Robert E. Remez
Professor of Psychology
|
Department
of Psychology |
Office
Hours: Wednesday 2-3 pm, or by appointment |
Education:
Ph. D., 1978, University of Connecticut
B. A., 1971, Brandeis University
Research:
My studies examine the perceptual organization of speech, and aim to explain
how the listener finds a speech signal amid the sounds that strike the ear. The
technique of sinewave replication of speech has figured
prominently in these studies. In a second line of research, my studies assess
the perceptible differences between individual talkers and the phonetic and
qualitative aspects of these indexical properties.
Career
Trajectory:
Visiting Scholar, Parmly Hearing Institute, Chicago, 2006-2007
Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition,
2000-present
Ann Whitney Olin Professor, 1999-2006
Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University,
1992-present
Chair of Psychology, Barnard College, 1997-2000, 1989-1992
Visiting Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, 1994-1995
Associate Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, 1987-1992
Visiting Research Associate in Cognitive Science, University of California,
Irvine, 1982
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, 1980-1987
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington,
1978-1980
Visiting Instructor of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1977-1978
Visiting Instructor of Psychology, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut,
1975-1977
Sponsored
Research:
"Sensory and Perceptual Factors in Spoken Communication," National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 1985-present
"Perceptual Processes Underlying Speech Communication," National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1981-1984
"Simple and Complex Feature Detectors in Speech Perception," National
Institute of Mental Health, 1979-1980
Service
& Societies:
Consultative Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 2006-present
Member, Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories, 2000-present
Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 1999-2005
Associate Editor, Perception & Psychophysics, 1996-1998
Consulting Editor, Perception & Psychophysics, 1981-1988,
1996
Member, Language and Communication Study Section,
Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 2007-present
Member, Study Section on Sensory Disorders and Language, Division of Research
Grants, National Institutes of Health, 1988-1992
Fellow,
Acoustical Society of America
Fellow, American
Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American
Psychological Association
Fellow, Association
for Psychological Science
Member, Psychonomic
Society
Member, Society for
Neuroscience
Member, International Maledicta Society
International
Society of Bassists (formerly)
Recent
Publications:
Remez, R. E. (in press). Spoken expression of individual identity and the
listener. In E. Morsella (Ed.), Expressing Oneself/Expressing One’s Self: A
Festschrift in Honor of Robert M. Krauss (pp. 000-000). London: Taylor
& Francis. pdf
Remez,
R. E., & Trout, J. D. (in press). Philosophical messages in the medium of
spoken language. In M. Nudds and C. O’Callaghan (Eds.), Sounds and
Perception: New Essays on the Philosophy of Sound and Auditory Experience (pp.
000-000). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Remez,
R. E. (in press). Three puzzles of multimodal speech perception. In E.
Vatikiotis-Bateson, G. Bailly & P. Perrier (Eds.). Audiovisual Speech
Processing (pp. 000-000). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Remez,
R. E., Ferro, D. F., Wissig, S. C., & Landau, C. A. (2008). Asynchrony
tolerance in the perceptual organization of speech. Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review, 15, 861-865. pdf
Remez,
R. E., Fellowes, J. M., & Nagel, D. S. (2007). On the perception of
similarity among talkers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122,
3688-3696. pdf
Pardo,
J. S., & Remez, R. E. (2006). The perception of speech. In M. Traxler and
M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd Edition (pp.
201-248). New York: Academic Press. pdf
D. B. Pisoni and R. E. Remez (Eds.), The Handbook of
Speech Perception. Oxford: Blackwell.
Remez,
R. E. (2005). The perceptual organization of speech. In D. B. Pisoni and R. E. Remez (Eds.), The Handbook of
Speech Perception, (pp. 28-50). Oxford: Blackwell. pdf
Remez,
R. E., Fellowes, J. M., Blumenthal, E. Y., & Shoretz Nagel, D. (2003).
Analysis and analogy in the perception of vowels. Memory & Cognition, 31,
1126-1135.
Remez,
R. E. (2003). Establishing and maintaining perceptual coherence: Unimodal and
multimodal evidence. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 293-304.
Liebenthal,
E., Binder, J. R., Piorkowski, R. L., & Remez, R. E. (2003). Short-term
reorganization of auditory analysis induced by phonetic experience. Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 549-558.
Remez,
R. E. (2001). The interchange of phonology and perception considered from the
perspective of organization. In E. V. Hume and K. A. Johnson (Eds.), The
Role of Speech Perception Phenomena in Phonology (pp.
27-52). San Diego: Academic Press.
Remez,
R. E. (2000). Speech spoken and represented. In E. Dietrich and A. B. Markman
(Eds.), Cognitive Dynamics: The Cognitive Science of Conceptual and
Representational Change (Pp. 93-115). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Remez,
R. E., Fellowes, J. M., Pisoni, D. B., Goh, W. D., & Rubin, P. E. (1998).
Multimodal perceptual organization of speech: Evidence from tone analogs of
spoken utterances. Speech Communication, 26, 65-73.
Remez,
R. E. (1998). Listening to speech in the dark. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 281-282.
Remez,
R. E., Rubin, P. E., Berns, S. M., Pardo, J. S., & Lang, J. M. (1994). On
the perceptual organization of speech. Psychological Review, 101, 129-156.
Berns, Rubin, Lang, Pardo &
Remez extend their account of perceptual organization
to bivalves in the Grand Central Oyster Bar.
Courses:
University
Seminar #681, Language & Cognition
Fall,
2009
PSYC BC1108x, Perception
(Laboratory)
Annoying Sounds
Songs
to Sing
Food
Use
Pizza
& Ice Cream Consumed by My Students
Course reviews of Perception
Spring,
2010
PSYC BC3164y, Perception and Language
The
Brain Gallery
Would you like to contribute your portrait to The Brain Gallery? Email it to me as a JPEG
and I will happily add it to the exhibition.
Musical and Poetic Sinewaves
This link illustrates the bistability of sinewave replicas of
utterances, in which the patterns of individual tones are separately resolved
as the Gestalt primitives warrant, while phonetic integration occurs by virtue
of principles of sensory integration beyond the Gestalt set. Because two
alternative modes of perceptual organization apply concurrently to sinewave
replicas of utterances, we have termed this kind of perception bistable (see
Remez, Pardo, Piorkowski & Rubin, 2001).
My
Ideal Jeopardy Categories
•Political
Economy of the Leisure State
•Jazz of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
•Gastronomy
•Napping Systems Technology
•Disinfotainment in the Popular Press
•Reverse Psychology
Last revised: November 16, 2009