Chancellors' Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Director, Speech Research Laboratory
(812) 855-1155
pisoni@indiana.edu

See also:
Dr. Pisoni's home page
Speech Research Lab (SRL).

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971

• Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, 1987-94
• James McKeen Cattell Award, 1985-86
• Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer, Indiana University, 1982
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1978-79
• Rackham Prize Fellow, University of Michigan, 1970-71
• Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, 1996

• Acoustic analysis, synthesis and perception of speech sounds
• Spoken word recognition and lexical access
• Spoken language comprehension
• Perceptual development
• Cognitive neuropsychology
• Neurolinguistics
• Hearing impairment, cochlear implants

The Speech Research Laboratory at Indiana University has extensive hardware and software for presenting complex acoustic signals to subjects and recording their responses in real-time. Three computer-controlled laboratories are used for perceptual experiments with human observers. These labs are equipped with audio-visual capabilities for running multiple observers in real-time experiments. The labs also have several specialized state-of-the-art workstations as well as a series of microcomputers that are used for speech analysis and synthesis and computational studies of linguistic databases.

Kirk, K. I., Pisoni, D. B. & Osberger, M.J. (1995). Lexical effects on spoken word recognition by pediatric cochlear implant users.
Ear & Hearing, 16, 470-481.

Bradlow, A.R., Torretta, G.M. & Pisoni, D. B. (1996). Intelligibility of normal speech I: Global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics.
Speech Communication, 20, 255-272.

Pisoni, D.B. Word identification in noise. (1996).
Language and Cognitive Processes, 11 (6), 681-687.

Bradlow, A.R., Torretta, G.M. and Pisoni, D.B. (1996). Intelligibility of normal speech I: Global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics.
Speech Communication, 20, 255-272.

Pisoni, D.B. (1997). Perception of synthetic speech produced by rule: A selective review and interpretation of research over the last 15 years.
In J. H. P. van Santen, R.W. Sproat, J. O. Olive & J. Hirschberg (Eds.), Progress in Speech Synthesis. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 541-560.

Pisoni, D. B. (1997). Some thoughts on "Normalization" in speech perception.
In K. Johnson & J. W. Mullennix (Eds.), Talker Variability in Speech Processing. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 9-32.

Bradlow, A.R., Pisoni, D.B., Yamada, R.A. and Tohkura, Y. (1997). Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/ IV: Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, 2299-2310.

Sommers, M.S., Kirk, K.I. and Pisoni, D.B. (1997). Some considerations in evaluating spoken word recognition by normal-hearing and cochlear implant listeners I: The effects of response format.
Ear & Hearing, 18, 89-99.

Kirk, K.I., Pisoni, D.B. and Miyamoto, R.C. (1997). Effects of stimulus variability on speech perception in hearing impaired listeners.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40, 1395-1405.

Luce, P.A. and Pisoni, D.B. (1998). Recognizing spoken words: the Neighborhood Activation Model.
Ear & Hearing, 19, 1-36.

Nygaard, L.C. and Pisoni, D.B. (1998). Talker-specific learning in speech perception.
Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 335-376.

Aslin, R.N., Jusczyk, P. W. & Pisoni, D. B. (1998). Speech and auditory processing during infancy: Constraints on and precursors to language.
In W. Damon (Series Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology. Fifth Edition, Vol. 2: Cognition, Perception & Language (D. Kuhn & R. Siegler, Eds.) New York: Wiley.

Bradlow, A.R., Nygaard, L.C. & Pisoni, D.B. (1999). Effects of talker, rate and amplitude variation on recognition memory for spoken words.
Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 206-219.