CAPS, part of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, is a multidisciplinary laboratory engaged in teaching and research on the production and perception of speech by humans. We are formally affiliated with the UF Hearing Research Center. The lab draws together promising students from across the UF campus to combine principles and tools from engineering and computer science with cognitive, linguistic, and psychological science to understand speech mechanisms and processes.
Current work in the lab is organized into two interdependent axes, one focusing on the neural control, timing and sequencing of speech movements; the other focusing on complex interactions between speech production and perception and the roles of sensory feedback.
We investigate these topics by drawing on a wide range of methodologies, including acoustic analysis of speech, auditory and visual psychophysics (eye-tracking), kinematic analyses of articulatory movements (EMA), and functional brain imaging (EEG/ERPs, fMRI). The results of such investigations have important implications for theories of speech and language processing, as well as for developmental and acquired disabilities involving speech, such as stuttering, congenital hearing loss, and dyslexia.
Collaborators
Dr. Frank H. Guenther
Boston University & MIT

Dr. Susan Nittrouer
University of Florida

Dr. Christina Zhao
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Dr. Linda Polka
McGill University

Dr. Julia Irwin
Haskins Laboratories

Dr. Lucie Ménard
University of Quebec at Montreal

Dr. Fatemeh Mollaei
University of Toronto

Dr. Elaine Kearney
Boston University

Hung-Shao Cheng
New York University

Dr. Christina Hagedorn
CUNY – College of Staten Island

Dr. Adam Buchwald
New York University

Dr. Yonghee Oh
University of Florida
