| 9/9 | Facilitation date assignments for 9/30 - 10/30 |
| 9/30 | Student facilitation begins |
| 10/14 | Reading day (no class) |
| 10/21 | Topic date assignments for 11/4 - 12/4 |
| 11/4 | Student topics begin |
| 11/27 | Thanksgiving recess (no class) |
| 12/4 | Last day of class |
Readings are organized by week. In general, we will discuss the papers in the order listed here. Resources in light blue are optional.
| Week | Readings |
|---|---|
| 8/26 | What is language and where did it come from? |
| Feher O et al (2009) De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature07994 | |
| Hauser MD et al (2002) The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? Science, doi:10.1126/science.298.5598.1569 | |
| Deacon TW (2010) A role for relaxed selection in the evolution of the language capacity. PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.0914624107 | |
| Pinker S and Jackendoff R (2005). The faculty of language: what’s special about it? Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2004.08.004 | |
| 9/2 | Communication, information, and signal detection |
| Maynard Smith J and Harper DGC (1995) Animal Signals: Models and Terminology. J Theor Biol, doi:10.1006/jtbi.1995.0248 | |
| Bee MA and Gerhardt HC (2002) Individual voice recognition in a territorial frog (Rana catesbeiana). Proc R Soc Lond B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2041 | |
| Wiley RH (2006) Signal Detection and Animal Communication, in Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 36 | |
| Iverson P and Kuhl PK (1995) Mapping the perceptual magnet effect for speech using signal detection theory and multidimensional scaling. J Acoust Soc Amer, 97(1):553-62 | |
| 9/9 | Bioacoustics & biophysics of sound generation |
| Johnson, KS et al (2011) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Chs 1-2 ONLY. Available from http://library.virginia.edu as an e-book | |
| Riede T and Goller F (2010) Peripheral mechanisms for vocal production in birds – differences and similarities to human speech and singing. Brain Lang, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2009.11.003 | |
| Fitch WT et al (2002) Calls out of chaos: the adaptive significance of nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal production. Animal Behaviour, doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1912 | |
| Gardner T et al (2001) Simple Motor Gestures for Birdsongs. Phys Rev Lett, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.208101 | |
| Joos, M. (1948). Acoustic phonetics. Language, 24, 5-137, doi:10.2307/522229. | |
| Wiley RH and Richard DG (1978) Physical Constraints on Acoustic Communication in the Atmosphere: Implications for the Evolution of Animal Vocalizations. Behav Ecol Sociobiol, JSTOR: 4599157 | |
| 9/16 | The auditory system and vocal perception |
| Sharpee TO et al (2011) Hierarchical representations in the auditory cortex. Curr Opin Neurobiol, doi:10.1016/j.conb.2011.05.027 | |
| de Charms RC et al (1998) Optimizing sound features for cortical neurons. Science, doi:10.1126/science.280.5368.1439 | |
| Prather JF (2009) Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. Nat Neurosci, doi:10.1038/nn.2246 | |
| Romanski LM et al (2004) Neural representation of vocalizations in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. J Neurophys, doi:10.1152/jn.00675.2004 | |
| 9/23 | Bird calls, songs & the evolution of learned and unlearned signals |
| Pepperberg IM (2013) Evolution of vocal communication: an avian model. Ch 26 in Birdsong, speech, and language : exploring the evolution of mind and brain, eds JJ Bolhuis and M Everaert. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Available http://library.virginia.edu as an e-book | |
| Marler P (2004) Bird calls: their potential for behavioral neurobiology. Ann N Y Acad Sci, doi:10.1196/annals.1298.034 | |
| Marler P and Tamura M (1964) Culturally transmitted patterns of vocal behavior in sparrows. Science 146:1483–86 | |
| Kroodsma DE and Konishi M (1991) A suboscine bird (eastern phoebe, Sayornis phoebe) develops normal song without auditory feedback. Anim Behav 42:477-487 | |
| 9/30 | Student facilitation begins |
| Sensorimotor learning in the song system | |
| Lalazar H, Vaadia E (2008). Neural basis of sensorimotor learning: modifying internal models. Curr Opin Neurobiol, doi:10.1016/j.conb.2008.11.003 | |
| Joseph Dardick: Brainard MS and Doupe AJ (2000) Interruption of a basal ganglia–forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations. Nature 404:762-766 | |
| Thuan Tran: Olveczky BP et al (2005) Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit. Plos Biol doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030153 | |
| Laura Getz: Hadipour-Niktarash A et al (2007) Impairment of retention but not acquisition of a visuomotor skill through time-dependent disruption of primary motor cortex. J Neurosci 27:13413-13419. | |
| Tin C and Poon C-S (2005) Internal Models in Sensorimotor Integration: Perspectives from Adaptive Control Theory. J Neur Eng doi:10.1088/1741-2560/2/3/S01 | |
| 10/7 | Interactions between production and perception |
| Liberman and Mattingly (1985) The motor theory of speech perception revised. Cognition 21, 1-36 | |
