Shari Baum - Distinguished James McGill Professor
Annie C. Gilbert, PhD - Research associate / Lab manager
Louis-Phillipe Langlois - Graduate Student
Hannah Kogan - Graduate Student
Annie C. Gilbert
annie.c.gilbert [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email) - Website - Google Scholar
I have a long-standing interest in elucidating how humans communicate via variations in air pressure, more commonly known as "sounds". This interest resulted in my completion of a doctoral degree in linguistics at Université de Montréal, where I studied both perception and production of speech. In particular, I examined the physiological, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic correlates of structural prosody. Subsequently, I completed post-doctoral training in psychology and communication sciences and disorders at McGill Univeristy, where I continued examining speech communication, using a variety of other methods and techniques. My current research goal is to examine what is specific to speech processing itself versus what can be explained by domain-general (physiological or cognitive) constraints. My other academic interests include speech acquisition, language evolution, forensic applications of acoustic phonetics, and teaching.
Louis-Phillipe Langlois
louis-phillipe.langlois [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
My research looks at the effects of discontinued exposure to a native language that was subsequently lost in international adoptees. Specifically, I examine whether this early experience influences their ability to identify a speaker and affects brain activity in adulthood, using fMRI.
Hannah Kogan
hannah.kogan [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
My research explores how age of second language acquisition shapes white matter structure and cognitive control in French–English bilinguals. I focus on the cingulum bundle, a tract central to top-down control and conflict monitoring that remains understudied in bilingualism research. Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), I examine structural variability within the cingulum bundle to determine how differences in white matter organization relate to enhanced cognitive control.