
Positions
- Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences
- Contact Info
Kathrin Rothermich
Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
presentations
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presentation
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Computational Analysis of Pitch Modulation: Prosodic Adaptation to L2 Avatar Patients in a Mixed-Reality Simulation
, RCAW 2025 - Parkinson's Disease and Its Impact on Social Connections: A Community Guide, Office of Healthy Aging - Lecture Series 2024
- Does elderspeak facilitate comprehension in older listeners? Evidence from eye-tracking., Healthy Aging Symposium 2024
- The Influence of Brain Stimulation on Social Language Processing: A Focus on the Right Temporo-Parietal Junction, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2024
- Autism Traits Influence Neural Correlates of Sarcasm Processing: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week 2024
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Communicating Effectively with Older Adults: A Systematic Scoping Review
, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention 2023 - Phonetic Competition and Speech Recognition:Effects of Clear Speech in Aphasia, Neurobiology of Language Conference 2023
- Individual Differences in Processing Sarcasm., ECU Scholar Teacher Series. 2023
- Social-pragmatic aspects of dynamic language processing, Speaker invitation from NDSU Psychology Department 2023
- The Effectiveness of Communication Confidence Interventions for Persons with Aphasia: A Scoping Review, British Aphasiology Conference 2021
- Nonliteral language processing across the lifespan, International Online Workshop on Language in Healthy and Pathological Aging (AGELANG) 2021
- The Impact of Parkinson's Disease on Social Communication: Behavioral Evidence, ASHA Convention 2021
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease., ASHA Convention 2021
- The Perception of Sarcasm in Cochlear Implant Users, ASHA Convention 2021
- The consequences of speech accommodation towards non-native speakers of English, Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020 2020
- The Impact of Parkinson's Disease on Social Communication: Eye Tracking Evidence, Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2020
- Advancement of Eye Tracking Methods in Aphasia Research: A Review, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention 2019
- Relative Weight Analysis of the Western Aphasia Battery, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention 2019
- Social Communication Across the Lifespan: Evidence Using the RISC Inventory, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention 2019
- The Impact of Parkinson's Disease on Social Communication, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention 2019
- Relative contribution analysis of the Western Aphasia Battery, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2019
- Climate Change and Sarcasm: Exploring Effects of Political Memes Versus News Stories, International Communication Association 2019
- Do You Really Mean It? On the Understanding of Social Intentions in Children, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention 2018
- Emotional responses to speech accommodation: A systematic review, 176th Meeting Acoustical Society of America 2018
- Individual differences in sarcasm perception: behavioral and eye tracking evidence, Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2018
- Affective responses to speech accommodation: A systematic review, CAHS Research Day 2018
- How political ideology influences processing of sarcasm communication about climate change, International Communication Association 2018
- Sensitivity to phonetic competition in People with Aphasia, Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2017
- Cognitive mechanisms underlying social communication., Psychology Department Research Colloquium 2017
- How to make sense of the speech signal: social-pragmatic processes and individual differences., Social Cognitive Science Seminar Series 2017
- How to make sense of communicative intentions: social and cognitive processes., Language and Cognition Brownbag 2016
- Introducing RISC: A new open-source video database for testing social perception in healthy and neuropsychological populations., Cognitive Neurology Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School 2015
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Research
principal investigator on
- Evaluating the Dynamics of Speech Accommodation: Evidence from Mixed-reality and Naturalistic L1-L2 Interactions awarded by NSF - Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) 2022 - 2026
- Consequences of Parkinson's disease on communication and social cognition awarded by CIHR/IRSC 2013 - 2016
- ACN Mobility Fellowship awarded by Erasmus Mundus Student Exchange Network in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience 2011
Service
professional service activities
- Evaluator for the European Commission I evaluated 8 proposals for theMarie Skodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2024
- PLOS ONE Academic Editor Board member of thePLOS ONE Editorial Board 2023
- Reviewer for National Science Foundation I am reviewing a doctoral proposal for theLinguistics Program at the National Science Foundation. 2023
- International peer-reviewer for the Parkinson's Association of Ireland My review will be instrumental in determining whether the application is short-listed to the second review phase for analysis by a specially convened Joint Selection Panel. 2023
- Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Review onMultimodal Assessment of Parkinson's disease Progression (MAPP) 2023
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Contributed my time and expertise to review research grant proposals as part of the 2023 Grant Review and Reviewer Training. This program is critical to ensuring the training of reviewers, and to identifying the most stellar proposals in the Clinical Research Grant and New Century Scholars Research Grant mechanisms. 2022
- Abstract reviewing I reviewed 10 abstracts for the Neurobiology of Language conference 2020. 2021
- Getting Expert Parkinson's Care in Eastern North Carolina In this program, participants will learn how Parkinson's symptoms may change over time and new strategies for treating them. Learn more about accessing expert care through telemedicine services and how this can dramatically impact your quality of life. 2020
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176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
The Sound of Emotion
Broad overview of emotion and affect in the acoustic signal. Research on the production and perception of affective speech and non-speech sounds. ;
; 2018 - Teaching Practices Discussion Group Undergraduate Research Discussion 2017 - 2018
- Peer Review Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (5), Aphasiology (3), Journal of Experimental Psychology (2), Neuropsychologia (1), Infant Behavior & Development (1), Brain Sciences (1), Brain Research (2), Psychophysiology (1), PLOS ONE (1), Second Language Research (1), Brain and Language (1), Journal of Pragmatics (2), Brain Sciences (1), Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2) 2011
Background
education and training
- B.A. in German Linguistics, General Linguistics, and Educational Science, University of Leipzig
- M.A. in German Linguistics, General Linguistics, and Educational Science, University of Leipzig
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, Potsdam University
awards and honors
Contact
preferred title
- Associate Professor