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Dr. Pell's study on 'GROWLS, LAUGHS AND SOBS ARE BETTER THAN WORDS AT CONVEYING EMOTION' has been covered recently by various sources of Media.

A new study by researchers at Canada's 91滴滴 has found that humans pay more attention when an emotion is expressed through a vocalisation than we do when the same emotion is put into words.

The article听鈥淎 Randomized Trial of 12-Week Interventions for the Treatment of Developmental Phonological Disorder in Francophone Children,鈥� authored by Dr. Susan Rvachew and Dr. Francoise Brosseau-Lapre (former doctoral student currently Assistant Professor at Purdue University) has been selected to appear as the featured Research Tuesday article on听the social media channels the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association this Tuesday, December 15, 2015.
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鈥�Sarcasm, white lies and teasing can be difficult to identify for those with certain disorders 鈥� new video inventory developed at 91滴滴 may help

CBC, CJAD and Smithsonian Magazine have interviewed Dr. Linda Polka on the study of how babies prefer the sound of other babies.听 This study was conducted by Ph.D. student Matthew Masapollo, Linda Polka and UQAM colleague Lucie Menard.

We are looking for smart, hard-working, and fun individuals to join our voice team. We currently have positions at doctoral and post-doctoral levels. We are looking for individuals with strong background in biomedical engineering, systems biology and/ or are proficient in computer programming with C++. For interested individuals, please send the CV, unofficial transcripts and a short description of why you're interested in our work to nicole [dot] li [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Dr. Nicole Li).

Thank you to all of you who attended the spring Clinical Outreach Speaker Series presentation by Dr. Jutras "What do we know about central auditory processing disorder?" Attendees and those who were regrettably unable to make it may benefit from the slide handout generously provided by Dr. Jutras.