Marc Pell
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
Beatty Hall, 1266 Pine Avenue West
tel: 514-398-4133
e-mail: marc.pell(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Principal Member
Research Themes
Neural Bases of Language
Visual Language Processing
Areas of Expertise
Neuropragmatics, Emotional Communication, Non-aphasic Language Disorders
Current Research Interests
Research interests fall within the general domains of nonverbal communication, neuropragmatics, and social cognitive neuroscience:
- Investigations of how brain-damaged adults regulate emotion through nonverbal communicative channels (i.e., using vocal-prosodic cues, facial expressions) are currently underway to specify functional components of these systems and their underlying neural correlates.
- Investigations of emotional speech in different languages are underway to understand the acoustic and perceptual features of vocal expressions of emotion, and their possible 'universality', in healthy speakers
- Research is being performed on healthy subjects to understand how emotive parameters of the voice are implicitly processed for meaning and integrated with facial cues in human interactions, using a new on-line behavioural approach (the Facial Affect Decision Task).
Selected Publications
- Pell, M.D. (2006). Cerebral mechanisms for understanding emotional prosody in speech. Brain and Language, 96 (2), 221-234.
- Pell, M.D. (2006). Judging emotion and attitudes from prosody following brain damage. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 307-321.
- Pell, M.D. & Leonard, C.L. (2005). Facial expression decoding in early Parkinson’s disease. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 327-340.
Graduate Students
- Dr. Laura Monetta (Postdoctoral fellow)
- Areej Alasseri (Ph.D. candidate)
- Henry Cheang (Ph.D. candidate)
- Chinar Dara, (Ph.D. candidate)
