curriculum vitae

(current at 12/29/2011)
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contact information

Department of Psychology
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
207A Park Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

716.645.0225
jtm29@buffalo.edu
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jtm29/

education

Master of Arts, General Psychology (2011)
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Philosophy (2005)
Honors College, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania

awards

College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Scholar
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (2007 – 2011)

ICMPC11 Young Researcher Award: Honorable Mention
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (2010)

Merit-Based Travel Award
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) (2010)

Merit-Based Travel Award
Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) (2009)

Outstanding Senior Psychology Major Award
Millersville University (2005)

Outstanding Junior Psychology Major Award
Millersville University (2004)

teaching experience

Instructor:
Psychological Statistics (Spring 2012; Fall 2011)
Situated and Distributed Cognition (Fall 2010)

Teaching Assistant:
Psychological Statistics (Summer 2011)
Introductory Psychology (Summer 2011)
Psychological Statistics (Spring 2010)
Scientific Inquiry (Fall 2009)
Psychological Statistics (Spring 2009)
Sensory Processes and Perception (Spring 2008)
Biopsychology (Fall 2007)

research experience

Graduate Research Assistant
Auditory Perception and Action Laboratory
Peter Q. Pfordresher, PhD, Director
Psychology Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
(Summer 2008/09/10; Fall 2008)

Research Assistant I – II
Speech Research Laboratory
H. Timothy Bunnell, PhD, Director
The Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware
(7/2005 – 8/2007)

professional experience

University at Buffalo Psychology Graduate Student Association
President (2011 – 2012)
Treasurer (2010 – 2011)
Senator (2008 – 2010)

publications

Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (in revision). Vocal imitation of song and speech.

Mantell, J. T., & Sawusch, J. R. (in preparation). Nonspeech rate information influences perception of natural speech.

Pfordresher, P. Q.; & Mantell, J. T. (2012). Effects of altered auditory feedback across effector systems: Production of melodies by keyboard and singing. Acta Psychologica, 139(1), 166-177. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.10.009

Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2010). Modular processing? Phonetic information facilitates speech and song imitation. In S. M. Demorest, S. J. Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (pp. 338-339).

Pfordresher, P. Q., Cox, J. L., Andrews, M., Mantell, J. T., Brown, S., & Zivadinov, R. (2010). Neural stratification of sequencing and timing? An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 190.

Pfordresher, P. Q., & Mantell, J. T. (2009). Singing as a form of vocal imitation: Mechanisms and deficits. In J. Louhivuori, T. Eerola, S. Saarikallio, T. Himberg, & P.-S. Eerola (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (pp. 425-430).

Bunnell, H. T., Schanen, C. N., Vallino, L. D., Morlet, T. G., Polikoff, J. B., Driscoll, J. D., & Mantell, J. T. (2007). Speech perception in children with speech sound disorder. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH-2007, (pp. 422-425).

presentations

Pfordresher, P. Q., Tilton, A., Mantell, J. T., & Brown, S. (2011). Singing with yourself: Assessing the influence of self-similarity and prototypicality in vocal imitation. Presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, Rochester, NY,August 14, 2011.

Mantell, J. T. (2011). Cognition extended: Or, how to future proof cognitive science. Presented at the University at Buffalo Cognitive Psychology Brown Bag Series, February 21, 2011.

Mantell, J. T., & Sawusch, J. R. (2010). Nonspeech rate information influences speech perception, but proximity counts. Presented at the 9th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 18, 2010.

Mantell, J. T. (2010). Pitch detection: Peaks and troughs through time. Presented at the University at Buffalo Cognitive Psychology Brown Bag Series, September 27, 2010.

Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2010). Modular processing? Phonetic information facilitates speech and song imitation. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seattle, WA, August 26, 2010.

Mantell, J. T. (2009). Can nonspeech rate information really influence speech perception? Presented at the University at Buffalo Cognitive Psychology Brown Bag Series, November 2, 2009.

Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2009). Vocal imitation of speech and song: Effects of phonetic information and temporal regularity. Presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, Indianapolis, IN, August 3, 2009.

Mantell, J. T. (2009). The influence of acoustic-phonetic information on the imitation of speech and song. Presented at the ESM/UR/Cornell/UCIS Music Cognition Symposium, March 28, 2009.

Pfordresher, P. Q., & Mantell, J. T. (2009). Vocal imitation of speech and song: Individual differences and the role of articulation. Presented at the University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science colloquium, March 25, 2009.

Mantell, J. T. (2008). Vocal imitation of speech and song. Presented at the University at Buffalo Cognitive Psychology Brown Bag Series, December 1, 2008.

poster sessions

Mantell, J. T., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Schafheimer, B. (2011). Automatic imitation of pitch in speech but not song. Poster session presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, Rochester, NY, August 13, 2011.

Wisniewski, M. G., Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2011). Transfer effects in the vocal imitation of speech and song. Poster session presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, Rochester, NY, August 13, 2011.

Pfordresher, P., Cox, J., Andrews, M., Mantell, J., Brown, S., & Zivadinov, R. (2010). Neural stratification of sequencing and timing in auditory feedback? An fMRI study. Poster session presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 19, 2010.

Pfordresher, P. Q., Cox, J. L., Andrews, M., Mantell, J. T., & Zivadinov, R. (2009). Neural stratification of sequencing and timing in auditory feedback? An fMRI study. Poster session presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, Indianapolis, IN, August 4, 2009.

Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2008). Vocal imitation of speech and song. Poster session presented at the 7th annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 13, 2008.

Bunnell, H. T., Mantell, J. T., & Polikoff, J. B. (2006). Database size and naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis. Poster session presented at the 4th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, November 28, 2006.