Expertise:
Digital
signal processing, speech synthesis and analysis, computational
modeling using dynamical systems and connectionist approaches.
Professor Nusbaum's research focuses on the areas of cognitive
psychology and cognitive and social neuroscience. Spoken
language is one of the primary ways by which humans interact.
Nusbaum’s research is concerned with understanding
the psychological and neural mechanisms that mediate the
use of spoken language and that guide much of human interaction.
His work on spoken language processing has emphasized the
role of learning and attention and working memory. Much of
his research is on the mechanisms of speech perception and
production but recent research has also examined conceptual
development, emotion, and social interaction. His collaborative
research has examined the role of sleep in consolidating
perceptual learning of speech sounds, the cortical mechanisms
that mediate perception of audio-visual speech, the role
of gesture in production and comprehension of speech, and
how listeners adjust to differences among talkers. Current
research projects involve understanding the ability of non-human
animals to learn language-like structure, examining the role
of sleep in illusory memory and perceptuo-motor learning,
the processing of emotional information in lonely people,
how we use different dimensions of speech to refer to events,
how our expectations change the way we understand sensory
information. Nusbaum is currently Co-Director of the University
of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (UC3SN).
Specific research projects:
--Sleep effects on learning and memory consolidation
--Cortical mechanisms of speech processing
--Perceptual and motor learning and attention
--Syntactic learning in starlings
--Social neuroscience of language processing
Laboratory personnel:
Hadas Shintel, Graduate Student
hadas@uchicago.edu
Kimberly Fenn, Graduate student
kmfenn@uchicago.edu
Tiffany Brakefield, Graduate student
tiff@uchicago.edu
Stephani Foraker, Postdoctoral Fellow
sforaker@uchicago.edu
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