Speech, Language, and Communication Lab

The Speech, Language, and Communication Lab at Acadia University studies how humans learn to produce, maintain, and remember speech and language. We also examine the social cognition of human-AI interactions. We tackle these problems using behavioural manipulations, brain imaging, and noninvasive brain stimulation.

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Lab News

February 2026 — Dan’s Critical AI Literacy course was made freely available to the public and the launch was covered by CBC. Read about it here.

August 2025 — A preprint titled “Affiliation in Human-AI Interactions Based on Shared Psychological Traits” is now available on PsyArXiv.

February 2025 — Dan wrote an article about the lab’s research on human-AI social interactions for Sundial Magazine, the Corpus Christi College Oxford alumni magazine. Sundial.

January 2025 — Research co-authored by former undergraduates Maura Whitman and Gina Vaillancourt, “Memories of Hand Movements are Tied to Speech Through Learning,” appeared in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Read the paper.

January 2025 — A manuscript titled “Language Enables the Acquisition of Distinct Sensorimotor Memories for Speech,” run by Acadia undergraduates Emma Wheeler and Sam Palatinus, was published in Cognition. Read the paper.