Kevin Munhall

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Kevin Munhall brousse Thu, 06/13/2024 - 11:52

Last name

Munhall

First name

Kevin

Position / job title

Professor Emeritus, Lab Director

kevin.munhall@queensu.ca

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Research Interests

Conversation is one of our most common and highly skilled activities. When we talk with other people, we perceive and produce a remarkable amount of social, emotional and linguistic information. This information is conveyed visually through the movements of our face and body and acoustically through our voice. In my laboratory, we study the perceptual and cognitive activities that make conversation possible. We use a variety of experimental techniques such as eye tracking, motion capture, animation and psychophysics to explore the multisensory processes and brain structures that are involved in face-to-face communication.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit my Google Scholars page.

Latif, N., Alsius, A., & Munhall, K.G. (2018). Knowing when to respond: the role of visual information in conversational turn exchanges. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80, 27-41.

Alsius, A., Paré, M., & Munhall, K.G. (2018). Forty Years After Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices the McGurk Effect Revisited. Multisensory Research, 31, 111-144.

Mitsuya, T., Munhall, K.G., & Purcell, D.W. (2017). Modulation of auditory-motor learning in response to formant perturbation as a function of delayed auditory feedback. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 2758-2767.

Wilson, A., Alsius, A., Paré, M., & Munhall, K.G. (2016). Spatial frequency requirements and gaze strategy in visual-only and audiovisual speech perception. Journal of Speech, Hearing and Language Research, 59, 601-615.

Latif, N., Barbosa, A.V., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., Castelhano, M.S. and Munhall, K.G. (2014). Movement coordination during conversation. PloS One, 9(8), e105036.

MacDonald, E.N., Johnson, E.K., Forsythe, J., Plante, P., Munhall, K.G. (2012). Children’s development of self-regulation in speech production. Current Biology, 24:22(2), 113-7.

Department

Department of Psychology

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Curriculum Vitae

Speech Perception and Production Lab

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Speech Perception and Production Lab brousse Tue, 06/11/2024 - 14:29

The research in the Speech Perception and Production Laboratory focuses on the study of communication, and the neural basis of language.

Our perception research examines the auditory and visual information available in face-to-face communication. In particular, we investigate the mechanisms underlying audiovisual integration, such as the McGurk Effect. We also study the pattern of eye movements during audiovisual speech perception.

Our speech production research focuses on the motor control of oral movement. Recently, we have examined the role that auditory feedback plays in the control of articulation.

As part of our work in both production and perception, we are interested in facial animation. We are currently working on animation driven by motion capture, as well as a more physiological animation model, based on data from electromyographic recordings.

Please follow the links to learn more about the people and projects in our lab.