Publications

Willis, A. S. & Quandt, L. C. (2022). How does the age of sign language acquisition affect the social perception of signing avatars? Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Quandt, L. C., Leannah, C., Schwenk, M., & Willis, A. S. (2022). Effects of sign language experience and being deaf upon biological motion processing. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Shao, Q., Sniffen, A., Blanchett, J., Hillis, M. E., Shi, X., Haris, T. K., Liu, J., Lamberton, J., Malzkuhn, M., Quandt, L. C., Mahoney, J., Kraemer, D. J. M., Zhou, X., & Balkcom, D. (2021). Teaching American Sign Language in mixed reality. Talk at UbiComp/ISWC 2021. 

Quandt, L. C., Willis, A. S., Weeks, K., Wang, J., Lamberton, J., Schwenk, M.° & Malzkuhn, M. (2021). ASL + VR: Lessons from the first three years of Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning (SAIL). Presented at the CIRCLS ’21 annual convening. 

Leannah, C., Willis, A. S., & Quandt, L. C. (2021). Perception of ASL fingerspelling via point-light displays. Slide Slam presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language.

Schwenk, M., Willis, A. S., Weeks, K., Ferster, R., & Quandt, L. C. (2021). Attitudes towards sign language avatars in the practice of teletherapy and assessment. Presented at the convention of the American Psychological Association, Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12).

Xu, A. & Quandt, L. C. (2021). Multisensory Integration in Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Groups. Presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Quandt, L. C., Malzkuhn, M., Willis, A. S., Lamberton, J., Wang, J., Wang, Y., & Weeks, K. (2020). SAIL: Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning. Virtual showcase presented at the annual meeting of the Immersive Learning Research Network.

Willis, A. S., Weeks, K., Schwenk, M., & Quandt, L. C. Behavioral and neural responses to American Sign Language avatars. Presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language. 

Berger, L., Sullivan S., Quandt, L. C., & Berteletti, I. (2020). Influence of language modality on sensorimotor involvement in arithmetic calculation. Accepted at the annual meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, canceled due to Covid-19.

Kubicek, E., Thornton, D., & Quandt, L. C. (2020). The relationship between sign language fluency and mental rotation: An EEG study. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Quandt, L. C., Kubicek, E.^, & Lamberton, J. (2020). Superior discrimination of complex biological motions in native ASL signers. Presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 

Quandt, L. C. & Willis, A. (2019). Sensorimotor EEG activity during sign production in deaf signers and hearing non-signers. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language in Helsinki, Finland. 

Willis, A. & Quandt, L. C. (2019). Sign language experience increases motor resonance during imitation of signs. Presented at the Gallaudet University Research Expo in Washington, D.C.

Kubicek., E. & Quandt, L. C. (2019). Neural correlates of biological motion perception in sign language users. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, CA.

Willis, A. & Quandt, L. C. (2019). Sign language experience increases motor resonance during imitation of signs. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, CA.

Kubicek., E. & Quandt, L. C. (2019). Neural correlates of biological motion perception in sign language users. Data Blitz talk presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, CA.

Berger, L. & Quandt, L. C. (2018). Sensorimotor EEG indicates deaf signers simulate tactile properties of ASL signs when reading English. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language in Quebec City, Canada.

Kubicek, E. & Quandt, L. C. (2018). Deaf signers’ sensorimotor system activity during perception of one- and two-handed signs. Presented at SACNAS 2018: The National Diversity in STEM Conference in San Antonio, TX.

Kubicek, E. & Quandt, L. C. (2018). Deaf signers’ sensorimotor system activity during perception of one- and two-handed signs. Data Blitz presentation given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston, MA.

Kubicek, E. & Quandt, L. C. (2018). Deaf signers’ sensorimotor system activity during perception of one- and two-handed signs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston, MA.

Quandt, L. C. & Kubicek, E. M. (2017). Motor system contributions to cross-linguistic translation when deaf signers read English. Oral presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Lab papers - email lorna.quandt @ gallaudet.edu to request courtesy copies

Viegas, C., Inan, M., Quandt, L. C., & Alikhani, M. (Accepted). Including facial expressions in contextual embeddings for sign language generation. Paper to be presented at the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023).

Alam, M. S., De Bastion, M., Malzkuhn, M., & Quandt, L. C. (2023). Recognizing highly variable American Sign Language in virtual reality. To be presented at the 8th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT). Link

May, L., Miller, S., Bakri, S., Quandt, L. C., & Malzkuhn, M. (2023). Designing access in sound art exhibitions: Centering deaf experiences in Musical Thinking. In Proceedings of CHI23: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Link

Leannah, C., Willis, A. S., & Quandt, L. C. (2022). Perceiving fingerspelling via point-light displays: The stimulus and the perceiver both matter. PLOS ONE 17(8): e0272838. Link

Quandt, L. C., Lamberton, J., Leannah, C., Willis, A., & Malzkuhn, M. (2022). Signing avatars in a new dimension: Challenges and opportunities in virtual reality. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT). Link

