Kathy Nico Carbonell P.O. Box 100174 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32610 Phone: (352)294-8253 email: kathycarbonell@phhp.ufl.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS Speech intelligibility, perceptual flexibility, speech rhythm, bilingual speech perception, individual differences in speech perception abilities. EDUCATION Ph.D., Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences 2009 2016 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Co-Advisor: Huanping Dai, PhD Co-Advisor: Andrew Wedel, PhD Dissertation title: Individual differences in degraded speech perception B.S., Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences 2003 2007 Minors: Spanish, Italian University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Graduated Magna Cum Laude EMPLOYMENT Assistant Research Professor University of Florida 2016-Present Adjunct Lecturer University of Arizona Spring 2016 Graduate Research Assistant University of Arizona 2009 2015 HONORS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS Grad Slam Semifinalist (University-wide competition for graduate research) 2015 Galileo Circle Scholar 2012 & 2013 Recipient of Herbert E. Carter Travel Award (for 2014 Psychonomics Conference) 2014 Recipient of Woodling-Sertoma Memorial Scholarship 2009 & 2010 University of Arizona Minority Graduate Fellowship 2008 Last updated: 02/21/2018
FUNDING Principal Investigator, Individual differences in Perceptual Flexibility, National Institutes of Health (R21) Submitted October, 2017. Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research 2011-2013 Supplement to: Perception of Dysarthric Speech National Institutes of Health (R01), Dr. Andrew Lotto, Principal Investigator, with Co-PI Dr. Julie Liss PUBLICATIONS Schertz, J., & Carbonell, K. (in prep). Language-specificity in phonetic cue weighting: Monolingual and bilingual perception of the stop voicing contrast in English and Spanish. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Carbonell, K. (2017). Individual differences in degraded speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142, EL461. Carbonell, KM & Lotto, AJ (2014). Speech is not special again. Front. Psychol. 5, 427. Carbonell, K.M., Lester, R.A., Story, B.H., & Lotto, A.J. (2014). Discriminating Simulated Vocal Tremor Source Using Amplitude Modulation Spectra. Journal of Voice. 29 (2), 140-147. Carbonell, K. & Lotto, A.J. (2012). Absence or presence of preceding sound can change perceived phonetic identity. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 11, 06005. 2007 2017 PRESENTATIONS Carbonell, K.M. The Vocal Fingerprint: Examining Production Rhythms Across Languages for Bilingual Speakers Annual meeting of the Florida Psycholinguistics Society; Gainesville, FL; October 21, 2017. Carbonell, K.M. Individual Differences in Perceptual Flexibility University of Florida, Language & Brain Talk Series; September 16, 2016.* Carbonell, K.M. What can we learn about speech from a bionic ear? University of Arizona Grad Slam; Tucson, AZ; March, 25, 2015.* Carbonell, K.M., Lotto, A.J. Individual Differences in the Adaptive Use of Auditory Information. Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society; Long Beach, CA; November 21, 2014.
Carbonell, K.M. Individual Differences in Perceptual Flexibility Underlying Speech Perception: Dissertation Prospectus. University of Arizona Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Colloquium Series; Tucson, AZ; September 3, 2014.* Carbonell, K.M., & Lotto, A.J. Word Recognition in Isolation vs. a Carrier Phrase 166 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; December 3, 2013. Carbonell, K.M. What s in a Carrier Phrase? Predicting Intelligibility of Noise-Vocoded Speech. University of Arizona Cognitive Science Colloquium Series; Tucson, AZ; April 26, 2013.* Carbonell, K.M. Context is Everything, Even When it s Nothing. First Annual School of Mind, Brain, and Behavior Poster Session; Tucson, AZ; April, 8, 2013. Vitela, A.D., Carbonell, K.M, Lotto, A.J. Predicting the effects of carrier phrases in speech perception Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society; Minneapolis, MN; November 15, 2012. Carbonell, K.M, Lotto, A.J. Rich linguistic information in amplitude envelopes: clues to understanding the success of CIs. 3rd annual meeting of Cochlear Implant and Hearing Research group (CRASH); Madison, WI; November 2, 2012.* Carbonell, K.M., Story, B., Lester, R., & Lotto, A.J. Discriminating vocal tremor source from amplitude envelope modulations. 164 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; October 26, 2012. Carbonell, K.M., Brenner, D., & Lotto, A.J. Discriminating languages with general measures of temporal regularity and spectral variance. 164 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; October 24, 2012. Carbonell, K.M. I ve Got Rhythm, Who Could Ask for Anything More: A Novel Rhythm Metric for Speech. April 16, 2012, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Colloquium Series.* Carbonell, K.M., Andrews, J., Bunton, K. & Lotto, A.J. "Intelligibility of Noise-Vocoded Speech. 2012 Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ; March 9, 2012. Carbonell, K.M., Andrews, J., Bunton, K. & Lotto, A.J. "A Test of Intelligibility: Consonant identification using noise-vocoded speech. 6th Meeting of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Tucson, AZ; January 5, 2012. Carbonell, K.M., Lansford, K., Utianski, R., Liss, J.M., & Lotto, A.J. Discriminating language and talker using non-linguistic measures of rhythm, spectral energy and f0. 162 nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; November 4, 2011.*
