Robert E. Remez

Biographical Sketch

Robert E. Remez is Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he has taught since 1980. A native New Yorker, Robert was a Predoctoral Research Trainee sponsored by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development at the renowned Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, and he received the doctorate in 1978 from the University of Connecticut. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 from Brandeis University. At Barnard, he has held an Ann Whitney Olin Chair, he has been Chair of the Departments of Psychology and Sociology, a member of the Master Planning Steering Committee and the Architect Selection Committee for the Diana Center, and is presently Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition. He has been elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Psychonomic Society.

In the lab in Milbank Hall, he and a merry band of students study two prominent aspects of the perception of speech: 1) perceptual organization, a facet of auditory and visual sensitivity that finds and follows speech in quiet and in acoustically busy environments; and, 2) the perceptible differences of individual talkers, including phonetic and qualitative aspects of these indexical properties. The laboratory has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and currently from the National Science Foundation.

Education:

    Ph.D. (Psychology), University of Connecticut, 1978

    B.A. (Psychology), Brandeis University, 1971

Sponsored Research:

    “Temporal Dynamics of Phonetic Perceptual Organization,” National Science Foundation (1827361), 2018-

        present

    “Sensory and Perceptual Factors in Spoken Communication,” National Institute on Deafness and Other 

        Communication Disorders (DC000308), 1985-2018

    “Perceptual Processes Underlying Speech Communication,” National Institute of Neurological Disorders and 

        Stroke (NS22096), 1981-1984

    “Simple and Complex Feature Detectors in Speech Perception,” National Institute of Mental Health (MH32848), 

        1979-1980

Academic Appointments:

    Chair, Department of Psychology, Barnard College, 1989-1992, 1997-2000, 2013-2015

    Chair, Columbia University Seminars Executive Committee, 2011-present

    Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, Barnard College, 2003-2006

    Chair, University Seminar on Language & Cognition, 2000-present

    Ann Whitney Olin Professor, 1999-2006

    Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, 1992-present

    Associate Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, 1987-1992

    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

Research Appointments:

    Visiting Scholar, Parmly Hearing Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 2006-2007 

    Visiting Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, 1994-1995

    Visiting Research Associate in Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine, 1982

    N. I. H. Research Trainee in Psychology and Language, Haskins Laboratories, 1975-1977

    Research Assistant, Primate Research Laboratory, University of Connecticut, 1973-1975

    Predoctoral Fellow, University of Connecticut, 1972-1973, 1974-1975

Honors:

    Fellow, Acoustical Society of America

    Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Fellow, American Psychological Association

    Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

    Fellow, The Psychonomic Society 

Professional Service:

    Member, Committee of Visitors, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, National Science Foundation, 2009

    Member, Study Section on Language and Communication, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes 

        of Health, 2007-2011

    Member, Editor Search Committee, Perception & Psychophysics, 2007

    Member, Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, 2001-2013

    Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005-2010

    Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1999-2004

    Member, Reviewer Reserve, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 1997-present

    Associate Editor, Perception & Psychophysics, 1996-1998

    Member, Reviewer Reserve, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, 1992-1997

    Member, Study Section on Sensory Disorders and Language, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes 

        of Health, 1988-1992

    Member, Technical Committee on Speech Communication, Acoustical Society of America, 1988-1991

    Consulting Editor, Perception & Psychophysics, 1981-1988; 1996