Talk (on Tuesday): Using computational models to characterize the role of motor noise in speech: The case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Ben Parrell, Antje Mefferd, Sarah Harper, Simon Roessig, and Doris Mücke. [4/6]

Poster (on Wednesday): Phase relations between the tongue body and the jaw across rate modifications in younger and older speakers (Tabea Thies, Doris Mücke and Antje Mefferd) [5/6]

Poster session ICPhS 2023 was fun! 😊 Happy that so many interested came and gave valuable feedback.

Hey #ASHFoundation5k! It was a hot one this morning, but happy to run in support of the ASH Foundation! Thank you for supporting clinicians and researchers!

🥵 It was hot in Nashville, but we did it! So happy to support important research #ASHFoundation5k

So proud of our awesome GRA Angela Ding and VUHearingSpeechPhD student mentor Claudia Raines - Angela presented their work at the TN State conference. They examined tongue kinematics in dysarthria (ALS, PD, HD, MS). Stay tuned for more findings from this #NIH #NIDCD funded project

Want a research career in language, communication, hearing, speech, cognition and/or their disorders? Vanderbilt has ~10 fully funded PhD student openings associated our with new training grants. Applications due Dec 15, 2023! DM me with questions! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/hearing-speech…

👇 Come train with us at Vanderbilt! Applications due in one month!

🚨Paper Alert🚨 We state that introducing stochastic noise to different levels of the Articulatory Phonology/Task Dynamics model has the potential to describe impaired speech pattern: doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn… Antje Mefferd Anne Hermes ☮️🕊 Tabea Thies Speech Dynamics Lab Woot woot 🥳!

📣We are happy to share this new publication in Journal of Phonetics titled ”Challenges with the kinematic analysis of neurotypical and impaired speech: Measures and models”! A collaboration between the LPP — @lppparis.bsky.social, Antje Mefferd, Speech Dynamics Lab, IfL-Phonetik , Language & Linguistics @ UoY

🎉 Yay! Let’s celebrate! 🎉 So grateful for great lab members and collaborators!

Watch out world, here comes Dr. Daniel Kim!! @dkim530 He nailed his defense! Congratulations 🎉

🎉Exciting news! My project "Speech Motor Biomarkers in #Parkinson's Disease" has been honored with the #Innovation Award from the Parkinson Foundation, accompanied by a €100,000! 🏆 Grateful for the support of my incredible colleagues who celebrated this achievement with me.

🚀Pre-start for #ISSP2024! Workshop on “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and atypical speech” is on 💃🏼🕺🏽. First talks by Frank Guenther, Ben Parrell and Antje Mefferd!

Next round table discussions ongoing🗣️

Transitioning from speech features to speech measures offers a more targeted approach for developing #speech analytics tools in clinical settings. on.asha.org/4bRMqaH Arizona State University SIGPerspectives #SLPeeps #slp2b #OpenAccess

News: Scientists identify genes linked to brain cell loss in ALS nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Flashback: A year ago during the summer break, we started piloting whether we could capture #breathing data with #EMA. Now we have our first results and we're staying on it! Anne Hermes ☮️🕊 Philipp Buech ☀️Enjoy the summer break! isca-archive.org/issp_2024/thie…

It's a new academic year. In your SLP/SLT and linguistic anatomy classes I would beg you to consider some minor changes to lingual anatomy class. Perhaps, that vowels are produced by grooving or doming different sectors by transversus & genioglossus. ICYMI pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Congratulations to my PhD student Claudia Raines for placing 3rd with her poster presentation on disease-specific articulatory impairments in talkers with dysarthria. This was her first research project in my lab. Now she is gearing up for her dissertation project. Time flies!!