Lab Members
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]