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Emily Myers

Emily Myers

Joining us in January, 2010; considering graduate applications now for Fall, 2010

Title: Assistant Professor
Joint appointment: Department of Communication Sciences, Communication Disorders program
Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Language & Cognition
E-mail: Emily_B_Myers@brown.edu
Office:TBA
Phone:TBA
Website: Brown U. page

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: Email

Research Interests:

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Aphasia
  • Speech and language comprehension
  • First and second language acquisition
  • Neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, ERP)
Undergraduate courses:
  • TBA
 Graduate courses:
  • TBA

Representative Publications:
  • Myers, E. B., Blumstein, S.E. Walsh, E, and Eliassen, J. (2009). Inferior frontal regions underlie the perception of phonetic category invariance. Psychological Science, 20(7), 895-903.
  • Myers, E.B and Blumstein, S.E (2008). The neural bases of the lexical effect: An fMRI investigation. Cerebral Cortex 18(2), 278-88.
  • Myers, E.B. (2007). Dissociable effects of phonetic competition and category typicality in a phonetic categorization task: An fMRI investigation. Neuropsychologia 45, 1463-1473.
  • Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B, and Rissman, J. (2005). The perception of voice-onset time: An fMRI investigation of phonetic category structure. Journal of Cognitive Neurosicence 17(9), 1353-66.
  • Myers, E.B. and Blumstein, S.E. (2005). Selectional restriction and semantic priming effects in normals and Broca's aphasics. Journal of Neurolinguistics 18(3), 277-296.