This page lists scholars whose work has influenced my thinking in alphabetic order. For some of them (a small proportion), I had the opportunity to meet them in person (and even work briefly together), but we have not had the chance to co-author a paper yet. Their intellectual contribution to my research program is sincerely appreciated.
Also, it is important to note that the keyword highlights listed here are strictly about how their work influenced me, not necessarily an accurate summary of their research program.
This page is still in progress.
Philippe Albouy, Spectro-temporal acoustical markers differentiate speech from song across cultures
John Alderete, Corpus study of lexical tone
Samra Alispahic, Multiple talker processing in autistic adult listeners
Gianmarco Altoè, Using data simulation to teach statistics
Mark Amengual, Phonetics of early bilingualism
Andrey Anikin, Loudness-f0 trade-off in vocal intimidation
Annibale Antonioni, Cerebellum and the mirror neuron system
Giovanni Assenza, TMS on cortical excitability assessed via EEG
Vicki Baker, Scholarly growth of faculty
Moshe Bar, Neuroscience of creativity and curiosity
Horace Barlow, Efficient coding hypothesis
Shari R. Baum, Individual differences in the consistency of neural and behavioural responses to speech sounds
Daphne Bavelier, Neuroplasticity and action video games
Loisa Bennetto, Detail-oriented perception in autism as a potential cause of social inferences
Kelly Berkson, Language endangerment and revitalization, Ultrasound imaging for speech
Christel Bidet-Ildei, Action observation therapy (AOT) on speech and language rehabilitation
Tali Bitan, Inter- and intra-hemispheric dynamics in reading ambiguous words
Bart de Boer, Network structure and language change
Elvira Brattico, Music and language in the brain
Marion Brickwedde, Alpha oscillations and perceptual learning
Sharon Brehm, The science of intimate relationships
Kent Berridge, The three dissociable psychological components of reward (i.e., liking, wanting, and learning)
David Buss, Evolutionary psychology
Hans Rutger Bosker, Gestural influence in speech perception
Megan A. Boudewyn, Individual differences in language processing
Hamid Bouraghi, Mobile games for treating speech sound disorders in children
Moritz Breit, The stability of cognitive abilities across the lifespan
Jonathan Brumberg, BMI (brain-machine interfaces)
Qing Cai, Lateralization of language production and spatial attention in left-handers
Valerie Camos, Storing verbal information in working memory
Edward Chang, Cortical overlap and differentiation in music and speech perception
Nick Chater, The now-or-never bottleneck in language processing
Jun Chen, Self-powered wearable device for dysphonia
Ruoqian Cheng, Nasal-lateral merger in progress
Fergus I. M. Craik, Levels of processing
George P. Chrousos, Melancholic vs. atypical depression
Evgeny Chukharev, Good enough corrective feedback in second language speech learning
Morten H. Christiansen, The now-or-never bottleneck in language processing, The role of feedback in statistical learning
Michelle Cohn, Machine-directed speech, Human-computer interaction
Jennifer Culbertson, Learning bias and working memory in language regularization
Greg DeAngelis, Unification of psychophysical and neural models of multi-sensory processes
Paul de Mornay Davies, Lexical selection in spoken word production
Stanislas Dehaene, Cognition as emerging activation patterns
Erik van der Burg, Audiovisual speech integration in autism, Synchrony is not a prerequisite for audiovisual integration
Gary S. Dell, The leaky lexicon
Maria Devita, Non-invasive brain stimulation on cerebellar-associated cognitive processes
Hubert R. Dinse, Repetitive sensory stimulation and neuroplasticity
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution
Olga Dmitrieva, Second language influence on first language speech
Sophie Dufour, Lexical stress perception across languages
Karthik Durvasula, Generative phonology and incomplete neutralization
Andreas K. Engel, Functional coupling of brain networks
Randy Engle, Attention and processing speed
Mirjam Ernestus, Combined analysis of simultaneous EEG and eye-tracking data
Kara D. Federmeier, N400 and prediction
Evelina Fedorenko, Double dissociation between language and thought
Jacob Feldman, Bayesian models of compositional mental representations
