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University of Massachusetts Amherst 433 Tobin Hall Curriculum Vitae 135 Hicks Way Amherst MA 01003 U.S.A. Tel: (413)-545-2175 Alexandra Jesse [email protected] http://lips.psych.umass.edu

Last Updated: April 2017 Citizenship: German (Permanent Residence: U.S.A.)

Education

2005 Ph.D. Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz Dissertation: Towards a Lexical Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception: The Time-Course of Information in Lexical Identification of Face-to-Face Speech Advisor: Dr. Dominic W. Massaro

2000 M.Sc. Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Thesis: Consistency Effects in the Fragmentation Task Advisor: Dr. Dominic W. Massaro

1998 Undergraduate Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany Degree Thesis: Reaction Times in Word Recognition Tasks: An Analysis of Distribution ("Vordiplom") Functions under Consideration of the Multiple Read-Out Model (MROM) Advisor: Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs

Positions and Employment

2010 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Adjunct faculty member in the Department of Linguistics Faculty member in the Neuroscience and Behavior Program Director of the Language, Intersensory Perception, and Speech (LIPS) laboratory

2005 – 2010 Researcher, Language Comprehension Department (Dir. Dr. Anne Cutler), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands

2005 (July – September) Post-doctoral Researcher, Dr. Dominic W. Massaro, University of California, Santa Cruz

1999 – 2005 Graduate Student Research Assistant, Dr. Dominic W. Massaro, University of California, Santa Cruz

1999 – 2000 Fulbright Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

1997 – 1999 Graduate Student Research Assistant, Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Visiting and Consulting Positions

2016 (June – December) Consultant on NIH RO1 Grant "Speech Perception with Combined Electric and Acoustic Stimulation", PI: Dr. Ying-Yee Kong

2016 (June – August) Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, Dr. Katharina v. Kriegstein

2004 (September) Visiting Scholar, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK, Dr. Dennis Norris

2004 (August) Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, NL, Dr. Anne Cutler

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Publications † student author *** Research conducted while at UMass ** Research started elsewhere and completed at UMass * Earlier research published while at UMass

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

***Francisco†, A. A., Groen, M. A., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2017). Beyond the usual cognitive suspects: The importance of speechreading and audiovisual temporal sensitivity in reading ability. Learning and Individual Differences, 54, 60-72. Groen and Jesse contributed equally to the MS.

***Francisco†, A. A., Jesse, A., Groen, M. A., & McQueen, J. M. (2017). A general audiovisual temporal processing deficit in adult dyslexic readers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 144- 158. Jesse and Groen contributed equally to the MS.

***Jesse, A., Poellmann, K., & Kong, Y.-Y. (2017). English listeners use suprasegmental cues to lexical stress early during spoken-word recognition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 190-198.

***Kong, Y.-Y., & Jesse, A. (2017). Low-frequency fine-structure cues allow for the online use of stress during spoken-word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(1), 373-382.

**Jesse, A., & Johnson, E. K. (2016). Audiovisual alignment of co-speech gestures to speech supports word learning in two-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 145, 1-10.

***Helfer, K. S., & Jesse, A. (2015). Lexical influences on competing speech perception in younger, middle-aged, and older adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1), 363-376.

***Janse, E., & Jesse, A. (2014). Working memory affects older adults’ use of context in spoken-word recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 1842-1862.

**Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2014). Suprasegmental lexical stress in visual speech can guide spoken-word recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 793-808.

***Van der Zande†, P., Jesse, A., & Cutler, A. (2014). Cross-talker generalization in two phoneme-level perceptual adaptation processes. Journal of Phonetics, 43, 38-46.

**Van der Zande†, P., Jesse, A., & Cutler, A. (2014). Hearing words helps seeing words: A cross-modal word repetition effect. Speech Communication, 59, 31-43.

**Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L. C. (2013). Tone of Voice guides word learning in informative referential context. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1227-1240.

***Van der Zande†, P., Jesse, A., & Cutler A. (2013). Lexically-guided retuning of visual phonetic categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 564-571.

**Jesse, A., & Janse, E. (2012). The audiovisual benefit for the recognition of speech presented with single-talker noise in older listeners. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 1167-1191.

**Jesse, A., & Johnson, E. K. (2012). Prosodic temporal alignment of co-speech gestures to speech facilitates referent resolution. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1567-1587.

**Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). Positional effects in the lexical retuning of speech perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 943-956.

*Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). Speaking rate affects the perception of duration as suprasegmental lexical-stress cue. Language and Speech, 54(2), 147-165.