| Lucas Waller: Pulvermüller F and Fadiga L (2010) Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language. Nat Rev Neurosci doi:10.1038/nrn2811 | |
| Sarah Bernhards: Tkach et al (2011) Neural correlates of phonological processing in speech sound disorder: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Brain Lang doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.02.002 | |
| Olivia Barrow: Skipper JI et al (2007) Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices: How Cortical Areas Supporting Speech Production Mediate Audiovisual Speech Perception Cereb. Cortex doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl147 | |
| 10/16 | Phonetics |
| Johnson, KS et al (2011) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Chs 6-7 ONLY. Available from http://library.virginia.edu as an e-book | |
| 10/21 | Human speech and language development |
| Kuhl PK (2000) A new view of language acquisition. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.97.22.11850 | |
| Siddharth Hariharan: Dehaene-Lambertz G et al (2002) Functional Neuroimaging of Speech Perception in Infants. Science doi:10.1126/science.1077066 | |
| Rabita Alamgir: Bortfield H et al (2009) Identifying cortical lateralization of speech processing in infants using near-infrared spectroscopy. Dev Neuropsyc 34(1) 52-65 | |
| Ben Tran: Perani D et al (2011) Neural language networks at birth. Proc Natl Acad Sci doi:10.1073/pnas.1102991108 | |
| 10/28 | Speech production and perception |
| Diehl et al (2004) Speech Perception. Annu Rev Psyc, doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.142028 | |
| Aakash Shah: Wilson SM et al (2010) Connected speech production in three variants of primary progressive aphasia. Brain 2010 doi:10.1093/brain/awq129 | |
| Gina Mai: Chandrasekaran C et al (2013) Dynamic faces speed up the onset of auditory cortical spiking responses during vocal detection. Proc Natl Acad Sci doi:10.1073/pnas.1312518110 | |
| Adela Mahmutovic: Agus T et al (2014) Pereptual Learning of Acoustic Noise by Individuals With Dyslexia. J Speech Lang Hear Res 57(3), 1069-1077 | |
| 11/4 | Class canceled |
| 11/6 | Grammar and temporal patterns |
| Chomsky N (1956). Three models for the description of language. IEEE Trans Inf Theory doi:10.1109/TIT.1956.1056813 | |
| J.P. Riggle: Saffran J et al (2008) Grammatical Pattern Learning by Human Infants and Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys. Cognition doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.010 | |
| 11/11 | Sean Conaghan: Gentner TQ et al (2006) Recursive syntatic pattern learning by songibrds. Nature 440:1204-1207 |
| Matthew Eakins: Petersson K-M et al (2012) What artificial grammar learning reveals about the neurobiology of syntax. Brain Lang doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2010.08.003 | |
| 11/13 | Rabita: Mesgarani N, Cheung C, Johnson K, Chang EF (2014) Phonetic feature encoding in human superior temporal gyrus. Science, doi:10.1126/science.1245994 |
| Adela: Bayard, C., Colin, C., & Laybaert, J. (2014) How is the McGurk effect modulated by Cued Speech in deaf and hearing adults? Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00416 | |
| 11/18 | Matt: Hirsch K and Funnell E (1995) Those Old, Familiar Things: Age of Acquisition, Familiarity, and Lexical Access in Progressive Aphasia. J Neurolinguistics 9(1) 23-32. |
| Aakash: Nathan D et al (2009) Disfluencies along the garden path: Brain electrophysiological evidence of disrupted sentence processing. Brain Lang doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.003 | |
| Gina: Resnik K et al (2014). Between Thought and Expression, a Magnetoencephalography Study of the “Tip-of-the-Tongue” Phenomenon. J Cog Neurosci, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00611. | |
| 11/20 | Sarah: Crinion J et al (2006) Language Control in the Bilingual Brain. Science doi:10.1126/science.1127761 |
| Kovács AE et al (2009) Flexible Learning of Multiple Speech Structures in Bilingual Infants. Science doi:10.1126/science.1173947 | |
| Ben: Hernandez AE (2009) Language switching in the bilingual brain: What’s next? Brain Lang doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2008.12.005 | |
| 11/25 | Olivia: Koelsch S (2002) Neural substrates of processing syntax and semantics in music. Curr Opin Neurobiol doi:0.1016/j.conb.2005.03.005 |
| Lucas: Striem-Amit E et al (2012) Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. Neuron 76(3), 640-652. | |
| 12/2 | Siddharth: Conty L et al (2012) Early Binding of Gaze, Gesture, and Emotion: Neural Time Course and Correlates. J Neurosci doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5636-11.2012 |
| Thuan: Newman AJ et al (2010) Prosodic and narrative processing in American Sign Language: An fMRI study. Neuroimage doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.055 | |
| JP: King SL and Janik VM (2013) Bottlenose dolphins can use learned vocal labels to address each other. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1304459110 | |
| 12/4 | Sean: Dutoit T (1997) High-quality text-to-speech synthesis : an overview. Journal Of Electrical And Electronics Engineering. web link |
| Joseph: Hershey et. al (2011) Audio Alchemy: Getting Computers to Understand Overlapping Speech. Scientific American. web link |