We are happy to announce that one of our research assistants, Katelyn Eng, has received a part-time Vice President Research Undergraduate Student Research Award (VPR USRA) for a second time to conduct research under the supervision of Dr. Yue Wang in the Language and Brain Lab for the duration of the Summer 2013 semester.
Congratulations again, Katelyn!
May 15, 2013We are excited to announce that one of the LABlab's projects has had posters accepted to the Acoustical Society of America's upcoming conference, taking place in Montréal, Québec, June 2-7, 2013!
Gesturing Pitch: Can co-speech hand gestures facilitate learning of non-native speech sounds? - Katelyn Eng, Lindsay Leong (Walker), Beverly Hannah & Dr. Yue Wang
Katelyn Eng and Lindsay Leong (Walker) will be representing the project at this year's conference in Montréal with Dr. Yue Wang. Have fun Katelyn, Lindsay, and Dr. Wang, and job well done!
We are happy to announce that one of our former research assistants, Melissa Philley, has been accepted to the Speech Language Pathology MSc Program at University of British-Columbia starting Fall 2013.
Congratulations Melissa! We wish you all the best for your future studies and career!
We are happy to announce that one of our research assistants, Anthony Chor, has received a part-time Vice President Research Undergraduate Student Research Award (VPR USRA) to conduct research under the supervision of Dr. Yue Wang in the Language and Brain Lab for the duration of the Summer 2013 semester.
Congratulations, Anthony!
This semester, we are continuing to do work on a number of projects, including the Cross Language Tone Perception (XLTP) study, the Auditory and Articulatory Priming Effects on the Perception and Production of Speech Sounds (3PO) study, the Pitch-Gesture (PG) study, the Musical Ability in Bilinguals (MAB), and Conjunction Fallacy (CF)study.
If you would like to participate in any of these studies as a subject, visit the Participants Needed section of the LABlab site to see if you qualify. We need lots of participants, so don't be shy - email us today for more information.
Participants receive $10/hour, with our gratitude for your participation in furthering language research!