Robert E. Remez
Professor of
Psychology
|
Department of Psychology |
Office
Hours: Tuesday 2-3 pm |
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,
2008
On
Sabbatical leave.
Soothing sounds
Songs to sing
Food Use
Pizza & Ice Cream Consumed by My Students
Course reviews of Perception
Spring,
2009
PSYC G4233y, Language and Music.
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: January 6, 2009