Author: Tyler Perrachione

Presenting Dr. Terri Scott!

CNRLab doctoral student Terri Scott successfully defended her dissertation, “Neural bases of phonological working memory” to a well-separated crowd of 5 (and a virtual crowd of 50) on Monday. Congratulations, Dr. Scott!

Five CNRLab presentations at ICPhS 2019

Scientists from the CNRLab presented their newest research in five talks at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. Download copies of our proceedings papers below: Carter, Y.D., Lim, S.-J. & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). “Talker continuity facilitates speech processing independent of listeners’ expectations.” 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Melbourne, August 2019). […]

The language-familiarity effect

Did you know it’s harder to recognize someone by the sound of their voice if they are speaking a foreign language? In the new issue of The Nerve, the undergraduate journal published by the BU Mind and Brain Society, CNRLab undergraduate Michelle Njoroge writes about her research on the language-familiarity effect in talker identification. Read […]

Language, working memory, and the brain at SfN 2018

Terri Scott, CNRLab member and PhD candidate in Neuroscience, presented her new research on functional convergence and divergence of the neurocomputational architectures for language and working memory at the recent meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego Terri discovered that just because there is functional overlap between two tasks in a particular brain […]

New NSF-funded study of musical training and auditory processing

The Perrachione Lab has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study whether formal musical training is associated with enhanced neural processing and perception of sounds, including speech in noisy backgrounds. Music forms an important part of our lives and is one of the few universals shared by all human cultures. […]

New NIH-funded study of brain structure in dyslexia

The Perrachione Lab has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study differences in brain anatomy in individuals with dyslexia. This project will study a collection of brain scans from over 1,200 children and adults with dyslexia or typical reading. Using these brain scans, we will determine whether any features […]

Mapping clinical tests of language and working memory at SNL 2018

Terri Scott, CNRLab member and PhD candidate in Neuroscience, presented her new research on the brain bases of nonword repetition – an important clinical assessment of language skills – at the recent meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Quebec City. Terri discovered that the parts of the brain responsible for nonword […]

Talker Variability at ASA 2018 in Minneapolis

Scientists from the CNRLab presented two new research studies on perception and cognition of talker variability at the May 2018 of the Acoustical Society of America in Minneapolis, including the results from a Sargent Senior Thesis for Distinction completed by lab alumna Kristina Furbeck. Download copies of our presentations below: Lim, S.-J., Tin, J.A.A. Shinn-Cunningham, […]

Decoding the brain in unprecedented detail

CNRLab scientists are using the new Siemens 3T Prisma scanner at the BU Cognitive Neuroimaging Center to study how the brain consistently recognizes speech in different contexts. Read more about our experiences with the new imaging center in this article from BU Today.  

Three CNRLab presentations at CNS 2018

Scientists from the CNRLab will present three new studies at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston in March. See you there! Impact of talker adaptation on speech processing and working memory. Abstract | Poster (Lim et al.) Common recruitment of neural resources for phonological working memory regardless of behavioral demands. […]