Hearing and Speech Sciences

Speech Kinematics and Acoustics Lab, Principal Investigator: Dr. Antje Mefferd

Education: 

• BS, Psychology, 2014, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• Ed.M, Mind Brain and Education, 2016, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, MA)

Hobbies and interests:

Watching movies and Liverpool FC

Social Media:

ResearchGate

Research description:

My research focuses on speech perception and the effects of neurological diseases on speech production. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the articulatory kinematics in dysarthria. My long-term goal is to contribute to motor speech disorders by gaining insights into the underlying mechanisms of dysarthria that can translate into clinical settings.

Publications:

Kim, D., Diehl, S., de Riesthal, M., Tjaden, K., Wilson, S. M., Claassen, D. O., & Mefferd, A. S. (2022). Dysarthria Subgroups in Talkers with Huntington’s Disease: Comparison of Two Data-Driven Classification Approaches. Brain Sciences, 12(4), 492.

*McMahon, E., *Kim, D., Mehr, S. A., Nakayama, K., Spelke, E. S., & Vaziri-Pashkam, M. (2021). The ability to predict actions of others from distributed cues is still developing in 6-to 8-year-old children. Journal of Vision, 21(5), 14-14. [*Denotes equal authorship]

*Talati, P., *El-Abtah, M., *Kim, D., Dietrich, J., Fu, M., Wenke, M., … & Ratai, E. M. (2021). MR spectroscopic imaging predicts early response to anti-angiogenic therapy in recurrent glioblastoma. Neuro-oncology advances, 3(1), vdab060. [*Denotes equal authorship]

Kim, D., Kuruvilla-Dugdale, M., de Riesthal, M., Jones, R., Bagnato, F., & Mefferd, A. (2021). Articulatory Correlates of Stress Pattern Disturbances in Talkers With Dysarthria. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(6S), 2287-2300.

Published Proceedings:

Kim, D., Diehl, S., de Riesthal, M., Claassen, D., & Mefferd, A. (2020). Dysarthria subgroups in talkers with Huntington’s disease: Free classification versus feature-constrained classification. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4), 2582-2583.