Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning
Co-Director, UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE)
Professor, Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences
Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl is the Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning, Co-Director of the UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, Director of the NSF-funded Science of Learning Center, and Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences. She is internationally recognized for her research on early language and brain development, and studies that show how young children learn. Dr. Kuhl's work has played a major role in demonstrating how early exposure to language alters the brain. It has implications for critical periods in development, for bilingual education and reading readiness, for developmental disabilities involving language, and for research on computer understanding of speech.
Dr. Kuhl is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Rodin Academy, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She was awarded the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1997, and in 2005, the Kenneth Craik Research Award from Cambridge University. She received the University of Washington's Faculty Lectureship Award in 1998, and in the 2007, Dr. Kuhl was awarded the University of Minnesota's Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr. Kuhl is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, the Cognitive Science Society and the American Psychological Society. In 2008 Dr. Kuhl was awarded the Gold Medal from Acoustical Society of America for her work on learning and the brain. In 2011 in Paris, she was awarded the IPSEN Fondation’s Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize.
Dr. Kuhl was one of six scientists invited to the White House in 1997 to make a presentation at President and Mrs. Clinton's Conference on "Early Learning and the Brain." In 2001, she was invited to make a presentation at President and Mrs. Bush's White House Summit on "Early Cognitive Development: Ready to Read, Ready to Learn." In 2000, she co-authored The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn (Morrow Press).
Dr. Kuhl's work has been widely covered by the media. She has appeared in the Discovery television series "The Baby Human"; the NOVA series "The Mind"; the "The Power of Ideas" on PBS; and "The Secret Life of the Brain," also on PBS. She has discussed her research findings on early learning and the brain at NBC's Education Nation, and on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, NHK, CNN, and in The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek. See Patricia Kuhl's TED talk at ted.com.
Central Institute for the Deaf, Washington University (Post-doctoral Fellow, 1973-76)
University of Minnesota, Ph.D. (Speech Science; Psychology, 1973)
University of Minnesota, M.A. (Speech Science, 1971)
St. Cloud State University, B.A. (Speech Science; Psychology, 1967)
University of Washington Professor, 1982-present
Adjunct Professor (Education), 2004-present
Adjunct Professor (Linguistics), 1998-present
Adjunct Professor (Neuroscience program), 1994-present
Adjunct Professor (Otolaryngology), 1987-present
Adjunct Professor (Psychology), 1985-present
Associate Professor, 1979-1982
Assistant Professor, 1977-1979
Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1993
American Psychological Society, elected 1990
Acoustical Society of America, elected 1989
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor, Developmental Science, 2000-present
Associate Editor, Neuroscience, 1989-1998
Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1988-1992
Awards
Fellow of the Cognitive Development Society: Elected 2011
IPSEN Fondation’s Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize: Paris, Nov 29, 2011
National Academy of Sciences, elected 2010
Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning, 2009
Gold Medal, Acoustical Society of America, Paris, 2008
University of Minnesota Distinguished Alumni Award, 2007
Kenneth Craik Research Award, University of Cambridge, 2005
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, elected 2003
Rodin Academy, elected 2000
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1998
Faculty Lectureship Award, University of Washington, 1999
William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor, 1997-2005
Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America, 1997
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Scholar, University of Washington, 1992-1994
Distinguished Alumni Award, St. Cloud State University, 1990
Affiliations
Research Affiliate, G. Edelman's Neuroscience Research Group, La Jolla, California, 1994-2000
Affiliate, Santa Fe Consortium on Human Potential
Professional Offices
Board of Directors, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT), 2005-present
President, Acoustical Society of America, 1999-2000
Board of Directors, Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc., 1994-1998
Vice-President, Acoustical Society of America, 1997-1998
Board of Directors (Governor-appointed), Washington Technology Center, 1994-1997
Board of Directors, American Institute of Physics, 1994-1996
Kuhl, P. K. & Damasio, A. (in press). Language. In E. R. Kandel, J. H. Schwartz, T. M. Jessell, S. Siegelbaum, & J. Hudspeth (Eds.), Principles of neural science: 5th Edition. New York: McGraw Hill.
Lin, J.-F., Imada, T., & Kuhl, P. K. (in press). Mental addition in bilinguals: An fMRI study of task-related and performance-related activation. Cerebral Cortex.
Ramirez-Esparza, N., Harris, K., Hellermann, J., Richard, C., Kuhl, P. K., & Reder, S. (in press). Socio-interactive practices and personality in adult learners of English with little formal education. Language Learning.
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Garcia-Sierra, A., Lara-Ayala, L., Cadena, C., Jackson-Maldonado, D. & Kuhl, P. K. (in press). Event-related potentials to an English/Spanish syllabic contrast in Mexican 10-13 month-old infants. SRN Neurology.
Conboy, B. T., & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Impact of second-language experience in infancy: Brain measures of first- and second-language speech perception. Developmental Science, 14, 242-248.
Garcia-Sierra, A., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Conboy, B. T., Romo, H., Percaccio, C. R., Klarman, L., Ortiz, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Bilingual language learning: An ERP study relating early brain responses to speech, language, and later word production. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 546-557.
Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Early language learning and literacy: Neuroscience implications for education. Mind, Brain, and Education, 5, 128-142.
Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Social mechanisms in early language acquisition: Understanding integrated brain systems supporting language. In J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.) The handbook of social neuroscience (pp. 649-667). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
Kuhl, P.K. (2011). Who's Talking? Science, 333, 529-530.
Sundara, M., Demuth, K. & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Sentence-position effects on children’s perception of English third person singular –s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 55-71.
Sundara, M., Demuth, K. & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Sentence-position effects on children’s perception of English third person singular –s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 55-71.
Raizada, R. D., Tsao, F. M., Liu, H.-M., Holloway, I. D., Ansari, D., & Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Linking brain-wide multivoxel activation patterns to behaviour: Examples from language and math. NeuroImage, 51, 462-471.
Raizada, R. D. S., Tsao, F. -M., Liu, H. –M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Quantifying the adequacy of neural representations for a cross-language phonetic discrimination task: Prediction of individual differences. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1-12.
Kuhl, P.K. (2010). Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition. Neuron, 67, 713-722.
Lebedeva, G. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Sing that tune: Infants' perception of melody and lyrics and the facilitation of phonetic recognition in songs. Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 419-430.
