In my current postdoctoral position in the Speech Neural Systems Lab at the University of Pittsburgh with Asst. Prof. Jason Bohland, I’m conducting acoustic analyses for an NSF grant on speech produced under delayed auditory feedback, and we are also developing further experiments employing electromagnetic articulography (EMA), functional MRI, electro-encephalography (EEG), and transcranial alternating current stimulation.
In my previous postdoc at Boston University with Prof. Frank Guenther, I mostly worked on rebuilding/updating the Guenther Lab‘s diffusion MRI analysis pipeline in the Python language and also contributed to a paper generating functional regions-of-interest (ROIs) for MRI studies of speech production.
Publications
Masapollo, M., Segawa, J.A., Beal, D., Tourville, J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Heyne, M., Frankford, S., & Guenther, F.H. (2020). Behavioral and neural correlates of speech motor sequence learning in stuttering and neurotypical speakers: an fMRI investigation. Neurobiology of Language. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00027
Tourville, J. A., Nieto-Castañón, A., Heyne, M., & Guenther, F. H. (2019). Functional parcellation of the speech production cortex. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 62(8S): 3055–3070.
Iltis, P. W., Heyne, M., Frahm, J., Voit, D., Joseph, A., Atlas, L. (2019). Simultaneous dual-plane, real-time magnetic resonance imaging of oral cavity movements in advanced trombone players. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery.
Presentations (including posters):
Al-Tamimi, J., Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2020). From SS-ANOVA to GAMMs: Accounting for within and between-subject variation using generalized additive mixed models on ultrasound tongue contours. Poster presented at the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2020). Fully virtual meeting, December 2020.
Heyne, M., Tardif, M. C., Pennetti, V. J., & Bohland, J. W. (2020). Feedback-based alterations of vowel formant production: An analysis of speech produced under delayed auditory feedback. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2020). Fully virtual meeting, October 2020.
Al-Tamimi, J., Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2020). Accounting for within and between-subject variation using Generalized Additive Mixed Models: Application on Ultrasound Tongue contours with and without normalization. Talk scheduled to be presented at, however canceled secondary to the COVID19 Pandemic, the 2020 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), University of York, UK, April 2020.
Heyne, M., Segawa, J., Beal, D.S., Tourville, J.A., & Guenther, F.H. (2020). Reduced structural connectivity within the speech motor sequence planning network in persons who stutter. Poster presented at the 2020 Motor Speech Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, February 2020.
Heyne, M., Iltis, P. W., Frahm, J., Voit, D., Joseph, A., & Atlas, L. (2019). Simultaneous dual-plane, real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of the vocal tract in advanced trombone players show a close coupling of movements measured in different planes. Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), New York University, August 2019.
Derrick, D., Heyne, M., O’Beirne, G., Hay, J. (2019). Aero-tactile integration in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia, August 2019.
Heyne, M., Al-Tamimi, J., & Derrick, D. (2019). Using Generalized Additive (Mixed) Models to uncover novel patterns of speech production and account for unknown by-group variation. Poster presented at the 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium, Boston University, June 21, 2019.
Heyne, M. (2019). Vocal tract movements during speech production and brass instrument performance: Using ultrasound imaging and real-time MRI to study the transfer of motor memory across vocal tract behaviors and investigate highly-skilled as well as disordered musicians. Talk presented at the meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group (NEMCOG), Harvard University, February 2, 2019.
Heyne, M. (2019). Evidence of native language influence on brass instrument performance: Advanced statistics using generalized additive models suggest the transfer of motor memory across different vocal tract activities. Talk presented at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School. April 2019.