
	Rochelle Newman Ph.D. (1997, State University of New York at Buffalo, Psychology) Associate Professor, Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences Director of Graduate Studies (MA/SLP and PhD), Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences Faculty Member, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Faculty Member, Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH) Affiliate, Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2007-Present Director, Language Development and Perception Laboratories Email: rnewman@hesp.umd.edu Phone: 301-405-4226 Room: 0141BB, LeFrak Hall

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught Research/Clinical Activities

Research/Clinical Interests

Speech perception

Development of speech perception

Language acquisition

Word-finding errors

Word Recognition

Speech Production

Courses Taught in the Past Five Years

Research/Clinical Activities

My research focuses on speech perception and language acquisition. More specifically, I am interested in how the brain recognizes words from fluent speech, especially in the context of noise, and how this ability changes with development. For a more complete research statement, please click here.

Recent research has examined infants' ability to recognize their name in the context of noise, how information from one stream of speech can influence the perceptual processing of an alternate stream of speech, the effects of lexical neighbors on children's naming, and the extent of variability in production across and within talkers.

I also recently collaborated on a project with Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner, funded by the Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation, to study whether infant perceptual performance relates to later language development. This project led to our current longitudinal study, funded by the National Science Foundation, which explores the potential contributing roles of speech segmentation, statistical learning, and parental input in children¹s language acquisition.

Click on the links below to view some press reports on some of my work with infants:

Some recent stories on infants' ability to recognize speech in the context of noise
- http://www.umd.edu/umnews/langdev.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11124-2005Apr23_2.html
A recent paper at the Acoustical Society on infants' ability to understand speech in noise.
A CNN summary of some earlier work I did in conjunction with Peter Jusczyk on how infants solve the cocktail party problem, along with an article from Johns Hopkins on the same topic.
For more information on lab studies, please visit the lab web site: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/newman/lab-new.htm

Current Funding

NSF BCS 0642294
"Development of infant stream segregation: the interplay between perception
and cognition"
This research investigates infants¹ ability to perceive speech in noisy
environments, and factors contributing to this skill.
Role: PI

NSF BCS 074512
"Speech and nonspeech predictors of later language development" (PI:
Rochelle Newman)
This project explores the potential contributing roles of speech
segmentation, statistical learning, and parental input in children¹s later
language acquisition by examining these skills concurrently in the same
cohort of children.
Role: PI

NSF DGE 0801465
IGERT
"Biological and computational foundations of language diversity"
This IGERT project supports interdisciplinary doctoral training and research
in the foundations of language diversity.
Role: Participating Faculty

NSF BCS 0922985
Major Research Instrumentation Program
"MRI: Acquisition of a 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)"
This proposal supports the acquisition of an MRI machine on the College Park
campus.
Role: Participating Faculty

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