MARCS Afternoon Colloquium (MAC): Associate Professor Paola Escudero

MARCS Afternoon Colloquium (MAC) (Room 3.G.55 - Building 3)

Associate Professor Paola Escudero

Biography:  

Paola is an Associate Professor at The MARCS Institute. She started at WSU in January 2011, after a research position at the University of Amsterdam and a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of California in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on speech and visual processing in diverse populations, including monolingual and multilingual infants, young children, and adults as well as zebra finches.

Research Interests:

• Listeners' processing of speaker and accent variation.
• Monolingual, bilingual and multilingual infant speech perception and word learning.
• Cross-linguistic speech perception, production and word recognition.
• The role of emotion/affect and joint attention in language acquisition.
• Visual preferences in infancy through adulthood.

Thank you for your continued attendance at MARCS Monday Afternoon Colloquiums.  Let's keep the momentum going.

MARCS staff and students are reminded that all meetings and workshops have an important role in building and maintaining the sense of community which is central to the success of MARCS as a cooperative and energetic research institute.  Your attendance is both welcomed and expected.

The zoom ID is: 627 146 998. Link to zoom https://uws.zoom.us/j/627146998