I currently work with Dr. Kutlu in the Variability of Identity through Context and Experience (VOICE) Lab. We study psycholinguistics (how speech is perceived by listeners). My research focuses on how people with different linguistic backgrounds encode and perceive speech through more or less adaptive processes, and how these processes are altered by the signal itself. I work with a special continuum-based task that allows speakers to rate their listening on a sliding scale. When paired with social network tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) studies, we can analyze this speech rating metric in tandem with an individual’s linguistic background and direct measurement of their brain activity to understand how experiences of a listener and physical features of the sound wave can warp the way that speech is perceived.