Research in the Auditory and Cognitive Neuroscience Labs seeks to understand the neural basis of auditory perception and language processing in both typical and atypical populations. Our work encompasses a broad range of theoretical issues including perception of complex tones, spatial hearing, auditory scene segregation, music perception, speech perception and production, auditory-motor integration, sentence comprehension, and verbal working memory. Our methodological approach is equally broad and includes psychophysics, EEG, MEG, fMRI, TMS, neuropsychology, and behavioral genetics. Our work involves a number of populations such as healthy adults and children, autism, stroke-induced chronic and acute aphasia, primary progressive aphasia, and stuttering among others.

Our research team extends well beyond our home campus at UC Irvine. We maintain active collaborations with researchers at Berkeley, UC San Diego, The Salk Institute, USC, UCSF, University of Iowa, Medical College of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins University, CMU, and NYU.