My lab is interested in audition, speech perception, voice control, emotional processing, the development of language and varied forms of communication, brain plasticity and cognitive neurosciences. Many of our methods are behavioral, relying on tools borrowed from psychoacoustics and DSP analysis including modelling of auditory masking and unmasking mechanisms in tasks that can be low-level or more complex such as listening to a target voice in a background of multiple simultaneous talkers in space. We also use physiological techniques (measurement of pupil dilation, skin conductance, or the dynamics of heart rate) while participants may listen carefully to specific sounds or words, repeat them orally, evaluate them in the affective domain, or memorize them, etc... Finally, neuroimaging helps us understand why the auditory brain and the networks associated with language respond in a certain way when faced with difficulties/losses in auditory performance ; this can involve electroencephalography, magnetic resonance, near-infrared spectroscopy or neuro-modulatory techniques.
