Athena Vouloumanos
Assistant Professor
Stewart Biological Sciences Building
Room W7/3J, 398-3856
athena.vouloumanos at mcgill.ca
http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/midccdem
Research Areas
Cognition-Language-Perception
Research Summary
Language and cognitive development in adults and infants including newborns; speech perception; word learning; cognitive neuroscience
Selected References
Weikum, W. M.,
Vouloumanos, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., Sebastian-Galles, N., &
Werker, J. F. (2007). Visual language discrimination in infancy. Science,
316, 1159.
Vouloumanos, A., & Werker, J. F.
(2007). Why voice melody alone cannot explain neonates' preference for
speech. Developmental Science, 10, 170-172.
Vouloumanos, A., & Werker, J. F.
(2007). Listening to language at birth: Evidence for a bias for speech in
neonates. Developmental Science, 10, 159-164.
Fernandes, K. J., Marcus, G. F., DiNubila, J.
A., & Vouloumanos, A. (2006). From semantics to syntax and back
again: Argument structure in the third year of life. Cognition, 100,
B10-20.
Vouloumanos, A.,
& Werker, J. F. (2004). Tuned to the signal: The privileged status of speech
for young infants. Developmental Science, 7, 270-276.
Ngan, E. T. C., Vouloumanos, A.,
Cairo, T., Laurens, K. R., Bates, A., Anderson, C. M., Werker, J. F., &
Liddle, P. F. (2003). Abnormal processing of speech during oddball target
detection in schizophrenia. NeuroImage, 20, 889-897.
Marcus, G. F., Vouloumanos, A., & Sag,
I. A. (2003). Does Broca's play by the rules? Nature Neuroscience, 6,
651-652.
Vouloumanos, A., Kiehl, K. A., Werker,
J. F., & Liddle, P. F. (2001). Detecting sounds in the auditory stream:
Event-related fMRI evidence for differential activation to speech and
non-speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 994-1005.
Werker, J. F., &
Vouloumanos, A. (2000). Who's got rhythm? Science, 288, 280-281.
Updated: July 1, 2007
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