Graduate Student Travel Awards

Albury, A. “Effects of musical predictability and hedonic response on motor learning in non-musicians.” Music Perception and Cognition.

Antal, C. “Accessing object concepts: features are modulated by count- and social-usage based statistics of lexical variables.” Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science.

Baumann, A.-E. “Preschoolers’ learning from social robots: from social to epistemic trust.” Society for Research in Child Development.

Brown, M. “Click Chemistry Improves the Stability of dECM Hydrogels and Provides an Angiogenic Environment for Vocal Fold Regeneration.” Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine European Chapter.

Di Francesco, C. “The impact of COVID-19 on employment and mental health through the perspectives of adults on the autism spectrum.” International Society for Autism Research

Fenerci, C. “Not all is lost: age effects of episodic recall depend on the kind of episodic content.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science.

Franke, M. “Temporal organization of syllables in paced and unpaced speech in children and adolescents who stutter.” Joint World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering.

Goldman, E. “Young children’s conception of robots: the role of morphology and goal-directedness.” Society for Research in Child Development.

Greenlaw, K. “Sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation: changes in resting state functional connectivity.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Gurguryan, L. “Identifying the neural mechanisms that support autobiographical memory construction and the influence of retrieval goals.” International Conference on Learning and Memory.

Harada, M. “Locality in the derivation of cumulativity.” Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32. Honda, C. “Neural and behavioural predictors of successful second language perception.” Frequency Following Response Workshop.

Hawari, L. “The effect of acute stress on cognition in Parkinson’s disease patients and older adults.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Jiang, H. “Neuroanatomical subtyping of autism spectrum disorder with morphometric similarity networks.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Kim, S. “Apathy is associated with an altered weighting of effort in multi-attribute value-based decisions between everyday activities.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Lahlou, S. “Polysomnography and impaired overnight memory consolidation in Parkinson’s disease.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Laperle, S. “Commitment vs discourse orientation: experimental and computational perspectives.” Experiments in Linguistic Meaning.

Lemire, M. “The potential of rhythm-based training in pre-adolescent children who stutter.” Joint World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering.

Leveille, Y. “A comparative exploration of demonstratives in the Inuit language: contrasts in stem inventories and phonological assimilation patterns.” 22 nd Inuit Studies Conference.

Lew, E. “Navigating the bilingual cocktail party: bilingual advantage in competing speech tasks.” Association of Psychological Sciences Annual Conference.

Lopez Perez, M. “When do infants know a word? Comparing binary and gradient parent reports to infants’ online word recognition.” International Congress of Infant Studies.

MacDonald-Prégent, A. “Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems for Nonspeaking Autistic Children: Do Location-Centered Layouts Improve Learning?” Meeting on Language in Autism.

Mauchand, M. “Neural basis of empathy for complaining speech.” International Society for Research on Emotion.

Phillips, N. “Language practices of caregivers raising a multilingual infant or toddler in Quebec.” Congress of Infant Studies.

Potvin-Desrochers, A. “Short term effects of modulating the excitability of the posterior parietal cortex with rTMS for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease.” International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology.

Savard, M.-A. “The effect of voluntary attentional control on emotional reactions to sound in people with and without misophonia.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Villeneuve, N. “Commitment vs discourse orientation: experimental and computational perspectives.” Experiments in Linguistic Meaning.

Brisson, V. “Finding a new treatment option for speech perception in noise difficulties in the elderly: a TMS study.” Society for the Neurobiology of Language

de Leon, M. “The Sound of Urgency: Listener Perceptions of Synthetic and Natural Speech Warnings for Hazards and Disasters.” 17th International Pragmatics Conference

Deschamps, S. “Grey matter plasticity in international adoptees: Effects of early language exposure.” CSBBCS

Devine, S. “Making Progress on the Effort Paradox: Progress Information Moderates Cognitive Demand Avoidance.” CogSci2021

Gonzalez Barrero, A.M. “A new approach to measure vocabulary development in bilingual toddlers.” International Association for the Study of Child Language

Jiang, B. “Modelling perceptual effects of phonology with ASR systems.” CogSci

Wolpert, M. “ERP profiles of L1 and L2 processing of adjective-noun word order violations in Mandarin and English.” Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Zhang, J. “Parsing speech for grouping and prominence and the typology of rhythm.” Interspeech 2021

Alemi, R. “Successful recording of free-field cortical steady-state evoked evoked potentials in cochlear implant users.” CI2021 Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults

Brouillard, M. “Raising a bilingual infant: Parents’ beliefs and concerns.” International Congress of Infant Studies

