For many years, our lab has organized a symposium on the neural bases of speech production, with the symposium happening every two years here at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). This year, due to the global pandemic, our biennial speech symposium will be virtual (a webinar) and will be scaled-down and focused on a single topic: models of speech production. Within the scope of this topic, we have speakers making presentations on a range of subtopics, including models of the low-level sensorimotor control of utterance production, models of the production of phonetic sequences, and models of learning in the speech motor system.
We’re dividing the webinar into two sessions: one session from 9am-1:30pm (Pacific time) on Tuesday, May 18th, and another session the following week, from 9am-1:30pm on Tuesday, May 25th. In each session, we will have five talks, followed by two panel discussions, each with a different lead-off topic to initiate discussion.
The schedule of sessions is (all times Pacific Daylight Time):
Tuesday, May 18th Session: (see below for links to video recordings of this session)
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Morning Section, Chair: John Houde, Dept. of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, UCSF Recording: https://youtu.be/Q00leqZXaTk |
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9:00 am |
Introduction |
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9:05 am |
Some thoughts about trajectory formation in speech production Pascal Perrier Gipsa-lab/Grenoble INP, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France |
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9:45 am |
Using NENGO.ai for developing models of speech production and speech perception Bernd J Kröger Dept. of Phoniatrics, Pedaudiology, and Communication Disorders, Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
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10:25 am |
Break |
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Mid-morning Section, Chair: Karuna Subramaniam, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF Recording: https://youtu.be/PznUFS5lhD4 |
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10:35 am |
From phonological representation to surface sound: Why phonology has implications for the architecture of the speech production system Alice Turk Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~turk/) Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
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11:15 am |
Selection and coordination of articulatory gestures in the brain: questions and predictions Sam Tilsen Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
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11:55 am |
Break |
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Afternoon Section, Chair: Srikantan Nagarajan, Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF Recording: https://youtu.be/NRuW3OxQXRw |
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12:05 pm |
From gestural specifications to realistic, speaker-specific vocal-tract shaping Asterios Toutios Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
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12:45 pm |
Panel Discussion, Lead-off Topic: Impact of models of speech production on understanding aphasias Nina F. Dronkers Dept. of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Dept. of Neurology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System |
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1:05 pm |
Panel Discussion, Lead-off Topic: Impact of models of speech production on understanding neurological speech and voice disorders Kristina Simonyan Dept. of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
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1:25 pm |
Conclusion |
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1:30 pm |
End of Session |
Tuesday, May 25th Session: (see below for links to video recordings of this session)
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Morning Section, Chair: John Houde, Dept. of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, UCSF Recording: https://youtu.be/3c6ftxFBjQU |
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9:00 am |
Introduction |
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9:05 am |
Why we (still) need the body in models of speech Bryan Gick Dept. of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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9:45 am |
Implications of a developmental perspective on speech production Melissa Redford Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
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10:25 am |
Break |
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Mid-morning Section, Chair: Ana Cláudia Souza, Dept. of Telecommunication and Mechatronics Engineering, Federal University of Sao Joao del-Rei, Brazil Recording: https://youtu.be/UgbCfUMxXS4 |
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10:35 am |
Quantitative modeling of reflexive responses to auditory perturbations Frank Guenther Depts. of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA |
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11:15 am |
The role of forward models in motor control and learning: insights and fallacies from visuomotor adaptation Adrian Haith Dept. of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
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11:55 am |
Break |
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Afternoon Section, Chair: Srikantan Nagarajan, Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF Recording: https://youtu.be/PQRN2QJ_YBI |
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12:05 pm |
Bridging dynamical systems and optimal control approaches to speech motor control Adam Lammert Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA |
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12:45 pm |
Panel Discussion, Lead-off Topic: Impact of models of speech production on understanding speech disruptions in neurodegenerative disorders. Kamalini Ranasinghe Dept. of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF |
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1:05 pm |
Panel Discussion, Lead-off Topic: Impact of models of speech production on understanding speech disruptions in neurodevelopmental disorders. Carly Demopoulos Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF |
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1:25 pm |
Conclusion |
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1:30 pm |
End of Session |