Tracy Centanni

GAPPLab_PostDoc_opening Classification Title: Postdoctoral Associate Job Description: The Genetics of Auditory and visual Perception and Plasticity (GAPP Lab) Lab in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences...

Postdoc opening!!

We’re looking for a postdoc to support our DoD funded study, using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and EEG to study speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI.

Please share and reach out to start the conversation if interested!

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Congrats to @drsrishtin.bsky.social and team!!!

The world continues to make my heart hurt.

To fill my cup and bring back some optimism, I’m excited to attend my favorite conference @snlmtg.bsky.social

Search my last name to find the lab’s two EEG + dyslexia posters, one on musical training and one on inverted text processing.

Delighted that PINE Lab will be accepting applications for PhD students to start Fall 2026! Please share with applicants looking for developmental & neuroscience programs? Our website is updated with current studies, questions, and guidance about fit: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Say it again.

In typical fashion, I couldn’t help myself and looked at the data from the first three participants in our new taVNS optimization study. The data fall exactly as I expected.

I know, I know, WAY. TOO. SOON…but still kinda nice to have some validation of the hypothesis, right?

We now have a Society for the Neurobiology of Language Bluesky account @snlmtg.bsky.social! Follow for updates on the meeting. I'm really excited for our fantastic lineup of speakers!

#SNL2025

The danger of the “at first I said nothing because they came for someone else…” policy.

Eventually, they will come for everyone.

Another reason open science is important!

Me too please!

Grant funding still exists!

After many weeks of delays, I’m so relieved and excited to share that we just received NOA on a 2-year DoD project to investigate speech in noise deficits in veterans with TBI, and explore non-invasive vagus nerve stim as an intervention. 🍾🎉

Officially feel like faculty. My #SSSR2025 talk is tomorrow morning and it’s still not done.

Come see me present about rat models of dyslexia genes in the 10:30 symposium!

It’s been a rainy but beautiful welcome in Calgary!

Attending SSSR? Come see my talk on Saturday in the 10:30 panel on white matter structure and reading development!!

Great to see our work on taVNS highlighted in this new article! Some exciting projects ongoing - can’t wait to share findings!

Never thought I’d see the day where I regularly watch c-span…yet here we are.

Trying a flipped classroom in the fall where they watch lectures on their own time and complete assignments in class, so I can verify sources. 🤷‍♀️ I don’t know what else to try.

Had to know that one was going to happen.

Reminds me of Boulder Field in Hickory Run state park- used to go there all the time as a kid!!

GAPPLab_LabTech_2025 The GAPP Lab is looking for a full-time research technician for 1-year to assist with two new projects. This OPS position reports to Professor Tracy Centanni. Please contact her with questions and/or ...

#JobPosting for a full-time OPS Laboratory Technician. This position will mainly support two projects, both of which evaluate the effect of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation on speech in noise perception. Please share!

For more details, please see bit.ly/4jdiEjs

Complex Pitch Perception Deficits in Dyslexia Persist Regardless of Previous Musical Experiences Purpose: Pitch perception is important for speech sound learning, and reading acquisition requires integration of speech sounds and written lette...

#Pitch perception deficits may interfere w/ complex #acoustic categorization & persist in some individuals w/ #dyslexia despite prior music experiences. on.asha.org/4moYaay

@tmcentanni.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #AUDPeeps

Complex Pitch Perception Deficits in Dyslexia Persist Regardless of Previous Musical Experiences Purpose: Pitch perception is important for speech sound learning, and reading acquisition requires integration of speech sounds and written lette...

Interestingly, musical experiences were linked to improved performance. Her findings suggest that deficits in simple pitch discrimination may interfere with complex auditory category learning, contributing to speech sound categorization challenges in dyslexia. See the full paper here:

Complex Pitch Perception Deficits in Dyslexia Persist Regardless of Previous Musical Experiences Purpose: Pitch perception is important for speech sound learning, and reading acquisition requires integration of speech sounds and written lette...

Congratulations to lab PhD student, Delaney Kelemen, on the publication of her first first-author paper in JSLHR! She found that young adults with dyslexia performed worse than their typically developing peers on both simple and complex pitch perception tasks. 1/n

It always brightens my day when I get to pilot new things. Testing out our combined taVNS + EEG setup during a task so I can validate the artifact removal process.

Now we just need the NOA for this project to officially come though….🤞🤞🤞

Applications for the MBI Gator Neuroscholars postdoc fellowship are due 7/13!

I’d love to work with someone interested in non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for communication or cognition.

Please reach out if you’re interested in applying to work with me!

Neurons are so cool 🤓

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Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication - Nature Communications Here, authors reveal the anatomy of the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts use of intentional, communicative gestures and sounds. The chimpanzee arcuate is not left-asymmetric at the population le...

The arcuate fasciculus = a key white-matter tract implicated in human language. A study of chimpanzees in @natcomms.nature.com links individual variation in anatomy & asymmetry of the tract to individual diffs in use of both communicative gestures & sounds under volitional orofacial motor control.👇🧪

Took a few minutes today to join my kids for a nap in the sun while working from home. Time well spent.

Lab PhD student Delaney Kelemen closed out PHHP Days with a great talk on her work on pitch perception in dyslexia. Her paper on this work was recently accepted at JSLHR!

First day of PHHP Days! Our two Honors students presented their work and killed it!!!