Our Research

How do we make sense of the sounds we hear? How does attention affect the way we hear complex sounds like speech? How do we learn new sound categories like foreign speech? What are the underlying perceptual, cognitive, and brain mechanisms supporting complex auditory processing?

By using speech as a model system, we study the general perceptual mechanisms and their interactions with high-level cognitive functions (e.g., attention, working memory, category learning). To elucidate dynamics of neural functions that support listening behaviors, we employ a combination of behavioral experiments, multimodal neuroimaging techniques (EEG and fMRI), as well as pupillometry, and computational modeling.