Deschamps, S. “Effects of early language exposure on grey matter plasticity.” Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Gilbert, A. “Addressing the discrepancy between online and offline measures of word segmentation in L2: ERP and accuracy measures.” Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Gonzalez Barrero, A.M. “Reading to bilingual children: The role of language dominance in word learning and family reading practices.” Society for Research in Child Development

Intartaglia, B. “Objective measures of post-implantation brain plasticity reveal evidence of compensatory mechanisms in post-lingually deafened cochlear implant users.” CI2021 Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults

Kousaie, S. “Bilingual language experience and the neural underpinnings of working memory.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Kremin, L. “Changes in Parental Code-Switching Across Development.” International Congress of Infant Studies

Lee, J. “Language Production in English-French Bilinguals: Structural Findings Beyond the Cortex.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping

MacDonald, A. “A Re-examination of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Interventions for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism.” Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Conference

Martens, G. “Hat Contour in Dutch.” Speech Prosody 2020

Paquette, S. “Predicting emotion perception abilities for cochlear implant users.” CI2021 Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults

Potvin-Desrochers, A. “Dopaminergic medication alters brain connectivity in individuals with Parkinson’s disease and freezing of gait.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Ruan, Y. “The effects of language and social contexts on bilingual infant vocalization.” International Congress of Infant Studies

Sander, K. “Ventrolateral frontal to parietal connectivity patterns relate to second language learning.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Sander-Montant, A. “Do all roads lead to bilingualism? Characterization of families’ dual language exposure strategies and their relation to input balance.” International Congress of Infant Studies

Schott, E. “Tools for transparency: Practical tips for sharing your research.” International Congress of Infant Studies

Snytte, J. “Medial temporal lobe volumetric trajectories across midlife and associations with episodic memory.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Sweatman, H. “Hippocampal contribution to self-referential encoding in children.” Society for Research in Child Development

Tsui, R.K.Y. “A Multi-lab Study of Gaze-following Development in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants.” International Congress of Infant Studies

Vieira, M. “Acoustical correlates of larygeal control: Parkinson’s and older adults.” Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Wolpert, M. “Argument Structure Processing in Native and Non-Native Mandarin Speakers.” Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Wong, S.T.S. “Sex Difference in Linguistic Processing Network Activation and Lexical Decision Task Performance.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Wouters, I. “Modelling translanguaging instruction through a cross-linguistic communicative task sequence: A developmental study.” American Association for Applied Linguistics

Hiver 2020:

Courteau, E. “Prenominal and postnominal adjectives in French: An ERP study.” CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA

Macdonald, D. “Predictors of Reading in Preschoolers with ASD with and without Hyperlexia.” Meeting on Language in Autism, Durham, NC

Tanner, J. “Towards ‘English’ phonetics: variability in the pre-consonantal voicing effect across English dialects and speakers.” SPADE-PAC-PFC Workshop, Glasgow, Scotland

Zhang, S. “Cross-cultural Differences in Vocal Expression and Emotion Perception.” Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, New Orleans

Automne 2019 :

Brouillard, M. “The effect of code switching on word learning in bilingual 5-year-olds.” Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA

Emond, E. “Grammatical principles guide infants’ interpretation of noun phrase references.” Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA

Honda, C. “Lexical stress processing in bilinguals: a mismatch negativity study.” Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology, Graz, Austria

Liu, YY. “Factors shaping vowel perception biases in adults.” 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA

Matthews, T. “Groove is Associated with an Overestimation of Tapping Synchrony.” Predictive Brain Conference, Marseille, France

Royer, J. “The distribution of status suffixes in Chuj and the interface between syntax and prosody.” Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Austin, TX

Socolof, M. “Which-questions, uniqueness, and answerhood: evidence from disjunction.” The 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), Cambridge, MA

Whitehead, J. “Isolating the neural correlates of processing socio-emotional threat and ambiguity across modalities with influence of individual differences: An fMRI-adaptation study.” Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, IL

Whittaker, H. “Longitudinal training with information-based neuromodulation to enhance working memory.” Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada Annual General Meeting, Banff, AB

Été 2019 :

Al-Yawer, F. “Sensory loss and cognitive function in older adults at different stages of cognitive impairment,” 5th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM 2019), Linkoping, Sweden

Chauvin, A. “Individual differences in the use of visual speech cues and sentence context to aid speech perception under noisy conditions in young and older bilinguals,” International Symposium on Bilingualism, Edmonton, Alberta

Fenerci, C. “Dissociating the effect of autobiographical memory retrieval on the cognitive and affective components of empathy,” The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Waterloo, Ontario

