Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D. CV

Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D.

Professor and Co-Director

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

St. Cloud State University, B.A. (Speech Science; Psychology, 1964–1967)
University of Minnesota, M.A. (Speech Science, 1968–1971)
University of Minnesota, Ph.D. (Speech Science; Psychology, 1971–1973)

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

Washington University Central Institute for the Deaf Post-doctoral Fellow, 1973–76
University of Washington
Assistant Professor, 1977–1979
Associate Professor, 1979–1982
Professor (Speech and Hearing), 1982–present
Adjunct Professor (Psychology), 1985–present
Adjunct Professor (Otolaryngology), 1987–present
Adjunct Professor (Neuroscience), 1994–present
Adjunct Professor (Linguistics), 199–8present
Adjunct Professor (Education), 2004–present

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICE

Executive Council: Acoustical Society of America, 1982–1986
Associate Editor: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1988-1992), Journal of Neuroscience (1989–1995), Developmental Science (2000–2012)
Member, University of Washington College of Arts and Science Council: 1982–1986
Member, Speech Communication Technical Committee: Acoustical Society, 1989–1992
Chair, Medals and Awards Committee: Acoustical Society of America, 1993–1995
Human Frontiers Scientific Review Committee: 1994–1999
Department Chair, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington: 1995–1999
Neuroscience Affiliate: G. Edelman’s Neuroscience Research Group, La Jolla, CA, 1994–2000
Board of Directors: American Institute of Physics, 1994–1996
Board of Directors (Governor Appointed): Washington Technology Center, 1994–1997
White House Speaker, President and Mrs. Clinton’s Summit on Early Learning: 1997
Co-Chair ASA/ICA: Joint International Meeting of the ASS and ICA, 1998
Board of Trustees: Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc., 1994–1999
Vice-President Elect: Acoustical Society of America, 1995–1996
Vice President: Acoustical Society of America, 1996–1997
President-Elect: Acoustical Society of America, 1998–1999
President: Acoustical Society of America, 1999–2000
White House Speaker: First Lady Laura Bush’s Summit on Learning to Read: 2001
Co-Director Sante Fe Research Consortium: 2003–2005
Co-Chair (with Leo Beranik) ASA 75th Anniversary Celebration: 2004
Co-Director, University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences: 2004–present
Member, ASA Publication Policy Committee: 2004–2005
Member, ASA Investment Committee: Acoustical Society of America, 2004–2006
Co-Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE Center): 2004–2005
International Advisory Board: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, 2004–2008
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Section Z, Linguistics, 2005
Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE Center): 2005–2018
Chair, AAAS Nominating Committee: Section J, Psychology, 2006
Member, National Academy of Science Troland Award Committee: 2011–2012
Chair, National Academy of Science Troland Award Committee: 2012–2013
NAS Chair of Membership (Section 52 Psychological & Cognitive Sciences): 2014–2016
White House Speaker, President Obama’s Summit on Early Learning: 2014
NSF Alan T Waterman Award Committee: 2015–2017
Bezos Family Foundation Scientific Advisory Board: 2015–present
AAAS Psychology (Section J) Steering Committee: 2016–2019
NAS Chair of Section 52 (Psychological & Cognitive Sciences): 2016–2019
National Academy of Science Council: 2019–2022
Global Science of Learning (GSOLEN): Advisory Group: 2019-

HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellow: Acoustical Society of America, 1982
Fellow: American Psychological Society, 1988
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999
Fellow: Cognitive Science Society, 2013
Research Award: Virginia Merrill Bloedel Scholar, University of Washington, 1992–1994
Silver Medal: Acoustical Society of America, 1997
Endowed Professorship: William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor, 1997–2005
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Elected 1997
Faculty Lectureship Award: University of Washington, 1998
Rodin Academy: Elected 2000
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: Elected 2003
Research Award: Kenneth Craik Award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2005
Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award: University of Minnesota, April 2007
Gold Medal: Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France, July 2008
Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning: Bezos Family Foundation, 2009–present
National Academy of Sciences: Elected 2010
TED.com presentation: 2011, http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies
Education Nation: 2011, http://ilabs.washington.edu/i-labs-news-education-nation-2011
IPSEN Foundation’s Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize: Paris, Nov 29, 2011
William James Lifetime Achievement Award, Assoc. for Psychological Science: 2013
Honoris Causa Doctor, Stockholm University, Nobel Hall: 2014
George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience: 2015
Seattle Hall of Fame: 125 Most Influential People in 50yr History, Patricia Kuhl: 2016
APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award: San Francisco, 2018
Honorary Doctoral Degree: Erickson Institute, Chicago, 2020

PUBLICATIONS

Endevelt-Shapira, Y., Bosseler, A. N., Zhao, T. C., Mizrahi, J. C., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2024). Heart-to-heart: Infants’ heart rate during mother–infant interaction and later language outcomes [Manuscript submitted for publication, Frontiers of Human Neuroscience].

