Tyler K. Perrachione, PhD | Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

Additional Titles:Director, Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory
Director, Hearing Research Center
Education:B.A., Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Northwestern University
M.A., Linguistics, Northwestern University
Ph.D., Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website or Lab: Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory
Email:tkp@bu.edu
Phone:617-358-7410

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

Developmental disorders of language and reading (specific language impairment, dyslexia)
Human voice recognition and social auditory perception
Mechanisms of plasticity in human auditory cortex
Brain bases of complex auditory processing(including speech and voice perception)

Scott, T.L., Carter, Y.D., Choi, J.Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Relationships between phonological working memory and language processing in adults with dyslexia. 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Helsinki, August 2019).
Lim, S.-J., Qu, A., Tin, J.A.A., & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Attentional reorientation explains the processing costs associated with talker variability. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Melbourne, August 2019).
Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Talker variability, auditory attention, and speech processing efficiency. 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Louisville, May 2019).
Scott, T.L. & Perrachione, T.K. (2018). Functional dissociation of language and working memory revealed by pattern analysis of subject-specific conjunction maps. 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, November 2018).
Overview of the Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory. Hosted by Sargent College, this presentation was a part of the 2015 online, virtual conference, “Health Matters.”

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Scott, T.L. & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Common cortical architectures for phonological working memory identified in individual brains. NeuroImage, 202, 116096.
Choi, J.Y. & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Noninvasive neurostimulation of left temporal lobe disrupts rapid talker adaptation in speech processing. Brain and Language, 196, 104655.
Choi, J.Y. & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Time and information in perceptual adaptation to speech. Cognition, 192, 103982.
Perrachione, T.K., Del Tufo, S.N., Winter, R., Murtagh, J., Cyr, A., Chang, P., Halverson, K., Ghosh, S.S., Christodoulou, J.A. & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2016). Dysfunction of rapid neural adaptation in dyslexia. Neuron, 92, 1383-1397.
Perrachione, T.K., Del Tufo, S.N., Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2011). Human voice recognition depends on language ability. Science, 333, 595.

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NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation; “Dysfunction of cortical systems for language and working memory in autism spectrum disorder,” 01/16 – 01/18, Principal Investigator.
NIH, NIDCD, R03 DC014045, “Neural bases of phonological working memory in developmental language disorders,” 05/15 – 06/18, Principal Investigator.
NIH, NICHD, R03 HD096098, “Cortical development and neuroanatomical anomalies in developmental dyslexia,” 09/18 – 08/20, Principal Investigator.
NSF, BCS, 1840674, “NeuroDataRR. Collaborative Research: Testing the relationship between musical training and enhanced neural coding and perception in noise,” 09/18 – 08/20, Site Principal Investigator.

2013 Peter Paul Career Development Professorship
2012 Walle Nauta Award for Continuing Dedication to Teaching, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
2011 Walle Nauta Award for Continuing Dedication to Teaching, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
2010 Angus McDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
2008-2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship