Publications

Published Papers

Publication	Lab	Year	Link	PDF
Karlin, R. and Parrell, B. (2026). Speakers with cerebellar ataxia do not adapt speech segment durations in response to durationally altered auditory feedback. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(29), e2289252026. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2289-25.2026	SMAC	2026
Slis, A. and Parrell, B. (2026). Sensorimotor adaptation of vocal pitch is impaired in cerebellar ataxia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2630	SMAC	2026
Murphy, T.K., Cheng, H-S., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2026). Incomplete compensation without further adaptation: A large-sample acoustic analysis of bite block speech in masking noise. JASA Express Letters, 6(7), 075205. doi: 10.1121/10.0044347	both	2026
Parrell, B., Naber, C., Kim, O.A., Niziolek, C.A., and McDougle, S.D. (2026). Audiomotor prediction errors drive speech adaptation even in the absence of overt movement. PLoS Biology 24(6): e3003862. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003862	both	2026
Cheng, H-S., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2026). Sensorimotor adaptation to a nonuniform formant perturbation is preserved in healthy aging. Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research 69(3), 920-931. doi: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00503	both	2026
de Witte, A., Matthijs, A., Parrell, B., Mantini, D., Gooijers, J., and Orban de Xivry, J.-J. (2026). Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults. eLife 15:RP109440. doi: 10.7554/eLife.109440.1	SMAC	2026
Zeng, Y., Parrell, B., and Niziolek, C.A. (2026). Transfer of sensorimotor adaptation reveals independent prosodic representation after segment-prosody coordination in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 52(9), 1638-1654. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001551	both	2026
Tang, D., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2025). Formant variability is related to vowel duration across speakers. JASA Express Letters, 5(11), 115202. doi: 10/1121/10.0039754	both	2025
Gezae, G., Barnett, N., Parrell, B., Chari, D., and Lammert, A. (2025). Subject instructions for improved characterization of auditory representations using reverse correlation. JASA Express Letters, 5, 074402. doi: 10.1121/10.0037102	SMAC	2025
Tang, D., Parrell, B., Beach S.D., and Niziolek, C.A. (2025). The brain's sensitivity to sensory error can be modulated by altering perceived variability. The Journal of Neuroscience 45(5): e0024242024. doi: 10.1101/2023.06.26.546615	both	2025
Karlin, R., Tesch, E., Tang, D., Zeng, Y., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2025). Vocal pitch enables differential motor learning of speech segments. Journal of Neurophysiology 133, 1382-1391. doi: 10.1152/jn.00605.2024	both	2025
Tang, D., Tommerdahl, M., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2025). Theta-burst stimulation over primary somatosensory cortex modulates tactile acuity of tongue. Journal of Neurophysiology 133(5): 1341–49. doi: 10.1152/jn.00556.2024	both	2025
Zeng, Y., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2025). Simultaneous acquisition of multiple auditory-motor transformations reveals supra-syllabic motor planning in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154(6): 1681-1698. doi: 10.1037/xge0001744	both	2025
Parrell, B., Niziolek, C.A., and Chen, T. (2024). Sensorimotor adaptation to a nonuniform formant perturbation generalizes to untrained vowels. Journal of Neurophysiology 132(5): 1437–44	both	2024
Gaines, J., Kim, K., Parrell, B., Ramanarayanan, V., Pongos, A., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J. (2024). Bayesian inference of state feedback control parameters for f0 perturbation responses in cerebellar ataxia. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(10): e1011986. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011986	SMAC	2024
Krakauer, J., Naber, C., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2024). Divided attention has limited effects on speech sensorimotor control. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11): 4358–4368 doi: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00098	both	2024
Barnett, N., Hoyland, C., Chari, D., Parrell, B., and Lammert, A. (2024). Reverse Correlation Characterizes More Complete Tinnitus Spectra in Patients. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 5, 589–592. doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2024.3427318	SMAC	2024
Beach, S.D., Tang, D., Kiran, S., Niziolek, C.A. (2024). Pars opercularis underlies efferent predictions and successful auditory feedback processing in speech: Evidence from left-hemisphere stroke. Neurobiology of Language 5(2): 454-483.	BLAB	2024
