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Curriculum
Vitae
Emily B. Myers
Assistant Professor of Research
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Brown University
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Contact Information
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Department
of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Brown University
Box 1978
Providence, RI 02906
Office: 137 Metcalf Research
Office Phone: 401-863-1359
E-mail: Emily_B_Myers@Brown.edu
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Education
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Ph.D.
in Cognitive Science, Brown University, defense
8/5/05, thesis title: Neural Correlates of Phonetic Category Structure:
An fMRI Investigation
B.A.
with highest distinction, Spanish and Linguistics, University of Iowa,
May 1999
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Honors and Awards
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NIH R03 to Emily Myers, “The
Neural Bases of Statistical and Referential Cues to Phonetic
Category Structure” (2008--2011)
Dana
Fellowship (2004-2005)
NIH
National Research Service Award to Emily Myers, "Neural Bases of
Lexical Effects" (2003-2005)
Brown University Fellowship (1999-2000)
Sanxay Prize for promise of achievement in graduate work (1999)
Presidential Scholarship, University of Iowa (1996-1999)
State of Iowa Scholar (1996--1997)
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Teaching Experience
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Sherdian Center
Teaching Consultant, 2003-2005
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Science (CG1), Fall 2003
Teaching Assistant, Language and the Brain (CG148), Fall, 2003
Teaching Assistant, Language, Truth and Advertising (CG7), Spring 2002
Teaching Assistant, Production, Perception, and Analysis of Speech (CG
123), Fall, 2000
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Publications
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Myers, E. B.,
Blumstein, S.E. Walsh, E,
and Eliassen, J. (2009). Inferior Frontal Regions Underlie the
Perception of
Phonetic Category Invariance. Psychological
Science, in press.
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Britton, B.,
Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B., and
Grindrod, C. (2009). The
role of spectral and durational
properties on hemispheric asymmetries in vowel perception. Neuropsychologia,
Epub, Jan 2009.
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Grindrod, C.,
Bilenko, N., Myers, E., and Blustein,
S. (2008). The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in implicit
semantic
competition and selection: an event-related fMRI study. Brain
Research, Sep 10; 1229, 167—78.
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Bielenko, N.,
Grindrod, C. Myers, E., and
Blumstein, S. (2008). Neural correlates of semantic competition during
processing of ambiguous words. Journal of
Cognitive Neurosceience (August 14th Epub ahead of
print).
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Ruff, I., Blumstein, S.E., Myers,
E.B., and Hutchison, E. (2008). Recruitment
of anterior and posterior
structures in lexical-semantic processing: An fMRI study comparing
implicit and
explicit tasks. Brain and Language 105(1),
41-9.
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Hutchison,
E., Blumstein, S.E., and Myers, E.B. (2008).
An event-related fMRI investigation
of
voice-onset time discrimination. NeuroImage
40(1): 342-52.
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Myers, E.B and
Blumstein, S.E (2008). The
neural bases of the lexical effect: An fMRI investigation. Cerebral
Cortex 18(2): 278-88. (pdf)
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Myers, E. B. (2007)
Dissociable effects of phonetic competition and category
typicality in
a phonetic categorization task: An fMRI investigation. Neuropsychologia, 45 1463-1473
(pdf)
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Prabhakaran,
R.,
Blumstein, S.E., Myers, E.B.
(2006). An event-related fMRI
investigation of phonological-lexical competition. Neuropsychologia, 44 (12) 2209-21. (Pub-Med)
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Myers, E. B. (2005).
Neural Correlates of Phonetic Category Structure. Unpublished Doctoral
Dissertation.
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Blumstein,
S.E., Myers,
E.B, and Rissman, J. (2005). The perception of voice-onset
time:
An fMRI investigation of phonetic category structure. Journal of Cognitive Neurosicence,
17(9), pp 1353-1366. (pdf)
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Myers, E.B. and Blumstein,
S.E. (2005). Selectional restriction and semantic priming effects in
normals and Broca's aphasics. Journal
of Neurolinguistics, 18, pp 277-296. (pdf) |
Presentations
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Myers, E.B.
and
Blumstein, S.E. (2005). Neuroimaging evidence for effects
of lexical status on phonetic categorization. Poster presented at
the 12th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New
York, NY. (pdf) |
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Myers,
E.B. and Blumstein, S.E. (2004). The Perception of
Voice-Onset Time: An fMRI Investigation of Phonetic Category
Structure. Poster presented at
the 11th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San
Francisco, CA. (pdf)
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Myers, E.B., Zosh,
W.D., Eliassen, J.C.,
& Sanes, J.N. (2003). Cross-modal modulation of human
extrastriate visual cortex by concrete words. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual
Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA. (pdf) |