Lynne E. Bernstein

Lynne E. Bernstein received her doctorate in Psycholinguistics from the University of Michigan in 1977. She is currently a senior scientist and head of the Department of Communication Neuroscience at the House Ear Institute. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Between receiving her doctoral degree and the present, she has investigated a range of topics associated with speech perception. They have included the most typical area, which is auditory speech perception, the less typical area, which is visual speech perception (lipreading), and the least typical area, which is vibrotactile speech perception. A fundamental issue in her work is how the perceptual systems preserve and combine the information needed to represent the spoken words in a language. In recent years, with the advance of brain imaging and electrophysiological methods, her studies of this issue have extended to investigating its neural substrates. The current paper fits into the scheme of her work, providing a better understanding of the signals that are processed during multimodal speech perception. More about this work and the National Science Foundation project that supports it can be found at http://www.hei.org/research/projects/comneur/kdipage.htm.

Biography Updated on 13 May 2002

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