Kevin Munhall
Professor Emeritus, Lab Director
Research Interests
Conversation is one of our most common and highly skilled activities. When we talk with other people, we perceive and produce a remarkable amount of social, emotional and linguistic information. This information is conveyed visually through the movements of our face and body and acoustically through our voice. In my laboratory, we study the perceptual and cognitive activities that make conversation possible. We use a variety of experimental techniques such as eye tracking, motion capture, animation and psychophysics to explore the multisensory processes and brain structures that are involved in face-to-face communication.
Selected Publications
For a complete list of publications, please visit my Google Scholars page.
Latif, N., Alsius, A., & Munhall, K.G. (2018). Knowing when to respond: the role of visual information in conversational turn exchanges. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80, 27-41.
Alsius, A., Paré, M., & Munhall, K.G. (2018). Forty Years After Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices the McGurk Effect Revisited. Multisensory Research, 31, 111-144.
Mitsuya, T., Munhall, K.G., & Purcell, D.W. (2017). Modulation of auditory-motor learning in response to formant perturbation as a function of delayed auditory feedback. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 2758-2767.
Wilson, A., Alsius, A., Paré, M., & Munhall, K.G. (2016). Spatial frequency requirements and gaze strategy in visual-only and audiovisual speech perception. Journal of Speech, Hearing and Language Research, 59, 601-615.
Latif, N., Barbosa, A.V., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., Castelhano, M.S. and Munhall, K.G. (2014). Movement coordination during conversation. PloS One, 9(8), e105036.
MacDonald, E.N., Johnson, E.K., Forsythe, J., Plante, P., Munhall, K.G. (2012). Children’s development of self-regulation in speech production. Current Biology, 24:22(2), 113-7.
Former Graduate Students:
Daniel Nault, MSc.
Daniel is a CGS-D fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology. His doctoral research program focuses on the development of nonverbal communication skills during adolescence.
Dr. Nida Latif
Postdoctoral researcher in the Attention & Social Cognition Lab - Department of Psychology, McGill University
Dr. Celina Nahanni
Medical student at University of Toronto, Ontario
Dr. Takashi Mitsuya
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington
Dr. Julie Buchan
Speech Scientist at Nuance Communications, Montreal, Quebec
Dr. Jamal Mansour
Lecturer in Psychology and Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Amanda Wilson, MSc.
Family Physician, Toronto, Ontario
Ian Everdell, MSc.
Consultant User Experience & Market Research, Bracebridge, Ontario
Dr. Andrea Downie
Psychologist, Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Dr. Jeffery A. Jones
Professor, Psychology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University
Former Postdoctoral Fellows:
Dr. Agnès Alsius
Research Associate, Queen's University School of Nursing
Dr. Ewen MacDonald
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at Technical University of Denmark
Dr. Hilmi Dajani
Associate Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa
Dr. David Purcell
Associate Professor, National Centre for Audiology, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Douglas M. Shiller
Associate Professor, School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at l'Université de Montréal
Researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre
Dr. Karen Nicholson (1971-2007)
Formerly Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University
Memorialized by Science Atlantic “Karen Nicholson Award in Neuropsychology”
Dr. Jorge Lucero
Professor, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Brasilia
Dr. Michel Pitermann
INRIA Researcher, Laboratoire Parole et Langue, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France