Dr. Meghan Clayards

Research Details

My research is in the area of speech perception and word recognition. I am interested in how multiple speech cues are interpreted and integrated when we understand speech and how this is affected by variability in production. I use eye-tracking and the visual world paradigm to investigate how speech cues are interpreted and integrated in real time and I use learning paradigms to manipulate the variability in the speech signal.

Supervisor[s]

Gareth Gaskell

Collaborators

Gareth Gaskell (Uinversity of York), Oliver Niebuhr (Université Aix en Provence), Elizabeth Wonnacot (University of Oxford), Sarah Hawkins (University of Cambridge), Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester), Richard Aslin (University of Rochester), Vikranth Rao (University of Rochester), Bob McMurray (University of Iowa), Joseph Toscano (University of Iowa)

Grants

Funded by Marie Curie Research Traning Network "Sound to Sense"

Publications

Niebuhr, O., Clayards, M., Meunier, C., Lancia, L. (submitted) On place assimilation within sibilant sequences – comparing French and English.

Clayards, M, Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N., Jacobs, R.A (2008) Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues. Cognition, 108(3), 804-809.

McMurray, B., Clayards, M., Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N., (2008) Tracking the time course of phonetic cue integration during spoken word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15(6), 1064-1071

Aslin, R.N., Clayards, M.A, Bardhan, N.P., (2008) Mechanisms of auditory development: From sounds to words. In C. Nelson Ed. Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Second Edition. p97-116.

Misc.

Conference Presentations:

Clayards, M. (2009, January) Can multiple speech cues be treated as independent? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA.

Bejjanki, V.R., Clayards, M., Knill, D.C., Aslin, R.N. (2008, September) Speech perception involves statistically optimal multi-modal integration. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Cambridge, UK.

Clayards, M., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M.K., Jacobs, R.A. (2007, August) Within category phonetic variability affects perceptual uncertainty. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbruken, Germany.

Clayards, M., Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N. (2006, June) Integration of multiple cues based on experience with variation. Poster presented at the 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Paris, France.

Berger, M.A., Clayards, M., Bardhan, N., McDonough, J. (2006, June) Automated measurement of nasality over time in vowels. Poster presented at the 151st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.

Clayards, M., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M.K. (2005, June) Experience mediated cue integration. Poster presented at the ISCA workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception, London, UK.

Clayards, M., McMurray, B. (2005, November) Can the temporal unfolding of gradient lexical activation reveal the grain of phonological units? Paper presented at the 11th Annual Mid Continental Workshop on Phonology, Ann-Arbor, MI.

McMurray, B., Clayards, M.A., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004, May) Gradient sensitivity to acoustic detail and temporal integration of phonetic cues. Poster presented at the 75th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, NY.