Dr Patti Adank

Photograph of Patti Adank

Lecturer

Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU)
School of Psychological Sciences
Room T7C, Zochonis Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

Research

My research interests:

  • Plasticity in spoken language comprehension
  • Speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions
  • Top-down and bottom-up strateggies in listening to speech
  • Spoken language comprehension over the life course
  • Neural substrates of speech processing

Methodological Knowledge

  • Acoustic analysis of speech sounds
  • Behavioural experiments
  • Functional MRI
  • Matlab
  • Motor Evoked Potentials

Teaching

Year 1:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Developmental Psychology (PSYC10142).

 

Psychology Cognitive Brain Imaging Master:

  • Clinical and Behavioural Neuroscience (PSYC60142).

 

Psychology Research Master:

  • Philisophical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology (PSYC60202).

Collaborators and affiliated staff

Ongoing collaborations with:

  • Esther Janse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholingsuistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Joseph Devlin (Psychology, UCL)
  • Andrew Stewart (School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)
  • Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (Psychology, University of York, York, UK)
  • Harold Bekkering (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • PhD  students:
  • Briony Banks

Publications

2013

  • Adank, P; Stewart, A. J.; Connell, L.; Wood, J. (In-press). Accent imitation positively affects accent attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(280), eScholarID:194612 | DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00280

2012

2011

  • Adank, P, Noordzij, M. Hagoort, P. (2011). The role of planum temporale in processing accent variation in spoken language comprehension. Human Brain Mapping, eScholarID:120113 | DOI:10.1002/hbm.21218

2010

  • Adank, P., Hagoort, P., Bekkering, H. (2010). Imitation improves language comprehension. Psychological Science, 21(12), 1903-1909. eScholarID:86008 | DOI:10.1177/0956797610389192
  • Adank, P., Janse, E. (2010). Comprehension of a novel accent by young and older listeners. Psychology and Aging, 25(3), 736-740. eScholarID:86012 | DOI:10.1037/a0020054.

2009

  • Adank, P., Devlin, J. T. (2009). On-line plasticity in spoken sentence comprehension: Adapting to time-compressed speech. NeuroImage, 49(1), 1124-1132. eScholarID:66512 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.032
  • Adank, P., Evans, B.G., Stuart-Smith, J., Scott, S.K. (2009). Comprehension of Familiar and Unfamiliar Native Accents Under Adverse Listening Conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance, 35(2), 520-529. eScholarID:29214 | DOI:10.1177/0956797610389192
  • Adank, P., Janse, E. (2009). Perceptual learning of time-compressed and natural fast speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(5), eScholarID:66516 | DOI:10.1121/1.3216914

2008

  • Adank, P. Hagoort, P. (2008). The neural bases of normalising for accented speech: A repetition suppression functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3580-3580. eScholarID:66513
  • Evans, B. G., Adank, P. (2008). Differences in the time-course of accent adaptation: a comparison of adaptation to foreign-accented and unfamiliar regionally-accented speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3703-3703. eScholarID:66514

2007

  • Adank, P. van Hout, Van de Velde, H. (2007). An acoustic description of the vowels of northern and southern standard Dutch II: regional varieties. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(2), 1130-1141. eScholarID:29196 | DOI:10.1121/1.2409492

2004

  • Adank P, Smits R, van Hout R. (2004). A comparison of vowel normalization procedures for language variation research. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(5), 3099-3107. eScholarID:29171 | DOI:10.1121/1.1795335
  • Adank, P., van Hout, R., Smits, R. (2004). An acoustic description of the vowels of Northern and Southern Standard Dutch. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(3), 1729-1738. eScholarID:29223 | DOI:10.1121/1.1779271

2003

  • Adank, P. (2003). Vowel normalization: a perceptual-acoustic study of Dutch vowels. Wageningen: Ponsen & Looijen. eScholarID:145947