Year: 2019

BLAB postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Sarah Bakst, has received the Travel Award for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology’s 2020 MidWinter Meeting. Dr. Bakst will be presenting her research findings titled: Speech Error-Detection Thresholds in Cochlear Implant and Normal Hearing Listeners. For more information about the ARO 2020 MidWinter Meeting, see here: https://www.aro.org/midwinter-meeting-information  

BLAB research assistant, Dominick Battistini, presented a poster on our fMRI study looking at speaking-induced suppression in the auditory cortex for his biology course.            

Dr. Niziolek and Dr. Bakst both present recent research findings at the Acoustical Society of America’s 178th meeting in San Diego. To see more about the meeting, see here: https://acousticalsociety.org/program-of-178th-meeting-of-the-acoustical-society-of-america/

BLAB Lab Principal Investigator, Dr. Carrie Niziolek gives keynote speech regarding the contextual modulation of voices at the UCL Voice Diversity Conference in London. For more information regarding the conference, please see here: http://sophiemeekings.com/ucl-voice-conference/

Dr. Sarah Bakst gives talk titled: How many targets does [ə] have? An altered auditory feedback study at MidPhon’s 24th Annual Conference. For more information on MidPhon24, see https://sites.uwm.edu/midphon24/

Visiting BLAB researcher, Andreas Endresen, presents his summer research project at the final SIGNALS symposium. Andreas Endresen spent his summer working on MRI and speech research with Dr. Carrie Niziolek.  He presented their research at the final SIGNALS symposium (pictured below).                             …

BLAB Lab’s postdoctoral researcher, Sarah Bakst, receives the F32 individual fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Sarah Bakst has been with the BLAB Lab since its inception.  Under this award, she’ll be continuing to study the role of auditory feedback control in second language learners, as well as collaborating with the BHSL …

Sarah Bakst and Carrie Niziolek’s research titled “Within-syllable dynamics of vowel acoustics” is featured on Waisman Center’s slide of the week. See the entire post here: https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/2019/04/27/niziolek-slide-of-the-week-2019/

BLAB postdoc, Sarah Bakst, speaks about speech target practice in second language learners at UW-Milwaukee. Target practice: self-monitoring in L1 and L2 speech production Sarah Bakst & Carrie Niziolek We listen to ourselves while speaking to ensure that we say what we intended to say and how we intended to say it. In a native …

Carrie Niziolek speaks at Northwestern University for the Cognitive Science program.   Language made audible: How speech acoustics reflect cognition Carrie Niziolek Our speech output reflects the plethora of processes that goes into its planning. Using acoustic analyses of words produced in challenging circumstances (e.g. with abnormal sensory feedback, in a non-native language, or in …