Kuhl, P. K. (2009). Early language acquisition: Neural substrates and theoretical models. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition (pp. 837-854). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (2009). Early language acquisition: Phonetic and word learning, neural substrates, and a theoretical model. In B. Moore, L. Tyler & W. Marslen-Wilson (Eds.), The Perception of Speech: From Sound to Meaning (pp. 103-131). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Liu, H. -M., Tsao, F. -M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2009). Age-related changes in acoustic modifications of Mandarin maternal speech to preverbal infants and five-year-old children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Language, 36, 909-922
Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., Movellan, J., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2009). Foundations for a new science of learning. Science, 325, 284-288.
Wang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2009). Sustained and transient language control in the bilingual brain. NeuroImage, 47, 414-422.
Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Imada, T., Iverson, P., Pruitt, E. B., Kawakatsu, M., Tohkura, Y., & Nemoto, I. (2009). Neural signatures of phonetic learning in adulthood: A magnetoencephalography study. Neuroimage, 46, 226-240.
Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Kuhl, P. K., & Dawson, G. (2008). ERPs to words correlate with behavioral measures in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 3742.
Conboy, B. T., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence levels. In A. D. Friederici & G. Thierry (Eds.), Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5, 23-64. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Conboy, B.T., Sommerville, J., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Cognitive control factors in speech perception at 11 months. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1505-1512.
Doupe, A. J. & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Birdsong and human speech: Common themes and mechanisms. In H. P. Zeigler, & P. Marler (Eds.), Neuroscience of Birdsong (pp. 5-31). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Linking infant speech perception to language acquisition: Phonetic learning predicts language growth. In J. Colombo, P. McCardle & L. Freund (Eds.), Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions (pp. 213-243). Erlbaum: New York.
Kuhl, P. K., Conboy, B. T., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., & Nelson, T. (2008). Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: New data and Native Language Magnet Theory, expanded (NLM-e). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 979-1000.
Kuhl, P. K., & Rivera-Gaxiola, M. (2008). Neural substrates of language acquisition. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 31, 511-534.
Lin, J. F., Imada, T., Tanaka, K., Hirai, K., Maeshima, K., Nemoto, I., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). The effect of translation on bilingual mental addition revealed by magnetoencephalography (MEG). In R. Kakigi, K. Yokosawa, & S. Kuriki. (Eds.), Biomagnetism -- Interdisciplinary research and exploration (pp. 212-214). Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University Press.
Raizada, R. D., Richards, T. L., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Socioeconomic status predicts hemispheric specialization of the left inferior frontal gyrus in young children. NeuroImage, 40, 1392–1401.
Conboy, B. & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Early speech perception: Developing a culturally specific way of listening through social interaction. In S. Braten (Ed.), On Being Moved: From Mirror Neurons to Empathy (pp. 175-199). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Is speech learning ‘gated’ by the social brain? Developmental Science, 10, 110-120.
Liu, H. -M., Tsao, F. -M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speech. Developmental Psychology, 43, 912-917.
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J., Klarman, L., Garcia-Sierra, A., Lara-Ayala, L., Cadena-Salazar, C. & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Principal component analyses and scalp distribution of the auditory P150-250 and N250-550 to speech contrasts in Mexican and American infants. Developmental Neuropsychology, 31, 363-378.
Silva-Pereyra, J., Conboy, B.T., Klarman, L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Grammatical processing without semantics? An event-related brain potential study of preschoolers using jabberwocky sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1-16.
Wang, Y., Lin, J. -F., Kuhl, P. K., & Hirsch, J. (2007). Mathematical and linguistic processing differs between native and second languages: An fMRI study. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1, 68-82. Bransford, J. D., Barron, B., Pea, R., Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., Bell, P., Stevens, R., Schwartz, D., Vye, N., Reeves, B., Roschelle, J. & Sabelli, N. (2006). Foundations and opportunities for an interdisciplinary science of learning. In K. Sawyer (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (pp. 19-34). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bransford, J., Vye, N., Stevens, R., Kuhl, P. K., Schwartz, D., Bell, P., Meltzoff, A., Barron, B., Pea, R., Reeves, B., Roschelle, J., & Sabelli, N. (2006). Learning theories and education: Toward a decade of synergy. In P. Alexander & P. Winne (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology, 2nd edition (pp. 209-244). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Imada, T., Zhang, Y., Cheour, M., Taulu, S., Ahonen, A. & Kuhl, P. K. (2006). Infant speech perception activates Broca’s Area: A developmental MEG study. NeuroReport, 17, 957-962.
Kuhl, P K., Stevens, E., Hayashi, A., Deguchi, T., Kiritani, S. & Iverson, P. (2006). Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. Developmental Science, 9, F13-F21.
Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.-M., Kuhl, P. K. (2006). Perception of native and non-native affricate-fricative contrasts: Cross-language tests on adults and infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 2285-2294.
Conboy, B., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Klarman, L., Aksoylu, E. & Kuhl, P.K. (2005). Associations between native and nonnative speech sound discrimination and language development at the end of the first year. Proceedings Supplement of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Kuhl, P. K., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D. M., & Dawson, G. (2005). Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: Behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Developmental Science, 8, F9-F20.
Kuhl, P. K., Conboy, B.T., Padden, D., Nelson, T., & Pruitt, J. (2005). Early speech perception and later language development: Implications for the Critical Period. Language Learning and Development, 1, 237-264.
Liu, H-M., Tsao, F-M., and Kuhl, P. K. (2005). The effect of reduced vowel working space on speech intelligibility in Mandarin-speaking young adults with cerebral palsy. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 3879-3889.
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Klarman, L., Garcia-Sierra, A. & Kuhl, P. K. (2005). Neural patterns to speech and vocabulary growth in American infants. NeuroReport, 16, 495-498.
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J. and Kuhl, P. K. (2005). Brain potentials to native- and non-native speech contrasts in seven- and eleven-month-old American infants. Developmental Science, 8, 162-172.
Silva-Pereyra, J., Klarman, L., Lin Jo-Fu, L. and Kuhl, P. (2005). Sentence processing in 30-month-old children: An ERP study. NeuroReport, 16, 645-648.
Silva-Pereyra, J., Rivera-Gaxiola, M. and Kuhl, P. (2005). An event-related brain potential study of sentence comprehension in preschoolers: Semantic and morphosyntactic processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 247-258.
Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Imada, T., Kotani, M., & Tohkura, Y. (2005). Effects of language experience: Neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns. NeuroImage, 26, 703-720.
Cheour, M., Imada, T., Taulu, S., Ahonen, A., Salonen, J., and Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is feasible for infant assessment of auditory discrimination. Experimental Neurology, 190, 44-51.
Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 831-843.
