Lab Photos

Here are some projects from past years, along with a reference page.

Students’ Research Posters

Zhu, J. M., Gallagher, C. S., Klyukin, Y. V., García-Sierra, A. Priming Relationships in Syntax and Mathematics. (April 2025). Poster presented at UConn’s 15th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Davey, S., Montana A., García-Sierra, A. (April, 2024) Phonetic and Phonemic Representation Across Three Linguistic Contexts: A Comparative sLORETA Analysis of Bilinguals vs. Monolinguals. Poster presented at UConn’s 14th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Neumuth, M-K., Rourke, M., Pirrotta, S., García-Sierra, A. (April, 2024). Linking Phonetic Features in Speech Production to Cognitive Processes in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals. Poster presented at UConn’s 14th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Davey, S., & García-Sierra, A. (2023, April). Monolingual versus Bilingual Brains: Who Will Display More Top-Down Processing in an Unfamiliar Language Environment? Poster presented at UConn’s 13th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Andrea, M., Rakovan, S., Khan, A., LaSpada, E., Urios-Aparisi, E., and García-Sierra, A. (2023, April). The Intricacies of Sentence Processing: Exploring the Interaction Between the Two Grammars of Bilinguals. Poster presented at UConn’s 13th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Smith, C. & García-Sierra, A. (2021 April). Effects of Presentation Contrast, Ear, and Hand Manipulations on Phoneme Perception. Poster presented at UConn’s 11th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Cieplak, R., Power, J., Wig, N., García-Sierra, A. (2021 April). Acceptability Judgments: A first step into the interaction between bilinguals’ two grammars in sentence processing. Poster presented at UConn’s 11th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

García-Sierra, A., Smith, C., & Dias., C. (2019, April). My dominant hand speaks my language: Hand effects are specific to linguist experience. Poster presented at UConn’s 10th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Welsh, E., Flores, C., Beacham. S, & García-Sierra, A. (2019, April). Finding familiarity in the unfamiliar: Speech perception in different linguistic contexts. Poster presented at UConn’s 10th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Wig, N., Lombardi, A., Kane, L., & García-Sierra, A. (2019, April). Matching the Mismatch: How bilinguals’ MMN reflects the interaction between perceptual and conceptual cues in speech perception. Poster presented at UConn’s 10th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Wig, N., & García-Sierra, A. (2018, October). Acoustic validity for syntactic processing in cross-linguistic contexts among Spanish-English bilinguals. Invited talk delivered at IGERT University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Duncan, M. G., & García-Sierra, A. (2018, February). Bilinguals’ double phonemic boundary shift: Not one of normal nature. Invited talk delivered at IGERT University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Duncan, G., Polcaro, S., Tozzi, A., Duntz, T., & García-Sierra, A. (2018, May). On a native note: Brain responses to speech sounds in different phonetic contexts. Poster presented at UConn’s 9th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Fagan, K., Constantine, K., Cammisa, C., & García-Sierra, A. (2018, May). Neural representation of finding familiarity in foreign contexts. Poster presented at UConn’s 9th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Wig, N., Marmolejos, A., Sabo, K., & García-Sierra, A., (2018, May). The role of frontal brain areas in bilinguals’ speech perception between different language contexts. Poster presented at UConn’s 9th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Wig, N., Marmolejos, A., Sabo. K, & García-Sierra, A. (2018, April). Context Counts: The role of frontal brain areas in bilinguals’ speech perception between different language contexts. Poster presented at FRONTIERS University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Polcaro, S., Duntz, T., Tozzi, A., & García-Sierra, A. (2018, April). On a native note: Brain responses to speech sounds in different phonetic contexts. Poster presented at FRONTIERS. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Constantine, K., Cammisa, C., Fagan, K., & García-Sierra, A. (2018, April). Setting the boundaries: How native language impacts the plasticity of phonemic perception. Poster presented at UConn’s 9th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

García-Sierra, A. (2017, November). Hear my voice learn from attending: non-native speech perception bilingual infants. Invited talk delivered at IGERT University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Wig, N., Tozzi, A., Singh, P., & García-Sierra, A. (2017, April). The three most attractive vowels to infants: How bilingual caregivers’ speech signal influences later word production. Poster presented at UConn’s 8th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Constantine, K., Fagan, K., Polcaro, S., & García-Sierra, A. (2017, April). Quality or quantity? The defining factors of bilingual infants’ later word production. Poster presented at FRONTIERS at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Wig, N., Tozzi, A., Singh, P., & García-Sierra, A. (2017, April). Bilingual caregivers’ Spanish vowel space area affects infants’ later word production. Poster presented at FRONTIERS at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Constantine, K., Fagan, K., Polcaro, S., and García-Sierra, A. (2017, April). Effect of caregivers’ quantity and quality of speech on bilingual infants’ later word production. Poster presented at FRONTIERS at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Casale, K., Duncan, G., & García-Sierra, A. (2016, April). The context that sets up the boundary. Poster presented at UConn’s 7th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Casale, K., Duncan, G., & García-Sierra, A. (2016, April). You hear what you speak. Poster presented at FRONTIERS at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Maule, A., Albino, R., García-Sierra, A., & Ramírez-Esparza, N. (2015, April). My mom has an accent: Linking bilingual caregivers’ productions of speech with their children’s future langue abilities. Poster presented at UConn’s 6th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Dwyer, A., Porter, K., Sakowicz, B., Moulton, M., & García-Sierra, A. (2014, April). Changes in pitch in monolingual and bilingual caregivers when speaking English to their infants. Poster presented at UConn’s 5th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Dwyer, A., Porter, K., Sakowicz, B., Fromson, J., & García-Sierra, A. (2014, October). Effects of pitch input to monolingual infants on later word production. Poster presented at Neuroscience at Storrs. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Achuka, P., Dwyer, M., Fischl, A., Khan, S., & García-Sierra, A. (2014, October). The relationship between bilingual caregivers’ VOT production and infant speech discrimination. Poster presented at Neuroscience at Storrs. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Albino, R., Maule, A., Eydelman, M., Nelson, A., & García-Sierra, A. (2014, October). Relationship of voice-onset time of bilingual caregivers when speaking English and Spanish to their infant and its effects on later word production. Poster presented at Neuroscience at Storrs. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

García-Sierra A., Ramírez-Esparza, N., & Fish, M. (2013, October). How babies benefit from baby-talk: a brain measure study with monolingual and bilingual infants. Poster presented at Neuroscience at Storrs. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

García-Sierra A., Ramírez-Esparza, N., & Fish, M. (2013, April). Brain representation of infant directed speech: A brain measure study with monolingual and bilingual infants. Poster presented at UConn’s 4th Annual Language Fest. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.