Publications (* = joint 1st author, + = current or former student)
Speech Motor Coordination and Control
- Masapollo, M., +Gendron, R., +Wyndham, E., +Marcellus, A., +Shamsi, A., & Maxfield, N. (in press). Inter-articulator timing relations underlie the production of precise and consistent vocal tract constrictions during speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
- Masapollo, M., +Rodriguez, A., +Gendron, R., +Kent, K., +Thomas, H., & Nittrouer, S. (2025). Generalization of inter-articulator timing control: evidence from tongue-jaw and lip-jaw kinematics using electromagnetic articulography. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. DOI: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00323. PMID: 39680804
- 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00594. Supplemental Material. PMID: 36827516.

Auditory Afferent Inputs and Speech Motor Control
- 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. PMID: 39287467
Somatosensory Afferent Inputs and Speech Processing
- Masapollo, M., & Guenther, F.H. (2019). Engaging the articulators enhances perception of concordant visible speech movements. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 3679-3688. PMCID: PMC7201334.
Instrumentation Used to Assess Physiological Aspects of Speech Production
- *Masapollo, M., *Wayland, R., +Goel, J., +Sengupta, R., +Shamsi, A., & Hegland, K.W. (2022). An investigation of interference between electromagnetic articulography and electroglottography. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters, 2(9), 095204-1-8. PMID: 36182347.
- *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. PMID: 36154217. *Issue cover of journal.
Speech Sensorimotor Learning
- Masapollo, M., van Vugt, F., & Ostry, D.J. (2025). Persistence of resting-state functional connectivity changes attributable to novel sensorimotor learning and retention. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Panama City, Panama.
- Masapollo, M., +Zezas, E., +Shamsi, A., Wayland, R., +Smith, D.J., & Guenther, F.H. (2023). Disentangling effects of working memory storage and inter-articulator coordination on generalization in speech motor sequence learning. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-09998-5. PMID: 37488461; PMCID: PMC11034796.
- Masapollo, M., Segawa, J.A., Beal, D., Tourville, J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Heyne, M., Frankford, S., & Guenther, F.H. (2020). Behavioral and neural correlates of speech motor sequence learning in stuttering and neurotypical adult speakers: an fMRI investigation. Neurobiology of Language. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00027 PMCID: PMC8294667.
- *Segawa, J.A., *Masapollo, M., Tong, M., Smith, D.J. & Guenther, F.H. (2019). Chunking of phonological units in speech sequencing. Brain and Language, DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.05.001 PMCID: PMC6686190.