Dr. Emily Myers & Matt Phillips star on LingQuery! 

LingQuery is run by UConn students and is a show that asks – and attempts to answer – questions related to the language and communication sciences.

LAB Lab PI Dr. Emily Myers dives into the many distinctions of speech perception on Episode 2: Speech Perception. Check it out here Speech Perception with Dr. Emily Myers

LAB Lab SLP-Grad Student Matt Phillips discusses the many dimensions of “fluency” in the field of speech-language pathology on Episode 3: Stuttering & Fluency. Check it out here Stuttering & Fluency with Matt Phillips 

We hope you enjoy – we are so proud to hear LAB Lab voices on LingQuery!

Our latest LAB Lab Digest is published!

This special issue is brought to you by our fabulous high school Scholars sponsored by UConn’s Young Scholars Senior Summit. Alina Vo and Laelim Jung joined us for 3 weeks, in which they learned about what it means to be a speech scientist.

The Digest features the interviews they conducted of current, affiliated, and former LAB Lab members.

They also chose journal articles about topics they were interested in and wrote up a science communication article that summarized the main findings.

We hope you enjoy, and we are so proud of all their hard work!

Congrats to lab RA, Xinming Zhou, on getting her undergrad IBACS research award funded!

She will be looking at how lifetime experience with accented speech affects people’s ability to perceive accented speech in noise.

 

For more information regarding the IBACS undergraduate research grant program visit their website here!

 

After a semester break in the Fall, our lab’s digest is out!

Check out what our newest edition covers:

• Bilingual Aphasia: What if a patient speaks multiple languages?
• A Temporary Normal: An inside look at aphasia support and therapy groups in a pandemic
• Language Learning: The importance of sleep and training when learning non-native speech sounds
• Get to know some of our lab members
  • Phoebe Gaston – Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychological Sciences
  • Anne Marie Crinnion – 1st year graduate student, Psychology – Language and Cognition
  • Hannah Mechtenberg – 1st year graduate student, Psychology – Language and Cognition

Access the Spring 2021 here!

LAB Lab alumna Dr. Pam Fuhrmeister and PI Dr. Emily Myers have a new article in Brain and Language: “Structural neural correlates of individual differences in categorical perception”. Check it out here!

Congratulations to our undergraduate RA, Matt Phillips, for winning the NSSLHA undergrad fellowship!

LAB Lab member Sahil Luthra, PI Dr. Emily Myers, and collaborators Dr. João M. Correia (University of Algarve, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language), Dr. Dave F. Kleinschmidt (Rutgers University), and Laura Mesite (MGH Institute of Health Professions, Harvard Graduate School of Education) have a new publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience titled “Lexical Information Guides Retuning of Neural Patterns in Perceptual Learning for Speech.” Check it out here!

The lab welcomes three new members!

-Phoebe Gaston joins us as a post-doctoral fellow in Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park . Her dissertation was about the ways in which syntactic context impacts auditory word recognition, and at UConn she will begin research on how reliance on contextual constraints changes with imperfect auditory input. 

-Anne Marie Crinnion joins us as a Ph.D. student in Psychology. She received an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard University. She is interested in how top-down information is integrated with lower-level acoustic information, from neural, computational, and behavioral perspectives. 

-Cristal Giorio joins us as lab manager. She received her Bachelor’s in Psychology, Biology, and Spanish Literature from Salem College. Her past research involved bilingual control mechanisms. She hopes to continue on pursuing her Ph.D. in the related field.

 

 

Please join us in congratulating LAB Lab member Hannah Mechtenberg, who will be pursuing her PhD in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Hannah will be starting her PhD journey this August 2020 where she will be focusing on the intersection of language processing and analogical reasoning.