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Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty and Staff

Matthew Masapollo, Ph.D.

Matthew Masapollo, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Principal Investigator of the Speech Motor Control Lab

(405) 271-4214, ext. 46056

Matthew-Masapollo@ouhsc.edu

Dr. Masapollo is the principal investigator of the Speech Motor Control Laboratory (est. 2024). He received his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from McGill University (under Dr. Linda Polka), and then completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one in Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Science at Brown University (under Dr. James L. Morgan), the other in Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at Boston University (under Dr. Frank H. Guenther). The overarching goal of his research program is to elucidate the human speech production mechanism, its development, and its neural basis. Current projects focus on three interrelated aims: 1) Understanding how the human brain produces precise and coordinated speech movements; 2) Understanding how humans learn to produce coordinated speech movements early in development; and 3) Understanding the contribution of auditory and somatosensory afferent inputs to the control of speech movements. Experimentally, he focuses on kinematic analyses of speech articulator movements and functional brain imaging of speech production.

Education:

  • Postdoc, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2017-19
  • Postdoc, Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2016-17
  • Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, QC, 2016
  • B.A., Cognitive and Linguistic Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010

Societies and Organizations:

  • Acoustical Society of America
  • Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Society for the Neural Control of Movement

Teaching:

  • CSD 5133: Research Foundations in Communication Disorders

Research Interests:

  • Sensorimotor neuroscience
  • CNS networks for speech production
  • Speech motor coordination and control
  • Articulatory physiology
  • Auditory and somatosensory inputs

Funding:

  • Hearing Health Foundation, Contributions of auditory and somatosensory feedback to speech motor control in congenitally deaf 9-to-10-year-olds and adults, Emerging Research Grant. Principal investigator, 2021-23, $100,000.

Select Publications:

  • Masapollo, M., Rodriguez, A., Gendron, R., Kent, K., Thomas, H., & Nittrouer, S. (accepted). Generalization of inter-articulator timing control: evidence from tongue-jaw and lip-jaw kinematics using electromagnetic articulography. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
  • Masapollo, M., & Nittrouer, S. (2024). Immediate auditory feedback regulates inter-articulator speech coordination in service to phonetic structure. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(3), DOI: 10.1121/10.0028725.
  • Masapollo, M., & Nittrouer, S. (2023). Inter-articulator speech coordination: timing is of the essence. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3), 901-915. 
  • Masapollo, M., Nittrouer, S., Goel, J., & Oh, Y. (2021). Electromagnetic articulography appears feasible for assessment of speech motor skills in cochlear implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters, DOI: 10.1121/10.0006719.4

Complete List of Published Work in PubMed Bibliography