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Dr. Percaccio studies 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.
Publications:
García-Sierra, A., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Percaccio, R. C., Conboy, T. B., Romo, H., Klarman, L., Ortiz, S., & Kuhl, K. P. (in press). Bilingual Language Learning: An ERP Study Relating Early Brain Responses to Speech, Language Input, and Later Word Production. Journal of Phonetics.
Percaccio, C. R., Pruette, A. L., Mistry, S. T., Chen, Y. H., & Kilgard, M. P. (2007). Sensory experience determines enrichment-induced plasticity in rat auditory cortex. Brain Research, 117476-91.
Percaccio, C. R., Engineer, N. D., Pruette, A. L., Pandya, P. K., Moucha, R., Rathbun, D. L., & Kilgard, M. P. (2005). Environmental Enrichment Increases Paired-Pulse Depression in Rat Auditory Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94(5), 3590-3600.
Engineer, N. D., Percaccio, C. R., Pandya, P. K., Moucha, R., Rathbun, D. L., & Kilgard, M. P. (2004). Environmental Enrichment Improves Response Strength, Threshold, Selectivity, and Latency of Auditory Cortex Neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92(1), 73-82.
