My research focuses on speech perception and language acquisition. More specifically, I am interested in how the brain recognizes words from fluent speech, especially in the context of noise, and how this ability changes with development. For more information on my research, please select the research tab, above. Or download my public-oriented research statement. More specifically, I am interested in how the brain recognizes and learns words from fluent speech, especially in the context of noise, and how this ability changes with development.
Recent research has examined topics such as:. You can download my public-oriented research statement here. Personal Website. New tools for new questions: A multi-site approach to studying the development of selective attention in crib bilinguals. How Autism affects understanding in multitalker environments. Speech and nonspeech predictors of later language development. The effect of noise on infants' and children's language understanding.
Early perceptual, cognitive and linguistic skills in infants at-risk for autism. Biological and computational foundations of language diversity. Cychosz, M. The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. To appear in the Journal of Child Language. Newman, R. Communication Development in Infancy. In The Development of Language, J. Bernstein Ratner, 10th edition. Plural Publishing. Blomquist, C. The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, , Perceptual normalization for speaking rate occurs below the level of the syllable. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech. Child Development. Language preference in the domestic dog Canis familiaris.
Animal Cognition, 26, Infants' short-term memory for consonant-vowel syllables. Jaekel, B. Impacts of signal processing factors on perceptual restoration in cochlear-implant users.
