Tyler Perrachione

Professor Perrachione is the director and principal investigator of the Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory (est. 2013).  He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT (under John D.E. Gabrieli) with prior training in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Northwestern University (under Patrick C.M. Wong).

Prof. Perrachione is the Associate Director of the Hearing Research Center, an investigator in the Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, and an executive member of the Center for Systems Neuroscience,. He is affiliated faculty in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience, the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, and the Department of Linguistics Since 2013 he has been a Research Affiliate at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Prof. Perrachione teaches undergraduate (SAR SH 221 Phonetics) and graduate (SAR SH 620 Neuroimaging for Speech and Hearing Research) courses in Sargent College, and a first-year undergraduate seminar (KHC NE 102 Reading, Language, and the Brain) in the Kilachand Honors College.