Month: March 2019

BLAB Lab P.I., Carrie Niziolek, presents research findings at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in San Francisco.   Effects of cognitive interference and priming on speech acoustics Caroline Niziolek Are there interactions between cognitive interference, priming, and speech production? In a series of experiments, we manipulated the temporal relationship between a visually-presented distractor word and …

BLAB postdoc, Sarah Bakst, and SMAC P.I., Ben Parrell, speak about current research at the UCSF Symposium: Neural Bases of Speech Production. Previous exposure to sensory feedback noise causes a decrease in online compensation for sensory perturbations in speech. Ben Parrell You can find the abstract here.     Self-monitoring in L1 and L2: A …

Ben Parrell gives the second Language Sciences colloquium talk of the semester. Event Date: Thursday, March 7th @ 4:00p Event Location: Van Hise Hall, Room 386   From language to action: Mechanisms of speech motor control Ben Parrell University of Wisconsin–Madison   How do we produce the tightly controlled movements of speech? I will present …