Encoding & decoding of vocal emotion
How do speakers convey emotion through the voice — through prosody and nonverbal vocalizations — and how do listeners decode these signals on a millisecond timescale? We combine EEG/ERP, eye-tracking and behavioural methods.
Neuropragmatics & social communication
Irony, politeness, trust judgments, indirect meaning: we investigate how speaker identity and social context modulate the brain's response to pragmatic content, using ERP and fMRI.
AI voice perception
As AI-cloned speech becomes ubiquitous, how do listeners separate human from machine voices? We study prosodic consistency, speaker identity, and the rapid neural distinction between human and AI voices.
Cross-linguistic & cross-cultural cognition
Do emotion recognition and social inference vary across language and culture? We compare native and second-language listeners, and listeners from different cultural backgrounds.
Applied neurolinguistics & language BMI
Language acquisition, clinical populations (Parkinson's disease, autism), and foundational work toward language brain-machine interfaces and large-scale neural language databases.