IU STARS Mentors - Speech and Hearing Sciences
Raquel Anderson: Raquel Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. She is also adjunct/affiliate faculty in Cognitive Sciences and the Latino Studies Program. At her lab, research focuses on studying the language learning abilities of children with typical language skills and children with atypical language skills. In particular, she studies children who are learning two languages, with a special emphasis on Spanish-English speaking children. Her main focus is in the area of grammatical skill, but research in other areas, such as phonology, is also conducted via her lab. The age ranges studied include preschool through early elementary school. At present, research projects include: (1) first language loss in Spanish-English speaking children; (2) Spanish grammatical gender in monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish- English speaking children with and without language impairment; (3) verb phrase use in Spanish-speaking children with language impairment; and (4) onset cluster development in Spanish-speaking preschoolers.
Theresa A. Burnett: Behavioral, acoustic, and fMRI studies of pre- attentive and attentive processes of human audio-vocal integration for control of the voice in communication and performance.
Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe: Dr. Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe is an associate professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department and Cognitive Science Program, and director of the Baby Language Lab. The focus of her research is children’s language learning. Studies carried out in her laboratory are designed to explore the changing relation between language comprehension and production and, in particular, why there are gaps between what children understand and say. Dr. Gershkoff-Stowe is trained as a developmental psychologist; she teaches courses on childhood language, infant communication, and experimental research methods.
Larry E. Humes: Currently Professor and Director of the Audiology Research Laboratory. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, his Master’s degree from Central Michigan University, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has been at Indiana University since 1986 and the research in his laboratory has been supported by NIH throughout this time. He has over 130 scholarly publications and more than 200 presentations on a variety of topics in audiology and hearing science. His most recent research activities have been focused on age-related changes in auditory perception, including speech perception, and on outcome measures for hearing aids.
Laura Murray: Research projects in the Adult Cognition and Language Lab span the fields of speech-language pathology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics. Current projects include: (a) using behavioral testing, dual-task paradigms, and discourse analyses to examine the relationship between language and other cognitive abilities (i.e., attention, memory, executive functioning) subsequent to stroke, traumatic brain injury, or progressive disease (e.g., Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases), and (b) applying single-subject research designs to evaluate treatments for word retrieval and sentence/grammar processing deficits associated with aphasia.