Corrigan, M. N., Rokem, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2024). COVID-19 lockdown effects on adolescent brain structure suggest accelerated maturation that is more pronounced in females than in males [Manuscript submitted for publication, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences].

Bosseler, A. N., Meltzoff, A. N., Bierer, S., Huber, E., Mizrahi, J. C., Larson, E., Endevelt-Shapira, Y., Taulu, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2024). Infants’ brain responses to social interaction predict future language growth [Final revision submitted, Current Biology].

Endevelt-Shapira, Y., Bosseler, A. N., Mizrahi, J. C., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (in press, 2024). Mother–infant social and language interactions at 3 months are associated with infants’ productive language development in the third year of life. Infant Behavior and Development.

Lin, J.-F. L., Imada, T., Meltzoff, A. N., Hiraishi, H., Ikeda, T., Takahashi, T., Hasegawa, C., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Hirata, M., Minabe, Y., Asada, M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023). Dual-MEG interbrain synchronization during turn-taking verbal interactions between mothers and children. Cerebral Cortex, 33(7), 4116–4134. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac330

Huber, E., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Corrigan, N. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023) Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age. Developmental Science, Article e13391. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13391

Huber, E., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023) Language experience during infancy predicts white matter myelination at age 2 years. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(9), 1590–1599. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1043-22.2023

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Weiss, Y., Sheth, K. K., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023). Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns. Journal of Child Language, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000923000077

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D. S., Braverman, A., Weiss, Y., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023) A comparison of automatic and manual measures of turn-taking in monolingual and bilingual contexts. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02127-z

Huber, E., Ramírez, N. F., Corrigan, N. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023) Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age. Developmental Science, Article e13391. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13391

Huber, E., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., Ramírez, N. F., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023) Language experience during infancy predicts white matter myelination at age 2 years. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(9), 1590–1599. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1043-22.2023

Zhao, T. C., Llanos, F., Chandrasekaran, B., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Language experience during the sensitive period narrows infant’s sensory encoding of lexical tones—Music intervention reverses it. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, Article 941853. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.941853

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Development of infants’ neural speech processing and its relation to later language skills: A MEG study. NeuroImage, 256, Article 119242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119242

Zhao, T. C., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Development of executive function-relevant skills is related to both neural structure and function in infants. Developmental Science, 25(6), Article e13323. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13323

Yeatman, J. D., Caffarra, S., Clarke, M. D., Ender, S., Gijbels, L., Joo, S. J., Kubota, E. C., Kuhl, P. K., Larson, E., McCloy, D. R., O’Brien, G., Peterson, E. R., Takada, M. E., & Taulu, S. (2022). Reading instruction causes changes in category-selective visual cortex. Prepublication: BioRXiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.02.477919

Weiss, Y., Yeatman, J. D., Ender, S., Gijbels, L., Loop, H., Mizrahi, J. C., Woo, B. Y., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Can an online reading camp teach 5-year-old children to read? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, Article 793213. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.793213

Weiss, Y., Huber, E., Ramírez, N. F., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Language input in late infancy scaffolds emergent literacy skills and predicts reading related white matter development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, Article 922552. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.922552

Mittag, M., Larson, E., Taulu, S., Clarke, M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Reduced theta sampling in infants at risk for dyslexia across the sensitive period of native phoneme learning. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), Article 1180. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031180 . Reprinted in: Prime Archives in Public Health. Vide Leaf, 2022.

