E. W. Tekwa Hakai Postdoctoral Fellow University of British Columbia Meritocracy, Affirmative Action, and the American Dream Academia does not represent the greater population but it is unknown what this implies for academia’s fairness and productivity. Existing measures of representation do not capture socioeconomic histories, and an intractable web of biological and social […]
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Elizabeth McCullagh Department of Integrative Biology Oklahoma State University New insights into binaural hearing from animal models of Fragile X Syndrome The goal of the McCullagh lab is to understand how the brain processes sound location information. We explore central sound source processing three ways: 1. By manipulating the brain using modern neuroscience […]
Katherine Duncan Department of Psychology University of Toronto The Rhythms of Memory Behaviour When are you best prepared to learn? Our intuition points to slowly changing factors, like having a good night’s sleep or a cup of coffee. Remarkably, an influential factor may operate so quickly that eludes not only our conscious reflections but […]
Meg Cychosz Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing University of Maryland Coarticulation, compensation, and phonetic change The speech stream is highly variable and context-dependent. My research program investigates how speakers, especially children, comprehend and reproduce this variable speech over the lifespan—processes that can lead to […]