Tsao, F. M., Liu, H. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Speech perception in infancy predicts language development in the second year of life: A longitudinal study. Child Development, 75, 1067-1084. de Boer, B. & Kuhl, P. K. (2003). Investigating the role of infant-directed speech with a computer model. Acoustic Research Letters Online (ARLO), 4, 129-134.
Iverson, P., Kuhl, P. K., Akahane-Yamada, R., Diesch, E., Tohkura, Y., Kettermann, A., & Siebert, C. (2003). A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes. Cognition, 87, B47-B57.
Kuhl, P. K., Tsao, F. -M, & Liu, H. -M. (2003). Foreign-language experience in infancy: Effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 100, 9096-9101.
Kuhl, P. K. (2003). Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 100, 9645-9646.
Liu, H. -M, Kuhl, P. K. & Tsao, F. -M. (2003). An association between mother’s speech clarity and infants’ speech discrimination skills. Developmental Science, 6, F1-F10.
Wang, Y. & Kuhl, P. K. (2003). Evaluating the “critical period” hypothesis: Perceptual learning of Mandarin tones in American adults and American children at 6, 10, and 14 years of age. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1537-1540.
Kuhl, P. K. (2001). Speech, language, and developmental change. In F. Lacerda, C. von Hofsten, & M. Heimann (Eds.), Emerging Cognitive Abilities in Early Infancy (pp. 111-133). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kuhl, P. K., Tsao, F. M., Liu, H. M., Zhang, Y. & de Boer, B. (2001). Language/Culture/Mind/Brain: Progress at the Margins Between Disciplines. In A. Domasio et al. (Eds.). Unity of Knowledge: The Convergence of Natural and Human Science (pp. 136-174). New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
Iverson, P. & Kuhl, P. K. (2000). Perceptual magnet and phoneme boundary effects in speech perception: Do they arise from a common mechanism? Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 874-886.
Kuhl, P. K. (2000). Language, mind, and brain: Experience alters perception. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences (2nd ed.) (pp. 99-115). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (2000). A new view of language acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 11850-11857.
Doupe, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (1999). Birdsong and speech: Common themes and mechanisms. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 22, 567-631. Gopnik, A., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (1999). The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn. New York: William Morrow.
Kuhl, P. K. (1999). Speech, language, and the brain: Innate preparation for learning. In M. D. Hauser & M. Konishi (Eds.), The Design of Animal Communication (pp. 419-450). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1998). The development of speech and language. In T. J. Carew, R. Menzel, & C. J. Shatz (Eds.), Mechanistic Relationships Between Development and Learning (pp. 53-73). New York: Wiley.
Kuhl, P. K. (1998). Effects of language experience on speech perception. In P. K. Kuhl & L. Crum (Eds.), Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 3, pp. 1601-1602). Woodbury, NY: Acoustical Society of America.
Kuhl, P. K. (1998). Language, culture, and intersubjectivity: The creation of shared perception. In S. Bråten (Ed.), Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny (pp. 297-315). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1998). The development of language. In C. von Euler, I. Lundberg, & R. Llinás (Eds.), Basic Mechanisms in Cognition and Language (pp. 175-195). New York: Elsevier.
Green, K. P., Tomiak, G. R., & Kuhl, P. K. (1997). The encoding of rate and talker information during phonetic perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 59, 675-692.
Kuhl, P. K., Andruski, J. E., Chistovich, I. A., Chistovich, L. A., Kozhevnikova, E. V., Ryskina, V. L., Stolyarova, E. I., Sundberg, U., & Lacerda, F. (1997). Cross-language analysis of phonetic units in language addressed to infants. Science, 277, 684-686.
Kuhl, P. K. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1997). Evolution, nativism, and learning in the development of language and speech. In M. Gopnik (Ed.), The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars (pp. 7-44). New York: Oxford University Press.
Andruski, J. E. & Kuhl, P. K. (1996). The acoustic structure of vowels in mothers’ speech to infants and adults. Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 3, 1545-1548.
Iverson, P. & Kuhl, P. K. (1996). Influences of phonetic identification and category goodness on American listeners' perception of /r/ and /l/. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 1130-1140.
Kuhl, P. K. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1996). Infant vocalizations in response to speech: Vocal imitation and developmental change. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2425-2438.
Willerman, R. & Kuhl, P. K. (1996). Cross-language speech perception: Swedish, English, and Spanish speakers' perception of front rounded vowels. Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1, 442-445.
Iverson, P. & Kuhl, P. K. (1995). Mapping the perceptual magnet effect for speech using signal detection theory and multidimensional scaling. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 553-562.
Kuhl, P. K. (1995). The acquisition of language and speech. In G. Bloothooft, V. Hazan, D. Huber, & J. Llisterri (Eds.), European Studies in Phonetics and Speech Communication (pp. 93-98). Utrecht, Netherlands: OTS Publications.
Kuhl, P. K. (1995). Mechanisms of developmental change in speech and language. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress on Phonetic Sciences, 2, 132-139.
Kuhl, P. K. & Iverson, P. (1995). Linguistic experience and the “perceptual magnet effect.” In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Research (pp. 121-154). Timonium, MD: York Press.
Kuhl, P. K. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1995). Vocal learning in infants: Development of perceptual-motor links for speech. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress on Phonetic Sciences, 1, 146-149.
Green, K. P., Stevens, E. B. & Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Talker continuity and the use of rate information during phonetic perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 249-260.
Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Forming the brain's perceptual maps: Effects of language experience on speech perception. In Brain and Communication: 1994 Yakult International Symposium (pp. 1-22). Japan: Yakult Honsha Co.
Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Learning and representation in speech and language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4, 812-822.
Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Speech perception. In F. D. Minifie (Ed.), Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders (pp. 77-148). San Diego: Singular.
Kuhl, P. K., Tsuzaki, M., Tohkura, Y. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1994). Human processing of auditory-visual information in speech perception: Potential for multimodal human-machine interfaces. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 539-542). Tokyo: Acoustical Society of Japan.
Meltzoff, A. N. & Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Faces and speech: Intermodal processing of biologically relevant signals in infants and adults. In D. J. Lewkowicz & R. Lickliter (Eds.), The Development of Intersensory Perception: Comparative Perspectives (pp. 335-369). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Goodsitt, J. V., Morgan, J. L. & Kuhl, P. K. (1993). Perceptual strategies in prelingual speech segmentation. Journal of Child Language, 20, 229-252.