José Manuel Fernández-Real, Mind-gut connection on cognitive functions
Victor Ferreira, Central bottleneck in spoken word production
Hannah Filmer, Dopamine on motor learning
Mark D. Fletcher, Haptic hearing aid
Nir Fresco, Efforts at unifying cognitive-level and neurobiological models of predictive processing within the Bayesian framework
Richard Futrell, Computational modeling of ease of production vs. communicative accuracy in sentence production
Susanne Gahl, Homophone acoustics
Nathalie Giroud, Multivariate temporal response function (mTRF) in speech perception
Matt Goldrick, Exemplar models of speech production
Tamar Gollan, Multilingual Naming Test
Seth Hays, VNS and neuroplasticity
Jieying He, Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) of fMRI data
Donald Hebb, Neurons that fire together, wire together
Wendy Herd, Sociophonetics
Michael Herzog, Perceptual learning via mere imagination
Raju Metherate, Nicotine on acoustic processing in A1
Susanna Hofmann, Visual feedback (ultrasound & acoustic) in second language speech training
Ian S. Howard, Components of motor learning
Tingting Hu, Graded phonological neighborhood effects on lexical retrieval in Chinese
Hsu-Wen Huang, Personality traits and language processing
Aine Ito, Phonological prediction during comprehension
Jörg D. Jescheniak, Adaptive lexical selection
Edith Kaan, Sentence processing and second language learning
Banai Karen, Plasticity in auditory processing (acuity, attention, integration)
Benjamin R. Karney, Socioeconomics and intimate relationships
Sabine Kastner, Top-down modulation of neuronal activity in the visual system
Mitsuo Kawato, Perceptual learning with neurofeedback alone
Spencer Kelly, Gesture and speech
Raymond D. Kent, Somatosensation in speech production
Rogier A Kievit, Interindividual differences in cognitive functions
Michael Kilgard, VNS and neuroplasticity
Stefanie E. Kuchinsky, VNS and speech learning, Hearing difficulty (from sensory to language)
Marta Kutas, N400
Sylvain Laborde, Heart rate variability as a biomarker for vagus nerve stimulation
Aditi Lahiri, MMN and phonological underspecification
Vicky Tzuyin Lai, Individual differences in emotional language processing
Edmund C. Lalor, Relating neural signals to continuous stimuli using the multivariate temporal response function (mTRF)
Daniel R. Lametti, Speech motor control
Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Reversing merger in progress via phonetic imitation
Matthew K. Leonard, VNS and cognitive enhancement, Large-scale single-neuron speech sound encoding across the depth of human cortex
Susannah Levi, Phonemic glide
Todd D. Little, Quantitative methods in psychology
Jia Liu, Dissociable neural correlates of trait and ability emotional intelligence
Tianming Liu, Frequency-specific functional difference between gyri and sulci
Simon P. Liversedge, Speech interference during reading
Ross Kevin Maddox, Subcortical responses to music and speech
Ian Maddieson, Phonological typology
Akshay Maggu, Sleep and auditory learning
James S. Magnuson, Spoken word recognition and eye-tracking
Lucie Ménard, Audio-aerotactile integration in speech perception
Vinod Menon, Default mode network
Antje Meyer, Form preparation in spoken word production
Lars Meyer, Sentence-level prosodic prediction revealed by neural entrainment
Josh McDermott, Perception of musical rhythm across cultures
Maryellen C. MacDonald, Language production and verbal working memory
Samuel D. McDougle, Motor working memory
Bob McMurray, Within-category variation in spoken word recognition, Dynamics of lexical competition in spoken word recognition
James McQueen, Spoken word recognition, particularly the role of feedback
Petar Milin, Heart rate variability's sensitivity to grammatical error in natural speech
Michele Miozzo, Cascading activation in spoken word production
David R. Moore, Adaptive procedures for assessing auditory acuity
Ezequiel Morsella, Cascading activation in spoken word production
Kevin Munhall, The speech sensorimotor adaptation procedure
Charlie Munger, Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome
Elliot Murphy, Neurocomputational model of syntax
Timothy K. Murphy, Perception-production transfer in statistical learning
Lionel Naccache, Cognition as emerging activation patterns
Uta Noppeney, Neuroscience of multi-sensory integration
