Jacob Boudreau
Ph.D. Student, Cognitive Science · Stony Brook University
I'm a first-year PhD student in the Cognitive area in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University, working with Dr. Sahil Luthra in the CANAL (Cognition, Auditory Neuroscience, And Language) Lab. My research focuses on how listeners adapt to variability in speech across talkers, social contexts, and linguistic histories.
I'd consider the big three things I'm interested in to be speech perception, sociophonetics, and cognitive neuroscience. Basically, I'm interested in how the brain parses and logs talker-specific phonetic details, the ways that knowledge influences how listeners adapt to talkers (and types of talkers) both old and new, and how that might shape speech perception in more fundamental ways, such as informing us on who is talking in a noisy environment. I also care a lot about how an individual's social network can modulate these things.
Here, you will find links to materials such as my CV, academic and creative manuscripts, and repositories such as GitHub and OSF. I will also post materials from teaching, research presentations and the like here as I create them. I may also post miscellaneous things here, such as pictures of my cat or other projects I'm working on.
Before Stony Brook, I completed an M.A. in Linguistics (with a Data Analytics emphasis) at the University of Iowa, where I worked with Dr. Ethan Kutlu on heritage speaker word recognition, sociogenerational sentence processing and cross-linguistic phonetic cue adaptation. I also hold B.A. degrees in English & Creative Writing and Linguistics from Iowa, and I continue to do creative things.
I do a lot of things for fun, too, and I'm actively tinkering and building a self-hosted homelab (albeit slowly), so things related to that may also end up here. I'm actively learning this stuff, though, and I'm still moving around a lot, so that'll be appended in a little bit.