Kuhl, P. K. (1993). Developmental speech perception: Implications for models of language impairment. In P. Tallal, A. M. Galaburda, R. R. Llinás & C. von Euler (Eds.), Temporal Information Processing in the Nervous System. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Vol. 682, pp. 248-263). New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
Kuhl, P. K. (1993). Early linguistic experience and phonetic perception: Implications for theories of developmental speech perception. Journal of Phonetics, 21, 125-139.
Kuhl, P. K. (1993). Infant speech perception: A window on psycholinguistic development. International Journal of Psycholinguistics, 9, 33-56.
Kuhl, P. K. (1993). Innate predispositions and the effects of experience: The native language magnet theory. In B. de Boysson-Bardies, S. de Schonen, P. Jusczyk, P. McNeilage & J. Morton (Eds.), Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life (pp. 259-274). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Davis, K. & Kuhl, P. K. (1992). Best exemplars of English velar stops: A first report. In J. J.Ohala, T. M. Nearey, B. L. Derwing, M. M. Hodge & G. E. Wiebe (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 495-498). Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta.
Kuhl, P. K. (1992). Infants’ perception and representation of speech: Development of a new theory. In J. J. Ohala, T. M. Nearey, B. L. Derwing, M. M. Hodge & G. E. Wiebe (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 449-456). Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta.
Kuhl, P. K. (1992). Psychoacoustics and speech perception: Internal standards, perceptual anchors, and prototypes. In L. A. Werner & E. W. Rubel (Eds.), Developmental Psychoacoustics (pp. 293-332). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Kuhl, P. K. (1992). Speech prototypes: Studies on the nature, function, ontogeny and phylogeny of the “centers” of speech categories. In Y. Tohkura, E. Vatikiotis-Bateson & Y. Sagisaka (Eds.), Speech Perception, Production and Linguistic structure (pp. 239-264). Tokyo: Ohmsha.
Kuhl, P. K., Williams, K. A., Lacerda, F., Stevens, K. N. & Lindblom, B. (1992). Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age. Science, 255, 606-608. Marean, G. C., Werner, L. A. & Kuhl, P. K. (1992). Vowel categorization by very young infants. Developmental Psychology, 28, 396-405.
Green, K. P. & Kuhl, P. K. (1991). Integral processing of visual place and auditory voicing information during phonetic perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 278-288.
Green, K. P., Kuhl, P. K., Meltzoff, A. N. & Stevens, E. B. (1991). Integrating speech information across talkers, gender, and sensory modality: Female faces and male voices in the McGurk effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 524-536.
Kuhl, P. K. (1991). Human adults and human infants show a "perceptual magnet effect" for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 93-107.
Kuhl, P. K. (1991). Perception, cognition, and the ontogenetic and phylogenetic emergence of human speech. In S. E. Brauth, W. S. Hall & R. J. Dooling (Eds.), Plasticity of Development (pp. 73-106). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1991). [Review of Modularity and the motor theory of speech perception: Proceedings of a conference to honor Alvin M. Liberman, I. G. Mattingly & M. Studdert-Kennedy, (Eds.)]. Language and Speech, 34, 367-373.
Kuhl, P. K., Williams, K. A. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1991). Cross-modal speech perception in adults and infants using nonspeech auditory stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 829-840.
Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K. & Moore, M. K. (1991). Perception, representation, and the control of action in newborns and young infants: toward a new synthesis. In M. J. S. Weiss & P. R. Zelazo (Eds.), Newborn Attention: Biological Constraints and the Influence of Experience (pp. 377-411). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Kuhl, P. K. (1990). Auditory perception and the ontogeny and phylogeny of human speech. Seminars in Speech and Language, 11, 77-91.
Kuhl, P. K. (1990). Towards a new theory of the development of speech perception. In H. Fujisaki (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 745-748). Tokyo: The Acoustical Society of Japan.
Green, K. P. & Kuhl, P. K. (1989). The role of visual information in the processing of place and manner features in speech perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 45, 34-42.
Grieser, D. & Kuhl, P. K. (1989). Categorization of speech by infants: Support for speech-sound prototypes. Developmental Psychology, 25, 577-588.
Kuhl, P. K. (1989). Infants' acquisition of speech: Evidence of an early understanding of auditory-articulatory correspondences. In J. Erber, R. Menzel, H. Pfluger & D. Todt (Eds.), Neural Mechanisms of Behavior (pp. 153-154). Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag.
Kuhl, P. K. (1989). On babies, birds, modules, and mechanisms: A comparative approach to the acquisition of vocal communication. In R. J. Dooling & S. H. Hulse (Eds.), The Comparative Psychology of Audition: Perceiving Complex Sounds (pp. 379-419). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Meltzoff, A. N. & Kuhl, P. K. (1989). Infants’ perception of faces and speech sounds: challenges to developmental theory. In P. R. Zelazo & R. G. Barr (Eds.), Challenges to Developmental Paradigms: Implications for Theory, Assessment and Treatment (pp. 67-91). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Grieser, D. L. & Kuhl, P. K. (1988). Maternal speech to infants in a tonal language: Support for universal prosodic features in motherese. Developmental Psychology, 24, 14-20.
Kuhl, P. K. (1988). Auditory perception and the evolution of speech. Human Evolution, 3, 19-43.
Kuhl, P. K. (1988). On handedness in primates and human infants. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 727-729.
Kuhl, P. K. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1988). Speech as an intermodal object of perception. In A. Yonas (Ed.), Perceptual Development in Infancy: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 20, pp. 235-266). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Fernald, A. & Kuhl, P. (1987). Acoustic determinants of infant preference for Motherese speech. Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 279-293.
Kuhl, P. K. (1987). Perception of speech and sound in early infancy. In P. Salapatek & L. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Infant Perception: Vol 2. From Perception to Cognition (pp. 275-382). New York: Academic Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1987). The special-mechanisms debate in speech research: Categorization tests on animals and infants. In S. Harnad (Ed.), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (pp. 355-386). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Grant, K. W., Ardell, L. H., Kuhl, P. K. & Sparks, D. W. (1986). The transmission of prosodic information via an electrotactile speechreading aid. Ear and Hearing, 7, 328-335.
Kuhl, P. K. (1986). Infants’ perception of speech: Constraints on characterizations of the initial state. In B. Lindblom & R. Zetterström (Eds.), Precursors of Early Speech (pp. 219-244). New York: Stockton Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1986). Reflections on infants’ perception and representation of speech. In J. S. Perkell & D. H. Klatt (Eds.), Invariance and Variability in Speech Processes (pp. 19-30). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Kuhl, P. K. (1986). Theoretical contributions of tests on animals to the special-mechanisms debate in speech. Experimental Biology, 45, 233-265.
