Department of Psychology 
McGill University 
1205 Dr. Penfield Ave.
Stewart Biology Building  
Montreal (Qc)
Canada, H3A 1B1 

Tel.: (514) 398-6111 
Fax: (514) 398-4896 
Email: nasir[at]motion.psych.mcgill.ca

Journal Articles

Nasir S. M. and Ostry D. J. (2008). Speech motor learning in profoundly deaf adults. Nature Neuroscience , 11(10): 1217–1222
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Nasir S. M. and Ostry D. J. (2006). Somatosensory precision in speech production. Current Biology 16(19): 1918–1923
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Nasir S. M. and Niemi A. (2002). Effective string theories and field theories in four dimensions. Modern Physics Letters A 17(22): 1445-1453.
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Lubcke M., Nasir S.M., Niemi A. and Torokoff L.  (2002).  Twisted vortices in a gauge field theory. Physics Letters B 534: 195-200.
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Nasir S.M. (1999).  Bogomol'nyi vortices from Seiberg-Witten Monopoles.  Internat J Modern Phys A 14(24): 3905-3920.
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Manton N.S. and Nasir S.M. (1999).  Conservation laws in a first order dynamical system of vortices.  Nonlinearity 12(4): 851-865.
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Nasir S.M. (1998).  Study of Bogomol'nyi Vortices on a disc.  Nonlinearity 11(3): 445-466.
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Nasir S.M. (1998).  Vortices and flat connections.  Physics Letters B 419: 253-257.
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Conference proceedings

Nasir S.M., Ostry D.J.  7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sao Paolo, 2006.

Conference presentations / published abstracts

Nasir S.M., Ostry D.J.  Speech motor learning in post-lingually deaf adults.  Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meetin, San diego, 2007.

Nasir S.M., Ostry D.J.  Speech production in patients with cochlear implants.  Presented at Neural Control of Mouvement Meeting, Sevilla, 2007.

Nasir S.M., Ostry D.J.  A study of the somatosensory precision requirements of speech production.  Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, 2006.

Nasir S.M., Ostry D.J.  Role of impedance to achieve precision requirements in speech production.  Presented at the International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen, 2006.

Nasir S.M., Ostry D.J. Impedance control is used to achieve the somatosensory precision requirements of speech production.  Presented at the Neural control of Movement Meeting, Florida, 2006.

Nasir S.M., Sakata J.T., Brainard M.S.  Sequence dependent coding of syllables in HVC of male Bengalese finches.  Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, 2004.

Bouchard K., Nasir S.M., Brainard M.S.  Statistics of syllable patterns in produced songs predict auditory responses in HVC of Bengalese finches.  Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, 2004.

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