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Happy Face |
Emotional Speech Processing Research Study at UMN Looking for Participants
IRB approval: STUDY00016791
Title: Age-Related Hearing Loss and Neural Sensitivity to Emotional Prosody
We are looking for participants to take part in research investigating processing of emotional speech in the brain throughout the age spectrum. You may be eligible to participate if you:
- are between the age of 18-80
- have no history of neurologic disease, speech and language disorders, or brain injury
- speak American English natively
Payment is $40 total for around two hours of participation.
Free parking is also provided next to our lab in Shevlin Hall.
This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for human subjects at the University. Even though the study has no direct benefit to you, its results will still provide useful insight into the perception of emotional speech and the impact of age-related hearing loss.
If you are interested in learning more about this study, please contact
Erica Kuntz (Research Assistant, ude.nmu|331ztnuk#ude.nmu|331ztnuk)
We provide free onsite parking next to the lab (within 30 feet walking distance).
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Infant EEG |
We are looking for infant participants for two short projects.
Project 1: Language preference
Project 2: Sound discrimination and speech perception
Target age range: 4~14 months old typically developing infants
We conduct collaborative infant research with ELAB directed by Dr. Jed Elison at the Institute of Child Development.
The payment for infant participant in our study is $20.
It takes approximately 50~60 minutes.
We provide free onsite parking next to the lab (within 30 feet walking distance).
This project covers speech perception basic research on normal-hearing subjects and individuals with hearing loss using a comparative approach.
Study 1: We are looking for adult and child cochlear implant users in a study that examine auditory processing of speech and nonspeech sounds.
Study 2: We are looking for normal-hearing native speakers of English and native speakers of Chinese for a study on speech perception in noise.
IRB approved studies in 2015
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Subcortical Pitch Processing |
Project 1
- Testing Native Language Neural Commitment at the subcortical level (IRB code: 1504M69162).
- Please contact Luodi Yu (email: ude.nmu|9130xxuy#ude.nmu|9130xxuy) for more information.
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Chinese |
Project 2
- Investigating neural signature marker for visual recognition of Chinese words (IRB code: 1502S61702).
- Please contact Dr. Jiang Liu (email: ude.nmu|5972xuil#ude.nmu|5972xuil) for more information.
Speech and Voice Processing in the Brain
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Child EEG |
IRB Approval Code Number: 0909M72002
For this project, we are currently looking for adults and children (age range: 3-40), including typically developing children, autistic children, children with Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's adults.
We have completed data collection on normal monolingual adult subjects for this project.
For child participants that require an adult's company to join the study, we pay $50 for approximately 2 hours of study, which includes $10 for transportation fees.
Please contact ude.nmu|balgnahz#ude.nmu|balgnahz for more information.
Bilingualism and brain plasticity
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Bilingual Brain |
IRB approval code: 1302S28843
Project 1: Trainining Chinese students to learn difficult English phonemes.
Project 2: Training monolingual English speakers to learn Mandarin Chinese tones.
We are looking for right-handed people with normal hearing and no history of speech and language disorders (aged 18~45) to participate in a speech training study.
The purpose of the study is to examine how perceptual training affects perception of non-native speech contrasts. We will take behavioral and brain measures both before and after a computerized perceptual training program. We hope that the results of this study will help us better understand how the adult brain is able to learn to distinguish between speech contrasts that are not a part of the listener’s native language. The results of this experiment may lead to a better understanding of the brain mechanisms that support second-language learning in adulthood.
Previous studies
- Investigating neural signature marker for visual recognition of Chinese words (IRB code: 1502S61702)
- Numbers and the brain project (IRB Approval Code Number: 0904M65004)
- Emotion Processing in Visual and Auditory Modalities: An Event-Related Potential Study (IRB Approval Code Number: 1109S04510)
- Neural Correlates of Pitch and Timbre processing (IRB Approval Code Number: 0911M74636)
- Semantic and Syntactic Processing in Monolinguals and Late Bilinguals (IRB Approval Code Number: 0812M55822)
- Auditory grouping (IRB Code: 0610S95507)
- Selective attention in listening (IRB Code: 0803M28424)
- EEG study of spatial deixis (IRB code: 0904S63901)
- Spatial cognition and language project (IRB Code: 0709S16663)
- Speech duration perception project (IRB code: 0811M54183)
- MEG studies on speech perception (IRB code: 0605M85808)