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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

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Societies and Organizations:

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

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Teaching:

• CSD 5133: Research Foundations in Communication Disorders

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Research Interests:

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

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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.

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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.