Pam Fuhrmeister, PhD candidate, will be giving a talk entitled “Memory consolidation in learning second language speech contrasts” on Friday October 26th from work conducted with collaborators Dr. Emily Myers (University of Connecticut), Dr. Anita Bowles and Dr. David Harper (Rosetta Stone).

SLRF 2018 will be held in Montreal, Canada from October 26 – October 28.

More information can be found on the SLRF website.

LAB Lab member Sahil Luthra, PI Dr. Emily Myers, and collaborators Dr. Sara Guediche and Dr. Sheila Blumstein (Brown University) have a new publication in Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience entitled “Neural substrates of subphonemic variation and lexical competition in spoken word recognition.”  Check it out here.

Dr. Emily Myers and Dr. Chris Heffner of the LAB lab, are traveling up to Quebec City to attend the 10th annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL) from August 16-18.

They will present a poster entitled,”Impaired Incidental Phonetic Learning in People with Aphasia” on August 17th.

More information about the conference can be found on the SNL website.