Michael S. Vitevitch, Ph.D.

NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow

	E-mail: mvitevit@indiana.edu
	Office: 812-855-4893
	Fax: 812-855-4691
	Address: Speech Research Laboratory Indiana University Dept. of Psychology 1101 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-7007

Education	Publications
Honors & Awards	Technical Skills
Current Research Interests	Membership in Professional Organizations
Teaching Experience & Interests

Education:

Present NIH post-doctoral Research Fellow

September 1, 1997 Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Psychology
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

August, 1996 - May,1997 NIH Pre-doctoral Research Fellow

May, 1993 B.A., Psychology,
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York

Special Courses:

July 21-August 2, 1996 Oxford Summer School in Connectionism

Honors & Awards:

Honors:
B.A. Cum Laude, with Honors in Psychology
Distinguished Independent Study in Psychology (undergraduate)

Awards:

June, 2000 Research Grant (R03 DC 04259) from the National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders:
"Phonotactic Information in Speech Production."

November,1998 Research Grant in Speech Science supported by the Dennis Klatt Memorial Fund from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation

October, 1996 Robert W. Rice Memorial Award for Early Excellence in Research
University at Buffalo

July, 1996 Cognitive Science Scholarship
University at Buffalo

July, 1996 Graduate Student Scholarship
Oxford Summer School in Connectionism

Current Research Interests:

Word Recognition Human Memory and Cognitive Processing

Lexical Access Speech Perception Across the Lifespan

Speech Perception and Production Language Acquisition

Psycholinguistics Second Language Processing

Teaching Experience & Interests:

Teaching Experience:
Introductory Psychology, Fall, 1999 and Fall 2000.
Psychological Statistics (Teaching Assistant) Spring, 1994 and Spring, 1995
Teaching Interests:

Language and Cognition Cognitive Psychology

Psycholinguistics Perception, Statistics

Speech Perception Introductory Psychology

Speech Production Language and Cognitive Development

Publications:

Publications

(in press) Luce, P.A., Goldinger, S.D. & Vitevitch, M.S.
It's good...but is it ART? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

2000 Luce, P.A., Goldinger, S.D., Auer, E.T., Jr., & Vitevitch, M.S.
Phonetic priming effects in spoken word shadowing. Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 615-625.

1999 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Pisoni, D.B., & Auer, E.T., Jr.
Phonotactics, neighborhood activation and lexical access for spoken words. Brain and Language, 68,306-311.

1999 Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A.
Probabilistic phonotactics and neighborhood activation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 373-408.

1998 Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A.
When words compete: Levels of processing in spoken word perception. Psychological Science, 9,325-329.

1997 Vitevitch, M.S.
The neighborhood characteristics of malapropisms.
Language and Speech, 40,211-228.

1997 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D.
Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words. Language and Speech, 40,47-62.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., & Charles-Luce, J.
Phonotactic and metrical influences on adult ratings of spoken nonsense words. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.Philadelphia, PA.

Conference Papers:

1999 Vitevitch, M.S.
Probabilistic Phonotactics and Levels of Processing and Representation in Spoken Word Recognition: When is a Word not a Word? Paper presented at the 138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Columbus, Ohio.

1999 Duenas, N. & Vitevitch, M.S.
Spoken Word Recognition and the Influence of Lexical Competitors at the Beginning of a Word. Poster presented at the 138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Columbus, Ohio.

1999 Vitevitch, M.S., Pisoni, D.B., Kirk, K.I., & Hay-McCutcheon, M.
Phonotactic representations in post-lingually deafened adults. Paper presented at the 22nd MidWinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

1998 Vitevitch, M.S. & Luce, P.A.
Probabilistic phonotactics in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at 39th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Dallas, Texas.

1998 Vitevitch, M.S. & Luce, P.A.
Phonotactics, phonological neighborhoods and working memory in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 136th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, VA.

1998 Luce, P.A., Pisoni, D.B., Vitevitch, M.S., & Auer, E.T., Jr.
Phonotactics, neighborhood activation, and lexical access for spoken words. Paper presented at the International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta, Canada.

1997 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., and Charles-Luce, J.
Temporal processing and phonotactic probability in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 133rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State College, PA.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S.
"SLIP-ing" in phonologically similar neighborhoods.
Poster presented at 132nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1996 Luce, P.A., Vitevitch, M.S., Gaygen, D. E., Lyons, E.A.
Representational specificity of lexical form: Implications for models of spoken word recognition.
Invited talk presented at 132nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A.
Building lexical neighborhoods
Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, San Diego, California.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S.
The neighborhood characteristics of malapropisms.
(For a lay-language version, click here)
Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, San Diego, California.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A.
Building lexical neighborhoods.
Poster presented at 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S.
The neighborhood characteristics of malapropisms.
Poster presented at the 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D.
Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words. Poster presented at the Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Northwestern University.