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*Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). Speaking rate from proximal and distal contexts is used during word segmentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 978- 996.

Jesse, A., & Massaro, D. W. (2010). Seeing a singer helps comprehension of the song's lyrics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 323-328.

Jesse, A. & Massaro, D. W. (2010). The time-course of audiovisual spoken-word recognition. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 209-225.

Mitterer, H. & Jesse, A. (2010). Correlation versus causation in multisensory perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 329-334.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2010). Early use of phonetic information in spoken word recognition: Lexical stress drives eye-movements immediately. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 772- 783.

Massaro, D.W., & Jesse, A. (2009). Read my lips: Speech distortions in musical lyrics can be overcome (slightly) by facial information. Speech Communication, 51, 604-621.

McQueen, J. M., Jesse, A., & Norris, D. (2009). No lexical-prelexical feedback during speech perception. Or: Is it time to stop playing those Christmas tapes? Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 1-18.

Jesse, A., Vrignaud, N., Cohen, M. M., & Massaro, D. W. (2000). The processing of information from multiple sources in simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting, 5, 95-115.

Books and Book Chapters

***Ouni, S., Berthommier, F., & Jesse, A. (Eds.). (2013). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing. Nancy, France: INRIA.

Massaro, D. W., & Jesse, A. (2007). Audiovisual speech perception and word recognition. In G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 19-36). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Massaro, D. W., & Jesse, A. (2005). The magic of reading: Too many influences for quick and easy explanations. In T. Trabasso, J. Sabatini, D. W. Massaro, and R. C. Calfee (Eds.), From Orthography to Pedagogy: Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky (pp. 37-61). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dissertation

Jesse, A. (2005). Towards a lexical Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception: The time-course of information in lexical identification of face-to-face speech. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.

Proceedings Papers

***Francisco†, A. A., Jesse, A., Groen, M. A., & McQueen, J. M. (2014). Audiovisual temporal sensitivity in typical and dyslexic adults. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014) (pp. 2575-2579). Singapore, Singapore.

***Groen, M. A., & Jesse, A. (2013). Audiovisual speech perception in children and adolescents with developmental dyslexia: No deficit with McGurk stimuli. In S. Ouni, F. Berthommier, and A. Jesse (Eds.). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (pp. 77-80). Nancy, France: Inria.

**Jesse, A., & Mitterer, H. (2011). Pointing gestures do not influence the perception of lexical stress. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011) (pp. 2245-2248), Florence, Italy.

Jesse, A., & Janse, E. (2009). Visual speech information aids elderly adults in stream segregation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2009 (pp. 22-27). Adelaide, Australia: Causal Productions.

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Jesse, A., & Johnson, E. K. (2008). Audiovisual alignment in child-directed speech facilitates word learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2008 (pp. 101-106). Adelaide, Australia: Causal Productions.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). The strength of stress-related lexical competition depends on the presence of first-syllable stress. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 (pp. 1954). Brisbane, Australia.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). Lexical stress information modulates the time-course of spoken- word recognition. Proceedings of Acoustics'08 (CD-ROM) (pp. 3183-3188). Paris: Société Française d’Acoustique.

Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Visual lexical stress information in audiovisual spoken-word recognition. In J. Vroomen, M. Swerts, & E. Krahmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory - Visual Speech Processing 2007 (pp. 162-166). Tilburg: Univ. Tilburg.

Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Prelexical adjustments to speaker idiosyncrasies: Are they position-specific? In H. Van Hamme, & R. van Son (Eds.), Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 (pp. 1597-1600). Adelaide, Australia: Causal Productions.

Jesse, A., McQueen, J. M., Page, M. (2007). The locus of talker-specific effects in spoken-word recognition. In J. Trouvain, & W. J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007 (pp. 1921-1924). Dudweiler: Pirrot.

Jesse, A., & Massaro, D. W. (2005). Towards a lexical Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception: The time-course of audiovisual speech processing in word identification. In E. Vatikiotis-Bateson, D. Burnham, and S. Fels (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2005 (pp. 35-36). Adelaide, Australia: Causal Productions.

Ouni, S., Massaro, D. W., Cohen, M. M., Young, K., & Jesse, A. (2003). Internationalization of a talking head. In M. Solé, D. Recasens, & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2569-2572), Barcelona, Spain.

Published Abstracts in Proceedings

***Jesse, A., & Helfer, K. (2017). Lexical influences on error patterns of adult listeners in competing speech perception (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, TBD.