Beach, S.D. and Niziolek, C.A. (2024). Inhibitory modulation of speech trajectories in a vowel-modified Stroop task. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 41(1-2): 51–69	BLAB	2024
Borjigin, A., Bakst, S., Anderson, K., Litovsky, R.Y., and Niziolek, C.A. (2024). Discrimination and sensorimotor adaptation of self-produced vowels in cochlear implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155(3): 1895–1908.	BLAB	2024
Kim, K., Gaines, J., Parrell, B., Ramanarayanan, V., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J. (2023). Mechanisms of sensorimotor adaptation in a hierarchical state feedback control model of speech. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(7): e1011244. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011244	SMAC	2023
Roop, B., Parrell, B., and Lammert, A. (2023). A compressive sensing approach to inferring cognitive representations with reverse correlation. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 3606–3618. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02281-4	SMAC	2023
Miller, H., Kearney, E., Nieto-Castañón, A., Falsini, R., Abur, D., Acosta, A., Chao, S-C., Dahl, K., Franken, M., Heller Murray, E., Mollaei, F., Niziolek, C.A., Parrell, B., Perrachione, T., Smith, D., Stepp, C., Tomassi, N., and Guenther, F.H. (2023). Do Not Cut Off Your Tail: A Mega-Analysis of Responses to Auditory Perturbation Experiments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 66(11): 4315–4331	both	2023
Tang, D., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2023). Modulation of somatosensation by transcranial magnetic stimulation over somatosensory cortex: a systematic review. Experimental Brain Research, 241:951–977. doi: 10.1007/s00221-023-06579-9	both	2023
Hoyland, A., Barnett, N., Roop, B., Alexandrou, D., Caplan, M., Mills, J., Parrell, B., Chari, D., and Lammert, A. (2023). Reverse Correlation Uncovers More Complete Tinnitus Spectra. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 4, 116-118. doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2023.3275051	SMAC	2023
Compton, A., Roop, B., Parrell, B., and Lammert, A. (2022). Stimulus Whitening Improves the Efficiency of Reverse Correlation. Behavior Research Methods, 55(6), 3120-3128. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-01946-w	SMAC	2022
Karlin, R. & Parrell, B. (2022). Speakers monitor auditory feedback for temporal alignment and linguistically relevant duration. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 3142-3154 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015247	SMAC	2022
Hantzsch, L., Parrell, B.* and Niziolek, C.A.* (2022). A single exposure to altered auditory feedback causes observable sensorimotor adaptation in speech. eLife 11:e73694. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73694	both	2022
Tang, D., Niziolek, C.A., and Parrell, B. (2022). Movement variability can be modulated in speech production. Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(6), 1469-1482. doi: 10.1152/jn.00095.2022	both	2022
Gaines, J., Kim, K., Parrell, B., Ramanarayanan, V., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J. (2021). Discrete constriction locations describe a comprehensive range of vocal tract shapes in the Maeda model. JASA Express Letters, 1, 124402 (2021); doi: 10.1121/10.0009058.	SMAC	2021
Roop, B., Parrell, B., and Lammert, A. (2021). A compressive sensing approach to inferring cognitive representations with reverse correlation. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 3606–3618. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02281-4.	SMAC	2021
Chen, T., Lammert, A., Parrell, B. (2021) Modeling Sensorimotor Adaptation in Speech Through Alterations to Forward and Inverse Models. Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, 3201–3205. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1746	SMAC	2021
Bakst, S. and Niziolek, C.A. (2021). Effects of syllable stress in adaptation to altered auditory feedback in vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(1):708-719. doi: 10.1121/10.0003052	BLAB	2021
Parrell, B.* and Niziolek, C.A.* (2021). Increased speech contrast induced by sensorimotor adaptation to a non-uniform auditory perturbation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125(2): 638-647. doi: 10.1152/jn.00466.2020	both	2021
Parrell, B. (2021). A Potential Role for Reinforcement Learning in Speech Production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(8): 1470–1486. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01742	SMAC	2021
Niziolek, C.A.* and Parrell, B.* (2021). Responses to auditory feedback manipulations in speech may be affected by previous exposure to auditory errors. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 2169–2181. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00263	both	2021
