Lab talks

Our laboratory has monthly speech-related talks on Zoom. Please feel free to read up on any of our past presentations from the links below.

For your own presentations, add the info below and add your slides to the shared drive here.

2021

• State Space Models (Daliri & Dittman, 2019; Smith et al., 2006). Presented by Elaine Kearney, February 2021. Slides.

• Auditory-Motor Integration in Parkinson's Disease. Presented by Jordan Manes, March 2021. Slides.

2020

• Language Without Speech: Segregating Distinct Circuits in the Human Brain. Presented by Matthias Heyne, January 2020.

• Eliciting Stuttering in Laboratory Contexts. Presented by Megan Thompson, January 2020.

• Stuttering and gray matter morphometry: A population-based neuroimaging study in young children. Presented by Hilary Miller, April 2020.

• Speakers are able to categorize vowels based on tongue somatosensation. Presented by Elaine Kearney, May 2020. Slides.

• It's About Time: Minimizing Hardware and Software Latencies in Speech Research With Real-Time Auditory Feedback. Presented by Liz Heller Murray, June 2020.

• Modulation of vocal pitch control through high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the left ventral motor cortex. Presented by Hilary Miller, June 2020.

• Mapping typical and hypokinetic dysarthric speech production network using a connected speech paradigm in functional MRI. Presented by Elaine Kearney, August 2020. Slides.

• Speech motor planning in the context of phonetically similar words: Evidence from apraxia of speech and aphasia. Presented by Hilary Miller, October, 2020.

• SPLAB research project management. Presented by Elaine Kearney & Jason Tourville, December, 2020. Slides.

2019

• Damage to the anterior arcuate fasciculus predicts non-fluent speech production in aphasia. Presented by Elaine Kearney, January 2019.

• Effect of an 8-week practice of externally triggered speech on basal ganglia activity of stuttering and fluent speakers. Presented by Saul Frankford, March 2019.

• Challenges in DWI tractography: Confirmation of a gyral bias in diffusion MRI fiber tractography. The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography. Anatomically-constrained tractography: improved diffusion MRI streamlines tractography through effective use of anatomical information. Presented by Matthias Heyne, April 2019.

• Neurophysiologic correlates of fMRI in human motor cortex. Presented by Megan Thompson, May 2019.

• Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Presented by Byron Galbraith, May 2019.

• The role of auditory feedback at volcalization onset and mid-utterance. Presented by Dante Smith, June 2019.

• Identification and remediation of phonological and motor errors in acquired sound production impairment. Presented by Matthew Masapollo, June 2019.

• The dynamics of speech motor control revealed with time-resolved fMRI. Presented by Matthias Heyne, July 2019.

• Detecting our own vocal errors: An event-related study of the thresholds for perceiving and compensating for vocal pitch errors. Presented by Liz Heller Murray, July 2019.

• The neuroanatomy of speech sequencing at the syllable level. Presented by Matthew Masapollo, August 2019.

• Timing variability of sensorimotor integration during vocalization in individuals who stutter. Presented by Saul Frankford, September 2019.

• External cueing facilitates auditory-motor integration for speech control in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Presented by Elaine Kearney, September 2019.

• Opposing and following responses in sensorimotor speech control: Why responses go both ways. Presented by Liz Heller Murray, October 2019.

2018

• The effects of coarticulation and morphological complexity on the production of English coda clusters: Acoustic and articulatory evidence from 2-year-olds and adults using ultrasound. Presented by Matthew Masapollo, September 2018.

• Functional Characterization of the Human Speech Articulation Network. Presented by Matthias Heyne, August 2018.

• Feeling the beat: premotor and striatal interactions in musicians and nonmusicians during beat perception. Presented by Saul Frankford, August 2018.

• Poor neuro-motor tuning of the human larynx: a comparison of sung and whistled pitch imitation. Presented by Matthias Heyne, May 2018.

• The Role of Human Primary Motor Cortex in the Production of Skilled Finger Sequences. Presented by Megan Thompson, May 2018.

• A temporal predictive code for voice motor control: Evidence from ERP and behavioral responses to pitch-shifted auditory feedback. Presented by Dante Smith, April 2018.

• The Effect of Speech Repetition Rate on Neural Activation in Healthy Adults: Implications for Treatment of Aphasia and Other Fluency Disorders. Presented by Elaine Kearney, April 2018.

• Redistribution of neural phase coherence reflects establishment of feedforward map in speech motor adaptation. Presented by Liz Heller Murray, March 2018.

• Atypical non-verbal sensorimotor synchronization in adults who stutter may be modulated by auditory feedback. Presented by Matthias Heyne, March 2018.

• When infants talk, infants listen: pre‐babbling infants prefer listening to speech with infant vocal properties. Presented by Matthew Masapollo, February 2018.

2017

• Lip Movements Affect Infants’ Audiovisual Speech Perception. Presented by Matthew Masapollo, November 2017.

• A predictive coding framework for a developmental agent: Speech motor skill acquisition and speech production. Presented by Byron Galbraith, October 2017.

• Parallel streams define the temporal dynamics of speech processing across human auditory cortex. Presented by Scott Kuzdeba, June 2017.

• Network localization of neurological symptoms from focal brain lesions. Presented by Saul Frankford, April 2017.

• Brain-to-text: decoding spoken phrases from phone representations in the brain. Presented by Andrés Salazar, March 2017.

• Spatio-temporal dynamics of yeast mitochondrial biogenesis: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mRNA oscillatory modules. Presented by Saul Frankford, March 2017.

• Detecting paralinguistic information from speech and language for clinical applications: Interpretable algorithms and data-driven information limits. Presented by Visar Berisha, March 2017.

• Testing the assumptions underlying fMRI adaptation using intracortical recordings in area MT. Presented by Jennifer Segawa, February 2017.

2016

• Repeated stimuli elicit diminished high-gamma electrocorticographic responses. Presented by Saul Frankford, October 2016.

• Left posterior-dorsal area 44 couples with parietal areas to promote speech fluency, while right area 44 activity promotes the stopping of motor responses. Presented by Ayoub Daliri, September 2016.

• Electrocorticographic representations of segmental features in continuous speech. Presented by Scott Kuzdeba, August 2016

• A small number of abnormal brain connections predicts adult autism spectrum disorder. Presented by Jennifer Segawa, June 2016.

• Sensory preference in speech production revealed by simultaneous alteration of auditory and somatosensory feedback. Presented by Dante Smith, June 2016.

• Independence of movement preparation and movement initiation. Presented by Spencer Torene, April 2016

• The auditory representation of speech sounds in human motor cortex. Presented by Ayoub Daliri, March 2016.

• The brain’s silent messenger: using selective attention to decode human thought for brain-based communication. Presented by Andres Salazar-Gomez, February 2016.

• Parcellating cortical functional networks in individuals. Presented by Jason Tourville, January 2016

2015

• Detection of simulated vocal dysfunctions using complex sEMG patterns. Presented by Dante Smith, November 2015.

• A positive-negative mode of population covariation links brain connectivity, demographics and behavior. Presented by Jennifer Segawa, October 2015.

• Speech motor planning and execution deficits in early childhood stuttering. Presented by Ayoub Daliri, September 2015.

• Motor cortex is required for learning but not for executing a motor skill. Presented by Spencer Torene, August 2015.

• A neural network that finds a naturalistic solution for the production of muscle activity. Presented by Spencer Torene, July 2015.

• Recipes for the linear analysis of EEG. Presented by Andres Salazar-Gomez, June 2015.

• Removal of muscle artifacts from EEG recordings of spoken language production. Presented by Dante Smith, May 2015.