Lori Astheimer

PhD, 2011, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program

Attentional Cues During Speech Perception

Listeners Modulate Temporally Selective Attention during Natural Speech Processing

My research explores the relationship between attention and language processing in children and adults. Using event-related potentials (ERPs) and other neuroimaging techniques, I examine how linguistic experience shapes the use of attention during speech perception, and how attention training may improve both general cognitive processing and language proficiency.