Janna Guilfoyle (6th year, clinical psychology doctoral student) presented findings from her dissertation at the 2024 Frequency Following Response (FFR) Workshop in a talk entitled “Physiological mechanisms contributing to atypical pragmatics in autism: A study of neural speech perception and speech-motor articulation.” This international conference was hosted in Chicago in June 2024 by our collaborators Nina Kraus and Jen Krizman of the Auditory Neuroscience Lab here at Northwestern. The conference brings together multidisciplinary scientists that implement this fine-grained electrophysiological marker of neural sound encoding through a range of applications and various fields of study. We are so proud of Janna for sharing her work demonstrating the utility of the FFR in investigating speech sound processing in autism. In conjunction with other assessments reflecting various points along the auditory-motor pathway, her project sheds light on the physiological and neurocognitive underpinnings of prosody and pragmatic language. 