The UT Austin Neurolinguistics Lab provides a collaborative environment to disseminate and advance research in the field of neurolinguistics. We conduct behavioral and neuroscientific studies to investigate the processing and acquisition of speech patterns across multiple languages, including indigenous languages in Latin America. We also offer training in neuroscientific research and computational neuroscience for both graduate and undergraduate students. If you want to learn more about us, feel free to reach out to our lab director, Fernando Llanos. We'd love to hear from you!
LAB SPACE
Our Lab has recently been relocated to the 4th floor of Robert L Patton (RLP) building (room 4.110), on the University of Texas main campus. The space is equipped with several working stations and rooms dedicated to conducting EEG experiments, analyzing neural signals, running computational models, and providing research training. We are currently using an actiCHamp Plus system to collect EEGs.
RECENT WORK
Llanos, F., & Zinszer, B. (2024). Neurolinguistic approaches to bilingual phonetics and phonology. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
Llanos F.., Stump, T., & Crowhurst, M. (2024). Investigating the Neural Basis of the Loud-first Principle of the Iambic–Trochaic Law. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-14.
Downer, B., Milani, S., Grasso, S., Llanos, F., & Mehta, N. (2024). Dual-Language Use and Cognitive Function Among Mexican Americans Aged 65 and Older. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, (Preprint), 1-11.
Llanos, F., Meemann, K., Smiljanic, R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2023). The relationship between sentence intelligibility, band importance, and signal covariance. JASA Express Letters, 3(5).
Zhao, C., Llanos, F., Chandrasekaran, B., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Linguistic experience during the sensitive period narrows infants’ early sensory encoding of speech—music intervention reverses it. Frontiers Human Neuroscience, 16, 941853.
Llanos, F., Gnanateja, G. N., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2022). Principal component decomposition of acoustic and neural representations of time-varying pitch reveals adaptive efficient coding of speech covariation patterns. Brain and Language, 230, 105122.
Llanos, F., Zhao, T. C., Kuhl, P. K., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2022). The emergence of idiosyncratic patterns in the frequency-following response during the first year of life. JASA Express Letters, 2(5), 054401.
Gnanateja, G. N., Rupp, K., Remick, M., Llanos, F., Pernia, M., Sadagopan, S., Teichert, T., Abel, T., Chandrasekaran, B. (2021). Frequency-following responses to speech sounds are highly conserved across species and contain cortical contributions. ENeuro, 8(6).
Llanos, F., German, J. S., Gnanateja, G. N., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2021). The neural processing of pitch accents in continuous speech. Neuropsychologia, 158, 107883.
Feng, G., Gan, Z., Llanos, F., Meng, D., Wang, S., Wong, P. C., & Chandrasekaran,
B. (2021). A distributed dynamic brain network mediates linguistic tone representation and categorization. NeuroImage, 224, 117410.
Paulon, G., Llanos, F., Chandrasekaran, B., & Sarkar, A. (2021). Bayesian Semiparametric Longitudinal Drift-Diffusion Mixed Models for Tone Learning in Adults. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116(535), 1114-1127..
Llanos, F., McHaney, J. R., Schuerman, W. L., Yi, H. G., Leonard, M. K., & Chan- drasekaran, B. (2020). Non-invasive peripheral nerve stimulation enhances speech category learning in adults. Nature Partner Journals - Science of Learning, 5(1), 1-11.
LAB MEMBERS
Graduate students
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Timothy Stump
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Liron Shlesinger
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Jessica Alexander
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Nafal Ossandon
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Baorian (Rian Bao)
Undergraduate students
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Paulina Martinez
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Anagha Tirumalai
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Sridevi A Hariharan
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Caroline M Pastrano
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Isaac Young
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Ilana M. Lattka
Alumni
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Sebastian Mancha (Ph.D. student at Univ. of Maryland)
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Niyenth Iyengar (MD student at UT Southwestern Medical School)
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Joel Redmond (MA student in the department of SLHS at UT Austin)
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Former undergraduate research assistants: Amani Turner (Neuroscience), Aaron Cheung (Neuroscience), Brighton C Liu (Neuroscience), Reece K Champion (Neuroscience),
PARTICIPATE !
We are recruiting participants
If you want to participate in our experiments
and get paid for it
contact us at
utneurolinguistics at gmail dot com