Grant, K. W., Ardell, L. H., Kuhl, P. K. & Sparks, D. W. (1985). The contribution of fundamental frequency, amplitude envelope, and voicing duration cues to speechreading in normal-hearing subjects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 77, 671-677.
Kuhl, P. K. (1985). Categorization of speech by infants. In J. Mehler & R. Fox (Eds.), Neonate Cognition: Beyond the Blooming Buzzing Confusion (pp. 231-262). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Kuhl, P. K. (1985). Methods in the study of infant speech perception. In G. Gottlieb & N. Krasnegor (Eds.), Measurement of Audition and
Vision in the First Year of Postnatal Life: A Methodological Overview (pp. 223-251). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Kuhl, P. K. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1984). The intermodal representation of speech in infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 7, 361-381.
Kuhl, P. K. (1983). Perception of auditory equivalence classes for speech in early infancy. Infant Behavior & Development, 6, 263-285.
Kuhl, P. K. (1983). The perception of speech in early infancy: Four phenomena. In S. E. Gerber & G. T. Mencher (Eds.), The Development of Auditory Behavior (pp. 187-218). New York: Grune & Stratton.
Kuhl, P. K. & Padden, D. M. (1983). Enhanced discriminability at the phonetic boundaries for the place feature in macaques. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 73, 1003-1010.
Kuhl, P. K. (1982). Speech perception: An overview of current issues. In N. J. Lass, L. V. McReynolds, J. L. Northern & D. E. Yoder (Eds.), Speech, Language, and Hearing: Vol. 1. Normal Processes (pp. 286-322). Philadelphia: Saunders.
Kuhl, P. K. & Meltzoff, A. N. (1982). The bimodal perception of speech in infancy. Science, 218, 1138-1141.
Kuhl, P. K. & Miller, J. D. (1982). Discrimination of auditory target dimensions in the presence or absence of variation in a second dimension by infants. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 279-292.
Kuhl, P. K. & Padden, D. M. (1982). Enhanced discriminability at the phonetic boundaries for the voicing feature in macaques. Perception & Psychophysics, 32, 542-550.
Kuhl, P. K. (1981). Auditory category formation and developmental speech perception. In R. E. Stark (Ed.), Language behavior in infancy and early childhood (pp. 165-183). New York: Elsevier/North-Holland.
Kuhl, P. K. (1981). Discrimination of speech by nonhuman animals: Basic auditory sensitivities conducive to the perception of speech-sound categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 340-349.
Kuhl, P. K. (1980). Infant speech perception: Reviewing data on auditory category formation. In P. Levinson & C. Sloan (Eds.), Auditory Processing and Language: Clinical and Research Perspectives (pp. 35-59). New York: Grune & Stratton.
Kuhl, P. K. (1980). Perceptual constancy for speech-sound categories in early infancy. In G. H. Yeni-Komshian, J. F. Kavanagh & C. A. Ferguson (Eds.), Child Phonology: Vol. 2. Perception (pp. 41-66). New York: Academic Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1979). Models and mechanisms in speech perception: Species comparisons provide further contributions. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 16, 374-408.
Kuhl, P. K. (1979). The perception of speech in early infancy. In N. J. Lass (Ed.), Speech and Language: Advances In Basic Research and Practice (pp. 1-47). San Francisco: Academic Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1979). Predispositions for the perception of speech by human infants. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Copenhagen, 1979 (pp. 162-168). Copenhagen: Institute of Phonetics.
Kuhl, P.K. (1979) Speech perception in early infancy: Perceptual constancy for spectrally dissimilar vowel categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66, 1668-1679.
Sparks, D. W., Ardell, L. A., Bourgeois, M., Wiedmer, B. & Kuhl, P. K. (1979). Investigating the MESA (Multipoint Electrotactile Speech Aid): The transmission of connected discourse. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 65, 810-815.
Kuhl, P. K. (1978). Predispositions for the perception of speech-sound categories: A species-specific phenomenon? In F. D. Minifie & L. L. Lloyd (Eds.), Communicative and Cognitive Abilities — Early Behavioral Assessment (pp. 229-255). Baltimore: University Park Press.
Kuhl, P. K. & Miller, J. D. (1978). Speech perception by the chinchilla: Identification functions for synthetic VOT stimuli. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 63, 905-917.
Sparks, D. W., Kuhl, P. K., Edmonds, A. E. & Gray, G. P. (1978). Investigating the MESA (Multipoint Electrotactile Speech Aid): The transmission of segmental features of speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 63, 246-257.
Kuhl, P. K. (1976). Speech perception in early infancy: The acquisition of speech-sound categories. In S. K. Hirsh, D. H.
Eldredge, I. J. Hirsh & S. R. Silverman (Eds.), Hearing and Davis: Essays Honoring Hallowell Davis (pp. 265-280). St. Louis: Washington University Press.
Kuhl, P. K. & Miller, J. D. (1975). Speech perception by the chinchilla: Voiced-voiceless distinction in alveolar plosive consonants. Science, 190, 69-72.
Ingham, R. J., Martin, R. R. & Kuhl, P. (1974). Modification and control of rate of speaking by stutterers. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 17, 489-496.
Martin, R. R., Haroldson, S. K. & Kuhl, P. (1972). Disfluencies of young children in two speaking situations. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 15, 831-836.
Martin, R. R., Kuhl, P. & Haroldson, S. (1972). An experimental treatment with two preschool stuttering children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 15, 743-752.
Speaks, C., Parker, B., Harris, C. & Kuhl, P. (1972). Intelligibility of connected discourse. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 15, 590-602.
Books and Theoretical Papers
Bilingual Brain
Social Factors in Language Learning
Brain Correlates of Language Processing
Developmental Speech Perception
Maternal Language Input and Infant Vocal Imitation
Autism
Auditory-Visual Speech Perception
Speech Perception: Animal Studies
Kuhl, P. K. & Damasio, A. (in press). Language, in E. R. Kandel. J. H. Schwartz, T. M. Jessell, S. Siegelbaum, & J. Hudspeth (Eds.), Principles of neural science: 5th Edition. McGraw Hill: New York.
Ramirez-Esparza, N., Harris, K., Hellermann, J., Clemence, R., Kuhl, P. K., & Reder, S. (in press). Socio-interactive practices and personality in adult learners of English with little formal education. Language Learning.
Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Who's Talking? Science. 333, 529. Click here to receive a reprint | Perspective on Perrachione
Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Early language learning and literacy: Neuroscience implications for education. Mind, Brain, and Education, 5, 128-142.