McDowell, G.S., Niziolek, C.A., and Lijek, R.S. (2021). How to bring peer review ghostwriters out of the dark. Molecular Biology of the Cell. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E20-10-0642	BLAB	2021
Karlin, R., Naber, C., and Parrell, B. (2021). Auditory feedback is used both online and adaptive control of timing in speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(9): 3361-3381. doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00021	SMAC	2021
Parrell, B., Tiede, M., Gracco, V., and Shiller, D. (2021). Kinematic evidence of centering during vowel production. Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, held virtually, December 2020.	SMAC	2021
Parrell, B., Ivry, R., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J.F. (2021). Intact correction for self-produced vowel formant variability in individuals with cerebellar ataxia regardless of auditory feedback availability. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 64. 2234-2247. doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00270	SMAC	2021
Lee, Y., Goldstein, L., Parrell, B., and Byrd, D. (2021). Who converges? Variation reveals individual speaker adaptability. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(8), 1470–1486.	SMAC	2021
Parrell, B., Kim, H., Breska, A., Saxena, A., and Ivry, R. (2021). Differential effects of cerebellar degeneration on feedforward versus feedback control across speech and reaching movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 41, 8779–8789. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0739-21.2021	SMAC	2021
Bankston, A., Davis, S.M., Moore, E., Niziolek, C.A., and Boudreau, V. (2020). Why scientific societies should involve more early-career researchers. eLife 9:e60829.	BLAB	2020
Krivokapic, J., Styler, W., and Parrell, B. (2020). Pause postures: the relationship between articulation and cognitive processes during pauses. Journal of Phonetics, 79, 100953. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100953.	SMAC	2020
Kothare, H., Raharjo, I., Ramanarayanan, V., Ranasinghe, K., Parrell, B., Johnson, K., Houde, J., and Nagarajan, S. (2020). Sensorimotor adaptation of speech depends on the direction of auditory feedback alteration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, 3682. doi: 10.1121/10.0002876.	SMAC	2020
Parrell, B.* and Lammert, A.* (2019). Bridging dynamical and optimal approaches to speech motor control with Dynamic Movement Primitives. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2251. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02251.	SMAC	2019
Bakst, S. and Niziolek, C.A. (2019). Self-correction in L1 and L2 vowel production. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019 (pp. 3185-3189). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.	BLAB	2019
Bakst, S. and Niziolek C.A. (2019). Does schwa have an auditory target? An altered auditory feedback study. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019 (pp. 1149-1153). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.	BLAB	2019
Parrell, B., Ramanarayanan, V., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J. (2019). The FACTS model of speech motor control: fusing state estimation and task-based control. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(9), e1007321. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007321.	SMAC	2019
Bakst, S. and Niziolek, C.A. (2019). The role of auditory feedback in error-detection and correction in first and second language production. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, 2792. doi: 10.1121/1.5136672.	BLAB	2019
Parrell, B. and Houde, J. (2019). Modeling the role of sensory feedback in speech motor control and learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 2963-2985. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-CSMC7-18-0127	SMAC	2019
Parrell, B., Lammert, A., Ciccarelli, G., and Quatieri, T. (2019). Current models of speech motor control: A control-theoretic overview of architectures and properties. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 1465-1481. doi: 10.1121/1.5092807	SMAC	2019
Houde, J., Jeevit, G., Agnew, Z., Kothare, H., Hickok, G., Parrell, B., Ivry, R., and Nagarajan, S. (2019). Abnormally increased vocal responses to pitch feedback perturbations in patients with cerebellar degeneration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, EL372. doi: 10.1121/1.5100910	SMAC	2019
Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2018). Assessing speech correction abilities with acoustic analyses: Evidence of preserved online correction in persons with aphasia. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6):659-668. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2018.1498920.	BLAB	2018
