in psychology from McGill University in 1984. His research focuses on sensorimotor processing in speech production, audiovisual speech perception, and perceptual and cognitive factors in conversational interaction. His work has been supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Some recent publications of his work have appeared in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Experimental Brain Research, Multisensory Research, and Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Emily B. Myers is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2005. Her work focuses on the processes that allow a listener to map the speech signal to meaning, how these processes are instantiated in the brain, and how the system breaks down in cases of language disorder. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Susan Nittrouer received her PhD from the City University of New York in Speech and Hearing Science. After a post‐doctoral fellowship at Haskins Laboratories she worked at Boys Town National Research Hospital, Utah State University, and the Ohio State University. Currently she is Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the intersection between auditory and language development, and on the challenges encountered by children with risk factors for developmental language delays, including hearing loss, poverty, or conditions leading to dyslexia. Susan’s goal is to develop more effective interventions for these children.
Lynne C. Nygaard is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, and the Speech and Language Communication Laboratory at Emory University, USA. Her research on the perceptual, cognitive, biological, and social underpinnings of human spoken communication has appeared in many journals, including Psychological Science, Brain and Language, and Cognitive Science.
Ellen O’Donoghue is a Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Iowa, in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She received her M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology from Queen’s University in 2018. Her research concerns the fundamental mechanisms that support learning and categorization across species, with particular emphasis on humans and pigeons.
Jennifer S. Pardo is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Speech Communication Laboratory at Montclair State University. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University in 2000, and has held academic positions at Barnard College, Wesleyan University, and The New School for Social Research. Her research centers on the production and perception of spoken language in conversational interaction and on understanding variation and convergence in phonetic form, and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Some recent publications of this work have appeared in Journal of Memory & Language, Journal of Phonetics, Language & Speech, and Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Oiwi Parker Jones is a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He did his doctoral research in Oxford on NLP with a focus on the application of machine learning to endangered languages. From there he trained as an imaging and computational neuroscientist at University College London and Oxford. His primary interest is in the development of a neural speech prosthetic. This includes basic research on speech and language in the brain, including work on clinical populations. His papers have been published in journals like Science and Brain and at machine learning conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, andICML.
David B. Pisoni is Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Chancellor’s Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA. He has made significant contributions in basic, applied, and clinical research in areas of speech perception, production, synthesis, and spoken language processing.
Lawrence J. Raphael is Professor Emeritus of both the Graduate School of CUNY and Adelphi University. He was a research associate at Haskins Laboratories for 26 years. His research interests include speech perception, speech acoustics and the physiology of the speech mechanism. His research has been published in a variety of scholarly journals. He is a co‐author of Speech Science Primer, 6th edition and co‐editor of The Biographical Dictionary of the Phonetic Sciences, Language and Cognition and Producing Speech. Professor Raphael is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Robert E. Remez is Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA, and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language and Cognition. His research has been published in many scientific and technical journals, including American Psychologist, Developmental Psychology, Ear and Hearing, Experimental Aging Research, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Lawrence D. Rosenblum is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He studies multisensory speech and talker perception as well as ecological acoustics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the National Federation of the Blind. He is the author of numerous publications including the book See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of our Five Senses. His research has been featured in Scientific American, The New York Times, and The Economist.
Jan W. H. Schnupp is a sensory neuroscientist with a long standing interest in the processing of auditory information by the central nervous system. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1996, and he held visiting and faculty positions at the University of WIsconsin, the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford before taking up a professorship at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests range widely, from central representations of auditory space to pitch and timbre, temporal predictive coding and auditory pattern learning. His work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, MRC, and the UGC and HMRF of Hong Kong. He has published over 80 papers in numerous neuroscience and general science journals and he coauthored the textbook "Auditory Neuroscience".
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis (formerly Van Lancker) is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University, where she served as Chair from 1999‐2002; Associate Director of the Brain and Behavior Laboratory at the Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY; and a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist (from Cal State LA). Her education includes an MA from the University of Chicago, PhD from Brown University, and an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University. Dr. Sidtis has continued to mentor students and perform research in speech science, voice studies, and neurolinguistics. She is author of over 100 scientific papers and review chapters, and coauthor, with Jody Kreiman, of Foundations of Voice Studies, Wiley‐Blackwell. Her second book, Foundations of Familiar Language, is scheduled to appear in 2021.
Matthias J. Sjerps received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has held postdoc positions at the Max Planck Institute, The Radboud University of Nijmegen, and at the University of California at Berkeley. His main research line has been centered on the perception of speech sounds, with a specific focus on how listeners resolve variability in speech sounds. His work has been supported by grants from the European Committee (Marie curie grant) and Max Planck Gesellschaft. Some recent publications of this work have appeared in Nature Communications, Journal of Phonetics, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Since 2019 he is working as a researcher for the Dutch Inspectorate of Education, focusing on methods of risk‐assessment of schools and school‐boards.
Rajka Smiljanic is Professor of Linguistics and Director of UT Sound Lab