Assistant Professor

Education
· Post-doctoral Fellowship, Cognitive & Neural Systems, Boston University
· PhD, Speech Science, University of Washington,
· MS, Speech-Language Pathology, Teachers College, Columbia University
· BA, English, College of the Holy Cross

Office: 114 Forsyth
E-mail: k.reilly@neu.edu

Scholarly Interests
· Neural substrates of speech and language
· Motor control of speech production
· Speech acoustics
· Speech physiology
· Movement science/Neurophysiology


Bio
Dr. Reilly directs the Speech Motor Control lab, which investigates the organizational principles governing speech movements and their neural representation. This research includes analysis of speech acoustics, movement kinematics, muscle activity, and functional neuroimaging.

Selected Publications:
Reilly, K.J. & Moore, C.A. (in review) Respiratory Movement Patterns during Vocalizations at 7- and 11-Months of Age.

Tourville, J.A., Ghosh, S.S., Reilly, K.J., & Guenther, F.H. (2008). Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech. Neuroimage, 3(1), 1429-1443.

Reilly, K.J. & Moore, C.A. (2003). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia during speech production and silent reading. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 46, 164-177.

Green, J.R., Moore, C.A., & Reilly, K.J. (2002). The sequential development of jaw and lip control for speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 45, 66-79.

Selected Presentations:
Reilly,K.J., and Spencer, K.A. Effects of utterance length and phonologic similarity on syllable timing in healthy and dysarthirc speakers. Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders. Monterey, California, 2008.

Patel, R., Campellone, P., Reilly,K.J., Niziolek,C., and Guenther F. Prosodic compensations to pitch perturbation during running speech. Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders. Monterey, California, 2008.

Reilly,K.J., Guenther, FH, Tourville, J.A., and Bohland, J.W. A neuroimaging investigation of auditory-motor learning. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007.

Reilly, K.J., Guenther, F.H., Tourville, J.A., and Bohland, J.W. Brain activations during learning of a novel speech sensorimotor mapping. Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders. Austin, Texas, 2006.

Tourville, JA., Guenther, FH., Ghosh, SS., Reilly, KJ., Bohland, JW. Effects of acoustic and articulatory perturbation on cortical activity during speech production. Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping. Toronto, Canada, 2005.

Reilly, K.J., Moore, C.A., Steeve, R.W., Connaghan, K.P., & Almand, K.B. Respiratory and laryngeal modulation of f0 and intensity in 7-month-olds. Presented to the Conference on Speech Motor Control, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2002.

Reilly, K.J., Moore, C.A., Connaghan, K.P., Campbell, T.F., Green, J.R., & Steeve, R.W. Lip shape during speech by adult speakers and children with motor speech disorders. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington D.C., 2000.

Reilly, K.J. & Moore, C.A. Heart rate variability during speech production. Presented to the Conference on Speech Motor Control, San Antonio, TX, 2000.

Reilly, K.J., Moore, C.A., Campbell, T.F., & Green, J.R. Developmental speech motor disorders: Kinematics, description, & classification. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Francisco, 1999.