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• 1996 – 1999Cognitive Psychology (Advisor: Peter W. Jusczyk, Ph.D) - M.A. 1997
  (Dissertation: "The Role of Talker Variability in Infant Word Representations") - Ph.D. 2000
  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
  
• 1994 – 1996Cognitive Psychology (Advisor: Peter W. Jusczyk, Ph.D)
  State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
  
• 1988 – 1993Psychology (Major) and French (Minor) - B.A. 1993
  University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
  

Professional Activities

• 2008 – PresentAssociate Professor and Philip F. Holton Scholar
  Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  
• 2002 – 2008Assistant Professor and Philip F. Holton Scholar
  Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  
• 2000 – 2002NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  
• 1998Visiting Researcher
  Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, France
  
• 1996Visiting Researcher
  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  
• 1991 – 1993Research Assistant
  University of Oregon, Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences
  
• 1990 – 1991Research Assistant
  Good Samaritan Hospital, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Portland, Oregon
  

Fellowships and Awards

• 2002 – PresentPhilip F. Holton Scholar
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  
• 2009 – 2010New Investigator Award
  American Academy of Audiology Foundation ($9,040)
  
• 2001Young Investigator Award
  American Psychological Association
  
• 2000 – 2002Postdoctoral Fellowship
  National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (T3 DC00012)
  
• 1998 – 1999National Research Scientist Award (predoctoral)
  National Institute of Mental Health ($28,170)
  

Research Grants

• 2008 – 2011United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation research grant
  "The influence of language input on stress-pattern perception and representation in normal-hearing infants and hearing-impaired infants with cochlear implants"
  Role: Co-Principal Investigator ($153,000 – direct)
  
• 2007 – 2010IUPUI Signature Center Grant
  "The Center for Advanced Studies in Hearing, Perception, and Language"
  Role: Faculty Participant ($150,017 – direct)
  
• 2007 – 2008American Academy of Otolaryngology, resident research grant
  "Validating a novel speech discrimination test in hearing-impaired infants"
  Role: Mentor/preceptor ($9,977 – direct)
  
• 2004 – 2007National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
  "Multimodal Perception by Infants with Cochlear Implants" (R21 DC006682)
  Role: Co-Principal Investigator ($375,000 – direct)
  
• 2003 – 2008National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
  "Multimodal Perception by Infants with Cochlear Implants" (R21 DC006682)
  Role: Principal Investigator ($375,000 – direct)
  
• 2003 – 2008National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
  "Speech Perception by Infants with Cochlear Implants" (R01 DC006235)
  Role: Principal Investigator ($1,125,000 – direct)
  
• 2002 – 2003Deafness Research Foundation
  "Assessing Early Word-learning Skills of Deaf Infants Following Cochlear Implantation"
  Role: Principal Investigator ($55,967 – direct)
  
• 2002American Hearing Research Foundation
  "Development of Audiovisual Integration Skills in Deaf Infants Following Cochlear Implantation"
  Role: Principal Investigator ($19,979 – direct)
  
• 2001Indiana University Intercampus Research Grant
  "Assessing Speech Perception Skills of Deaf Infants Who Use Cochlear Implants"
  Role: Principal Investigator ($9,810 – direct)
  

Current Research Interests

• Infant Speech Perception, Spoken Word Recognition, Speech Perception and Language Development after Cochlear Implantation, Critical Periods of Early Language Development, Speech Segmentation
  

Professional Memberships

• Acoustical Society of America
  
• American Auditory Society
  
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  
• Association for Psychological Sciences
  
• International Society on Infant Studies
  
• Society for Research in Child Development
  
• Society for Language Development
  

Teaching Experience

• 2001 – PresentStudent Mentor, Summer Research Traineeship for Medical Students
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  Each summer, I mentor a first-year medical student for 12 weeks on a research project.
  
• 2002 – 2007Director, Summer Research Traineeship for Medical Students
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  I select students for the program, match them with mentors, and coordinate lectures and other activities for the students. About six students a year participate in this NIDCD-supported program (T3 DC00012)
  
• 1998Teaching Assistant, Human Neuropsychology
  June 1998Student Instructor, APA Summer Institute in the Infant Language Research Lab
  Johns Hopkins University
  
• 1997Teaching Assistant, Law and Psychology: Clinical Applications
  Johns Hopkins University
  
• 1997Teaching Assistant, Developmental Psychology
  Johns Hopkins University
  
• June 1997Student Instructor, APA Summer Institute in the Infant Language Research Lab
  Johns Hopkins University
  
• 1996Teaching Assistant, Physiological Psychology
  Johns Hopkins University Physiological Psychology
  
• 1995Teaching Assistant, Personality Psychology
  State University of New York at Buffalo
  

Guest Lectures for Courses and Seminars

• 2008, 2009Summer Research Traineeship, Indiana University School of Medicine
  
• 2007, 2008Pediatric audiology, Indiana University
  
• 2005Research Methods, University of Washington
  
• 2002Sensorimotor Neuroplasticity, Indiana University
  
• 2001Cochlear Implants, Indiana University School of Medicine
  
• 2001Oral Rehabilitation, Butler University
  
• 1998Human Neuropsychology, Johns Hopkins University
  
• 1997Developmental Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
  
• 1996Physiological Psychology
  

Teaching Interests

• Speech Perception, Language Acquisition, Perceptual Development, Cognitive Development, Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Users, Phycholinguistics, Lexical Access, Research Methods, Statistics
  

Technical Skills

• CSL, XWAVES, and COOLEDIT (Speech digitizing, editing, and analyzing software)
  
• HABIT (Software for running infant preception experiments)
  
• SPSS and STATVIEW (Statistical packages)
  
• ALSCAL (Multidimensional Scaling)
  

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