I’m currently a PhD student in Communication Sciences & Disorders at McGill University, as part of the Speech Learning Lab and Neurolinguistics Lab. I’m originally from southern Ontario, and have spent time living in Ottawa and now Montreal. I study how the mechanisms of speech perception are affected by aging. When I’m not being a grad student, you’ll find me drinking tea and harassing my cat.
Ph.D. Candidate, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Expected 2018
McGill University
M.A., Linguistics, 2013
University of Ottawa
B.A., Linguistics & Psychology (Joint Honours), 2012
University of Ottawa
and Standalone projects
How systematic are ID in cue weights across contrasts? Do ID in cue weights relate to other aspects of speech perception?
Do older and younger adults differ in their sensitivity to VOT? How does lexical competition affect older adults’ word recognition? Do individual differences in inhibition modulate lexical competition?
What is the nature of the lexical bias in older adults? Is the increased lexical effect in older adults implicit or a post-hoc decision bias?
Do older adults remain perceptually flexible when lexical context is not available? Does performance in one perceptual learning task predict learning in the other? What cognitive factors influence perceptual flexibility? Are they different across age groups?