MAPS LAB

at the University of Delaware



Publications

van Zelst, A. L., & Earle, F. S. (in press) A matter of time: A web-based investigation of rest and sleep effects on speech-motor learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Earle, F.S. & Qi, Z. (2022). Overnight changes to dual-memory processes reflected in speech-perceptual performanceAttention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 231-243. doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02418-7.

Ji, X., Saylor, J., Earle, F.S. (2021). Sufficient sleep attenuates COVID-19 pandemic related executive dysfunction in late adolescents and young adults. Sleep Medicine, 85, 21-24. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.06.027.

Williams, L.C. & Earle, F.S. (2021). Overnight consolidation of speech sounds predicts decoding ability in skilled adult readers. Scientific Studies of Reading. doi: 10.1080/10888438.2021.1904936. 

Earle, F.S. & Ullman, M.T. (2021). Deficits of learning in procedural memory and consolidation in declarative memory in adults with Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-11. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00292. 

Earle, F.S. & Del Tufo, S.N. (2021). Literacy-supporting skills in college students with specific reading comprehension deficit and developmental language disorder.Annals of Dyslexia, 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s11881-020-00211-z. 

van Zelst, A., & Earle, F.S. (2020). A case for the role of memory consolidation in speech-motor learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27-4, doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01793-w. 

Sengottuvel, K., Vasudevamurthy, A., Ullman, M.T., Earle, F.S. (2020). Learning and consolidation of declarative memory in good and poor readers of English as a second language.Frontiers in Psychology, 11:715, 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00715. 

Del Tufo, S.N. & Earle, F.S. (2020). Skill profiles of college students with a history of developmental language disorder and developmental dyslexia. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/0022219420904348. 

Earle, F.S., Del Tufo, S.N., Evans, T.M., Lum, J.A.G., Cutting, L.E., Ullman, M.T. (2020). Domain-general learning and memory substrates of reading acquisition.Mind, Brain, and Education, 1-11. 

Ullman, M.T., Earle, F.S., Walenski, M., Janacsek, K. (2020). The neurocognition of developmental disorders of language. Annual Review of Psychology, 71, 389-417. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011555. 

Del Tufo, S.N., Earle, F.S., & Cutting, L.E. (2019). The impact of expressive language development and the left interior longitudinal fasciculus on listening and reading comprehension.Journal of Neurodecelopmental Disorders, 11(37), 1-27. doi: 10.1186/s11689-019-9296-7. 

Earle, F. S., Landi, N., & Myers, E. B. (2018). Adults with Specific Language Impairment fail to consolidate speech sounds during sleep. Neuroscience letters, 666, 58-63. 

Earle, F.S. & Arthur, D.T. (2017). Native phonological processing predicts post-consolidation nonnative contrast learning in adults. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142(6), EL525-EL531. 

Xie, X., Earle, F.S., & Myers, E. (2017). Sleep facilitates generalization of accent adaptation to a new talker.Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-15. 

Earle, F. S., Landi, N., & Myers, E. B. (2017). Sleep duration predicts behavioral and neural differences in adult speech sound learning. Neuroscience letters, 636, 77-82. 

Myers, E., Johns, A.R., Earle, F.S., and Xie, X. (2017).  The Invariance Problem in the Acquisition of Non-Native Phonetic Contrasts: From Instances to Categories. In Lahiri, A. (Ed.) Lexical processing of speech (52-84). Berlin: De Gruyter/Mouton. 

Earle, F.S. & Myers, E.B. (2015). Sleep and native language interference affects non-native speech sound learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Aug 17 , 2015.  doi: 10.1037/xhp0000113. 

Earle, F.S., Gallinat, E., Grela, B., Lehto, A., Spaulding, T. (2015). Empirical implications of matching children with Specific Language Impairment to children with typical development on nonvebal IQ. Journal of learning disabilities, 50(3), 252-260. 

Earle, F. S. & Myers, E. B. (2015). Overnight consolidation promotes generalization across talkers in the identification of nonnative speech sounds. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(1), EL91-EL97. doi: 10.1121/1.4903918. 

Earle, F.S. & Myers, E.B. (2014). Building phonetic categories- an argument for the role of sleep. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 5:1192.  doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01192. 

 

 

Presentations

Hannon-Cropp, J., Earle, F. S., Blahoua, A. S., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., & Jasinska, K. K. (March 2019). The Impact of Declarative and Procedural Memory Systems on Late Childhood Literacy Development. Society for Research in Child Development. 

Fritzson, E. & Earle, S. F. (March 2019). Language abilities may mediate relationship between habitual sleep, sleepiness and academic performance.Poster presented at the American PsychosomaticSociety Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

Fritz, J. & F. S. Earle. (Nov 2018). The Effects of Music Experience in Speech Sound Learning.Poster presented at the 2018 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationConvention, Boston, MA. 

Arpitha, V., Earle, F. S., Ullman, M. T., & Kuppuraj, S. (May 2018). Consolidation deficits in procedural and declarative memory systems in children with literacy learning difficulties: what predicts literacy?Implicit Learning Seminar (7th Edition). Cluj – Napoca, Romania: Babeș-Bolyai University. 

Fritzson, E. & Earle, S. F. (March 2018) Quality of perceptual categories predict speeded, but not non-speeded, cognitive ability. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 

Earle, F.S., Myers, E.B., Lum, J., Ullman, M.T. (Nov 2017) Declarative and procedural memory substrates of the categorical perception of speech.  Presented at the 2017 Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference in Baltimore, MD 

Earle, F.S., Myers, E.B. (Dec 2016) Neural changes accompanying overnight phonetic learning. Presented at the 174th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Honolulu, HI 

Xie, X., Earle, F.S., Myers, E.B. (Dec 2016) Overnight sleep facilitates talker generalization of accent adaptation. Presented at the 174th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Honolulu, HI. 

Furmeister, P., Earle, F.S., Rueckl, J., Myers, E. (2016). Visual and auditory native language interference in perceptual learning of non-native speech sounds. Presented at the 173rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Boston, MA. 

Earle, F.S. DelTufo, S., Myers, E.B. (April, 2016) Phonemic Restoration in adults with Specific Language Impairment.  Presented at the April, 2016 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in New York City, NY. 

Earle, F.S. & Myers, E.B. (June, 2015). Sleep duration predicts speech sound learning in typical adults, but not in individuals with language impairment. Poster presentation at the 29th Annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Seattle, WA. 

Earle, S., & Myers, E., Gumkowski, N., Landi, N. (2015, March). Changes to neural sensitivity before and after overnight consolidation of phonetic training is absent in adults with language-based disorders.  Poster session presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 

Earle, S., & Myers, E. (2014, May). The effect of native language interferences on the acquisition of a non-native phonetic contrast.  Poster session presented at the Acoustical Society of America in Providence, RI. 

Eagan, E., Earle, S. & Spaulding, T. (2014, June). Investigating the Flynn effect in children with Primary Language Impairment.  Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders in Madison, WI. 

Earle, S., & Myers, E. (2013). The effect of sleep on learned sensitivity to a non-native phonetic contrast. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 4107-4107. 

Earle, F.S.,Grela, B. (2013, June) The use of adjectives in children with Specific Language Impairment.  Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin. 

Earle, F.S., Spaulding, T., Gallinat, E., Grela, B. (2013, June) To Match or Not To Match: The Effect of Matching Children with SLI and Typical Children for Nonverbal IQ on Nonverbal IQ.  Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.