Fromont, L. “Reevaluating the dynamics of auditory sentence processing: an ERP study in French,” Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland

Gurguryan, L. “Pushing boundaries: The influence of context shifts on memory for temporal order,” The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Waterloo, Ontario

Harada, M. “Contextual effects on case in Japanese copular constructions,” The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia 12), Seoul, Korea

Herbay, A. “Lexical pre-activation and post-lexical integration accounts of the N400 ERP effect: When semantic relational priming interacts with words’ syntactic categories,” 11th Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL), Helsinki, Finland

Hinton, D. “Parkinson’s disease affects neural activation during continuous alterations to the split-belt treadmill: An [18F] FDG PET Study,” International Society of Posture and Gait Research World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland

Jiang, B. “A deep neural network approach to investigate tone space in languages,” 177th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, Kentucky

Kabbara, J. “Computational investigations of pragmatic effects in natural language,” The 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), Minneapolis, MN

Lamontagne, J. “Evidence of gradient weight and phoneme retention,” Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK

Matsushita, R. “MEG reveals neurophysiological evidence of tDCS effect on the auditory system,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Rome, Italy

Nader, M. “On the contribution of linguistic and cognitive factors to the micro and the macro levels of reading comprehension among heritage language children,” The 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12), Edmonton, Alberta

Park, YW. “Interaction between lexical tone and intonation in Kinshasa Lingala,” International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia

Potvin-Desrochers, A. “Resting-state functional connectivity changes related to freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease,” International Society for Posture and Gait Research World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland

Rousseau, P-N. “The striatum is shaped by bilingual experience and musical training,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy

Sares, A. “Music and language habits of people who stutter: a live data-collection event,” World Congress of the International Stuttering Association, Hveragerdi, Iceland

Scheurich, R. “Measuring intra- and inter-brain dynamics during joint rhythmic tasks,” 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY, USA

Schott, E. “Child bi- and multilingualism in the home in Canada: Rates and language pairs,” International Symposium on Bilingualism 12, Edmonton, Alberta

Wright, S. “Circadian contributions to individual differences in performance rates,” Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science 2019, Waterloo, Ontario

Hiver 2019 :

Smeets, L. “Testing L1 transfer at the syntax-discourse interface: the case of CLLD in Italian,” XV Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 15), Reno, Nevada

Automne 2018 :

Athari, P. “Maternal vocal imitation in mother-infant interaction,” Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Childhood Development

Coburn, P. “An In Vitro Testing Platform of Macrophage Polarization in Hydrogel Scaffolds,” 2018 TERMIS World Congress, Kyoto, Japan

Dong, Y. “BanditSum: Extractive Summarization as a Contextual Bandit,” 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Brussels, Belgium

Emami, A. “A Knowledge Hunting Framework for Common Sense Reasoning,” 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Brussels, Belgium

Forrester, D. “Gender Differences in Emergent Literacy Learning From a Shared Reading Intervention With eBooks,” ASHA Annual Convention, Boston, MA

Gold, B. “Predictability and uncertainty in the pleasure of music,” Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

James, L. “Motor contributions to vocal sequence learning biases,” Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Sidarta, A. “Suppression of Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Somatosensory Working Memory,” Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Subramaniapillai, S. “Sex differences in brain-behavior correlations in episodic memory: an adult lifespan study,” Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Été 2018 :

Codere Corbeil, M. “Scalar implicatures and sentence similarity in distributional semantics,” North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI), Pittsburg, PA

Dahary, H. “Comparing intensity ratings of emotions in music and faces by adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” International Society For Autism Research, Rotterdam

DiGiovanni, D. “Comparing task and resting-state functional connectivity in presurgical language mapping,” Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec City

Hill, K. “Are morphological effects modulated by semantic similarity? A study of priming in Quebec French,” CogSci 2018 – the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin

Kellison-Linn, E. “A large-scale study of consonant voicing effects on F0 in spontaneous English speech,” 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16), Lisbon, Portugal,

Mauchand, M. “Ironic Tones of Voices,” Speech Prosody 9, Poznan, Poland

Mitchell, T. Neural adaptations in Parkinson’s Disease for complex locomotion,” Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Vancouver, Canada

Palma, P. “Managing ambiguity: An eye-tracking study of the relationship between executive function and L2 homograph processing,” Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, St-John’s, NL

Ruan, Y.  “Rhythm and melody: The spectral and temporal characteristics of Chinese newborn’s crying,” Summer School: Infant Studies on Language Development in Europe, Potsdam, Germany

Sander, K. “Refining diffusion MRI as a tool to link anatomical connectivity and second-language learning success,“ Society for the Neurobiology of Language 10th Annual Meeting, Quebec City

