Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology
Department of Otolaryngology
Queen's University

telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext 77595
fax: (613) 533-2499
e-mail: shiller [at] psyc.queensu.ca

Journal Articles

Tremblay, S., Shiller, D.M. & Ostry, D.J. (2003) Somatosensory basis of speech production. Nature, in press.

Malfait, N., Shiller, D.M. & Ostry, D.J. (2002) Transfer of motor learning across arm configurations. Journal of Neuroscience, in press.
[abstract] - [Article in PDF format (296 KB)]

Shiller D. M., Laboissière R. & Ostry D. J. (2002). The relationship between jaw stiffness and kinematic variability in speech. Journal of Neurophysiology, 88: 2329-2340.
[abstract] - [Article in PDF format (532 KB)]

Shiller D. M., Ostry D. J. & Gribble P. L. and Laboissière, R. (2001) Compensation for the effects of head acceleration on jaw movement in speech. Journal of Neuroscience, 21: 6447-6456.
[abstract] - [Article in PDF format (247 KB)]

Suzuki M., Shiller D.M., Gribble P.L. & Ostry D.J. (2001). Relationship between cocontraction, movement kinematics and phasic muscle activity in single-joint arm movement. Experimental Brain Research, 140: 171-81.
[abstract] - [Article in PDF format (164 KB)]

Shiller D.M., Ostry D.J. & Gribble P.L. (1999). Effects of Gravitational Load on Jaw Movements in Speech. Journal of Neuroscience, 19: 9073-9080.
[abstract] - [Article in PDF format (288 KB)]

Recent Refereed Conference Presentations and Published Proceedings

Ostry D. J., Tremblay S. & Shiller D. M. (2002). Adaptation to motion dependent loads in speech production. Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Conference on Motor Speech, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Laboissière R., Shiller, D. M. & Ostry D. J. (2001). Estimating jaw mechanical properties during speech movements. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions (ISHF2001), Sapporo, Japan.

Ostry D. J., Shiller D. M. & Laboissière R. (2001). Jaw impedance and its influence on speech production. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions (ISHF2001), Sapporo, Japan.

Ostry D. J., Shiller D. M. & Laboissière R. (2001). Kinematic variation in jaw movement reflects the biomechanical behavior of the jaw. Proceedings of the 4th International Speech Motor Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Shiller D. M., Laboissière R., Sanguineti V. & Ostry D. J. (2000). Jaw mechanical behaviour during speech production. Paper presented at the 5th Seminar on Speech Production in Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, Germany.

Shiller, D. M. & Ostry, D. J. (2000). Understanding Speech Motor Control in the Context of Orofacial Biomechanics. Paper presented at the Tenth Biennial Conference on Motor Speech, San Antonio, Texas.

Recent Non-Refereed Conference Presentations and Published Proceedings

Malfait N., Shiller D. M. & Ostry D. J. (2002). Decomposition of transfer of learning across arm configurations. 12th Annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Naples, Florida.

Shiller D. M., Laboissière R., Tremblay S. & Ostry D. J. (2001). Estimating stiffness during multi-degree-of-freedom movement. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27.

Tremblay S., Shiller D. M. & Ostry D. J. (2001). Force-field adaptation in a non-visual motor task. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27.

Shiller D. M. & Ostry D. J. (2001). Jaw impedance and its influence on speech production. Eleventh Annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Seville, Spain.

Shiller D. M. & Ostry D. J. (2000). Jaw impedance and kinematic variability in speech. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26.

Suzuki M., Shiller D. M., Gribble P. L. & Ostry D. J. (2000). Relationship between cocontraction, movement kinematics and phasic muscle activity in single joint arm movement. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26.