I am a postdoc in Prof. Dr. Audrey Bürki’s lab, Cognitive Science: Language and Methods, at the University of Potsdam in Germany. My position is funded by the Sonderforschungsbereich Limits of Variability in Language.

I received my PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in July of 2020 from University of Connecticut in the United States. I was a member of the Language and Brain Lab under the direction of Dr. Emily Myers, who was my primary advisor.

I am interested in perceptual learning of second-language speech sounds and how phonetic variability in the speech signal can affect learning and memory for those sounds. My work also seeks to better understand individual differences in speech perception, perceptual learning of speech, and speech production. So far I have gone about this by testing whether language ability, cognitive skills, or individual variation in brain structure (using MRI) predict individual differences in performance on various speech tasks.

I am a big fan of open science, and I’ve made my data and analysis code for my recent projects publicly available on my OSF page and my Github.

In my free time, I can be found running, knitting, or watching crime shows or stand-up comedy. I also have an extremely cute and tiny cat.

Contact

pamela dot fuhrmeister at uni hyphen potsdam dot de
pamfuhrmeister at gmail dot com