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Elena Tenenbaum is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, where she is also a Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Her research focuses on language acquisition and cognitive development in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), particularly those who are minimally verbal. She employs eye-tracking, EEG, and remote assessment tools to investigate social attention, audio-visual processing, and executive function in ASD.
- Education: Ph.D. in Psychology from Brown University (2011), Clinical Psychology respecialization at Suffolk University.
Her work bridges neuroscience and clinical psychology to understand ASD heterogeneity, with a focus on early intervention and perinatal influences. Recent publications highlight scalable remote methodologies like the RISE Battery for infant cognitive studies and LVIS for assessing communicative competence in low-verbal ASD.
She has received grants including the Meeting on Language in Autism (2025-2028) and Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (2025-2026). Awards include fellowships and research grants for ASD and developmental disorders. Her lab collaborates on digital phenotyping, audio-visual synchrony, and social attention mechanisms.