Lee, Y., Gordon Danner, S., Parrell, B., Lee, S., Goldstein, L., and Byrd, D. (2018). Articulatory, acoustic, and prosodic accommodation in a cooperative maze navigation task. PLOS One, 13(8). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201444	SMAC	2018
Parrell, B., Ramanarayanan, V., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J. (2018). FACTS: A hierarchical task-based control model of speech incorporating sensory feedback. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, 1497–1501. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2087	SMAC	2018
Parrell, B., and Narayanan, S. (2018). Explaining coronal reduction: prosodic structure and articulatory posture. Phonetica, 75(2), 151-181. doi: 10.1159/000481099.	SMAC	2018
Athanasiadou, R., Bankston, A., Carlisle, M., Niziolek, C.A., and McDowell, G.S. (2018). Assessing the landscape of US postdoctoral salaries. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education 9(2):213–242.	BLAB	2018
Niziolek, C.A. and Kiran, S. (2018). Vowel dynamics in persons with aphasia. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143. 1820-1820. doi: 10.1121/1.5035974.	BLAB	2018
Martin, C.D., Niziolek, C.A., Duñabeitia, J.A., Perez, A., Hernandez, D., Carreiras, M., Houde, J.F. (2018). Online Adaptation to Altered Auditory Feedback Is Predicted by Auditory Acuity and Not by Domain-General Executive Control Resources. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:91. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00091.	BLAB	2018
Parrell, B., Agnew, Z., Nagarajan, S., Houde, J., and Ivry, R. (2017). Impaired feedforward control and enhanced feedback control of speech in patients with cerebellar degeneration. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 9249. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3363-16.2017.	SMAC	2017
Ramanarayanan, V., Parrell, B., Goldstein, L., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J. (2016). A New Model of Speech Motor Control based on Task Dynamics and State Feedback. Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, 3564–3568. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1499	SMAC	2016
Niziolek, C.A., Nagarajan, S., and Houde, J.F. (2015). The contribution of auditory feedback to corrective movements in vowel formant trajectories. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4.	BLAB	2015
Niziolek, C.A. and Guenther, F.H. (2014). When BED goes BAD: how the brain can fix mistakes in speech while they happen. Frontiers in Neuroscience for Young Minds 2:1.	BLAB	2014
Houde, J.F., Niziolek, C.A., Kort, N.S., Agnew, Z.K., and Nagarajan, S.S. (2014). Simulating a model of state feedback control of speaking. Proceedings of the 10th Intl. Seminar on Speech Production, Cologne, Germany, 2014.	BLAB	2014
Niziolek, C.A., Nagarajan, S.S. and Houde, J.F. (2013). What does motor efference copy represent? Evidence from speech production. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(41):16110-16116. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2137-13.2013.	BLAB	2013
Niziolek, C.A. and Guenther, F.H. (2013). Vowel category boundaries enhance cortical and behavioral responses to speech feedback alterations. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(29):12090–12098.	BLAB	2013
Sitek, K., Mathalon, D.H., Roach, B.J., Houde, J.F., Niziolek, C.A., and Ford, J.M. (2013). Auditory cortex processes variation in our own speech. PLOS One 8(12):e82925.	BLAB	2013
Chang, E.F., Niziolek, C.A., Knight, R., Nagarajan, S.S., and Houde, J.F. (2013). Human cortical sensorimotor network underlying feedback control of vocal pitch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(7):2653–2658.	BLAB	2013
Houde, J.F., Kort, N.S., Niziolek, C.A., Chang, E.F., and Nagarajan, S. (2013). Neural evidence for state feedback control of speaking. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (ICA 2013 Montreal) 19:060178.	BLAB	2013
Patel, R., Niziolek, C.A., Reilly, K.J., and Guenther, F.H. (2011). Prosodic adaptations to pitch perturbation in running speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 54(4):1051–1059.	BLAB	2011
Publication	Lab		Link	PDF

*denotes equal contribution

Preprints

Preprint	Lab	Year	Link
Cheng, H.-S., Murphy, T., Parrell, B., Niziolek, C.A. (under review). Examining predictors of adaptation to a non-uniform formant perturbation and the construct validity of assays of sensory acuity. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/pzse8_v1	both	2025
Beach, S.D., Johnson, S.A., Parrell, B., and Niziolek, C.A. (under review). Increased vowel contrast and intelligibility in connected speech induced by sensorimotor adaptation. bioRxiv 2024.08.04.606537; doi: 10.1101/2024.08.04.606537	both	2024
Preprint	Lab		Link

*denotes equal contribution