About

Research in the Speech Perception Laboratory focuses on the perceptual consequences of phonetic variability in speech. The main topics under investigation are how listeners adapt to the variability present in the speech signal, how this learning can best be facilitated, and how children develop the ability to accurately and effortlessly perceive highly variable speech signals, including foreign-accented speech. 

Lab members

• Current members
• Tessa Bent, Director
• Eriko Atagi
  
• Matti Rhodes
• Jessica Copperman
• Marissa Ganeku
• Steven Elmlinger
• Nancy Eastman
• Alaine Payton

• Alumni
• Kierra Villines
• Melissa Tiearney
• Victoria Cook
• Megan McGrath
• Nancy Lesniewski
• Melissa Dorsey

Funding

Research in the Speech Perception Lab is currently supported by a grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R21 DC010027). 

News

Check out the write up about the lab in the IDS!
Read more about the lab in IU Home Pages!

Contact

Lab location: Speech and Hearing Sciences, Room C123
Lab phone: 812-855-2795
e-mail: tbent at indiana dot edu