Sundara, M., Demuth, K. & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Sentence-position effects on children’s perception of English third person singular –s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 55-71.
Kuhl, P.K. (2010). Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition. Neuron, 67, 713-722.
Kuhl, P. K. (2009). Early language acquisition: Neural substrates and theoretical models. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition (pp. 837-854). Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (2009). Early language acquisition: Phonetic and word learning, neural substrates, and a theoretical model. In B. Moore, L. Tyler & W. Marslen-Wilson (Eds.), The Perception of Speech: From Sound to Meaning (pp 103-131). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., Movellan, J., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2009). Foundations for a New Science of Learning. Science, 325, 284-288. Click here to receive a reprint
Conboy, B.T., Sommerville, J., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Cognitive control factors in speech perception at 11 months. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1505-1512. Click here to receive a reprint
Doupe, A. J. & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Birdsong and human speech: Common themes and mechanisms. In H. P. Zeigler, & P. Marler (Eds.), Neuroscience of Birdsong (pp. 5-31). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Linking infant speech perception to language acquisition: Phonetic learning predicts language growth. In P. McCardle, J. Colombo & L. Freund (Eds.), Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions (pp. 213-243). Erlbaum: New York. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Conboy, B. T., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Rivera-Gaxiola, M. & Nelson, T. (2008). Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded ( NLM-e). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 979-1000. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K. & Rivera-Gaxiola, M. (2008). Neural substrates of early language acquisition. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 31, 511-534. Click here to receive a reprint
Raizada, R. D., Richards, T. L., Meltzoff, A. M. & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Socioeconomic status predicts hemispheric specialization of the left inferior frontal gyrus in young children. NeuroImage, 40, 1392-1401. Click here to receive a reprint
Bransford, J., Vye, N., Stevens, R., Kuhl, P. K., Schwartz, D., Bell, P., Meltzoff, A., Barron, B., Pea, R., Reeves, B., Roschelle, J., & Sabelli, N. (2006). Learning theories and education: Toward a decade of synergy. In P. Alexander & P. Winne (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology, 2nd edition (pp. 209-244). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Click here to receive a reprint
Bransford, J. D., Barron, B., Pea, R., Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., Bell, P., Stevens, R., Schwartz, D., Vye, N., Reeves, B., Roschelle, J. & Sabelli, N. (2006). Foundations and opportunities for an interdisciplinary science of learning. In K. Sawyer (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (pp. 19-34). New York: Cambridge University Press. Click here to receive a reprint
Liu, H-M., Tsao, F-M., and Kuhl, P. K. (2005). The effect of reduced vowel working space on speech intelligibility in Mandarin-speaking young adults with cerebral palsy. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 3879-3889. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 831-843. Click here to receive a reprint
Iverson, P., Kuhl, P. K., Akahane-Yamada, R., Diesch, E., Tohkura, Y., Kettermann, A., & Siebert, C. (2003). A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes. Cognition, 87, B47-B57. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Tsao, F. -M., Liu, H. -M., Zhang, Y., & de Boer, B. (2001). Language/Culture/Mind/Brain: Progress at the margins between disciplines. In A. Domasio et al. (Eds.). Unity of knowledge: The convergence of natural and human science (pp. 136-174). New York: The New York Academy of Sciences. Click here to receive a reprint
Gopnik, A., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2000). The scientist in the crib: What early learning tells us about the mind. New York: HarperCollins. (Read an excerpt.)
Kuhl, P. K. (2000). A new view of language acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 97, 11850-11857. Click here to receive a reprint
Iverson, P., & Kuhl, P. K. (2000). Perceptual magnet and phoneme boundary effects in speech perception: Do theyarise from a common mechanism? Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 874-886.
Kuhl, P. K. (2000). Language, mind, and brain: Experience alters perception. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The new cognitive neurosciences (2nd ed.) (pp. 99-115). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Doupe, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (1999). Birdsong and speech: Common themes and mechanisms. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 22, 567-631.
Kuhl, P. K. (1998). The development of speech and language. In T. J. Carew, R. Menzel, & C. J. Shatz (Eds.), Mechanistic relationships between development and learning (pp. 53-73). New York: Wiley.
Iverson, P., & Kuhl, P. K. (1996). Influences of phonetic identification and category goodness on American listeners' perception of /r/ and /l/. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 1130-1140.
Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Learning and representation in speech and language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4, 812-822.
Kuhl, P. K. (1993). Innate predispositions and the effects of experience in speech perception: The native language magnet theory. In B. deBoysson-Bardies, S. de Schonen, P. Jusczyk, P. McNeilage, & J. Morton (Eds.), Developmental neurocognition: Speech and face processing in the first year of life (pp. 259-274). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Garcia-Sierra, A., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Conboy, B. T., Romo, H., Percaccio, C. R., Klarman, L., Ortiz, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Socio-cultural environment and bilingual language learning: A longitudinal event related potential study. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 456-557.
Wang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2009). Sustained and transient language control in the bilingual brain. NeuroImage, 47, 414-422. Click here to receive a reprint
Wang, Y., Lin, J.-F., Kuhl, P. K., Hirsch, J. (2007). Mathematical and linguistic processing differs between native and second languages: An fMRI study. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1, 68-82. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Social mechanisms in early language acquisition: Understanding integrated brain systems supporting language. In J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience (pp. 649-667). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
Conboy, B. T. & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Impact of second-language experience in infancy: Brain measures of first- and second-language speech perception. Developmental Science, 14, 242-248.
Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Is speech learning 'gated' by the social brain? Developmental Science, 10, 110-120. Click here to receive a reprint
Conboy, B. & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Listening to language in culturally specific ways: Learning through social experience. In S. Braten (Ed.), Foundations of Preverbal Intersubjectivity: Being Moved by Action-Perception, Music and Speech. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Tsao. F.-M., & Liu, H.-M. (2003). Foreign-language experience in infancy: Effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 9096-9101. Click here to receive a reprint
Lin, J.-F. L., Imada, T., & Kuhl, P. K. (in press). Mental addition in bilinguals: an fMRI study of task-related and performance-related activation. Cerebral Cortex.
Rivera-Gaxiola. M., Garcia-Sierra, A., Lara-Ayala, L., Cadena, C., Jackson-Maldonado, D., & Kuhl, P. K. (in press). Event-related potentials to an English/Spanish syllabic contrast in Mexican 10-13 month-old infants. ISRN Neurology.