Tao, J. “Durational cues to word boundaries in spontaneous speech,” Speech prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, and LabPhon, Poznan, Poland

Tiv, M. “Greater bilingual language experience predicts greater sarcasm use in daily life,” International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Edmonton, Alberta,

Whitehead, J. “Combined fMRI-adaptation (fMRI-a) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) reveal difference between musicians and non-musicians in response to auditory emotional information,” Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, New York

Hiver 2018 :

Fromont, L. “The interplay between syntactic and semantic processing in late learners of French: An event-related brain potential (ERP) study.” International Congress of Linguists, Cape Town, South Africa

Hinton, D. “Cerebellar and Parietal Cortex Activation predicts walking pattern characteristics during continuous gait adjustments to the split-belt treadmill: An [18F]-FDG PET Study.” Society for the Neural Control of Movement Annual Meeting 2018, Sante Fe, NM, USA

Lamontagne, J. “Morphological and Phonological Motivations for Prominence Shifts in French.” Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, USA

Lee, A. “The missing link in the acquisition of grammatical gender by L2 learners of French.” American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, IL, USA.

Mutlu, F. “Labiality lurks, palatality glides: Asymmetries in harmony.” GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World), Budapest.

Peters, S. “Comparing and contrasting the neural mechanisms of autobiographical memory and problem solving.” International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Automne 2017 :

Colby, S. “Inhibitory and lexical frequency effects in younger and older adults’ spoken word recognition.” 174^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Glushko, A. “Cortical tracking of linguistic structures: The role of covert prosody.” Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Gurguyan, L. “The neural basis of thematically and spatially guided recall of recent and remote autobiographical memories.” Society for Neroscience, Washington, DC, USA.

Orena, A. “The relationship between language experience and infants’ word segmentation skills.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, USA.

Subramaniapillai, S. “Sex differences in spatial context memory performance across the adult lifespan.” Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.

Thomas, M. “Modification of the adult rat tonotopic map through passive sound exposure impairs performance on a tone discrimination task.” International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Banff, AB.

Thompson, J. “Encoding of dynamic ripple mixtures in human auditory cortex using 7T fMRI.” International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Banff, AB.

Été 2017 :

Bang, J. “Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder can demonstrate in-depth word learning: Expressive language measures of fast-mapping.” San Francisco, CA, USA.

Courteau, E. “Morphosyntactic event-related potential development in children: A review.” 14^th International Congress for the Study of Child Langauge (IASCL 2017), Lyon, France.

Duan, W. “Teaching French pronunciation to Chinese adult learners in communicative language classrooms: Examining the effectiveness of explicit phonetic instruction.” Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, Toronto, ON.

Gilbert, A. “Producing appropriate prosodic cues in a non-dominant language: preliminary results from French-English bilinguals.” 8^thTutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Herbay, A. “Can French-English bilinguals process verb-particle constructions in a native-like manner? A self-paced reading study.” Bilingualism Vs. Monolingualism: A New Perspective On Limitations To L2 Acquisition, Toulouse, France.

Mitchell, T. “A comparison of the neural correlates of complex walking in healthy young adults and middle-aged adults during real locomotion.” International Society for Posture and Gait Research World Congress 2017, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.

Oba, T. “Form-focused practice and corrective feedback in Japanese EFL classrooms.” Reading, UK.

Scheurich, R. “Tapping into rate flexibility: Influences of musical training and spontaneous production rates on synchronization.” Neuroscience and Music VI: Music, Sound, and Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Tuerck, C. “Music therapy improves parent-child relationships and decreases maladaptive behaviors in children with ASD.” Neuroscience and Music VI, Boston, MA, USA.

Vergis, N. “Communicating affective stance through tone of voice.” International Society of Research on Emotion (ISRE), St. Louis, MO, USA.

Été 2017:

Arnaud, L. “Repetition effects in early blind adults revealed by fMRI adaptation.” International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Bang, H. “Speaker variability in cue weighting for laryngeal contrasts: The relationship to sound change.” 4^th Workshop on Sound Change, Edinburgh, UK.

Garcia, G. “Adapting inconsistent lexical patterns: A Bayesian approach to weight and stress.” 91^st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX, USA.

Goodhue, D. “Biased polar questions: VERUM focus is semantic focus, high negation is a distinct phenomenon.” Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX, USA.

Mori, Y. “Perceiving a speaker’s ‘feeling of knowing’ from non-verbal cues.” Nonverbal Behaviour Preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Truesdale, D. “The sound of passion and indifference.” Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, USA.