Newest Team Member

August, 2024

Baby Augie, son of Samantha. We are all in love!

September, 2024

Our project, “Listener training for improved intelligibility of people with Parkinson’s disease,” has been awarded NIH R01 funding. This clinical trial will will establish a new realm of clinical impact through partner-training interventions. 

CEHS Professors Named Inaugural Dean's Scholars

October, 2024

We’re proud of  our director, Stephanie, for being named one of two inaugural Dean’s Scholars. 

Our project, “A causal framework of communicative participation in people with Parkinson’s disease,” has been funded by an NIH R01. This work examines conversation challenges in Parkinson’s and identifies new treatment targets to support more successful communication.

Our team received a Parkinson’s Foundation Impact Award to examine how pairing speaker- and listener-focused treatments can improve intelligibility for people with Parkinson’s disease. This is a collaboration with Kaitlin Lansford and Tyson Barrett.

"Utah State Today. USU-Led Research Team Aims to Crack the Code of Conversations for People with Parkinson’s disease."

Utah State University Study Examines Conversation Rhythm."

"Study finds that higher rhythmic skill translates into better conversations."

Camille Wynn graduated with her PhD today. Such a pleasure having her in the lab for her UG, master's, and PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Wynn. 

Lab members, Camille Wynn and Macie Armstrong were honored at the annual USU Robin Awards night. Camille received the College award for Doctoral Student of the Year and Macie, the award for excellence in scholarship and service to USU by a graduating senior. So proud of both!

PhD student, Camille Wynn, has been awarded an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship (Sponsor: Borrie). Camille's project will investigate entrainment and interaction success in typically-developing and autistic adolescents.  Exciting work to come!

HI Lab celebrating the end of of semester by being locked in a room together 🔑

NIH has funded our R21 project on perceptual training for dysarthric speech. We will identify speaker and listener factors that optimize training for improved intelligibility. The project is led by MPIs Stephanie Borrie and Kaitlin Lansford, with Tyson Barrett as co-investigator.

The NIH has funded our R21 project to investigate how speech signal-processing techniques can improve speech-in-noise understanding of dysarthria for listeners with and without hearing loss. This work is in collaboration with PI Sarah Yoho Leopold.

Samantha Budge, master's thesis student, and Stephanie Borrie presented their work on perceptual learning at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Conference in Orlando. 

PhD student Camille Wynn received a $10,000 ASHFoundation New Century Doctoral Scholarship, a prestigious national award honoring exceptional doctoral scholars. Congratulations, Camille!

Master’s student Michelle Parker delivered a prestigious USU Ignite talk showcasing her thesis work, “With or Without Vocal Fry, Unique Voices Are In.” Watch the talk at the link above!

Master's thesis student, Kirsten Pope, and PhD student, Camille Wynn, presented their work on entrainment in children at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Conference in Boston. 

Stephanie Borrie gave a TEDx talk at Utah State titled "Entrainment and the Dance of Conversation." 

“People modify their behaviors to more closely align with others,” said Stephanie Borrie. Check out more of Borrie’s insights in a piece on the use of vocal fry in TIME magazine.

Master’s student Michelle Parker presented at the Psychonomics conference on examining listener impressions of vocal fry. She did an outstanding job and sparked strong interest in this research.

We were awarded NIH R21 funding to study conversations in people with Parkinson’s disease, with the goal of identifying ways to improve communication.

"Novel Approach Earns USU Assistant Professor National Recognition."