Meghan Armstrong armstrong@spanport.umass.edu Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Hispanic linguistics) | ![]() | Research interests: I am interested in how intonation is used to convey epistemic meaning. My work deals with epistemic intonational marking in both adults and children. I am currently working on children's comprehension of intonationally-encoded epistemic meaning in Catalan and English. My recent work also deals with the role of facial gestures in the comprehension of intonational meaning. I am exploring this in typically-developing children and adolescents with high-functioning autism. |
Lori Astheimer lastheimer@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Behavioral Neuroscience) | ![]() | Research interests: ERP measures of the relationship between attention and language processing |
Jane Baran baran@comdis.umass.edu Communication Disorders | ![]() | Research interests: Central auditory processing |
Karen Helfer khelfer@comdis.umass.edu Communication Disorders | ![]() | Research interests: Speech perception in complex listening environments; speech perception in middle-aged and older adults |
Alexandra Jesse ajesse@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) | ![]() | Research interests: My research focuses on speech perception and spoken-word recognition, as well as intersensory perception, language processing, and learning processes as they relate to speech perception. |
Gary S. Karpinski garykarp@music.umass.edu Music and Dance | ![]() | Research interests: Aural skills acquisition; perception of tonality. |
John Kingston jkingston@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics | ![]() | Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, speech perception |
David Moorman moorman@cns.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Behavioral Neuroscience) | ![]() | Research interests: Cellular and network encoding of cognitive function and psychiatric disease |
Lisa Sanders lsanders@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) | ![]() | Research interests: Auditory perception, selective attention, and speech processing using event-related brain potentials |
Kristine Yu krisyu@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics | ![]() | Research interests: Prosody, phonetics, phonology |