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Publications

Publications (* = joint 1st author, + = current or former student)

Inter-Articulator Speech Coordination

  • Masapollo, M., +Gendron, R., +Wyndham, E., +Marcellus, A., +Shamsi, A., & Maxfield, N. (2025). Inter-articulator timing relations underlie the production of precise and consistent vocal tract constrictions during speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00535. PMID: 40268725
  • 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
  • Cheng, H.-S., Masapollo, M., Hagedorn, C., & Buchwald, A. (2024). Temporal coordination of articulatory gestures for non-native onset clusters: evidence from American English speakers using electromagnetic articulography. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00025. PMCID: PMC11482577.
  • 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., & 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.

Afferent Sensory 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
  • Masapollo, M., Nittrouer, S., Gendron, R., Maxfield, N., & Ostry, D. J. (2026). Precision of Tongue Control for Task-Relevant Articulatory Goals Diminishes Without Real-Time Auditory Feedback. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 1–19. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00514

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

  • Frankford, S.A., Heller Murray, E.S., Masapollo, M., Shanqing, C., Tourville, J., Nieto-Castañón, A., & Guenther, F.H. (2021). The neural circuitry underlying the “rhythm effect” in stuttering. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00328 PMID: 33887150; PMCID: PMC8740675.
  • 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.

Speech Development

  • Polka, L., Masapollo, M., & Ménard, L. (2021). Setting the stage for speech production: Infants prefer listening to speech sounds with infant vocal resonances. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00412. PMID: 34889651.
  • Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2016). When infants talk, infants listen: Pre-babbling infants prefer infant speech. Developmental Science, doi: 10.1111/desc.12298. PMID: 25754812.
  • Polka, L., Masapollo, M., & Ménard, L. (2014). Who’s talking now? Infants’ perception of vowels with infant vocal properties. Psychological Science, 25(7),1448-1456. PMID: 24890498.

Speech Perception

  • Polka, L., Molnar, M., Zhao, C.T., Masapollo, M. (2021). Neurophysiological correlates of asymmetries in vowel perception: an English-French cross-linguistic ERP study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.607148 PMID: 34149375; PMCID: PMC8209302.
  • +Liu, Y.Y., Polka, L., Masapollo, M., & Ménard, L. (2021). Disentangling the roles of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality in adult vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters. doi: 10.1121/10.0003041. PMID: 36154080.
  • 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.
  • Zhao, T.C., Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Ménard, L., & Kuhl, P.K. (2019). Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory frequency-following response. Brain and Language, 194, 77-83. PMCID: PMC6697130.
  • Masapollo, M., Zhao, T.C., Franklin, L., & Morgan, J.L. (2019). Asymmetric discrimination of non-speech tonal analogues of vowels. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(2), 285-300. PMCID: PMC6668332.
  • Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Ménard, L., Franklin, L., Tiede, M., & Morgan, J.L. (2018). Asymmetries in unimodal visual vowel perception: The roles of oral-facial kinematics, orientation, and configuration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(7), 1103-1118. PMCID: PMC6037555.
  • Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2017). A universal bias in adult vowel perception – By ear or by eye. Cognition, 166, 358-370. PMID: 28601721.
  • Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Molnar, M., & Ménard, L. (2017). Directional asymmetries reveal a universal bias in adult vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(4), 2857-2869. PMID: 28464636.