Dr. Elisabet Service is a Professor Emerita of the Department of Linguistics and Languages. She directs the Language, Memory & Brain Lab at ARiEAL. Her research incorporates three major elements: working memory, language and dyslexia. Over the years, her research has expanded to apply working memory concepts and methods to study of morphological complexity in the mental lexicon, sentence processing, language acquisition, the effect of second language on work-related tasks and negotiation, reading difficulty, and developmental language disorder (DLD). Lately, Dr. Service has studied the role of memory for rhythm in working memory and language acquisition. She uses experimental methods and collaborates in projects employing brain recording using EEG (electroencephalography) and MEG (magnetoencephalography).
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Togo Salmon Hall, Room 505, McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Email: eservic@mcmaster.ca
Office Phone: (905) 525-9140 x21352
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University
Co-Director, Language, Memory and Brain Lab, McMaster University
Adjunct Professor (Docent), Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki
Nora, A.; Rinkinen, O.; Renvall, H.; Service, E.; Arkkila, E.; Smolander, S.; Laasonen, M.; Salmelin, R. (2024). Impaired cortical tracking of speech in children with developmental language disorder. Journal of Neuroscience.
Service, E. & Simard, D. (2022). How measures of working memory relate to L2 vocabulary. Wen, Z. & Schwieter, J. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language. pp. 529–549. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Service, E., DeBorba, E., Lopez-Cormier, A., Horzum, M., Pape, D. (2022) Short-term memory for auditory temporal patterns and meaningless sentences predicts learning of foreign word forms. Brain Sciences, 12: 549. 9pp.
Eranovic, J., Pape, D., Stroínska, M., Service, E., Matkovski, M. “Effects of Noise on Speech Perception and Spoken Word Comprehension”. 23rd Interspeech Conference, September 18–22, 2022, Incheon, Korea.
Rana, F. S., Pape, D., & Service, E.. (2022). “The effect of increasing acoustic and linguistic complexity on auditory processing: an EEG study.” Interspeech 2022, 18–12 September, 2022, Incheon, Korea.
Lahti-Nuuttila, P., Laasonen, M., Smolander, S., Kunnari, S., Arkkila, E., & Service, E. (2021). Language acquisition of early sequentially bilingual children is moderated by short-term memory for order in developmental language disorder: Findings from the HelSLI study. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 907–926.
Lahti-Nuuttila, P., Service, E., Smolander, S., Kunnari, S., Arkkila, E., Laasonen, M. (2021). Short-term memory for serial order moderates aspects of language acquisition in children with developmental language disorder: Findings from the HelSLI study. Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences, 12:608069. 17pp.
Bartošová, J., Chapman, C., Kučerová, I., & Service, E. (2020). Making Semantic Commitments Can Be Delayed: Evidence From Aspectual Processing. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. Advance online publication.
Ylinen, S., Nora, A. & Service, E. (2020) Better phonological short-term memory is linked to improved cortical memory representations for word forms and better word learning. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 209.
Ho, A., Boshra, R., Schmidtke, D., Oralova, G., Moro, A. L., Service, E., & Connolly, J. F. (2019). Electrophysiological evidence for the integral nature of tone in Mandarin spoken word recognition. Neuropsychologia, 131, 325-332.
Service, E., & Maury, S. (2015). Differential recall of derived and inflected word forms in working memory: examining the role of morphological information in simple and complex working memory tasks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1–16.
Service, E., Yli-Kaitala, H., Maury, S., & Kim, J. Y. (2014). Adults’ and 8-Year-Olds’ Learning in a Foreign Word Repetition Task: Similar and Different. Language Learning, 64(2), 215–246.
Laasonen, M., Virsu, V., Oinonen, S., Sandbacka, M., Salakari, A., & Service, E. (2012). Phonological and sensory short-term memory are correlates and both affected in developmental dyslexia. Reading and Writing, 25(9), 2247–2273.
Service, E., Helenius, P., Maury, S., & Salmelin, R. (2007). Localization of syntactic and semantic brain responses using magnetoencephalography. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(7), 1193–1205.
Salmelin, R., Service, E., Kiesilä, P., Uutela, K., & Salonen, O. (1996). Impaired visual word processing in dyslexia revealed with magnetoencephalography. Annals of Neurology, 40(2), 157–162.
Service, E. (1992). Phonology, Working Memory, and Foreign-language Learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45(1), 21–50.
- Jordan Gallant, PhD Student (co-supervision), Cognitive Science of Language Program, McMaster University
- Jasmine Kwon, MSc Student, Cognitive Science of Language Program, McMaster University
- Pekka Lahti-Nuuttila, PhD Student, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki
- Bre-Anna Owusu, PhD Student, Neuroscience Graduate Program, McMaster University
- Jade Plym, PhD Student, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki
- Chelsea Whitwell, PhD Student, Cognitive Science of Language Program, McMaster University