Members

Shari Baum

James McGill Professor and Director
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
Beatty Hall, 1266 Pine Avenue West
tel: 514-398-7385
e-mail: shari.baum(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Neural Bases of Language
Speech Science Modeling
Visual Language Processing

Areas of Expertise

Neurolinguistics, Speech Science

Current Research Interests

Current projects include acoustic and perceptual studies of speech and prosodic processing impairments in brain-damaged populations. Other studies utilize ERP and EEG/fMRI paradigms to investigate word recognition, discourse processing and prosodic processing as a window into the neural bases of language. Research on aspects of normal speech motor control is also underway, including kinematic and acoustic studies of adaptation to speech perturbation.

Selected Publications

  • Aasland, W., Baum, S., & McFarland, D. (2006). Electropalatographic, acoustic, and perceptual data on adaptation to a palatal perturbation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 2372-2381.
  • Dwivedi, V., Philips, N., Lague-Beauvais, M., & Baum, S. (2006). An electrophysiological study of mood, modal context, and anaphora. Brain Research, 1117, 135-153.
  • Shah, A. & Baum, S. (2006). Perception of lexical stress by brain-damaged individuals: Effects on lexical-semantic activation. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 143-156
  • Shah, A., Baum, S., & Dwivedi, V. (2006). Neural substrates of linguistic prosody: Evidence from syntactic disambiguation in the productions of brain-damaged patients. Brain & Language, 96, 78-89.
  • Sundara., M., Polka, L., & Baum, S. (2006). Production of coronal stops by simultaneous bilingual adults. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 9, 97-114.
  • Grindrod, C. & Baum, S. (2005). Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution in a discourse context: Evidence from individuals with unilateral left and right hemisphere lesions. Brain & Cognition, 57, 70-83.
  • Klepousniotou, E. & Baum, S. (2005). Processing homonymy and polysemy: Effects of sentential context and time-course following unilateral brain damage. Brain & Language, 95, 365-382.

Graduate Students

  • Luisa Meroni, (PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised)
  • Shani Abada (PhD candidate)
  • Ensie Abbassi (PhD candidate)
  • Nathalie Bélanger (PhD candidate, co-supervised)
  • Inbal Itzhak (PhD candidate)
  • Monika Molnar (PhD candidate, co-supervised)

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