Author: Tyler Perrachione
Dyslexia Paradox
Differences in how the brain adapts to sights and sounds could be at the root of reading disorders. Read the full story from Inside Sargent.
Congratulations to our 2017 CNRLab graduates!
Congratulations to the newest CNRLab graduates! They’ve accomplished amazing things in the lab and here at BU, and they’re all off to great things next! Cheng (Cissy) Cheng, MS-SLP Thesis: “Can visual feedback improve English speakers’ Mandarin tone production?” Sara Dougherty, MEd; Developmental Studies: Literacy & Language Education Jennifer Golditch, MS-SLP Dana Gordon, BS; Speech, […]
Dyslexia and the brain: A problem with rapid neural adaptation
Our new findings, published today in Neuron, reveal that the brains of children and adults with dyslexia show less rapid neural adaptation than the brains of typical readers. Rapid neural adaptation is a kind of learning that the brain does in just a few seconds to make perception more efficient. A dysfunction of rapid neural […]
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 […]
Ja Young Choi receives Kwanjeong Educational Foundation scholarship
Ja Young Choi, former Research Analyst and current doctoral student in the CNRLab, has been awarded the prestigious Kwanjeong Educational Foundation scholarship for doctoral study in the Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program at Harvard University. Congratulations, Ja Young!
CNRLab undergraduates featured at UROP symposium
Elly Hu (CAS ’16) presents her poster on “Stimulus variability in rapid auditory categorization.” Elly used behavioral methods and noninvasive neurostimulation to investigate the factors that affect listeners’ ability to adapt to phonetic consistency in speech. Tyrone Hou (CAS ’18) presented his e-poster on “Computerized biofeedback for lexical tone learning.” Tyrone developed a computer program […]
“An Auditory Illusion: Does how we speak determine how we hear?”
Inside Sargent profiled the work of CNRLab alumna Elizabeth Petitti, MS-SLP (SAR ’14), who conducted her master’s thesis research on how linguistic experience affects listeners’ bias for hearing the missing fundamental in harmonic complex tones. These results have implications for understanding how lifelong linguistic experiences affect basic auditory processing. Read the Inside Sargent story: http://www.bu.edu/sargent/about-us/our-publications/inside-sargent-2015/an-auditory-illusion/ […]
Congratulations to our 2015 CNRLab graduates!
Congratulations to the members of the CNRLab who graduated this spring! They’ve accomplished amazing things in the lab and here at BU, and they’re off to great things next! Rebecca Lember, MS-SLP MS Thesis: “Lexical effects in talker identification” Elizabeth Petitti, MS-SLP MS Thesis: “A fundamental bias for residue pitch perception in tone language speakers” […]
Dr. Perrachione receives Peter Paul Professorship
Prof. Tyler Perrachione (Director of the Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory at BU) has been awarded the 2013 Peter Paul Professorship at BU. This award will allow the CNRLab to pursue cutting-edge research on the role of auditory plasticity in developmental disorders of language and communication. Read more about the award and Dr. Perrachione’s research in […]