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Robert Remez

Professor of Psychology

Robert Remez, professor of psychology, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1980. His teaching focuses on the relationships among perception, cognition and language. Since 1985, Professor Remez's research has been supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders under the project "Sensory and Perceptual Factors in Spoken Communication." One line of his research examines the perceptual organization of speech and seeks to explain how listeners can follow speech amid the sounds that strike the ear. In a second line of research, he studies the perceptible differences between individual talkers and the phonetic and qualitative aspects of these indexical properties.

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Professor Remez is a member of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Psychological Association; and the Association for Psychological Science. During the 2006-7 academic year, Professor Remez was a Visiting Scholar at the Parmly Hearing Institute in Chicago.

Selected Publications

"Philosophical Messages in the Medium of Spoken Language" (with J. D. Trout), in Sounds and Perception: New Essays on the Philosophy of Sound and Auditory Experience, ed. M. Nudds and C. O’Callaghan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press)

"Three Puzzles of Multimodal Speech Perception," in Audiovisual Speech Processing, ed. E. Vatikiotis-Bateson, G. Bailly and P. Perrier (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, in press)

"On the Perception of Similarity Among Talkers" (with J. M. Fellowes and D. S. Nagel), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122 (2007)

"The Perception of Speech" (with J. S. Pardo), in Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd edition, ed. M. Traxler and M. A. Gernsbacher (New York: Academic Press, 2006)

"The Perceptual Organization of Speech," in Handbook of Speech Perception, ed. D. B. Pisoni and R. E. Remez (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005)

"Analysis and Analogy in the Perception of Vowels" (with J. M. Fellowes, et al.), Memory & Cognition 31 (2003)

"Establishing and Maintaining Perceptual Coherence: Unimodal and Multimodal Evidence," Journal of Phonetics 31 (2003)

"Short-Term Reorganization of Auditory Analysis Induced by Phonetic Experience" (with E. Liebenthal, et al.), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15 (2003)

"The Interchange of Phonology and Perception Considered from the Perspective of Organization" in The Role of Speech Perception Phenomena in Phonology, ed. E. V. Hume and K. A. Johnson ( San Diego: Academic Press, 2001)

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Robert Remez
Professor of Psychology
Barnard College

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EDUCATION:

B.A., Brandeis University

Ph.D., University of Connecticut