- Royce Fellowship
Sahil
Luthra
Concentration
Cognitive Neuroscience
Award Year
2012
Using a False Memory Paradigm to Examine the Role of Speaker Information in Spoken Word Processing
Faculty Sponsor: Sheila Blumstein
Processing speech requires the brain to recognize a continuous stream of sounds as discrete words conveying some meaning. Sahil researched how the brain considers the identity of a speaker during this process. He employed a new approach to this research question, using a task that induces false memories. Understanding the strategies that the brain uses to process speaker information will ultimately help cognitive scientists to form models of speech processing.