Luca Campanelli, Ph.D.

Prior to joining New York Medical College in 20i25, Luca Campanelli, Ph.D., served as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama for four years. Dr. Campanelli completed postdoctoral research at the University of Georgia and Haskins Laboratories at Yale University, where he deepened his expertise in attention, memory, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. Dr. Campanelli’s work focuses on speech and language processing, with particular emphasis on their cognitive underpinnings in both typical and atypical populations. His academic career has been defined by a commitment to integrating research, teaching, and clinical insight to advance both basic science and evidence-based practice. He values not only the theoretical contributions of research, but especially its potential to positively impact individuals and the broader community.

In addition to his institutional service, Dr. Campanelli is an active member of the scientific community. He regularly reviews manuscripts for leading journals in psychology, linguistics, and speech-language pathology. He also serves as a review editor for Psycholinguistics, a founding Editorial Board member and associate editor for Language Communication (a specialty section of Frontiers in Communication), and as a reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC). Dr. Campanelli’s contributions have been recognized through numerous awards and honors. Notable examples include research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as two competitive awards recognizing excellence in research mentorship. At NYMC, he also directs the Electrophysiology and Eye-Tracking Laboratory, where he oversees a range of projects that leverage behavioral and neurophysiological methods to investigate speech, language, and cognition.

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia
• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Haskins Laboratories, Yale University
• Ph.D., Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center
• M.Phil., Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center
• M.A., Psychology, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Areas of Expertise

• Language Comprehension in Children and Adults
• Cognitive Underpinnings of Language Processing
• Speech Perception and Production in Bilingual Children and Adults
• Computational Modeling of Brain and Cognition

Publications

• Eichorn N, Campanelli L. "Attention Bias in School-Age Children Who Stutter: Evidence From a Dot-Probe Task." Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 68(7), (2025) 3155-3170. doi: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00686
• Harwood V, Baron A, Kleinman D, et. al. "Event-Related Potentials in Assessing Visual Speech Cues in the Broader Autism Phenotype: Evidence from a Phonemic Restoration Paradigm." Brain sciences, 13(7), (2023) . doi: 10.3390/brainsci13071011
• Baron A, Harwood V, Kleinman D, et. al. "Where on the face do we look during phonemic restoration: An eye-tracking study." Frontiers in psychology, 14(), (2023) 1005186. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1005186
• Moya-Galé G, Spielman J, Ramig LA, et. al. "The Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) in People with Parkinson's Disease Before and After Intensive Voice and Articulation Therapies: Secondary Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation, 38(6), (2024) 1529.e7-1529.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.03.014
• Levy ES, Moya-Galé G, Chang YM, et. al. "Effects of speech cues in French-speaking children with dysarthria." International journal of language & communication disorders, 55(3), (2020) 401-416. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12526
• Yu YH, Tessel C, Han H, et. al. "Neural Indices of Vowel Discrimination in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants and Children." Ear and hearing, 40(6), (2019) 1376-1390. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000726
• Baigorri M, Campanelli L, Levy ES, et. al. "Perception of American-English Vowels by Early and Late Spanish-English Bilinguals." Language and speech, 62(4), (2019) 681-700. doi: 10.1177/0023830918806933

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Speech Science
• Research Methods
• Neuroscience