Emily Opramolla has successfully completed her Honors thesis titled “Tracking the time course of distributional learning for talker-specific phonetic variation.” You know it’s official when the Honors bell has been rung – congratulations, Emily!
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Julia Drouin receives CAPCSD Ph.D. Fellowship
Nikole Giovannone joins SLaP Lab as Jorgensen Fellow
We extend a warm welcome to Nikole Giovannone, who will join the SLaP Lab as a Ph.D. student this fall. Nikole is currently an Honors scholar at Mount Holyoke College, working in the lab of Dr. Mara Breen. Nikole will join us as a Jorgensen Fellow. Recipients of the Jorgensen Fellowship represent the very best applicants to graduate programs at UConn, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her to our group!
Divya Ganugapati presents at Frontiers
Emma Hungaski presents at Frontiers
Julia Drouin completes General Exam
M.A. defense: Stephen Graham
Dr. Theodore to serve as Associate Editor at Language and Speech
Dr. Theodore will begin serving as an Associate Editor at Language and Speech in April 2017.
Emma Hungaski receives SURF award
Emma has received a competitive SURF award from the UConn Office for Undergraduate Research. This award will provide a stipend for Emma to work in the SLaP Lab this coming summer. Emma’s project is titled “Neural determinants of phonetic category structure in children.” Congratulations!
Dr. Theodore receives NIH NIDCD R21
Dr. Theodore has received a 3-year grant from the NIH NIDCD to examine phonetic category structure in individuals with and without specific language impairment (LI). Specific language impairment (LI) is a common child learning disorder that can persist into adulthood and puts individuals at risk for other disabilities including learning disability, reading disability, and failure to thrive in academic environments. The proposed research will use fMRI neuroimaging and behavioral methods to compare phonetic category structure in individuals with and without LI with respect to (1) how phonetic category structure is represented in the brain and (2) how phonetic category structure is dynamically modified as a consequence of exposure to phonetic variation. These findings will result in improved specification of the etiology of LI, which can be used to develop more targeted rehabilitation protocols. The title of the grant is “Determinants of phonetic category structure in language impairment.”