Howard C. Nusbaum | Department of Psychology

Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology; SSD Deputy Dean; Deputy Dean of the College; Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division

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:

2001 Full Professor, Dept of Psychology

1990-1993 Chair, Committee on Cognition and Communication

1997-2009 Chair, Dept of Psychology

2009-present Associate Editor, Brain and Language

2011-present John Templeton Foundation Board of Advisors

2013-present Associate Editor, PLoS One

Awards

2007 The University of Chicago Future Faculty Mentorship Award

2009 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science

2012 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Recent Research / Recent Publications

Recent Publications

Fenn, K. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2003). Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language. Nature, 425, 614-616.

Gentner, T. Q., Fenn, K. M., Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2006). Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds. Nature, 440, 1204-1207.

Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2009). Language: the perspective from organismal biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 505-510.

Egidi, G. & Nusbaum, H. C. (2012). Emotional language processing: How mood affects integration processes during discourse comprehension. Brain & Language, 199-210.

Luhrmann, T. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Thisted, R. (2013). "Lord teach us to pray": Prayer practice affects cognitive processing. Journal of Culture and Cognition, 13, 159-177.

Brawn, T., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2013). Sleep consolidation of interfering auditory memories in starlings. Psychological Science. Published online 22 February 2013 DOI:10.1177/0956797612457391

Hedger, S. C. V., Nusbaum, H. C., Lescop, O., Wallisch, P. & Hoeckner, B. (2013). Music can elicit a visual motion aftereffect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1039-1047.

Fenn K. M., Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2013). Sleep restores loss of generalized but not rote learning of synthetic speech, Cognition, 128, 280-286.

Hedger, C. C., Nusbaum, H. C., & Hoeckner, B. (2013). Conveying movement in music and prosody. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076744

Hedger, S. C. V., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2013). Absolute pitch may not be so absolute. Psychological Science, 24, 1496-1502.

Tong, D., Li, W., Dai, T., Nusbaum, H. C., Qiu, J., & Zhang, Q. (2013). Brain mechanisms of valuable scientific problem finding inspired by heuristic knowledge. Experimental Brain Research 228:4, 437-443.

Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Speech perception as an active cognitive process. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8:35. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00035