Raizada, R. D., Tsao, F. M., Liu, H. M., Holloway, I. D., Ansari, D., & Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Linking brain-wide multivoxel activation patterns to behaviour: Examples from language and math. NeuroImage. Click here to receive a reprint
Raizada, R. D. S., Tsao, F. M., Liu, H. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Quantifying the adequacy of neural representations for a cross-language phonetic discrimination task: Prediction of individual differences. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1-12.
Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Imada, T., Iverson, P., Pruitt, J., Stevens, E. B., Kawakatsu, M., Tohkura, Y., & Nemoto, I. (2009). Neural signatures of phonetic learning in adulthood: A magnetoencephalography study. Neuroimage, 46, 226-240. Click here to receive a reprint
Conboy, B. T., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence levels. In A. D. Friederici & G. Thierry (Eds.), Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5, 23-64. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K. & Rivera-Gaxiola, M. (2008). Neural substrates of language acquisition. Anuual Review of Neuroscience. 31, 511-534. Click here to receive a reprint
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J., Klarman, L., Garcia-Sierra, A., Lara-Ayala, L., Cadena-Salazar, C. & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Principal component analyses and scalp distribution of the auditory P150-250 and N250-550 to speech contrasts in Mexican and American infants. Developmental Neuropsychology, 31, 363-378. Click here to receive a reprint
Silva-Pereyra, J., Conboy, B.T., Klarman, L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Grammatical processing without semantics? An event-related brain potential study of preschoolers using jabberwocky sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1050-1065. Click here to receive a reprint
Imada, T., Zhang, Y., Cheour, M., Taulu, S., Ahonen, A. & Kuhl, P. K. (2006). Infant speech perception activates Broca's area: a developmental magnetoencephalography study. NeuroReport, 17, 957-962. Click here to receive a reprint
Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Imada, T., Kotani, M., & Tohkura, Y. (2005). Effects of language experience: Neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns. NeuroImage. 26, 703-720. Click here to receive a reprint
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Klarman, L., Garcia-Sierra, A. & Kuhl, P. K. (2005). Neural patterns to speech and vocabulary growth in American infants. NeuroReport, 16, 495-498. Click here to receive a reprint
Silva-Pereyra, J., Klarman, L., Lin, J. F. & Kuhl, P. K. (2005). Sentence processing in 30-month old children: An ERP study. NeuroReport, 16, 645-648. Click here to receive a reprint
Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J. & Kuhl, P. K. (2005). Brain potentials to native and non-native speech contrasts in 7- and 11-month-old American infants. Developmental Science, 8, 162-172. Click here to receive a reprint
Silva-Pereyra, J., Rivera-Gaxiola, M. & Kuhl, P. K. (2005). An event-related brain potential study of sentence comprehension in preschoolers: Semantic and morphosyntactic processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 247-258. Click here to receive a reprint
Liu, H. M., Tsao, F. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2009). Age-related changes in acoustic modifications of Mandarin maternal speech to preverbal infants and five-year-old children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Language, 36, 909-922. Click here to receive a reprint
Liu, H. M., Tsao, F. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speech. Developmental Psychology, 43, 912-917. Click here to receive a reprint
Liu, H. M., Kuhl, P. K., & Tsao, F. M. (2003). An association between mothers' speech clarity and infants' speech discrimination skills. Developmental Science, 6, F1-F10. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Tsao, F. M., Liu, H. M., Zhang, Y., & de Boer, B. (2001). Language/Culture/Mind/Brain: Progress at the margins between disciplines. In A. Domasio et al. (Eds.). Unity of knowledge: The convergence of natural and human science (pp. 136-174). New York: The New York Academy of Sciences. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Andruski, J. E., Chistovich, I. A., Chistovich, L. A., Kozhevnikova, E. V., Ryskina, V. L., Stolyarova, E. I., Sundberg, U., and Lacerda, F. (1997). Cross-language analysis of phonetic units in language addressed to infants. Science, 277, 684-686. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., & Meltzoff, A. N. (1996). Infant vocalizations in response to speech: Vocal imitation and developmental change. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 425-2438.
Grieser, D. L., & Kuhl, P. K. (1988). Maternal speech to infants in a tonal language: Support for universal prosodic features in motherese. Developmental Psychology, 24, 14-20.
Fernald, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (1987). Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech. Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 279-293.
Lebedeva, G. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Sing that tune: Infants' perception of melody and lyrics and the facilitation of phonetic recognition in songs. Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 419-430.
Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.-M., Kuhl, P. K. (2006). Perception of native and non-native affricate-fricative contrasts: Cross-language tests on adults and infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 2285-2294. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Stevens, E., Hayashi, A., Deguchi, T., Kiritani, S. & Iverson, P. (2006). Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. Developmental Science, 9, F13-F21. Click here to receive a reprint
Conboy, B., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Klarman, L., Aksoylu, E. & Kuhl, P.K. (2005). Associations between native and nonnative speech sound discrimination and language development at the end of the first year. Proceedings Supplement of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Conboy, B. T., Padden, D., Nelson, T. & Pruitt, J. (2005). Early speech perception and later language development: Implications for the "critical period." Language Learning and Development, 1, 237-264. Click here to receive a reprint
Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.-M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Speech perception in infancy predicts language development in the second year of life: A longitudinal study. Child Development, 75, 1067-1084. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Williams, K. A., Lacerda, F., Stevens, K. N., & Lindblom, B. (1992). Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age. Science, 255, 606-608.
Kuhl, P. K. (1991). Human adults and human infants show a "perceptual magnet effect" for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 93-107.
Grieser, D., & Kuhl, P. K. (1989). Categorization of speech by infants: Support for speech-sound prototypes. Developmental Psychology, 25, 577-588.
Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Kuhl, P. K. & Dawson, G. (2008). ERPs to words correlate with behavioral measures in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 3742. Click here to receive a reprint
Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Kuhl, P. K. & Dawson, G. (2007). Electrophysiological processing of single words in toddlers and school-age children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY. Click here to receive a reprint
Coffey-Corina, S., Kuhl, P. K., Padden, D., & Dawson, G. (2006). ERPs to known, unknown and backwards words in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., & Dawson, G. (2005). Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Developmental Science, 8, F1-F12. Click here to receive a reprint
Kuhl, P. K., & Meltzoff, A. N. (1997). Evolution, nativism, and learning in the development of language and speech. In M. Gopnik (Ed.), The inheritance and innateness of grammars (pp. 7-44). New York: Oxford University Press.
Kuhl, P. K., Tsuzaki, M., Tohkura, Y., & Meltzoff, A. N. (1994). Human processing of auditory-visual information in speech perception: Potential for multimodal human-machine interfaces. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 539-542). Tokyo: Acoustical Society of Japan.