Mamiya, P. C., Richards, T. L., Edden, R. A. E., Lee, A. K. C., Stein, M. A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Reduced Glx and GABA inductions in the anterior cingulate cortex and caudate nucleus are related to impaired control of attention in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(9), Article 4677. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094677

Llanos, F., Zhao, T. C., Kuhl, P. K., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2022). The emergence of idiosyncratic patterns in the frequency-following response during the first year of life. JASA Express Letters, 2(5), Article 054401. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010493

Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., Huber, E., Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Brain myelination at 7 months of age predicts later language development. NeuroImage, 263, Article 119641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119641

Clarke, M. D., Bosseler, A. N., Mizrahi, J. C., Peterson, E. R., Larson, E., Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., & Taulu, S. (2022). Infant brain imaging using magnetoencephalography: Challenges, solutions, and best practices. Human Brain Mapping, 43(12), 3609–3619. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25871

Zhao, T. C., Boorom, O., Kuhl, P. K., & Gordon, R. (2021). Infants’ neural speech discrimination predicts individual differences in grammar ability at 6 years of age and their risk of developing speech-language disorders. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48, Article 100949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100949

Mittag, M., Larson, E., Clarke, M., Taulu, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). Auditory deficits in infants at risk for dyslexia during a linguistic sensitive period predict future language. NeuroImage, 30, 102578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102578

Kuhl, P. K. (2021, in press). Language. In E. R. Kandel, J. D. Koester, S. H. Mack, & S. A. Siegelbaum (Eds.), Principles of neural science (6th ed.). McGraw Hill.

Kuhl, P. K. (2021, in press). Infant speech perception: Integration of multimodal data leads to a new hypothesis—Sensorimotor mechanisms underlie learning. In Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 40, pp. 113–158). Wiley.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D. S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). Comparing automatic and manual measures of parent-infant conversational turns: A word of caution. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13495

Corrigan, N. M., Varnykh, V. L., Hippe, D. S., Owen, J. P., Huber, E., Zhoa, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). Myelin development in cerebral gray and white matter during adolescence and late childhood. NeuroImage, 277, 117678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117678

Bosseler, A. N., Clarke, M., Tavabi, K., Larson, E. D., Hippe, D. S., Taulu, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). Using magnetoencephalography to examine word recognition, lateralization, and future language skills in 14-month-old infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47, 100901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100901

Sundara, M., Wards, N., Conboy, B., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020, in press). Exposure to a second language in infancy alters speech production. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Mamiya, P. C., Richards, T., Corrigan, N. M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020). Strength of ventral tegmental area connections with left caudate nucleus is related to conflict monitoring. Frontiers in Psychology. On-line access prior to publication, doi.org/10.33.89/fpsyg.2019.02869

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lytle, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020, in press). Parent coaching increases conversational turns and advances infant language development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020). Early second language learning through SparkLing™: Scaling up a language intervention in infant education centers. Mind, Brain, and Education. On-line access prior to publication, doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12232

Zhao, M., Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Menard, L. & Kuhl, P. K. (2019). Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory Frequency-Following Response. Brain and Language, 194, 77–83.

Lin, J.-F. L., Imada, T., & Kuhl, P. K. (2019). Neuroplasticity, bilingualism, and mental mathematics: A behavior-MEG study. Brain and Cognition, 134, 122–134.

Kuhl, P. K., Lim, S.-S., Guerriero, S. & Van Damme, D. (2019). Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education. Paris, France: OECD Publishing.

Kuhl, P. K., & Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2019). Neuroscience and education: How early brain development affects school. In P. K. Kuhl, S.-S. Lim, S. Guerriero & D. Van Damme (Eds.), Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education. Paris, France: OECD Publishing.

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2018). Linguistic effect on speech perception observed at the brainstem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 115, 8716–8721.

Mamiya, P. C., Richards, T. L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2018). Right forceps minor and anterior thalamic radiation predict executive function skills in young bilingual adults. Frontiers in Psychology-Language Sciences, 9, 1–10.

Lytle, S. R., & Kuhl, P. K. (2018). Social interaction and language acquisition: Toward a neurobiological view. In E. M. Fernández & H. S. Cairns (Eds.), Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. The Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 615–634). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Lytle, S. R., García-Sierra, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2018). Two are better than one: Infant language learning from video improves in the presence of peers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 9859–9866.

