The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Office Phone: (773) 702-8829
Lab phone: (773) 834-1986
Office: Green Hall, 102
Lab: Beecher Hall, 404, 406, 410
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Howard Nusbaum
Biography
Education:
Brandeis University, B.A., Psychology, Computer Science, 1976
SUNY at Buffalo, Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, 1981.
Indiana University, NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship,1984
Professional experience:
1984-1986 Assistant Research Scientist, Speech Research Laboratory,
Indiana University.
1986-1989 Assistant Professor, Committee on Cognition and
Communication, Dept of Behavioral Sciences, The University of Chicago.
1989-2001 Associate Professor, Committees on Cognition and
Communication and Biopsychology, Dept of Psychology
2001 Full Professor, Dept of Psychology
1990-1993 Chair, Committee on Cognition and Communication.
1997-2004 Chair, Dept of Psychology
Awards
2007 The University of Chicago Future Faculty Mentorship Award.
Research Interests
Spoken language use, attention, learning, memory consolidation and sleep, working memory, affect, categorization, cortical mechanisms of language use and cognitive processing, cognitive neuropharmocology, use of speech technology, cognitive engineering and human factors
Recent Publications
Fenn, K. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2003). Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language. Nature, 425, 614-616.
Cacioppo, J. T., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2003). Component processes underlying
choice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 3016-3017.
Small, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2004). On the neurobiological investigation of language understanding in context. Brain & Language, 89, 300-311.
Wagner, S. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2004). Probing the mental representation of gesture: Is handwaving spatial? Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 395-407.
Wong, P. C. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2004). Neural bases of talker normalization. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1173-1184.
Shintel, H., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2004). Automatic alignment or controlled understanding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 210-211.
Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2005). Listening to Talking Faces: Motor Cortical Activation During Speech Perception. NeuroImage, 25, 76-89.
Gentner, T. Q., Fenn, K. M., Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2006). Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds. Nature, 440, 1204-1207.
Nusbaum, H. C., & Shintel, H. (2006). Speech synthesis. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Vol. 12, Elsevier Press, Oxford, 19-31.
Shintel, H., Nusbaum, H. C., & Okrent, A. (2006). Analog acoustic expression in speech communication. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 167-177.
Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Lending a helping hand to hearing: Another motor theory of speech perception. In M. A. Arbib, (Ed.). Action to Language Via the Mirror Neuron System. Cambridge University Press, 250-285.
Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Language processing in the social brain: Context sensitive cortical networks. In J. T. Cacioppo, C. Pickett, & P. Visser (Eds.) Social Neuroscience: People thinking about people. Multidisciplinary perspective on neural substrates and mechanisms. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 131-152.
Nusbaum, H. C., Foraker, S., & Fenn, K. (2007). Working memory and language processing. In P. Hogan (Ed.), Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, in press.
Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Repetition suppression for spoken sentences and the effect of task demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 2013-2029.
Magnuson, J. S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2007). Acoustic differences, listener expectations, and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 391-409.
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Speech-associated gestures, Broca’s area, and the human mirror system. Brain and Language, in press.
Skipper, J. I., van Wassenhove, V., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Hearing lips and seeing voices: How cortical areas support speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception. Cerebral Cortex, in press.
Shintel, H., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2007). The sound of motion in spoken language: Visual information conveyed by acoustic properties of speech. Cognition, in press.
Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Brain networks subserving the extraction of sentence information and its encoding to memory. Cerebral Cortex, in press.
Francis, A., Fenn, K., & Nusbaum, H. (2007). Effects of training on the acoustic-phonetic representation of synthetic speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, in press.
Egidi, G., Nusbaum, H. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Neuroeconomics: Foundational issues and consumer relevance. In C. Haugtvedt, P. Herr, & F. Kardes (Eds.), Handbook of Consumer Psychology, LEA, in press.
