Meghan Clayards
Graduate Student, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Contact Information
- 409 Meliora Hall
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- University of Rochester
- Rochester, NY 14627-0268
- (585) 275-3075 (office)
Education
2001 BSc, Lingusitics, University of Victoria
2006 MA, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Research Overview
I am broadly interested in how listeners accomplish the goal of word recognition in a variable, ambiguous, multidimensional acoustic environment. Along with my collaborators I am examining the approach that it is exactly this variability and multidimensionality that allow us to accomplish the goal. In particular, I am examining how listeners combine different acoustic cues when they understand speech, how the combination allows them to resolve ambiguity, and what kind of flexibility they have in doing this. Some of the current projects I’m working on are:
- The effects on online word recognition of multiple, temporally asynchronous cues
- The distribution of cues to nasality over the course of a syllable
- Listeners abilities to adapt their cue combination strategies to new input patterns
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Clayards, M, Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N., Jacobs, R.A (submitted) Sensitivity to within category variability supports a Bayesian model of speech perception.
- McMurray, B., Clayards, M., Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N., (in prep) Tracking the timecourse of phonetic cue integration during spoken word recognition.
Invited Talks
- Speech perception as optimal perceptual integration. May 21, 2007. Radbound University Department of Language and Speech, MPI Centre for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL.
Conference Presentations
- 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 2007, 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.
- Clayards, M.A., 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.
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