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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). […]

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. […]

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.  

Exploring how the brain understands sentences

A new paper in PNAS, coauthored by Terri Scott, CNRLab doctoral student, and researchers at Harvard (Ev Fedorenko) and MIT (Nancy Kanwisher), explores how the brain extracts meaning as sentences unfold. This work “opens up new avenues for investigating the sequence of neural events that underlie construction of linguistic meaning.” Citation: Fedorenko E, Scott TL, […]

Future of Language Science

Dr. Perrachione presented work from the CNRLab at the Future of Language Science symposium at Northwestern University. The symposium included alumni presentations in celebration of the Department of Linguistics’ 50th anniversary. In his presentation, Dr. Perrachione reported new work conducted at Boston University studying how noninvasive brain stimulation can facilitate foreign language learning, and two […]