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Auditory Lab
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Director: Dr. Laurie M. Heller
Affiliated Graduate Programs:Psychology Ph.D., Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Our research examines the human ability to use sound to understand what events are happening in the environment. Our perceptual experiments address whether there are acoustic cues that reveal attributes of sound events, and how our knowledge of these cue-attribute relationships influences our discrimination of sounds, labeling of sounds, navigation using sound, and production of gestures. We have also examined how this knowledge influences which brain regions are recruited during the perception of sound events and whether audition plays a significant role in the perception of multi-modal events. This basic research relates psychological performance to acoustic properties and high-level auditory information. At an application level, the results of this research have the potential to enhance hearing aids, navigation aids for the visually impaired, automatic sound event recognition, and auditory displays.
Auditory Learning & Cognition Lab
Department of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University
Director: Dr. Matthew Wisniewski
The ALC lab studies how experience shapes what you hear and how you listen. We use EEG, psychoacoustic, and connectionist modeling methods
Auditory Perception and Action Lab (APAL)
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo State University of New York
Director: Dr. Peter Q. Pfordresher
Affiliated Graduate Programs: Cognitive Psychology Ph.D., General Psychology M.A.
We are broadly concerned with how the brain conceptualizes complicated event sequences typical of music and speech and the conditions under which this ability breaks down. Various lines of research are currently underway to achieve this goal. Lab facilities are designed to accommodate a number of paradigms, including vocal production, keyboard production, motion capture, and perceptual tasks.
Auditory Perception Laboratory
Department of Communication Disorders, Ariel University, Israel
Director: Dr. Leah Fostick
Affiliated Graduate Programs: within the Department of Communication Disorders
Auditory Perception Lab provides a framework for studying auditory processing in various populations. Current research is done on the response patterns of sequence perception, and the implication of central auditory processing and language, emphasizing temporal processing. Major research applications are in dyslexia, aging and sleep deprivation. The auditory processing lab is in the department of communication disorders, and is attached to the department's speech and audiology clinic.
Auditory Perception Laboratory
Department of Psychology, James Madison University
Director: Dr. Michael D. Hall
Affiliated Graduate Program: Psychological Sciences M.A.
The laboratory is interested in identifying and understanding general perceptual principles that govern the recognition of common auditory events, including speech (e.g., phonemes), nonspeech (e.g., musical instruments), and environmental noises. These interests extend to the perceptual organization of events in complex auditory arrays/scenes, including attention to perceptual attributes that are critical to distinguishing sound sources.
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Hearing and Attention Lab
Department of Psychology, Clarkson University
Director: Dr. Lauren Petley
At the Hearing and Attention Lab, we study how auditory perception interacts with cognitive mechanisms like language perception, executive function and selective attention, using behavioral and ERP research methods. In addition to basic research conducted directly in our lab, we engage in collaborations to understand clinical impairments whose origins lie at the intersection of these systems, like childhood listening difficulties and poor language skills stemming from premature birth.
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Language and Music Cognition Lab
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Maryland Science Center, at University of Maryland, College Park
Director: Dr. L. Robert Slevc
Affiliated Program: Cognitive & Behavioral Sciences
Work in our lab aims to better understand humans’ capacity to process complex sound and structure. This includes work focusing specifically on language processing (especially word and sentence production), work focusing specifically on sound and music perception, and work directly comparing linguistic and musical processing.
Language and Music Perception (LAMP) Lab
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of San Diego
Director: Dr. Laura Getz
Our lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying auditory perception. Our research encompasses speech, cross-modal, and music perception using a combination of behavioral, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling approaches. Recent projects have investigated links between auditory and visual perception, visual influence on speech perception, context effects on speech perception, how music choice impacts product perceptions, and links between music preferences and personality.
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MADI Lab (Miscommunication and Dialogue Interaction Lab)
Speech Pathology & Audiology, Kent State University
Director: Dr. Jenny Roche
Affiliated Graduate Program(s): PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (click here for more information)
The MADI Lab investigates different facets of communication, with particular interest in speech perception and conversational pragmatics.
MIND Lab
Northeastern University
Director: Dr. Psyche Loui
Research at the MIND lab seeks to understand the networks of brain structure and function that enable musical processes: auditory and multisensory perception, learning and memory of sound structure, sound production, and the human aesthetic and emotional response to sensory stimuli.
Music Cognition and Auditory Perception Research and Training Laboratory
Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island
Director: Dr. Annabel J. Cohen
In the Music Cognition and Auditory Perception Research and Training Laboratory, we study music knowledge acquisition across the lifespan, focusing on topics like music and well-being, singing, audiovisual integration, cultural influence; music style, sensitive periods, and music performance.
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Perception, Ecological Action, Robotics, and Learning (PEARL) Laboratory
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University
Director: Dr. Michael K. McBeath
Affiliated Graduate Program: Psychology (Cognitive Science) Ph.D.
The Perception, Ecological Action and Learning Laboratory (PEARL) focuses on computational modeling of perception-action in dynamic, natural environments. Specialty areas span sports, robotics, audition, music, navigation, and multisensory object perception. In the realm of auditory science, the PEARL Lab mainly investigates natural regularities and invariants in the vein of Bregman, Gibson, and Shepard. We use fMRI, multidimensional scaling, psychophysical methods, and analyses of naturalistic field recordings to uncover these regularities and discern their contribution to perception of the overall auditory scene. We also investigate music preference, auditory memory, and audiovisual interactions.
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STING (Sensory Training in Neuroscience & Generalization) Lab
Department of Psychology, Emporia State University
Director: Dr. Chelsea Joyner
Work in our lab focuses on multimodal training, perceptual learning, memory, and brain activity during these processes.
Speech, Language and Neuroscience Group (SLANG)
NYU Shanghai
Director: Dr. Xing Tian
The SLANG lab uses speech and language as a research model and human electrophysiology (EEG/MEG/iEEG) and neuroimaging in combined with computational modeling as tools to investigate the neural mechanisms that mediate action-perception interaction, learning, memory and other higher-order cognitive functions.
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University of Chicago Speech Perception & Production Laboratory
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Directors: Dr. Melissa Baese-Berk
The Speech Perception and Production Lab asks how people perceive and produce speech, with a particular focus on communication across diverse language backgrounds. We conduct laboratory phonology and psycholinguistic experiments looking at speech perception and production and acoustic-phonetic analyses of speech.
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Word Recognition and Auditory Perception Lab (WRAP Lab)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University
Director: Dr. Joe Toscano
Affiliated Graduate Program: Master of Science in Psychology
The WRAP Lab studies how human listeners recognize speech and understand spoken language. Investigating language processing as it happens is central to our approach, and we use a combination of computational, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral techniques to study these processes. Our research addresses questions about the acoustic characteristics of speech sounds, phonological categorization, hearing loss, the neurobiology of audition and speech processing, and the development of perceptual categories via unsupervised learning.