Rochelle Newman
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
rnewman1@umd.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Department of Psychology, State University of New York
Research Expertise
Language Disorders
Language Acquisition
Bilingualism
Anyone who has used voice recognition software on their smartphone or GPS knows how poorly it works. Perceiving speech is difficult, extraordinarily difficult, yet even a 2-year-old can parse language with greater facility than a supercomputer. My research seeks to understand how and why.More specifically, I am interested in how the brain recognizes and learns words from fluent speech, especially in the context of noise, and how this ability changes with development, particularly in the first two years of life. I also explore differences across groups of individuals, including not only typically-developing monolingual and bilingual children, but those with autism, word-finding difficulties, and those who have recently suffered a concussion.
Collaborators:
Bob Slevc
Yi Ting Huang
Matt Goupell
Jared Novick
Nan Bernstein Ratner
Kristen Slawson
Andrea Zukowski
Colin Phillips
Bill Idsardi
Elizabeth Redcay