Tyler Perrachione

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

My research addresses the cognitive and systems neuroscience of human communication, including language processing, social auditory perception, and their development. In particular, my active work asks:

• Do developmental disorders of language and reading result from aberrant central auditory function?
• What are the behavioral and neurophysiological factors associated with auditory learning and auditory expertise?
• How do people recognize one another by the sound of their voice?

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Recent Publications & Presentations:

• "Optimized design and analysis of sparse-sampling fMRI experiments", Frontiers in Neuroscience
• "The functional connectomics underlying dyslexic adaptation deficits." at SfN 2012.
• "Brain differences in kindergarten children with and without behavioral risk for dyslexia: Toward finding fMRI and EEG predictors of reading difficulties", from the recent Society for the Scientific Study of Reading meeting in Montreal.
• "Human voice recognition depends on language ability", Science.
• "Phonetic variability in speech perception and the phonological deficit in dyslexia", from ICPhS 2011, Hong Kong.
• "Learning novel phonological contrasts depends on interactions between individual differences and training paradigm design", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.