Human Interaction Lab graduate student, Camille Wynn, presented a poster at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Philadelphia (Nov, 2016) on her work examining speech rate entrainment in children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She also presented this work at the recent 2017 USU Student Research Symposium and was awarded first place for her oral presentation. Great work, Camille!
We have been awarded an NIH NIDCD R21 Award to fund our project on developing a computational model of conversational entrainment in clinical populations. Stephanie Borrie (PI) and Visar Berisha (Co-I). Speech rhythm entrainment in the context of dysarthria. National Institute of Health, National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders Research Award. Grant period: 03/01/17 – 02/28/20.
We have a new paper recently published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. This paper looks at the role of somatosensory information in speech perception, specifically examining whether overt vocal imitation improves listener perception of dysarthric speech. The results reveal a significant relationship between intelligibility improvement and imitation accuracy, suggesting that ties to the mental representation of the lexicon can be strengthened by way of a somatosensory motor trace.