Defne Abur, B.S.
Dept. of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Boston University
Email: dabur@bu.edu
Research Interests
Speech Motor Control; Parkinson’s disease; Auditory contributions to voice production; Autophonic judgments of voice; Vocal Hyperfunction
Education
2017 – Present Ph.D., Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (expected), Boston University
2010 – 2014 B. S., Engineering Science with Biomathematics Concentration, Smith College
Honors and Awards
2020 | ASHA Pathways program mentee |
2020 | National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Pre-doctoral fellowship “Longitudinal Changes to Speech in Parkinson’s Disease Phenotypes” NIDCD F31 DC019032 |
2019 | ASHFoundation New Century Doctoral Scholarship |
2019 | Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) Conference Student Fellow Award |
2019 | Dudley Allen Sargent Research Fund Award |
2019 | Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science, Honorable Mention |
2018 | Rafik. B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science Engineering Graduate Student Fellow Award |
2017 | NIH/NIDCD Traineeship T32DC013017 “Advanced research training in communication sciences and disorders” |
2017 | 2nd Place, Best Poster Award, The Voice Foundation Annual Symposium |
2013 | Sigma Xi (Research Honor Society) |
2012 – 2014 | NSF Fellowship 1129194 “Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biology and Mathematical Sciences” |
Publications
(For a full list, see Google Scholar)
Abur, D., Perkell, J.S., Stepp, C.E. Effects of Vocal Effort on Respiratory and Articulatory Kinematics. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021. |
Abur, D., Subaciute, A., Daliri, A., Lester-Smith, R. A., Lupiani, A. A., Cilento, D., Enos, N. M., Weerathunge, H. R., Tardif, M.C. & Stepp, C. E. Feedback and Feedforward Auditory-Motor Processes for Voice and Articulation in Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 2021. |
Abur, D., Subaciute, A., Kapsner-Smith, M., Segina, R., Tracy, L., Noordzij, J. P., Stepp, C.E., “Impaired Auditory Discrimination and Auditory-Motor Integration in Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders”, Scientific Reports , 11, 13123, 2021. |
Abur, D., MacPherson, M.K., Shembel, A.C., Stepp, C.E. “Acoustic measures of voice and physiologic measures of autonomic arousal during speech as a function of cognitive load in older adults”, Journal of Voice. In Press. |
Abur, D. & Stepp, C.E., “Acuity to Changes in Vocal Pitch in Parkinson’s disease”. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 3208-3214, 2020. |
Weerathunge, H. R., Abur, D., Enos, N., Brown, K., Stepp, C.E., “Methodological Considerations for Auditory-Motor Perturbations of fo: feedback delay and amplification”. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 2846-2860, 2020. |
Lester-Smith, R.A., Daliri, A., Enos, N.M., Abur, D., Letcher, S., Lupiani, A.A., Stepp, C.E., “The Importance of Auditory Feedback in Speech and Voice Motor Control”. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(11), 3628-3642, 2020. |
Kearney, E., Nieto-Castañón, A., Weerathunge, H.,Falsini, R., Daliri, A., Abur, D., Ballard, K., Chao, S., Heller Murray, L., Scott, T., & Guenther, F., “A Simple 3-Parameter Model for Examining Adaptation in Speech and Voice Production”. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2995, 2020. |
Broadfoot, C. K., Abur, D., Hoffmeister, J. D., Stepp, C.E., Ciucci, M. “Research-Based Updates in Swallowing and Communication Dysfunction in Parkinson Disease: Implications for Evaluation and Management”, Perspectives of ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 3. 4(5), pp. 825 – 841, 2019. |
Abur D.*, Enos, N.E.*, Stepp, C.E., “Visual-Analog-Scale Ratings and Orthographic Transcription Measures of Intelligibility in Parkinson’s disease with Variable Listener Exposure”, American Journal of Speech-Language-Pathology 28 (3), pp.1222-1232, 2019. *Authors contributed equally |
Abur, D., Lupiani, A.A., Hickox A.E., Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Stepp, C.E. “Loudness Perception of Pure Tones in Parkinson’s disease”, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61 (6), pp. 1487-1496, 2018. |
Abur, D., Lester-Smith, R.A., Daliri, A., Lupiani, A.A., Guenther, F.H., Stepp, C.E. “Sensorimotor Adaptation of Voice Fundamental Frequency in Parkinson’s Disease”, PLoS ONE, 13(1): e0191839, 2018. |
Stieger C., Guan X., Farahmand R.B., Page B.F., Merchant J.P., Abur D., Nakajima H.H., “Intracochlear Sound Pressure Measurements in Normal Human Temporal Bones During Bone Conduction Stimulation.” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, pp. 1 – 7, 2018. |
Stepp, C.E., Lester-Smith, R.A., Abur, D., Daliri, A., Noordzij, J.P., Lupiani, A.A. “Evidence for Auditory-Motor Impairment in Individuals with Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders”, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60 (6), pp. 1545 – 1550, 2017. |
MacPherson, M., Abur, D., Stepp, C.E. “Acoustic measures of voice and physiologic measures of autonomic arousal during speech as a function of cognitive load”, Journal of Voice, 31 (4), pp. 504e1 – 504e9, 2016. |
Abur, D., Horton, N.J., & Voss, S.E. “Intra-subject variability in Power Reflectance”, Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 25(5), 441-48, 2014. |