Lin, J.-F. L., Imada., Kuhl, P. K., & Lin, F.-H. (2018). Incongruent pitch cues are associated with increased activation and functional connectivity in the frontal areas. Scientific Reports, 8, 5206. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-23287-5

Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Bilingual baby: Foreign language intervention in Madrid’s Infant Education Centers. Mind, Brain, and Education, 11, 133–143.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Ramírez, R. R., Clarke, M., Taulu, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Speech discrimination in 11-month-old bilingual and monolingual infants: A magnetoencephalography study. Developmental Science, 20: e12427.

Fish, M. S., García-Sierra, A., Ramírez-Esparza, N., & Kuhl, P. K.(2017). Infant-directed speech in English and Spanish: Assessments of monolingual and bilingual caregiver VOT. Journal of Phonetics, 63, 19–34.

Kuhl, P. K.(2017). Big surprises from little brains. Early Childhood Matters, 126, 20–25.

Lytle, S. R., & Kuhl, P. K.(2017). Social interaction and language acquisition: Toward a neurobiological view. In E. M. Fernández & H. S. Cairns (Eds.), The Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 1st Edition (pp. 615–634). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Ramírez-Esparza N., García-Sierra, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Look whos’ talking NOW! Parentese speech, social context, and language development across time. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1–27.

Ramírez-Esparza, N., García-Sierra, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). The impact of early social interactions on later language development in Spanish-English bilingual infants. Child Development,88, 1216–1234.

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Effects of enriched auditory experiences on infants’ speech perception during the first year of life. PROSPECTS, 46, 235–247.

Zhao, T. C., Lam, H. T. G., Sohi, H., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Neural processing of musical meter in musicians and non-musicians. Neuropsychologia, 106, 289–297.

García-Sierra, A., Ramírez-Esparza, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Relationships between quantity of language input and brain responses in bilingual and monolingual infants. International Journal of Psychophysics, 110, 1–17.

Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Language and the social brain: The power of surprise in science. In R. J. Sternberg, S. T. Fiske, & D. J. Foss (Eds.), Scientists Making a Difference (pp. 206-209). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Kuhl, P. K., Stevenson, J., Corrigan, N. M., van den Bosch, J. F. F., Deniz Can, D., & Richards, T. (2016). Neuroimaging of the bilingual brain: Structural brain correlates of listening and speaking in a second language. Brain & Language, 162, 1–9.

Mamiya, P. C., Richards, T. L., Coe, B. P., Eichler, E. E., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Brain white matter structure and COMT gene are linked to second-language learning in adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 7249–7254.

Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Exploring the infant social brain: What’s going on in there? Zero to Three, 36, 2-9.

Nakagawa, J., Imada, T., Hosoi, H., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Development of an infant-friendly flat-panel earphone for non-invasive functional brain imaging on awake babies using cartilage conduction. Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 54, 1–2.

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Musical intervention enhances infants’ neural processing of temporal structure in music and speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 5212–5217.

Conboy, B. T., Brooks, R., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Social interaction in infants’ learning of second-language phonetics: An exploration of brain-behavior relations. Developmental Neuropsychology, 40, 216–229.

Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Baby talk. Scientific American, 313, 64–69.

Moon, C., Zernzach, R. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Mothers say “baby” and their newborns do not choose to listen: A behavioral preference study to compare with ERP results. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 153.

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Effect of musical experience on learning lexical tone categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 1452–1463.

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Higher-level linguistic categories dominate over lower-level acoustics in lexical tone processing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 133–137.

Kuhl, P. K. (2014). Early language learning and the social brain. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 79, 211-220.

Kuhl, P. K., Ramírez, R. R., Bosseler, A., Lin, J.-F. & Imada, T. (2014). Infants’ brain responses to speech suggest Analysis by Synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 111, 11238–11245.

Ramírez-Esparza, N., García-Sierra, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2014). Look who’s talking: Speech style and social context in language input are linked to concurrent and future speech development. Developmental Science, 17, 880–891.

Akiyama, L. F., Richards, T. R., Imada, T., Dager, S. R., Wroblewski, L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2013). Age-specific average head template for typically developing 6-month-old infants. PLoS ONE, 8, 1–9.

Bosseler, A. N., Taulu, S., Pihko, E., Mäkelä, J. P., Imada, T., Ahonen, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2013). Theta rhythms index perceptual narrowing in infant speech perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1–12.

Deniz Can, D., Richards, T., & Kuhl, P. K. (2013). Early gray-matter and white-matter concentration in infancy predict later language skills: A whole-brain voxel-based morphometry study. Brain & Language, 124, 34–44.