Padraig G. O’Seaghdha, Chinese spoken word production
Shogo Ohmae, Biologically-constrained artificial neural networks
David J. Ostry, Motor control and motor learning
Hal Pashler, Central bottleneck in spoken word production
Bruce G. Pike, Transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation
David Poeppel, Speech perception, Biolinguistics
Karl Popper, Empirical falsification
Friedemann Pulvermüller, MMN and higher-level processing
Hugo Quené, Early and late components in mental speech preparation assessed by speech errors
Josef Rauschecker, Animal models of neuron responses in the auditory pathway
Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Speech motor control
Jennifer M. Rodd, Quality control of online experiments
Edmund Rolls, Comparison of cortical connectivity between genders
Mikael Roll, Anticipatory negativity & prediction in sentence comprehension
Eric Ruthruff, Dual-task and central bottleneck
Mark A. Sabbagh, Theory of Mind and language development
Robert Sainburg, Transfer of motor learning between hands
Marc Sato, Adaptive phonemic coding
Patrick E. Savage, F0 similarity and dissimilarity in speech, song, and instrumental melody
Aaron Seitz, Factors driving neural plasiticity
Gesa Schaadt, Genetic basis of MMN abnormality in dyslexia
Petra Schumacher, Attention orientation in rising vs. Falling intonation
John W. Schwieter, Virtual reality (multi-sensory, interactive experience) on novel word learning
Pepper Schwartz, Love between equals (peer marriage)
Daniel Senkowski, Multisensory integration
Daniele Schön, Auditory and motor priming of metric structure improves understanding of degraded speech
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Prosody in speech production
Louise Shepperd, Orthography and phonological development in a second language
Douglas Shiller, Visual feedback in speech adaptation
Seulgi Shin, Prosody, Korean phonology
Minoru "Shino" Shinohara, VNS and motor learning
Jeremy Skipper, Perception-production link in speech
Yury Shtyrov, MMN and high-level language processing (e.g., semantics, morphosyntax)
Jesse Snedeker, Cascading activation in spoken word production in young children
Joshua Snell, Parallel processing in reading
Michael Spivey, The Continuity of Mind
Ramesh Srinivasan, Interpretation of data collected in human neuroscience research
Cara E. Stepp, Test-retest reliability in speech sensorimotor adaptation
Stefan van der Stigchel, Pupil dilation and internal attention
Megha Sundara, Biased generalization of newly learned phonological alternations, mirror neurons in the perception-production link in speech
John Sweller, Cognitive Load Theory & learning
Stephan Swinnen, GABA levels and motor learning
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Theory of Mind and syntactic development
Diana I. Tamir, fMRI hyperscanning
Adam Tierney, Auditory processing in second language acquisition, Cue-weighting in Speech-to-song illusion
Yousef Tizabi, Side effects of antidepressants (immunological and neuroprotective)
Shelley Xiuli Tong, First-order and second-order relations in statistical learning
Daniela Vallentin, Re-opening of the critical period in songbirds by manipulating inhibitory interneurons
Ruben van de Vijver, Interplay of positive and negative evidence in morphological learning
Qi Wang, VNS and sensory processing
Qi Wang, Cross-cultural difference in memory development
Zuoxin Wang, Oxytocin, vasopressin, and dopamine in the monogamous prairie vole
Isabell Wartenburger, The LC/NE system as a potential link of P300 and P600
Drew Weatherhead, Race-based linguistic expectations for phonological variation
Elisabeth Wenger, Control and representation in skill learning
Gert Westermann, Biologically-constrained modeling of speech development
Mathias Weymar, VNS on P300
Thalia Wheatley, Between-participant neural alignment
Linda R. Wheeldon, Spoken word production
Ziv M. Williams, Single neuron recording & functional units of language
Patrick C.M. Wong, Genetics and lexical tone
Alan C. L. Yu, Individual differences in speech perception and production
Luodi Yu, Atypical brain lateralization for speech in autistic children
Ana Zappa, VR and embodied second language learning
Qingfang Zhang, Induced mood on phonological preparation in spoken word production
Zhaoyan Zhang, Voice physiology
Philip Zimbardo, Psychology of time