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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!

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!

Participants will be asked to come in for up to 13 in-person visits over the first year of taking testosterone and will be compensated $30/hour. Anyone interested in participating can contact us at stepplab@gmail.com / 617-358-1395!

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!

🌟Meet our @buslhs PhD students 🌟 First up, @dariadragicevic, a student in our @SteppLab is interested in understanding longitudinal speech changes in people with Parkinson’s disease ➡️ sites.bu.edu/stepplab/daria…

🌟Meet our @buslhs PhD students 🌟 Kimberly Dahl, a student in our @SteppLab, is researching voice perception, speech motor control, and voice and gender ➡️ sites.bu.edu/stepplab/kimbe…

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?

We found that speakers responded similarly across these contexts, whether or not a pitch error disrupted the meaning of the sentence

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 bit.ly/DahlEtal2024

#ICYMI @buslhs Professor Cara Stepp has established a connection between hearing impairment and vocal hyperfunction. Read more 👀⬇️ bu.edu/sargent/about-…

Read the whole article here: sites.bu.edu/stepplab/files… Congratulations Rachel!

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

❗️New publication alert! ❗️Here’s a brief summary of a new article by Stepp Lab alumni Rachel Norotsky on implicit racial bias in auditory-perceptual evaluations of dysphonic voices 🗣🧠