Current Projects

Our research concerns central auditory processing and neurophysiology, especially speech perception and learning, auditory skill levels and deficits, and interactions between speech and music. The primary goal is to identify possible underlying neurophysiologic principles governing complex auditory perception and learning for developing effective treatment programs for auditory and speech processing deficits and second language instructions.

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* The following pages are under construction *

• Second Language Acquisition and Speech Learning
  
  
  • Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Network
  • Training for Learners of Differing Basic Auditory Ability
  • Language Proficiency and Voice Recognition
  • Acoustic Correlates of Perceived Racial Identity
  • Passive Training of Speech Learning
  
  
• Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) and Speech Perception in Noise
  
  
  • Neural Correlates of Listening to Speech in Noise
  • Anatomical Characteristics of APD
  • Changes in Neurophysiology of Auditory Processing in the Elderly


• Music Perception and Interactions Between Speech and Music
  
  
  • Selective Neurophysiologic Responses to Music in Instrumentalists with Different Listening Biographies
  • Neurophysiologic Changes Associated with Short-Term Musical Training
  • Neurophysiology of Bimusicality
  • Enhanced Lexical Tone Learning in Musicians: Behavioral and Neural Evidence