***Groen, M. A., & Jesse, A. (2016). Audiovisual speech perception in children with and without a history of Otitis Media and its relation to phonological awareness. Abstract in the Proceedings of the Perception Day, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

***Jesse, A., & Bartoli†, M. (2016). Learning to identify speakers from kinematic information. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 21, 263.

***Kajander†, D., Kaplan†, E., & Jesse, A. (2106). Attention modulates cross-modal retuning of phonetic categories to speakers. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 21, 114. Due to an error, the abstract had been listed as Kajander & Kaplan in the printed proceedings – this error was corrected in the electronic proceedings.

***Groen, M. A., & Jesse, A. (2016). Individual differences in phonological awareness in Kindergarten children with and without a history of Otitis Media. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Porto, Portugal.

***Jesse, A., & Laakso†, S. (2015). Sentence context can guide the retuning of phonetic categories to speakers. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 20, 274.

***Groen, M. A., & Jesse, A. (2015). Audiovisual speech perception in children with and without a history of otitis media. Online proceedings of the FLUX Congress of The Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Leiden, The Netherlands.

***Rysling†, A., Kingston, J., & Jesse, A. (2015). Leftward association as a default in speech perception. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (p. 43). Malta, Malta.

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***Jesse, A., Poellmann, K., & Kong, Y.-Y. (2015). English listeners use suprasegmental lexical stress during spoken-word recognition (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 2385.

***Helfer, K., & Jesse, A. (2015). Aging and error patterns in competing speech perception. Abstracts of the American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ.

***Kaplan†, E., & Jesse, A. (2014). Cognitive resources needed in the recalibration of phonetic category boundaries. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 19, 271.

***Francisco†, A. A., Groen, M. A., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2014). Wider audiovisual windows do not result in higher rates of McGurk fusion rates. Proceedings of the 15th International Multisensory Research Forum (p. 107), Tilburg, The Netherlands.

***Groen, M. A., & Jesse, A. (2014). The audiovisual benefit for speech perception in children and adolescents with developmental dyslexia. Proceedings of the 15th International Multisensory Research Forum (p. 11), Tilburg, The Netherlands.

***Kingston, J., Jesse, A., Rysling†, A., & Moura†, R. (2014). Misparsing coarticulation (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, 2198.

***Kopp, F., & Jesse, A. (2014). Neural adaptation in infants’ perception of audiovisual temporal synchrony relations. Abstracts of the 21st Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (p. 59). Boston, MA.

***Janse, J., Huettig, F., & Jesse, A. (2013). Working memory modulates the immediate use of context for recognizing words in sentences: evidence from clear and noisy conditions. Abstracts of the 5th Workshop on Speech in Noise: Intelligibility and Quality (p.14). Vitoria, Spain.

***Jesse, A., & Newman, R. S. (2013). Seeing a speaker provides speaking rate information for phoneme recognition. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 18, 225.

***Janse, E., & Jesse, A. (2011). Individual differences in older adults’ speech-perception performance in noise: Evidence from a speeded-response task. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, 63.

***Jesse, A., & Janse, J. M. (2011). Listening to speech in noise: Older listeners’ individual differences in a speeded-response task. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 16, 127.

**Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L. C. (2011). Tone of Voice as a cue to word learning. In Bittrich, K., Blankenberger, S., Lukas, J. (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Beitraege zur 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Proceedings of the 53td Conference of Experimental Psychologists] (p. 138), Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

***Van der Zande†, P., & Jesse, A. (2011). Does perceptual learning from seeing a speaker generalize across speakers? Proceedings of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (p. 69). Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.

**Jesse, A., Reinisch†, E., & Nygaard, L. C. (2010). Learning of adjectival word meaning through tone of voice (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 2475.

**Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L. C. (2010). Tone of voice helps learning the meaning of novel adjectives. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (p. 114). York, UK.

Jesse, A., & Janse, E. (2010). Seeing a speaker talk when also hearing a competing speaker benefits elderly adults. Proceedings of Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions, 38.

Jesse, A., & Newman, R. S. (2010). Perceptual learning of talker-idiosyncratic phonetic cues (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, 1958.

Jesse, A., & Janse, E. (2009). Seeing a speaker's face helps stream segregation for younger and elderly adults (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 2659.

Jesse, A., McQueen, J. M., & Page, M. (2009). Lexical and sublexical contributions to talker-familiarity effects in spoken-word recognition. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 14, 173.

Mitterer, H., & Jesse, A. (2009). Correlation versus causation in audiovisual perception. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 14, 21.

