Athena Vouloumanos
Assistant Professor
Stewart Biological Sciences Building
Room N6/6, 398-3856
athena.vouloumanos at mcgill.ca
Research Areas
Research Summary
Language and cognitive development in adults and infants including newborns; speech perception; word learning; cognitive neuroscience
Selected References
Vouloumanos, A., and Werker, J. F. (2004). Tuned to the signal: The privileged status of speech for young infants. Developmental Science, 7, 270-276.
Ngan, E. T. C., Vouloumanos, A., Cairo, T., Laurens, K. R., Bates, A., Anderson, C. M., Werker, J. F.,and Liddle, P. F. (2003). Abnormal processing of speech during oddball target detection in schizophrenia. NeuroImage, 20, 889-897.
Marcus, G. F., Vouloumanos, A., and Sag, I. A. (2003). Does Broca’s play by the rules? Nature Neuroscience, 6, 651-2.
Vouloumanos, A., Kiehl, K.A., Werker, J.F., and Liddle, P.F. (2001). Detecting sounds in the auditory stream: event-related fMRI evidence for differential activation to speech and non-speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 994-1005.
Updated: November 1, 2004
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