Sensorimotor control and learning in speech production 

The lab manipulates auditory, somatosensory, and visual feedback during movement to examine sensorimotor control, predictive processing, and forward model acquisition in speech and co-speech hand movements.

Shiller DM, Bobbitt S, Lametti DR (2023) Immediate Cross-Language Transfer of Novel Articulatory Plans for Speech in Bilinguals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 

Bradshaw AR, Lametti DR, Shiller DM, Jasmin K, Huang R, McGettigan C (2023) Speech motor adaptation during synchronous and metronome-timed speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Lametti DR, Quek MYM, Prescott C, Stuart JS, and Watkins KE (2020) The perils of learning to move while speaking: One-sided interference between speech and visuomotor adaptation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 

Lametti DR, Smith HS, Watkins KE, and Shiller DM (2018) Robust sensorimotor learning during variable sentence-level speech. Current Biology.

Lametti DR, Krol SA, Shiller DM, and Ostry DJ (2014) Brief periods of auditory perceptual training can determine the sensory targets of speech motor learning. Psychological Science.

Lametti DR, Rochet-Capellan A, Neufeld E, Shiller DM, and Ostry DJ (2014) Plasticity in the human speech motor system drives changes in speech perception. Journal of Neuroscience. 

Lametti DR, Nasir SM, and Ostry DJ (2012) Sensory preference in speech production revealed by simultaneous alteration of auditory and somatosensory feedback. Journal of Neuroscience.  

The brain basis of speech processing

In addition to the behavioural work above, we are also interested in the brain basis of speech—in particular,  the role of the cerebellum in speech processing. We tackle this problem using large-scale neuroimaging meta-analyses or by combining behavioural manipulations with neural measures like fMRI and noninvasive brain stimulation. 

Skipper JI, Aliko S, Brown S, Ju Jo Y, Lo S, Molimpakis E,  and Lametti DR (2022). Reorganization of the Neurobiology of Speech Perception After Sentence Overlearning. Cerebral Cortex.

Skipper JI and Lametti DR (2021) Speech perception under the tent: A domain-general predictive role for the cerebellum. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 

Lametti DR, Smith HJ, Freidin P, and Watkins KE. (2018) Cortico-Cerebellar Circuits Drive Sensorimotor Learning in Speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 30(4): 540-551.

Skipper JI, Devlin JT, and Lametti DR (2017) The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue: Review of the role of the motor system in speech perception. Brain and Language.

Lametti DR, Ooustwoud Wijdenes L, Bonaiuto J, Bestmann S, and Rothwell JC. (2016) Cerebellar TDCS Dissociates the Timing of Perceptual Decisions from Perceptual Change in Speech. Journal of Neurophysiology. 116(5): 2023-2032.

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