Carbonell, K.M., Sullivan, S.C., Lansford, K., Utianski, R., Liss, J.M., & Lotto, A.J. Stable production rhythms across languages for bilingual speakers. 161 st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; May 27, 2011. Carbonell, K.M. & Lotto, A.J. "All by myself, don't wanna be all by myself anymore... /ga/." 5th Meeting of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Tucson, AZ; January 6, 2011. Carbonell, K.M., Aravamudhan, R and Lotto, A.J. "Presence of preceding sound affects the neural representation of speech sounds: Behavioral data." 160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; November 16, 2010. Aravamudhan, R, Carbonell, K.M., & Lotto, A.J. (2010). "Presence of preceding sound affects the neural representation of speech sounds: FFR data." 160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 16, 2010. Carbonell, K. M. & Lotto, A.J. "Presence of preceding sound affects the neural representation of speech sounds." Arizona State University and University of Arizona Cognitive Science Conclave, Tempe, AZ; November 6, 2010. Carbonell, K.M., & Frush-Holt, R. "Lexical & Context Effects in Multimodal Word Recognition in Children." Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences Summer 2008 Annual TRACCS Research Presentation Session, Indiana University; July 25, 2008. *Denotes talk INVITED ADDRESSES Carbonell, K.M. Let s Get Flexible! An individual differences approach to examining perceptual flexibility. Annual Meeting of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society; Gainesville, FL; January 6, 2017 Carbonell, K.M., & Gonzales, A. "Hearing, Hearing Loss, and Auditory Prosthetics." Sertoma Club of Tucson meeting, Tucson, AZ; November 8, 2010. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate: Hearing Conservation & Noise (SPA 7354) Spring 2017 Undergraduate: Speech Acoustics (SPA 3011) Fall 2016, 2017
Clinical Phonetics (SLHS 367) Spring 2016 Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona World of Sound (SLHS 263) Spring 2013 Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona Guest Lectures: Maintaining Perspective as a Future Clinician in SLHS: What can speech February 21, 2018 Perception teach us about Audiology Undergraduate Course: Clinical Observation (SPA 4050) Instructor: Dr. Emily Plowman My Science Story: Getting a PhD in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences January 29, 2018 Undergraduate Course: Critical Review of Scientific Evidence in Health Professions (SPA 4090) Individual Differences in Auditory Abilities April 20, 2015 Undergraduate Course: Cognitive Neuroscience of Hearing (SP H 420), Cochlear Implants & EAS March 9, 2015 Undergraduate Course: Cognitive Neuroscience of Hearing (SP H 420), How Did This Get On My IPod Spring, 2013 Acoustic Menagerie Rhythm in Music and Speech Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants Undergraduate Course: World of Sound (SLHS 263) Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona Instructor: Dr. Antonia Vitela Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants Spring 2010-2012; Fall2010-2013 Perfect Pitch and Amusia Nov. 5, 2013 Rhythm in Speech and Music October 4, 2012 Anatomy of the Auditory System II Fall 2012 & 2015 Infant Speech Perception Spring, 2011; Fall 2011 & 2015 Context Effect in Speech Perception April 27, 2010 Undergraduate course: World of Sound (SP H 263) Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona
Carbonell My Science Story Spring, 2013-2015 Undergraduate Course: Scientific Thinking (SLHS 270), Foundations of Hearing and Hearing Preservation Fall, 2012-2013 Undergraduate Course: Introduction to Music Education (MUS 250), Music Education, University of Arizona, Instructor: Dr. Jeremy Johnson Manternach Biological Foundations of Hearing II November 17, 2011 Undergraduate Course: Survey of Communication & its Disorders (SP H 207), Instructor: Dr. Pelagie Beeson Biological Foundations of Hearing I November 15, 2011 Undergraduate Course: Survey of Communication & its Disorders (SP H 207), Instructor: Dr. Pelagie Beeson Cochlear Implants & EAS October 13, 2011 Graduate Course: Cognitive Neuroscience of Hearing (SP H 520), Preceptorship: Undergraduate Course: World of Sound (SP H 263) Spring 2010 NEWS MEDIA FEATURES University of Arizona News Blog, Measuring Hearing Flexibility, June 9, 2015 http://uanews.org/blog/measuring-hearing-flexibility SERVICE Radio interview (in Spanish) in with Susan Soltero of Univision, June 25, 2013 Discussed the results and implications of a study on bilingualism and languagespecific phonetic systems a study by Gonzalez & Lotto (2013), entitled A Bafri, un Pafri: Bilinguals Pseudoword Identifications Support Language-Specific Phonetic Systems.
Article Reviewer for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), April, 2017 Article Reviewer for the Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA), September, 2012 Co-organizer of the annual meetings of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS); University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. January 2009 2016; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; January 2017 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) American Auditory Society (AAS) Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Cognitive Science Society (CSS) Psychonomic Society