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Updated Sep 2026

Education

  • 2022
    PhD - Program in Speech & Hearing Bioscience & Technology (SHBT)
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Dissertation: The cognitive and neural bases of processing talker variability in speech perception.
    • Advisor: Dr. Tyler Perrachione
  • 2014
    BA - Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology
    Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Experience

  • 2025.11 - Current
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    STEPP Lab, Boston University (PI: Dr. Cara Stepp)
  • 2023 - 2025
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    SoundBrain Lab, Northwestern University (PI: Dr. Bharath Chandrasekaran)
  • 2016 - 2022
    PhD Student
    Communication Neuroscience Research Lab, Boston University (PI: Dr. Tyler Perrachione)
  • 2014 - 2016
    Research Analyst
    Communication Neuroscience Research Lab, Boston University (PI: Dr. Tyler Perrachione)
  • 2014
    Research Assistant
    Child Language Acquisition Lab, Rice University (PI: Dr. Özge Gurcanlı)
  • 2012 - 2014
    Research Assistant
    Schnur Lab, Rice University (PI: Dr. Tatiana Schnur)

Research Funding

  • 2026
    • New Investigators Research Grant, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
  • 2026
    • Student Research Grant (Postdoc), Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University

Honors and Awards

  • 2026
    • Student Research Grant (Postdoc), Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University
  • 2025
    • Postdoctoral Abstract Merit Award ‑ Honorable Mention for SNL 2025
  • 2020
    • Best Student Paper in Speech Communication ‑ First Place for ASA 2020
  • 2019
    • International Phonetic Association Student Award for ICPhS 2019
  • 2016 - 2020
    • Kwanjeong Educational Scholarship ($30,000/year)
  • 2019
    • International Phonetic Association Student Award for ICPhS 2019
  • 2012
    • Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce Award : Study in China Scholarship
  • 2012
    • Center for the Study of Languages Study Abroad Scholarship
  • 2011-2014
    • President's Honor Roll, Rice University

Publications

  • Choi, J. Y., Edelstein, I., Abur, D., & Stepp, C.E. (submitted). Fundamental frequency changes at syntactic boundaries and listener perception of monopitch in Parkinson's disease.
  • Choi, J. Y., Dragicevic, D.A., Li, S.H., Davis, R.A., Siedman, K.A., Toglia, D., Dunsmuir, C.J., Rojas, J.M., Estrada, A., Balz, M.A., Perkell J.S., & Stepp, C.E. (in revision). Articulatory changes during clear speech in people with Parkinson's disease.
  • Choi, J. Y., Xiong, S., McHaney, J. R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2026). Reverse hierachical processing of speech in talker identification. European Journal of Neuroscience, 63(8), e70520.
  • Liu, Y., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2025). Systematic bias in surface area asymmetry measurements from automatic cortical parcellations. Brain Structure & Function, 230(7), 126.
  • Choi, J. Y., Kou, R.S.N., & Perrachione, T.K. (2022). Distinct mechanisms for talker adaptation operate in parallel on different timescales. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 627‑634.
  • Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Noninvasive neurostimulation of left temporal lobe disrupts rapid talker adaptation in speech processing. Brain and Language, 196, 104655.
  • Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Time and information in perceptual adaptation to speech. Cognition, 192, 103982.
  • Choi, J. Y., Hu, E.R., & Perrachione, T.K. (2018). Varying acoustic‑phonemic ambiguity reveals that talker normalization is obligatory in speech processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(3), 784‑797.

Conference Proceedings

  • Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Rapid adaptation to talker‑specific phonetic detail is disrupted by noninvasive brain stimulation. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Melbourne, August 2019).

