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Shari R. Baum

Shari R. Baum

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
6578
World Ranking
6983
National Ranking
411

Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
6328
World Ranking
7049
National Ranking
478

Overview

Shari R. Baum is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, and language and linguistics.

The research topics addressed by Baum focus on language and brain function, particularly in relation to bilingualism, sensory perception, and phonetics. Core topics of their work include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development

Baum frequently publishes in notable venues such as:

  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Brain and Language
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Reports

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Baum's academic output, with frequent co-authors including Shanna Kousaie, Annie C. Gilbert, Natalie A. Phillips, Debra Titone, and Denise Klein.

Recent significant publications include:

  • "Bilingual language experience as a multidimensional spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency," 2020, Applied Psycholinguistics
  • "Interhemispheric functional brain connectivity predicts new language learning success in adults," 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Effects of aging and noncanonical form presentation on idiom processing: Evidence from eye tracking," 2020, Applied Psycholinguistics
  • "Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood," 2020, Brain and Language
  • "Exploring individual differences in native phonetic perception and their link to nonnative phonetic perception," 2024, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Best Publications

  • The neural bases of prosody: Insights from lesion studies and neuroimaging

    Shari R. Baum;Marc D. Pell

  • Disambiguating the ambiguity advantage effect in word recognition: An advantage for polysemous but not homonymous words

    Ekaterini Klepousniotou;Shari R. Baum

  • Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging

    Shari Baum;Debra Titone

  • Musical Melody and Speech Intonation: Singing a Different Tune?

    Robert J Zatorre;Shari R Baum

  • On the role of the supramarginal gyrus in phonological processing and verbal working memory: evidence from rTMS studies.

    Isabelle Deschamps;Shari R. Baum;Vincent L. Gracco

  • Perceptual recalibration of speech sounds following speech motor learning

    Douglas M. Shiller;Marc Sato;Vincent L. Gracco;Shari R. Baum

  • Bilingual experience and resting-state brain connectivity: Impacts of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of language use on control networks

    Jason W. Gullifer;Jason W. Gullifer;Xiaoqian J. Chai;Veronica Whitford;Irina Pivneva

  • Production of Coronal Stops by Simultaneous Bilingual Adults.

    Megha Sundara;Linda Polka;Shari Baum

  • Temporal dimensions of consonant and vowel production: an acoustic and CT scan analysis of aphasic speech.

    Shari R Baum;Sheila E Blumstein;Sheila E Blumstein;Margaret A Naeser;Margaret A Naeser;Carole L Palumbo;Carole L Palumbo

  • The ability to perceive and comprehend intonation in linguistic and affective contexts by brain-damaged adults

    Marc D. Pell;Shari R. Baum

  • Unilateral Brain Damage, Prosodic Comprehension Deficits, and the Acoustic Cues to Prosody ☆ ☆☆

    Marc D. Pell;Shari R. Baum

  • Reading Difficulties in Adult Deaf Readers of French: Phonological Codes, Not Guilty!

    Nathalie N. Bélanger;Shari R. Baum;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Speech compensation to structural modifications of the oral cavity

    David H. McFarland;Shari R. Baum;Caroline Chabot

  • Incomplete compensation to articulatory perturbation

    David H. McFarland;Shari R. Baum

  • Sensorimotor integration for speech motor learning involves the inferior parietal cortex.

    Mamie Shum;Douglas M. Shiller;Shari R. Baum;Vincent L. Gracco;Vincent L. Gracco

  • The development of speech adaptation to an artificial palate

    Shari R. Baum;David H. McFarland

  • Acoustic analyses and perceptual data on anticipatory labial coarticulation in adults and children

    Joan A. Sereno;Shari R. Baum;G. Cameron Marean;Philip Lieberman

  • Sensorimotor control of vocal pitch and formant frequencies in Parkinson's disease.

    Fatemeh Mollaei;Douglas M. Shiller;Shari R. Baum;Vincent L. Gracco

  • Preliminary observations on the use of duration as a cue to syllable‐initial fricative consonant voicing in English

    Shari R. Baum;Sheila E. Blumstein

  • The role of the left inferior parietal lobule in second language learning: An intensive language training fMRI study

    Elise B. Barbeau;Elise B. Barbeau;Xiaoqian J. Chai;Xiaoqian J. Chai;Jen Kai Chen;Jen Kai Chen;Jennika Soles

  • Effects of cooperating and conflicting prosody in spoken english garden path sentences: Erp evidence for the boundary deletion hypothesis

    Efrat Pauker;Inbal Itzhak;Shari R. Baum;Karsten Steinhauer

  • Production of affective and linguistic prosody by brain-damaged patients

    Shari R. Baum;Marc D. Pell

  • The neural underpinnings of semantic ambiguity and anaphora.

    Veena D. Dwivedi;Natalie A. Phillips;Stephanie Einagel;Shari R. Baum

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent L. Gracco
Vincent L. Gracco McGill University
Debra Titone
Debra Titone McGill University
Natalie A. Phillips
Natalie A. Phillips Concordia University
Marc D. Pell
Marc D. Pell McGill University
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University
Lola L. Cuddy
Lola L. Cuddy Queen's University
Kate E. Watkins
Kate E. Watkins University of Oxford
Robert J. Zatorre
Robert J. Zatorre McGill University
Sheila E. Blumstein
Sheila E. Blumstein Brown University
Jack Gandour
Jack Gandour Purdue University West Lafayette

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