Quandt, L. C., Willis, A. S., Schwenk, M., Weeks, K., & Ferster, R. (2022). Attitudes toward signing human avatars vary depending on hearing status and age of signed language exposure. Frontiers in Psychology. Link

Berteletti, I., Kimbley, S. E., Sullivan, S. J., Quandt, L. C., & Miyakoshi, M. (2022). Different language modalities, yet similar cognitive processes in arithmetic fact retrieval. Brain Sciences, 12(2), 145. Link

Quandt, L. C. & Kubicek, E., Willis, A. S., & Lamberton, J. (2021). Enhanced biological motion perception in deaf native signers. Neuropsychologia. Link

Quandt, L. C. & Willis, A. S. Earlier and more robust sensorimotor discrimination of ASL signs in deaf signers during imitation. (2021). Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience. 10.1080/23273798.2021.1925712. Link

Kubicek, E. & Quandt, L. C. (2021). A positive relationship between sign language comprehension and mental rotation abilities. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 26, 1-12. Link

Shao, Q., Sniffen, A., Blanchett, J., Hillis, M. E., Shi, X., Haris, T. K., Liu, J., Lamberton, J., Malzkuhn, M., Quandt, L. C., Mahoney, J., Kraemer, D. J. M., Zhou, X., & Balkcom, D. (2020). Teaching American Sign Language in mixed reality. In The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 4, 152. Link

Quandt, L. C., Lamberton, J., Willis, A. S., Wang, J., Weeks, K., Kubicek, E., & Malzkuhn, M. (2020). Teaching ASL signs using signing avatars and immersive learning in virtual reality. In The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’20), October 26–28, Virtual Event, Greece. Link

Kubicek, E. & Quandt, L. C. (2019). Sensorimotor system engagement during ASL sign perception: an EEG study in deaf signers and hearing non-signers. Cortex, 119, 457-469. Link

Quandt, L. C. & Kubicek, E. (2018). Sensorimotor characteristics of sign translations modulate EEG when deaf signers read English. Brain and Language, 187, 9-17. Link

Earlier work

Quandt, L. C., Lee, Y.-S., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). Neural bases of action abstraction. Biological Psychology, 129, 314-323.

Quandt, L. C., Cardillo, E. R., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Fronto-temporal regions encode the manner of motion in spatial language. Neuroscience Letters, 609, 171-175. 

Quandt, L. C. & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Rethinking actions: Implementation and association. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 6, 483-490. 

Bunlon, F., Marshall, P. J., Quandt, L. C., & Bouquet, C. A. (2015). Influence of action-effect associations acquired by ideomotor learning on imitation. PLOS ONE, 10, e0121617. 

Drew, A. R., Quandt, L. C., & Marshall, P. J. (2015). Visual influences on sensorimotor EEG responses during observation of hand actions. Brain Research, 1597, 119-128. 

Quandt, L. C. & Marshall, P. J. (2014). The effect of action experience on sensorimotor EEG rhythms during action observation. Neuropsychologia, 56, 401-408. 

Quandt, L. C., Marshall, P. J., Bouquet, C. A., & Shipley, T. F. (2013). Somatosensory experiences modulate alpha and beta power during subsequent action observation. Brain Research, 1534, 55-65. 

Quandt, L. C., Marshall, P. J., Shipley, T. F., Beilock, S. L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2012). Sensitivity of alpha and beta oscillations to sensorimotor characteristics of action: An EEG study of action production and gesture observation. Neuropsychologia, 50, 2745-51. 

Quandt, L. C., Marshall, P. J., Bouquet, C. A., Young, T., & Shipley, T. F. (2011). Experience with novel actions modulates frontal alpha EEG desynchronization. Neuroscience Letters, 499, 37-41. 

Roussotte, F. F., Bramen, J. E., Nuñez, S. C., Quandt, L. C., Smith, L. M., O’Connor, M. J., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Sowell, E. R. (2011). Abnormal brain activation during working memory in children with prenatal exposure to drugs of abuse: The effects of methamphetamine, alcohol, and polydrug exposure. NeuroImage, 54, 3067-75. 

Carp, J., Halenar, M. J., Quandt, L. C., Sklar, A., & Compton, R. J. (2009). Perceived similarity and neural mirroring: Evidence from vicarious error processing. Social Neuroscience, 4, 85-96. 

Compton, R. J., Carp, J., Chaddock, L., Fineman, S. L., Quandt, L. C., & Ratliff, J. B. (2008). Trouble crossing the bridge: Interhemispheric communication of emotional images in anxiety. Emotion, 8, 684-92. 

Compton, R. J., Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., Quandt, L. C., Fineman, S. L., & Carp, J. (2008). Error monitoring ability predicts daily stress regulation. Psychological Science, 19, 702-8. 

Compton, R. J., Lin, M., Vargas, G., Carp, J., Fineman, S. L., & Quandt, L. C. (2008). Error-detection and post-error behavior in depressed undergraduates. Emotion, 8, 58-67.

Compton, R. J., Carp, J., Chaddock, L., Fineman, S. L., Quandt, L. C., & Ratliff, J. B. (2007). Error-monitoring in anxiety: Increased error-sensitivity or altered expectations? Brain and Cognition, 64, 247-56.