Ongoing projects

Idea generation is easy. Ultimately, what matters is what one finishes. This page was created mainly for personal use (managing my ongoing projects, including the schedule for manuscript submission). Collaborators are also welcome to use this page to nudge me (“Hey, it’s time for our project to move forward”). For others, if you want to know more about any one of them, you can contact me directly (yzengae@gmail.com). 

simonL2

Using sensorimotor adaptation to facilitate second language speech learning (perception and production)

simonPoint

Using sensorimotor adaptation to evaluate the co-planning of hand movements and speech production

speechVNS

First systematic evaluation of taVNS’s potential to improve sensory, sensorimotor, and motor functions in the speech of healthy adults

Diphthong

• Empirical report: formant changes in response to altered auditory feedback

• Representation of diphthongs (unitary vs. combinatorial; e.g., /ai/ = /a/ + /i/?), evaluated through covarying changes in perception and production

Homophone

• Lexical selection in spoken word production

• Evaluating the potential presence of individual motor plans for homophones using speech sensorimotor adaptation

simonWord

Word-level motor plans revealed by speech sensorimotor adaptation

LearningVNS

Learning mechanisms supported by taVNS (implicit vs. explicit)

MMN3

Hierarchical processing of speech sounds (auditory, linguistic, domain-general pattern detection) assessed by mismatch negativity (MMN)

L3Perception

Speech perception in a third language assessed within a cue-transfer framework (L1: Urdu, non-tonal /Punjabi, undergoing tonogenesis; L2: Cantonese, tonal; L3: Mandarin, tonal)

EyeDiph & EyeTriph

Time-course of diphthong and triphthong perception accessed via eye-tracking