Kuhl, P. K., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D. M., Munson, J., Estes, A., & Dawson, G. (2013). Brain responses to words in 2-year-olds with Autism predict developmental outcomes at age 6. PLoS ONE, 8, 1–13.

Moon, C., Lagercrantz, H., & Kuhl, P. K. (2013). Language experienced in utero affects vowel perception after birth: A two country study, Acta Pediatrica, 102, 156–160.

Kuhl, P. K., & Damasio, A. (2012). Language, in E. R. Kandel., J. H. Schwartz, T. M. Jessell, S. Siegelbaum, & J. Hudspeth (Eds.), Principles of neural science: 5th Edition (pp. 1353–1372). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Lin, J.-F. L., Imada, T., & Kuhl, P. K. (2012). Mental addition in bilinguals: An fMRI study of task-related and performance-related activation. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 1851–1861.

Ramírez-Esparza, N., Harris, K., Hellermann, J., Richard, C., Kuhl, P. K., & Reder, S. (2012). Socio-interactive practices and personality in adult learners of English with little formal education. Language Learning, 62, 541–570.

Rivera-Gaxiola. M., García-Sierra, A., Lara-Ayala, L., Cadena, C., Jackson-Maldonado, D., & Kuhl, P. K. (2012). Event-related potentials to an English/Spanish syllabic contrast in Mexican 10–13 month-old infants. ISRN Neurology, 2012, 1‐9.

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.

García-Sierra, A., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Percaccio, C. R., Conboy, B. T., Romo, H., 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). Brain mechanisms underlying the critical period for language: Linking theory and practice, in A. M. Battro, S. Dehaene, & W. J. Singer (Eds.), Human neuroplasticity and education (pp. 33–59). The Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Vatican City.

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 Oxford handbook of social neuroscience (pp. 649–667). Oxford United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Who’s Talking? Science, 29, 529–530.

Sundara, M., Demuth, K., & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Sentence-position effects on children’s perception and production of English 3rd person singular –s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 55–71.

Zhao, T., Moon, C., Lagercrantz, H., & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Prenatal motherese? Newborn speech perception is enhanced by having a younger sibling. Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology, 16, 90–94.

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.

Raizada, R. D. S., 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. (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, United Kingdom: 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, 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.

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. A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2008). Cognitive control factors in speech

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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). New York, NY: 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). New York, NY: Erlbaum.

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. S., 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. T., & Kuhl, P. K. (2007). Early speech perception: Developing a culturally specific way of listening through social interaction. In S. Bråten (Ed.), On Being Moved: From Mirror Neurons to Empathy (pp. 175–199). Cambridge, United Kingdom: 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., García-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, L., Kuhl, P., & 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., Barron, B., Pea, R., Meltzoff, A., Kuhl, P., 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, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Bransford, J., Vye, N., Stevens, R., Kuhl, P., 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 magnetoencephalography 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. T., 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., & 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., & 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., García-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., & 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.

Silva-Pereyra, J. F., Klarman, L., Lin, L. J.-F., & Kuhl, P. K. (2005). Sentence processing in 30-month-old children: An event related potential study. NeuroReport, 16, 645–648.

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.

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., & 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. (2003). Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 100, 9645–9646.

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.

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.

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. R. Domasio et al. (Eds.), Unity of Knowledge: The Convergence of Natural and Human Science (pp. 136–174). New York, NY: 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). A new view of language acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 11850–11857.

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. J., & 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, NY: 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). 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, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Kuhl, P. K. (1998). The development of language. In C. van Euler, I. Lundberg, & R. Llinás (Eds.), Basic Mechanisms in Cognition and Language (pp. 175–195). New York, NY: Elsevier.

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, NY: Wiley.

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, NY: 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). Mechanisms of developmental change in speech and language. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress on Phonetic Sciences, 2, 132–139.

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, The Netherlands: OTS Publications.

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, CA: 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, NY: 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, The 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, AB: 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, AB: 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, Japan: 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, Japan: 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, Germany: 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, NY: 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, NY: 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, NY: 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, NY: 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, PA: 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, NY: 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, NY: 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, NY: 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). 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, Denmark: 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.

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, CA: Academic Press.

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, MD: 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, MO: 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.

Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D.

Professor and Co-Director

Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences

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