Speech Motor Neuroscience Group

A collaboration between the Brain, Language, & Acoustic Behavior Lab (Carrie Niziolek) and the Speech Motor Action + Control Lab (Ben Parrell) at UW-Madison

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

@parrell & @carrieniziolek's latest publication found that speakers will increase their speech contrast when receiving vowel-centering auditory feedback. Read the full article at: https://t.co/LqQJLhtbx4

[JNP @JNeurophysiol]

#ArticlesInPress "Increased speech contrast induced by sensorimotor adaptation to a non-uniform auditory perturbation"
Benjamin Parrell and Caroline Niziolek
#speech #adaptation #neuroscience

https://t.co/k3BXYHge1r

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

@RPKarlinguist @parrell And last but not least on Thursday at 10:20 (clinical phonetics 2) postdoc @AnnekeSlis will talk about the possibilities and challenges of using MFCCs and unsupervised clustering on simple motor speech assessments to find subtypes of ataxic dysarthria

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

We've got three talks this week at #ICPhS2023! They cover a wide spread of the kinds of research we do at the SMAC Lab. Come check out some of our projects! 👇

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

@RPKarlinguist On Tuesday at 15:40 (special session) @parrell will talk about how we can use computational models to better understand the underlying mechanisms of different perceptual symptoms in people with motor speech disorders, with a case study focusing on variability in ALS

[Ding-lan Tang @DinglanTang1]

New TMS review paper out in @ExpBrainRes: https://t.co/ZKGWjWT2B8; if you are interested in the behavioral and neuropsychological effects of different TMS protocols over somatosensory areas, check it out~
With @parrell and @carrieniziolek ; @MotorSpeech

[Ding-lan Tang @DinglanTang1]

This work is now out at @JNeurophysiol
https://t.co/kBLhQcdXbL, where we show that movement variability can be modulated in speech production! @parrell @carrieniziolek @MotorSpeech

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

We know speakers adapt to altered auditory feedback by opposing the perturbation. But how many times do they need to hear the perturbation before they change?

1️⃣ !

Our latest on "one-shot" formant adaptation in eLife: https://t.co/BamF2MUEex

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

Our undergrad lab members had a great time teaching kids about speech science and limb control at the UW Science Outreach event on Monday!

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

Thanks to everyone who visited our exhibit How Our Senses Help Us Move at #UWScienceExpeditions this weekend! We had a blast showing folks that playing cornhole with prism glasses on is hard at first, but it gets easier pretty quickly. Thanks, feedback-based motor control system!

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

Congrats to our undergrads Katie Zettel (BLAB) and Bailey Meyers (SMAC) for receiving a Hilldale Research Fellowship from UW-Madison! 🎉 We look forward to working with you on your projects next year 🗣

https://t.co/REOmWRQc1T

[Ding-lan Tang @DinglanTang1]

New preprint up https://t.co/wpDUhLtuVb with @parrell and @carrieniziolek! We examined whether and how variability may be regulated during speech production. Summary below—comments are welcome.

[Ben Parrell @parrell]

We are hiring! @MotorSpeech is looking to fill TWO research positions for NSF and NIH-funded work. Ideally at the postdoc level but we are open to new grad students or hiring staff researchers with a Masters or Bachelors as well. Details attached. Please share!

[Ben Parrell @parrell]

In more great @MotorSpeech lab news, @RPKarlinguist just received the NOA for her F32!!! She’ll be examining cerebellar regulation of timing across speech and manual control. Not only is it a great project, Robin’s is the first external grant for the lab! This also means... (1/3)

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

Congrats to two of our outstanding undergraduate students, Sophie Johnson & Jenna Krakauer, who have both been awarded Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowships @UWMadison ! Looking forward to continuing our work with them in 2021-2022.

https://t.co/RNWZ2voNjM

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

Next week at #NCM2021, Postdoc @DinglanTang1 will be giving a ⚡️Blitz talk ⚡️on movement variability regulation in speech - listen in on April 20th at 12pm CDT (5pm UTC)!!

[Waisman Center @UWWaismanCenter]

New work from Waisman investigator @carrieniziolek's BLAB Lab & @MotorSpeech is the focus of our latest #waismancenterslideoftheweek. Check our their work on 'responses to auditory feedback manipulations in speech' here:
https://t.co/Eyr595Glq2

[Speech Motor Neuroscience Group @MotorSpeech]

Does syllable stress impact how speakers correct for auditory feedback errors? Check out @BakstSarah & @carrieniziolek's new publication available today on @ASA_JASA
https://t.co/SrNciD5H12