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. More recently, we’ve started to examine the social psychology and neuroscience of human-AI interactions. We tackle these problems using behavioural manipulations, brain imaging, and noninvasive brain stimulation.

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Lab News

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

February 2025 — Director Dan Lametti contributed an article about human-AI research to Sundial Magazine, the publication for Corpus Christi College Oxford alumni.

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.

October 2024 — A manuscript titled “Language Enables the Acquisition of Distinct Sensorimotor Memories for Speech,” involving undergraduates Emma Wheeler and Sam Palatinus, was accepted for publication in Cognition.

June 2024 — The laboratory presented two posters at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science meeting in Edmonton. Student Lindsay Heyland and Sam Palatinus discussed bilingual speech control, while the director presented on human-chatbot interactions.

June 2024 — Research led by Dr. Abbie Bradshaw at Cambridge, including contributions from Emma Wheeler, was accepted for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.