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Green, K. P., Kuhl, P. K., Meltzoff, A. N., & Stevens, E. B. (1991). Integrating speech information across talkers, gender, and sensory modality: Female faces and male voices in the McGurk effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 524-536.
Green, K. P., & Kuhl, P. K. (1991). Integral processing of visual place and auditory voicing information during phonetic perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 278-288.
Green, K. P., & Kuhl, P. K. (1989). The role of visual information in the processing of place and manner features in speech perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 45, 34-42.
Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (1989). Infants' perception of faces and speech sounds: Challenges to developmental theory. In P. R. Zelazo & R. G. Barr (Eds.), Challenges to developmental paradigms: Implications for theory, assessment and treatment (pp. 67-91). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Kuhl, P. K. (1999). Speech, language, and the brain: Innate preparation for learning. In M. Konishi & M. Hauser (Eds.), Neural mechanisms of communication (pp. 419-450). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1991). Perception, cognition, and the ontogenetic and phylogenetic emergence of human speech. In S. E. Brauth, W. S. Hall, & R. J. Dooling (Eds.), Plasticity of development (pp. 73-106). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhl, P. K. (1989). On babies, birds, modules, and mechanisms: A comparative approach to the acquisition of vocal communication. In R. J. Dooling & S. H. Hulse (Eds.), The comparative psychology of audition: Perceiving complex sounds (pp. 379-419). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Kuhl, P. K. (1988). Auditory perception and the evolution of speech. Human Evolution, 3, 19-43.
Kuhl, P. K., & Padden, D. M. (1983). Enhanced discriminability at the phonetic boundaries for the place feature in macaques. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 73, 1003-1010.
Kuhl, P. K., & Padden, D. M. (1982). Enhanced discriminability at the phonetic boundaries for the voicing feature in macaques. Perception & Psychophysics, 32, 542-550.
Kuhl, P. K., & Miller, J. D. (1975). Speech perception by the chinchilla: Voiced-voiceless distinction in alveolar plosive consonants. Science, 190, 69-72.
Dr. Kuhl's Speech Research Lab is part of the UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, of which she is co-director. Her lab is on the university's Seattle campus. Below are details about the researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff members who work with Dr. Kuhl at the Institute, as well as information about her colleagues at other institutions and her former lab members.
Alexis Bosseler, Ph.D.
Ms. Bosseler is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl's lab. Dr. Bosseler earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and her bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her interests include the development of speech perception and production, and speech processing abilities in both typically developing children and children with developmental disorders. Read More
Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Ph.D.
Dr. Garcia-Sierra is a Postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl on studies of early language acquisition in bilingual infants. Before coming to the Institute he earned a Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He is mainly interested in understanding how knowledge of a second language affects speech perception. Read More
Barbara Nash, Ph.D.
Barbara Nash was a postdoctoral fellow, working with Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl. Before coming to the institute, she completed a PhD in experimental Psychology, working with Prof. Denis Burnham at MARCS Auditory Laboratories at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is mainly interested in first and second language development and the influence of music on language learning. Read More
Cherie Percaccio, Ph.D.
Dr. Percaccio is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Kuhl on studies of language acquisition in children with autism. Together, they are investigating the phonetic discrimination abilities of at-risk infants to determine if there are early physiological markers of autism in the brainís response to speech syllables. Since Dr. Percaccioís graduate work with Dr. Kilgard at UTD was inspired by clinical experience, she is especially interested in the use of event-related potentials as assessment tools in humans. Read More
Nairan RamÌrez-Esparza, Ph.D.
Dr. RamÌrez-Esparza is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl. Before coming to the Institute she earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Nair·n's research interests focus on understanding how language and cultural context influences personality and behavior. Read More
Sarah Roseberry, Ph.D.
Dr. Roseberry is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl on studies of early language acquisition. Before coming to the Institute, she earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Temple University, where she worked with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. Sarah’s program of research focuses on the role of social interactions in learning language, in particular, the specific mechanisms that render social cues useful to infants and toddlers. Read More
Yapeng Wang, Ph.D.
Dr. Yapeng Wang is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl. Before coming to I-LABS, he was an assistant professor in National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China. His research interests focus on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of language control and executive control in bilingual speakers. In his studies, he employed both behavioral and fMRI techniques to explore the cognitive and neural bases of language control and executive control in bilinguals. Read More
Christina Zhao
Christina (Tian) Zhao is a graduate student in Dr. Patricia Kuhl's lab. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, with minors in Biology and Music. The research questions that interest her most are concerning the interaction between music and speech perception and how experience in a particular sound environment shapes one's perception of sounds. Read More
Lisa Akiyama
Lisa Akiyama double-majored in Psychology and Molecular/Cellular/Developmental Biology, receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in 2009. Lisa is currently a post-baccalaureate student working in Dr. Kuhl's lab. Through a summer internship in Japan, she developed an interest in brain imaging technologies, especially magnetoencephalography (MEG). Read More
Sharon Coffey-Corina
Ms. Coffey-Corina received her bachelors degree in Psychology at at the University of California/San Diego. She has extensive training and experience as an event related potentials (ERP) technician, with a special expertise in testing children and special populations. Read More
Lindsay Klarman
Ms. Klarman assists with ERP studies and behavioral techniques, such as the preferential-looking paradigm and head-turn technique. She is currently overseeing data collection for collaborative bilingual research studies and is a member of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Read More
Denise Padden
Ms. Padden has a masters in Audiology from the UW and oversees research in Dr. Kuhlës lab. Using behavioral and neuroimaging techniques such as head-turn and event-related potentials (ERPs), she investigates the effects of language experience on speech perception in infants, children, and adults. Read More
Pat Stock
Ms. Stock manages research grants and assists with studies supported by these grants in the Speech Research Laboratory, from scheduling subjects to assisting with ERP, MRI, and behavioral studies. She has experience in managing large NIH-funded grants and assisting with studies, previously working on studies focused on typical and a-typical language development (written) for the University of Washington's Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center. Read More
Jean Andruski, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Linquistics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Bart de Boer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence Department, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Michael Hall, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Paul Iverson, Ph.D., Reader, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, London, England
Huei-Mei Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Rajeev Raizada, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Sandra Serafini, Research Associate, Department of Surgery-Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Juan Silva-Pereyra, Assistant Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience & Psycholinguistics, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Megha Sundara, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Chiara Suttora, Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Feng-Ming Tsao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, National Taipei Teachers College, Taipei, Taiwan
Yue Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Linquistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Yang Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
