CAPS Lab member, Nicholas Salazar, was recently accepted into UF’s Master’s program in Computer & Information Science & Engineering. Using a combination of MATLAB (psych toolbox, mview) and RStudio (tidyverse, ggplot), Nicholas has contributed substantially to the collection, storage, processing, visualization, and analysis of kinematic and acoustic speech data for…
PI Masapollo recently gave a talk to the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences & Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading (Berkshire, UK), entitled, “Speech motor sequence learning: timing, specificity, and neural substrates.” …
CAPS Lab Director, Dr. Masapollo, was recently awarded an Emerging Research Grant from the Hearing Health Foundation. The planned experiments, in collaboration with Drs. Susan Nittrouer (PHHP, SLHS) and Yonghee Oh (PHHP, SLHS), will examine the roles of auditory and somatosensory feedback in speech motor control in congenitally deaf children and adults…
As part of Pride month, UF Clinical Lecturer, Kristen Lewandowski, recently wrote an article describing how SLPs can support and advocate for gender-diverse patients. You can read the article here.
CAPS Lab member, Emily Zezas, presented a poster, entitled, “Generalization as a window into speech motor sequence chunking,” at the 2021 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium. Congrats, Emily! Abstract: Motor chunking facilitates efficient speech sequencing by combining a series of individual articulator movements affiliated with phonological units into…
CAPS Lab Director, Dr. Masapollo, was recently awarded Research Opportunity Seed Funds (ROSF) from UF Research. The planned experiments, in collaboration with Drs. Susan Nittrouer (PHHP, SLHS) and Joseph Antonelli (LAS, Statistics), will examine the complex interplay between the development of speech motor control, speech perception, and phonological representations in…
Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl (UW, I-LABS) recently spoke to the UF Language and Brain Interest Group. Her talk, entitled, “Early Language Development: Social Interaction, Sensorimotor Learning, and the Child’s Developing Brain,” can be viewed here. Abstract: Some of the most revolutionary ideas in brain…
CAPS undergraduate student Emily Zezas was selected to receive the 2021 PHHP Outstanding Scholar Award from the UF Alumni Association and Honors Program! Bravo, Emily!…
In June, CAPS undergraduate students Emily Zezas and Cassandra Chappell will present at the Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium, organized by the Stepp Lab at Boston Univeristy.
Dr. Masapollo and his colleagues will be presenting three posters at the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production. Frankford, S., Cai, S., Tourville, J.A., Nieto-Castañón, A., Masapollo, M., Heller Murray, L.S., & Guenther, F.H. (2020). The neural circuitry underlying the “rhythm effect” in stuttering. 12th International Seminar on Speech…
