October 2024
Lab members travelled to Genova, Italy for the Festival della Scienza 2024! The team did educational outreach on speech science and collected data for a project about pitch control across age with the mobile van. Special thanks to all of the scientific volunteers and organizers throughout the festival.
September 2024
August 2024
At the end of August, the lab attended the 2024 Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts & Society in Groningen with our speech van to do outreach and experimental data collection. Defne Abur also gave a public lecture related to what we can learn from our voice
The lab is thrilled to welcome Dan Mu as a PhD researcher on our new project with Dr. Frank Tsiwah. Dan will start her project later this year, stay tuned for more exciting updates from Dan!
July 2024
Thank you for a wonderful talk and interesting discussions.
June 2024
Lab members presented at the 44th edition of TABU Dag
May 2024
April 2024
and Cognitive Neurosciences Science Jam – urban sketching workshop
March 2024
Congratulations to Valentine Lucquiault who received a PRIME Award from Bangor University. This award will support her travel to Wales to work on an internship with Dr. Charlie Wiltshire
Katharina Polsterer gave a talk at the Linguistics Lunch on a developmental perspective on auditory discrimination
Defne Abur was selected for the Young Academy Groningen (YAG). The YAG is a group of early career researchers across the University of Groningen and UMCG with a passion for science and scholarship and its broader impacts on academia and society. Read more about the YAG and their initiatives here.
February 2024
Katharina Polsterer, Thomas Tienkamp, and Teja Rebernik presented their work. Teja Rebernik also won a Kathy Yorkston Travel Award!
Katharina Polsterer receives Faculty of Arts Master Thesis Award
Congratulations to Katharina Polsterer for receiving this year’s Faculty of Arts Master Thesis Award for her excellent work entitled “Characterising auditory-motor adaptation of vowel production across age”
January 2024
New paper in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Read more about this work led by Thomas Tienkamp on articulatory working space in individuals treated for oral cancer here.
BCN Winter Meeting 2024
Lab members attended the Behavioral
and Cognitive Neurosciences Research
School Winter Meeting, where Defne Abur
and Sanne Moorman gave a talk on their
collaborative project on vocal motor control
At the Center for Language and Cognition’s Winter Party, Thomas Tienkamp takes home the prize for the best powerpoint karaoke presenter
December 2023
Read more about this work investigating the impact of a concurrent working memory task on speech acoustics in Parkinson’s disease here.
November 2023
Read more about this work on the reliability of sudden and gradual auditory-motor responses here
Defne Abur gave a talk at Sapienza University’s Department of Human Neuroscience on speech motor control in Parkinson’s disease
October 2023
Read more about this work pooling data from 22 studies to assess auditory-motor responses here.
Read more about this work assessing auditory-motor function before and after voice therapy here.
September 2023
Read more about this work evaluating Camera Mouse as a computer access system for augmented and alternative communication in cerebral palsy here.
The speech lab van traveled to the
Academiegebouw for the Zpannend
Zernike festival
August 2023
The computational linguistics group took a weekend trip together to the island Schiermonnikoog
Teja presented her project “5-minute formant adaptation task in Dutch children” at the International Congress on Phonetic Sciences in Prague
The speech lab van traveled to Noorderzon
as the final leg of the summer tour!
July 2023
Read more about this work on the relationship between pitch discrimination and fundamental frequency variation here.
June 2023
43rd TABU Dag Conference at the University of Groningen
Lab members & collaborators presented at the TABU Dag Conference
Excited to announce that our grant The impact of aging, cognition, and sensory function on speech was funded and Katharina Polsterer will lead the project.
Check out the article in the university newspaper here.
May 2023
Read more about this work reporting normative values for acoustic measures of voice CPP here.
Defne Abur and local company SlimStampen
(T. Wilschut & H. van Rijn) were awarded a HELLO
grant for the topic of “Digital Innovation” from the University of Groningen.
April 2023
The project “5-minute formant adaptation task in Dutch children” led by Teja Rebernik, and together with SBP Lab members Thomas Tienkamp, Katharina Polsterer, and Defne Abur, was accepted to the International Congress on Phonetic Sciences 2023
Defne Abur, Catherine Sibert, Thomas Wilschut, and Hedderik van Rijn were awarded an interdisciplinary grant (€6,000) from the University of Groningen to combine their expertise in cognitive science, cognitive modeling, and speech motor control to investigate cognitive processes in speech.
March 2023
AQL Conference
Defne Abur attended the 15th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research. She presented her collaborative research project on speech motor control in vocal hyperfunction pre- and post-voice therapy & had a reunion with the Stepp Lab
February 2023
Thomas Tienkamp presented his poster on his recent work at the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences Research School (BCN) Winter Meeting
Defne Abur and Sanne Moorman were awarded a BCN Seed Grant (€10,000) for their project examining vocal motor control of loudness.
January 2023
Thomas Tienkamp gave a talk at the Linguistics Lunch on his project “Acoustic & kinematic vowel space in individuals surgically treated for oral cancer”
December 2022
Thomas Tienkamp and Defne Abur gave a lecture at The Spence School in NYC on SBP lab research.
The speech lab group goes curling!
Congratulations to Thomas Tienkamp, for publishing part of his Master’s research (with The Netherlands Cancer Institute) in the Journal of Communication Disorders! Read more here.
October 2022
Speech Lab Group at the Festival
della Scienza gala dinner.
The sound booth van travelled to Festival della Scienza! Thank you to the organizers and festival volunteers (pictured) who were a huge help throughout the week, and to everyone who stopped by and participated in our research.
September 2022
First lab meeting of the semester!
The sound booth van travelled to Letteren festival! The festival included workshops, lectures, scientific experiments, demonstrations and tours from across several fields in the faculty of arts + live music, food trucks, and a Victorian style photobooth.
August 2022
Thomas Tienkamp presented his work “Quantifying Changes in Articulatory Working Space Following Oral Cancer Treatment“
Teja Rebernik presented her work “Investigating feedback and feedforward control of vowel production by Dutch adult speakers: insights from auditory feedback perturbation tasks“
The sound booth van travelled to Noorderzon!