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Stepp Lab for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering @ Boston University #SpeechScience #VoiceDisorders #Rehab #DiversifyScience
Boston, MA
Joined October 2011
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It's time for BU Giving Day 2025! ♥️ If you're interested in supporting the Stepp Lab this year, the link to donate is in our bio. We greatly appreciate any and all contributions, and we are immensely grateful for all of the support you all give us and our work year-round! ✨
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We can’t wait to have you here!.
With my graduation about a week away, I figured it was time to reveal what my plans are after FSU. I’m so excited to announce that I am heading to Boston!. I will be joining the @SteppLab at Boston University as a postdoc! I cannot wait!
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RT @MicahEHirsch: With my graduation about a week away, I figured it was time to reveal what my plans are after FSU. I’m so excited to anno….
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If you are interested in joining us (or another awesome BU lab!) as a PhD student next cycle, this is a great way to find out more!.
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The Stepp Lab is recruiting gender diverse adults (aged 18-50) to take part in a voice research study over their first year of taking testosterone. All individuals seeking testosterone hormone replacement therapy for the first time are encouraged to contact us!
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RT @BUSargent: 🌟Meet our @buslhs PhD students 🌟.First up, @dariadragicevic, a student in our @SteppLab is interested in understanding long….
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RT @BUSargent: 🌟Meet our @buslhs PhD students 🌟 Kimberly Dahl, a student in our @SteppLab, is researching voice perception, speech motor co….
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We also found that how people responded to pitch errors in running speech did not relate to their responses in sustained vowels (“aaaah”). This raises the question: do we truly capture speech motor learning as it occurs in meaningful speech by having people sustain vowels?
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We found that speakers responded similarly across these contexts, whether or not a pitch error disrupted the meaning of the sentence
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We tested this by shifting people’s pitch up & down in running speech—making emphasized words sound unemphasized or super-emphasized (& vice versa with unemphasized words)
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To understand how people correct pitch errors, we use a technique that lets us change someone’s pitch in near-real time. We often do this as speakers say “aaaah.” But pitch has no meaning in a sustained vowel. Could speakers be more sensitive to pitch errors in meaningful speech?.
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New work in @ASHAJournals by @stepplab @buslhs doc candidate Kimberly Dahl, with coauthors M Díaz Cádiz, @jennifermzuk, @guentherlab, & @carastepp, finds that speakers correct pitch errors, even when those errors do not disrupt the meaning of a sentence
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RT @BUSargent: #ICYMI @buslhs Professor Cara Stepp has established a connection between hearing impairment and vocal hyperfunction. Read mo….
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These findings suggest a minimizing bias in dysphonia evaluation of Black patients with voice disorders and contribute to the understanding of how a patient’s race may impact their visit with a clinician.
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We found that both Black and white speakers were rated as less severely dysphonic when their race was labeled as Black. No significant relationship was found between Harvard IAT scores and differences in severity ratings by race labeling condition.
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Thirty SLP students listened to recordings of 20 Black and 20 white speakers of General American English with voice disorders. They rated overall dysphonia severity of each voice heard using a visual analog scale and completed the Harvard IAT to measure their implicit racial bias.
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