1996 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D.
Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words. Talk presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1995 Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D.
Phonotactic and metrical influences on adult ratings of spoken nonsense words. Poster presented at the 129th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Washington, D.C.

Manuscripts Submitted and in Preparation:

in prep Vitevitch, M.S.
The influence of similarity neighborhoods on phonological speech errors.

in prep Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A.
Building lexical neighborhoods.

Technical Skills:

Knowledge of Pascal, FORTRAN, and C.
Experience in digital signal processing, waveform editing, spectral analysis, and the use of a Stanford Research Dual Perkinje Eyetracker.

Membership in Professional Organizations:

Acoustical Society of America
American Psychological Society
American Psychological Association
Associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Copyright © 1998 IU Speech Research Lab
Revised: 6/18/00

Present	NIH post-doctoral Research Fellow
September 1, 1997	Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Psychology University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
August, 1996 - May,1997	NIH Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
May, 1993	B.A., Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York

June, 2000	Research Grant (R03 DC 04259) from the National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders: "Phonotactic Information in Speech Production."
November,1998	Research Grant in Speech Science supported by the Dennis Klatt Memorial Fund from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
October, 1996	Robert W. Rice Memorial Award for Early Excellence in Research University at Buffalo
July, 1996	Cognitive Science Scholarship University at Buffalo
July, 1996	Graduate Student Scholarship Oxford Summer School in Connectionism

Word Recognition	Human Memory and Cognitive Processing
Lexical Access	Speech Perception Across the Lifespan
Speech Perception and Production	Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics	Second Language Processing

Language and Cognition	Cognitive Psychology
Psycholinguistics	Perception, Statistics
Speech Perception	Introductory Psychology
Speech Production	Language and Cognitive Development

(in press)	Luce, P.A., Goldinger, S.D. & Vitevitch, M.S. It's good...but is it ART? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
2000	Luce, P.A., Goldinger, S.D., Auer, E.T., Jr., & Vitevitch, M.S. Phonetic priming effects in spoken word shadowing. Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 615-625.
1999	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Pisoni, D.B., & Auer, E.T., Jr. Phonotactics, neighborhood activation and lexical access for spoken words. Brain and Language, 68,306-311.
1999	Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A. Probabilistic phonotactics and neighborhood activation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 373-408.
1998	Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A. When words compete: Levels of processing in spoken word perception. Psychological Science, 9,325-329.
1997	Vitevitch, M.S. The neighborhood characteristics of malapropisms. Language and Speech, 40,211-228.
1997	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D. Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words. Language and Speech, 40,47-62.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., & Charles-Luce, J. Phonotactic and metrical influences on adult ratings of spoken nonsense words. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.Philadelphia, PA.

1999	Vitevitch, M.S. Probabilistic Phonotactics and Levels of Processing and Representation in Spoken Word Recognition: When is a Word not a Word? Paper presented at the 138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Columbus, Ohio.
1999	Duenas, N. & Vitevitch, M.S. Spoken Word Recognition and the Influence of Lexical Competitors at the Beginning of a Word. Poster presented at the 138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Columbus, Ohio.
1999	Vitevitch, M.S., Pisoni, D.B., Kirk, K.I., & Hay-McCutcheon, M. Phonotactic representations in post-lingually deafened adults. Paper presented at the 22nd MidWinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.
1998	Vitevitch, M.S. & Luce, P.A. Probabilistic phonotactics in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at 39th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Dallas, Texas.
1998	Vitevitch, M.S. & Luce, P.A. Phonotactics, phonological neighborhoods and working memory in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 136th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, VA.
1998	Luce, P.A., Pisoni, D.B., Vitevitch, M.S., & Auer, E.T., Jr. Phonotactics, neighborhood activation, and lexical access for spoken words. Paper presented at the International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta, Canada.
1997	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., and Charles-Luce, J. Temporal processing and phonotactic probability in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 133rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State College, PA.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S. "SLIP-ing" in phonologically similar neighborhoods. Poster presented at 132nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1996	Luce, P.A., Vitevitch, M.S., Gaygen, D. E., Lyons, E.A. Representational specificity of lexical form: Implications for models of spoken word recognition. Invited talk presented at 132nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A. Building lexical neighborhoods Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, San Diego, California.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S. The neighborhood characteristics of malapropisms. (For a lay-language version, click here) Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, San Diego, California.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A. Building lexical neighborhoods. Poster presented at 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S. The neighborhood characteristics of malapropisms. Poster presented at the 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D. Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words. Poster presented at the Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Northwestern University.
1996	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D. Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words. Talk presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1995	Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., & Kemmerer, D. Phonotactic and metrical influences on adult ratings of spoken nonsense words. Poster presented at the 129th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Washington, D.C.

in prep	Vitevitch, M.S. The influence of similarity neighborhoods on phonological speech errors.
in prep	Vitevitch, M.S. and Luce, P.A. Building lexical neighborhoods.