• 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
  • Phone:617-358-7410

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

  • Developmental disorders of language and reading
  • 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)

Courses Taught

  • KHC NE 102 Reading, Language, and the Brain
  • SAR SH 221 Phonetics
  • SAR SH 325 Speech Science
  • SAR SH 335 Neurobiology of Language
  • SAR SH 620 Neuroimaging for Speech and Hearing Research

Selected Presentations

  • Perrachione, T.K. (2024). Talker identification under adversity: Effects of noise, aging, and hearing loss. 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice Identity (VoiceID): Perception, Production, and Computational Approaches. (Marburg, Germany, August 2024).
  • Moore, A.A., Scott, T.L., & Perrachione, T.K. (2023) Task-dependent functional connectivity of language-selective regions. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Marseille, October 2023).
  • Choi, J.Y. & Perrachione, T.K. (2023). Functional and structural connectivity of auditory areas that process talker variability in speech. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Marseille, October 2023).
  • Belisle, B., Scott, T.L., & Perrachione, T.K. (2023). Language selectivity may be highly localized: Evidence from univariate and multivoxel analyses. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Marseille, October 2023).
  • Perrachione, T.K. (2022). A structural connectivity-based parcellation of the human superior temporal lobe. 7th International Conference on Auditory Cortex (Magdeburg, September 2022).

For a full list of presentations, click here.

    Selected Publications

    Lists of published works: Google Scholar 

    • Lee, J.J., Scott, T.L., & Perrachione, T.K. (2024). Efficient functional localization of language regions in the brain. NeuroImage, 285, 120489.
    • Scott, T.L., Haenchen, L., Dailiri, A., Chartove, J., Guenther, F.H. & Perrachione, T.K. (2020). Noninvasive neurostimulation of left ventral motor cortex enhances sensorimotor adaptation in speech production. Brain and Language, 209, 104840.
    • 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.

    For a full publication list, click here.

      Research Funding

      • NIH, NIDCD, R56 DC020208, Predicting language and literacy growth in children with ASD using statistical learning,”, 09/23 – 08/25, Sub-Award PI.
      • NIH, NICHD, R03 HD096098, “Cortical development and neuroanatomical anomalies in developmental dyslexia,” 09/18 – 08/21, 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.
      • NIH, NIDCD, R03 DC014045, “Neural bases of phonological working memory in developmental language disorders,” 05/15 – 06/18, Principal Investigator.

      Academic and Honors

      • 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

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