SOAR Student Profiles
Elizabeth Lawrence
- SOAR Position: Member
- Major: Psychology
- Faculty Mentor(s): Cyrille Magne
Current Focus: Conceptualizing Relationships Between Rhythmic Discrimination, Prosody, and Speech-in-Noise Perception in Older Adults
Additional Interests: Auditory Neuroscience, Music Cognition, Music Theory, Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Linguistics), Developmental Psychology
Project Description
1/2025: The aim of the current study is to disentangle and conceptualize relationships between rhythmic discrimination skills, prosody (speech rhythm) perception, and speech-in-noise (SIN) perception in older adults.Why does this topic interest you?
Leveraging phenomena of music and language to understand and support human experience, communication, and development is very exciting to me. I am deeply curious and passionate about the exploration of these influential and complex brain processes, seeking new ways that they might be deconstructed, conceptualized, and implemented to enhance well-being and desirable behavioral, psychological, emotional, and physical health outcomes in vulnerable and diverse populations.What are your professional aspirations?
I aspire to contribute to interdisciplinary research in the realms of auditory neuroscience, music cognition, hearing and speech sciences, and developmental psychology with the ultimate goal of addressing gaps in the literature and developing accessible, evidence-based interventions that might foster optimal development across the lifespan for vulnerable populations.Do you have any advice for future researchers?
Always lean into insatiable curiosity and love of learning! You'll never be bored. :)
