Research Merit Award - summer and winter
• 2024: Qualia Structure Summer School - Osaka and Awaji Island, Japan
• 2023-2024: Graduate Research Mentorship - UCLA
• 2023: Birnbaum Scholarship, Society for Computation in Psychology
• 2023: Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) Early Career Collaborative Enhancement (ECCE) Award
• 2022: Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) Research Fellow - St. Andrews, Scotland
• 2022: Graduate Summer Research Mentorship - UCLA
• 2021: Summer Mentored Research Fellowship - UCLA
• 2008-2012: Boston University Grant & Music Department Performance Award

• Teaching experience

• Teaching assistant/associate/fellow
  • Winter 2025: Evolutionary Psychology (ANTHRO 124Q - Dr. H. Clark Barrett, UCLA)
  • Fall 2024: Natural Language Processing for Social Science (COMM 188C – Dr. Elisa Kreiss, UCLA)
  • Summer 2024: Global Internship Program (COMM 195 Teaching Assistant – Dr. Greg Bryant, UCLA), Social Networking (COMM 156 – Dr. Steven Peterson, UCLA)
  • Winter 2024: Evolution of Interpersonal Communication (COMM 126 - Dr. Greg Bryant, UCLA)
  • Spring 2023: Social Cognition (COMM M123 - Dr. Steve Stroessner, UCLA)
  • Winter 2022; Winter 2023: Communication Science (COMM 100 - Dr. Gabe Jones, UCLA)
  • Fall 2022; Fall 2021: Communication Development (COMM 121 - Dr. Anne Warlaumont, UCLA)
  • Spring 2022: Voice and its Perception (COMM 119 - Dr. Anne Warlaumont, UCLA)


• Guest lectures
  • Fall 2023: Conducting research online using JsPsych. Research Methods in Communication Science (COMM 220)
  • Spring 2023: Judgement. Social Cognition (COMM M123)
  • Fall 2022; Fall 2021: Cross-cultural comparisons of infant-directed vocalizations. Communication Development (COMM 121)

• Organization experience

• September 2023-present: Graduate student administrator for the Center for Behavior, Evolution & Culture talk series, UCLA Department of Anthropology.
• April 25th & 26th, 2024: Workshop lead organizer - Communicating Within the Self: Theories, Methods, and Open Questions, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
• Summer 2020: Assisted with running Moving Research Online – JsPsych and Pushkin workshop led by Dr. Josh de Leeuw and Dr. Josh Hartshorne.

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• Other work experience

• In academia
• Summer 2023, Summer 2022: Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA (Dr. Rick Dale)
  • Worked with LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) for text analysis.
  • PCA and network analyses to characterize conceptual and semantic spaces.


• Summer 2020: Contract web developer, Boston College (PI: Dr. Joshua Hartshorne)
  • Developed upgrades, documentation, and logo for the Pushkin framework for generating an online research laboratory.
  • Developed websites for "Moving research online: Tutorials on running your language and other cognitive research over the Web" workshop [link] and the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Workshop on Scaling Cognitive Science [link]
  • Contributed to planning, hosting, and materials for "Moving research online" workshop.


• January 2018-May 2020: Research assistant, the Music Lab (PI: Dr. Samuel Mehr) at Harvard University, Department of Psychology
  • Code experiments (JavaScript, JsPsych) and summary visualizations (Leaflet, Plotly.js) for online experimental interface: The Music Lab.
  • Manage and update content and aesthetics/UI/UX for the site, including working with React and CSS, plus a working knowledge of Bootstrap 3 and LESS.
  • Train/mentor students and new staff on version control (git and Github) and coding experiments of their own.
  • Design stimuli of varying modalities, including graphics (3d animation via Blender, 2d graphics with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator), audio (Adobe Audition, Reason 9), and video (Adobe Premiere).
  • Design and run experiments (including infant populations).
  • Analyze and visualize data using R, Stata.


• May 2018-May 2020: Lab manager, Evolutionary Psychology Lab (PI: Dr. Max Krasnow) at Harvard University, Department of Psychology
  • Run and validate studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk via Turkgate and Qualtrics.
  • Various administrative tasks, including aiding in research and finances (expense reports).
  • Assist students in posting experiments and coding extra functionality (JavaScript).


• June 2012-January 2015: Research assistant, Computational Perception and Cognition team (PI: Dr. Aude Oliva) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)
  • Developed and fully executed an independent project on a novel spatial auditory illusion, including conception of illusion, recruiting and running experimental subjects, analyzing and visualizing data, creating and presenting posters at multiple conferences, and writing up the culminating paper.
  • Assisted in research on memorability of scenic and infographic images, including running eye-tracking studies, photoshopping graphics, annotating components of images, and participating in discussion of results.
  • Assisted in running subjects in fMRI studies
  • Handled lab petty cash for subject payments


• Reviewed for: Philosophical Psychology, Developmental Science
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• Outside academia
• December 2010-present: Performance artist: Mei Ohara (vocalist, electric violinist, keyboardist, beat producer)
  • Registered composer with ASCAP
  • Label: JUNGLE UP records
  • Boston Circus Guild member
  • Experience self-managing, booking, promoting, as well as putting together events from scratch
  • Graphic design for brand
  • Audio engineer: mixing and remixes


• 2016-2021: Private violin teacher
  • Classical, contemporary styles, composition, theory, and improvisation
  • Experience teaching adolescent/teen and adult students


• January 2015-May 2015: Living Laboratory intern, Museum of Science - Boston
  • Presented science and research practices to the general public.
  • Designed activity for presenting my own research (my novel auditory illusion, see MIT job info below) to the public.


• April 2012-July 2015: First violinist, Siagel Productions String Trio
  • Led and managed ensemble for performing at weddings and corporate events


• January-June 2012: Volunteer, Boston Hassle musician and concert reviews
  • Interfaced with artists to share articles reviewing their work
  • Review writer


• September 2011-May 2012: Violin teaching assistant, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Intensive Community Program (BYSO ICP)
  • Provided supplementary private violin lessons and assisted in group string classes designed to provide access to classical music for minorities and low-income families


• September 2008-May 2012: Production assistant, Boston University
  • Handled stage crew duties at concerts and rehearsals (including moving instruments, providing lighting)


• June 2007: Art apprentice, the Levine School of Music Summer Music and Arts Camp