Congratulations to Nick Monto, a Ph.D. student in the SLaP Lab, who has just been accepted as an IGERT Associate! The Language Plasticity IGERT at UConn is an interdisciplinary training program funded by the NSF designed to foster research and graduate training across cognitive (linguistics, psychology, communication disorders) and biological (behavioral and molecular neuroscience and genetics) approaches to language research.
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Julia Drouin to attend fMRI training course
Paper accepted at the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Be on the lookout for a new paper to appear in JSLHR! The title is “Examination of the locus of positional influences on children’s production of plural -s: Considerations from local and global speech planning.” This work was completed with Dr. Katherine Demuth at Macquarie University and Dr. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Paper accepted at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Be on the lookout for a new paper to appear in AP&P! The title is “Attention modulates specificity effects in spoken word recognition: Challenges to the time-course hypothesis.” This work was completed with Dr. Sheila E. Blumstein and Sahil Luthra at Brown University.
Emily Thompson receives SPARC award
Congratulations to Emily Thompson, who has just received a SPARC award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This is a mentored award that will provide Emily with an opportunity to foster her teaching and research skills under the direction of Dr. Theodore. Emily is conducting her Honors research in the SLaP Lab, which examines perceptual learning in adults with dyslexia. Well done, Emily!
Dr. Theodore is winner of Honors Core Course Competition
Dr. Theodore is a winner of the 2014 Honors Core Course Competition sponsored by the UConn Honors Program Office for Curriculum, Assessment, and Planning. She will be developing a new offering for the Honors Core, a set of classes that aim to combine different perspectives and diverse problem-solving expertise to study important challenging themes and issues. The title of her course is “Introduction to communication disorders: Interdisciplinary perspectives from brain to behavior.”
SLaP Lab at the Providence ASA meeting
Rebecca Sylvia and Heather McSherry finish Honors research
Congratulations to SLaP Lab undergraduates, Rebecca Sylvia and Heather McSherry, who have successfully completed their research requirements for the Honors program. The title of Rebecca’s thesis is “Locus of phonological deficits in adults with dyslexia.” The title of Heather’s thesis is “Effects of speaking rate and place of articulation on phonetic categorization in children.” Dr. Theodore is so proud of both of you and looks forward to seeing all of your future accomplishments!
M.A. defense: Joslynn S. Noyes
Joslynn Noyes successfully defended her M.A. thesis today! The title of her thesis is “Effects of reading ability on perceptual flexibility in spoken language processing.” Her project will be presented at the upcoming meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!
SLaP Lab members receive SURF awards
Emily Thompson, Katlyn Salvador, and Lisa Brody have each received a SURF award from the Office for Undergraduate Research. This competitive award will fund their involvement in research projects during the summer. Their faculty sponsors are Dr. Erika Skoe (Brody) and Dr. Rachel Theodore (Thompson, Salvador). Congratulations – well done!