Conference Presentations

  • Perrachione, T.K., Choi, J.Y., Moore, A.A., Belisle, R.M., & Lim, S.-J. (2026). Cortical networks associated with talker-specific speech processing. 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice Identity (VoiceID): Perception, Production, and Computational Approaches (Jena, Germany, September 2026).
  • Wiseman, K. B., Corbin, N., Wittenback, H., Sitek, K. R., Choi, J. Y., McHaney, J. R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2026). Talker Identification in Children with Typical Hearing, ​Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants​. Americal Cochlear Implant Alliance Meeting (Chicago, May 2026).
  • Wittenback, H., Henry, M., Choi, J. Y., Sitek, K. R., Chandrasekaran, B., Corbin, N., & Wiseman, K. (2026). Children's talker identification: effects of talker similarity and language. 53rd Annual Scientific and Technology Conference of the American Auditory Society (Scottsdale, February 2026).
  • Hampton Wray, A., Choi, J. Y., Parker, A., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2025). Neural representations of speech sounds in children who stutter. 14th Oxford Stuttering and Cluttering Research Conference (Oxford, September 2025).
  • Choi, J. Y., Guo, Z.‑C., Chandrasekaran, B., & Hampton Wray, A. (2025). Neural representations of speech sounds in children who stutter. 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Washington DC, September 2025).
  • Choi, J. Y., Gnanateja, G. N., Basavanahalli Jagadeesh, A., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2025). Revisiting Laurel vs. Yanny':' insights from an online experiment and an FFR experiment. 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Washington DC, September 2025).
  • Choi, J. Y., Sitek, K., Langlois, L.‑P., Deschamps, S., Chen, J.‑K., Roark, C., Baum, S., Chandrasekaran, B., & Klein, D. (2025). Behavioral identification and neural representations of talkers’ voices vary with lifelong language experience. 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Washington DC, September 2025).
  • Choi, J. Y., Xiong, S., McHaney, J. R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2024). Pupillary measures of identifying talkers in native language and unfamiliar language. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience XXII (Chicago, October 2024).
  • Liu, Y., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2024). Hemispheric biases in automatic cortical parcellations exaggerate surface area lateralization in primary auditory cortex and other key language areas. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience XXII (Chicago, October 2024).
  • Basavanahalli Jagadeesh, A., Choi, J. Y., Gnanateja, G.N., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2024). Laurel vs Yanny – An investigation into the neural mechanisms of an Auditory Illusion. 5th Frequency Following Response Workshop (Chicago, June 2024).
  • Choi, J. Y. & Perrachione, T.K. (2023). Functional and structural connectivity of auditory areas that process talker variability in speech. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Marseille, October 2023).
  • Perrachione, T.K. & Choi, J. Y. (2022). Hemispheric asymmetries in the cortical myeloarchitecture parallel the functional lateralization of language. 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Philadelphia, October 2022).
  • Lee, J.J., Scott, T.L., Carter, Y.D., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2022). Functional selectivity and structural connectivity of the cortical language network are intact in dyslexia. 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco, April 2022).
  • Lee, J.J., Scott, T.L., Carter, Y., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2022). Cortical language network functional neuroanatomy in dyslexia. Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward II (Max Planck Institute & Virtual, March 2022).
  • Choi, J. Y., Kou, R.S.N., & Perrachione, T.K. (2020). Parametrically varying speech adapter length suggests two mechanisms for talker adaptation. 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Online, Dec 2020).
  • Choi, J. Y., Torre, G.A., Carter, Y.D., Scott, T.L., Ghosh, S.S., & Perrachione, T.K. (2020). Multivoxel pattern analyses of brain structure to classify dyslexia. 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (Boston, March 2020).
  • Torre, G.A., Choi, J. Y., Scott, T.L., Carter, Y.D., & Perrachione, T.K. (2020). Differences in left fusiform gyrus morphometry in adults with dyslexia: Voxel‑ and surface‑based analyses. 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (Boston, March 2020).
  • Choi, J. Y. & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Noninvasive neurostimulation reveals a causal role for left superior temporal lobe in speech adaptation. 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Helsinki, August 2019).
  • Scott, T.L., Carter, Y.D., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2019). Relationships between phonological working memory and language processing in adults with dyslexia. 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Helsinki, August 2019).
  • Scott, T.L., Dougherty, S.C., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2018). Nonword repetition recruits distinct and overlapping nodes of language and working memory networks. 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Quebec City, August 2018).
  • Scott, T.L., Dougherty, S.C., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2018). Common recruitment of neural resources for phonological working memory regardless of behavioral demands. CNS Annual Meeting (Boston, April 2018).
  • Scott, T.L., Dougherty, S.C., Choi, J. Y., & Perrachione, T.K. (2017). The role of language‑specific vs. domaingeneral systems in phonological working memory. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Vancouver, June 2017).
  • Perrachione, T.K., Dougherty, S.C., Choi, J. Y., & Hu, E.R. (2016). Noninvasive brain stimulation to facilitate foreign language speech‑sound learning in low‑aptitude learners. 172nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Honolulu, November 2016).
  • Choi, J. Y., Hu, E.R., & Perrachione, T.K. (2016). Orthogonal interference of indexical information occurs even when phonetic contrasts are unambiguous across talkers. 171st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, May 2016).
  • Perrachione, T.K. & Choi, J. Y. (2016). Extrinsic talker normalization via rapid accumulation of talker‑specific phonetic detail. 171st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, May 2016).
  • Choi, J. Y., Minas, J.E., Finn, A.S., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Perrachione, T.K. (2015). Functional brain changes associated with learning a novel phonological contrast. 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Honolulu, June 2015).
  • Choi, J. Y., Wei, T., & Schnur, T.T. (2014). Effect of cognitive control on semantic processing. Rice University Undergraduate Research Symposium (Houston, April 2014).

Teaching

  • Fall 2026
    Phonetics
    Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University
    • Instructor of record