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Axelle Calcus is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium). She received her PhD in Psychology in 2015, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University (MS, United States), University College London (London, UK) and Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France). Her main research interest focuses on the development of perception of speech in noise in children with and without hearing difficulties. Her work has been supported by awards from H2020 (European Commission). She is a member of the board of the Belgian association for audiology, and of the executive committee of the Belgian association for psychological sciences. Her recent work has been published in Developmental Science and eLife.
Cynthia G. Clopper is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Indiana University and held post‐doctoral positions in Psychology at Indiana University and in Linguistics at Northwestern University before joining the faculty at Ohio State. Her major areas of expertise are phonetics, speech perception, sociophonetics, and laboratory phonology. Dr. Clopper’s current research projects examine the effects of geographic mobility and linguistic experience on cross‐dialect lexical processing, the relationships between linguistic and indexical sources of variation in speech processing, and regional prosodic variation in American English.
Anja‐Xiaoxing Cui is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and visiting professor of systematic musicology at Osnabrück University. She studied psychology and piano performance before receiving her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Queen’s University in 2019. Her research centers on auditory processing and the interactions of music and learning, and has been supported by NSERC and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anja received additional support through the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
Anne Cutler is Distinguished Professor at the MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Australia. She studied languages and psychology in Melbourne, Berlin and Bonn, took a PhD in psycholinguistics at the University of Texas, held positions at MIT, Sussex University and the MRC Applied Psychology Unit (Cambridge, UK), and then from 1993 to 2013 was Director and Comprehension Group head at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research concerns listening to spoken language, and in particular how native language experience tailors speech decoding processes. She is an elected member of national academies in Europe, the US and Australia.
Josh Dorsi is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Neurology Department of the Penn State College of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2019. His research investigates the role of multisensory and lexical information in supporting speech perception, as well as the role of crossmodal correspondences in speech and language pathologies. Some recent publications of this work have appeared in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics; The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; and the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
Cynthia R. Hunter is Assistant Professor of Speech‐Language‐Hearing and Director of the Speech Perception, Cognition, and Hearing Laboratory at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the StateUniversity of New York at Buffalo in 2016, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Indiana University and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Her research centers on the neural and cognitive factors that allow individuals with and without hearing loss to understand speech in adverse listening conditions. Her recent workhas appeared in Ear and Hearing, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Neuropsychologia, and Brain and Language.
Sara Incera is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Multilingual Laboratory at Eastern Kentucky University. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Cleveland State University in 2016, Conor McLennan was her Ph.D. advisor. Her research interests include foreign accents, bilingualism, and language development across the lifespan. Her most recent work has focused on the relationships between language and emotion. Her articles have been published in Cognition & Emotion, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Mind & Language, Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, International Journal of Bilingualism, Acta Psychologica, and Bilingualism: Language & Cognition.
Alexandra Jesse is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Director of the Language, Intersensory Perception, and Speech Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After receiving her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2005, she held a research position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics until 2010. Her research focuses on speech perception, particularly on audiovisual speech and aging, and has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the German Research Foundation, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Some recent publications have appeared in Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, and Biological Psychology.
Keith Johnson is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Ohio State University in 1988 and held research positions in Psychology at Indiana University, in Linguistics at UCLA, and in Speech and Hearing Science at University of Alabama, Birmingham, and academic positions at Ohio State University, and Berkeley. His research is on perceptual processes involved in compensating for phonetic talker differences.
Steven Lamontagne is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University and a visiting doctoral scholar at Harvard’s McLean Hospital. In 2017, he received his MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Queen’s University, where he studied interactions between reward and stress circuitry using animal models. His current research, which is supported by NSERC, centers on the neurophysiological correlates of reward learning and cognitive control in people with treatment‐resistant major depressive disorder. Some recent publications of his research have appeared in Psychopharmacology, Physiology & Behavior, and Behavioural Brain Research.
Susannah V. Levi is an Associate Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and Director of the Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington in 2004. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Speech Research Lab at Indiana University with David Pisoni. Her research focuses on the relationship between linguistic and speaker information during of spoken language processing. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Some recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Journal of the Acoustical Society of American, and Cognitive Science.
David Lutes received his M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience at Queen’s University in 2019, where he used virtual reality devices to study the impact that various image characteristics have on the brain’s ability to effectively fuse separate images in binocular vision. To further his interest in the applications of virtual reality, David is continuing his education into video game development, as well as public health and neuroscience.
Conor T. McLennan is a Professor, Chair of the Department of Psychology, and Director of the Language Research Laboratory at Cleveland State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in 2003. His research interests include language perception, bilingualism, cognitive aging, and other topics in language, memory, and perception. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and has been published in a variety of journals, including Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Cognition & Emotion, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, and Language & Speech.
K. G. Munhall is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University.