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Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2009). Speaking rate modulates the perception of durational cues to lexical stress. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 14, 172.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2009). Speaking rate modulates lexical competition in online speech perception (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 2657.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2009). Speaking rate context affects online word segmentation: Evidence from eye-tracking. Proceedings of the Summer Workshop of the Dutch Phonetic Society (NVFW). Leiden, The Netherlands.

Janse, E., & Jesse, A. (2008). Correlates of audiovisual benefit for stream segregation in elderly listeners. Proceedings of the Dag van de Fonetiek. [Proceedings of the Day of the Phonetics]. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Jesse, A., & Johnson, E. K. (2008). Audiovisual alignment in child-directed speech facilitates the detection of speaker intent in a word learning setting. In P. Khader, K. Jost, H. Lachnit, & F. Roesler (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Beitraege zur 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Proceedings of the 50th Conference of Experimental Psychologists] (p. 41), Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

Jesse, A., & Mitterer, H. (2008). Perceptual learning of phonological talker idiosyncrasies. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 12.

McQueen, J. M., & Jesse, A. (2008). Positional specificity in lexical retuning of speech perception. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 7.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). Speaking rate affects the perception of word boundaries in online word recognition. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (p. 28). Cambridge, UK.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008) Lexical stress information modulates the time-course of spoken- word recognition (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 3425.

Jesse, A., McQueen, J. M., Norris, D. (2007). Apparent lexical compensation for coarticulation effects are due to experimentally-induced biases. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 12, 90.

Reinisch†, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Tracking over time how lexical-stress information modulates spoken-word recognition. Proceedings of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (p. 34). Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.

Johnson, E. K., & Jesse, A. (2007). Audiovisual alignment facilitates the detection of speaker intent in a word- learning setting. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 12, 50.

Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2006). Perceptual learning in speech: Position-specific prelexical adjustments? Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (p. 50). Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Page, M., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2006). Exemplars: Lexical or sublexical? Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting (p. 54). Birmingham, UK.

Jesse, A. (2005). The time-course of uptake of information in audiovisual spoken-word recognition. Proceedings of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (p. 40). Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.

Jesse, A., & Massaro, D. W. (2002). Time-course and task differences of spelling-to-sound and sound-to-spelling mappings. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 7, 44.

Jesse, A., Nuerk, H.-C., Graf, R., & Massaro, D. W. (1999). Konsistenzeffekte im Deutschen. [Consistency effects in German.] In E. Schröger, A. Mecklinger & A. Widmann (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Abstracts der 41. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Experimental Psychology. Abstracts of the 41st Conference of Experimental Psychologists]. Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers. Retrieved March 22, 2000, from http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psycho/biopsych/teap99/abstracts/ 9903051733.html

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Graf, R., Nuerk, H.-C., Jacobs, A. M., Jesse, A., Ziegler, J., & Richter, K. (1998). Visuelle Worterkennung: Einflussfaktoren auf Benennungslatenzen im Deutschen. [Visual Word Recognition: Factors of Influence on Naming Latencies in the German Language.] In H. Lachnit, A. Jacobs, & F. Rösler (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie: Abstracts der 40. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Experimental Psychology: Abstracts of the 40th Conference of Experimental Psychologists] (pp. 101). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

Invited Talks

Jesse, A. (2017, June). Learning about speaker idiosyncrasies in visual speech. Invited speaker to present at the Third International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linkoping, Sweden.

Jesse, A. (2016, June). Speech perception in face-to-face communication. Invited talk presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Jesse, A. (2014, January). Prosody in spoken-word recognition. Invited talk presented at the Prosody Bootcamp, UMass, Amherst.

Jesse, A. (2013, April). Speech perception and word learning in face-to-face communication. Invited talk presented at Cognitive Science Talk Series, Yale University, New Haven.

Jesse, A. (2011, May). The benefits of audiovisual communication across the lifespan. Invited talk presented at Haskins Laboratories, New Haven.

Jesse, A. (2011, April). The role of cross-modal relationships in referent resolution and word learning. Invited talk presented at the opening workshop of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language (ICESL), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jesse, A. (2010, March). The benefits of audiovisual communication. Invited talk presented at the Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jesse, A. (2009, December). Learning and recognizing words: The benefits of audiovisual communication. Invited talk presented at the Psychology Department, University of California Riverside, Riverside.

Jesse, A. (2009, November). The benefits of audiovisual communication. Invited talk presented at the Linguistics Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Jesse, A. (2009, November). Visual benefits in word learning and word recognition. Invited talk presented to the Speech Communication Group, Electronics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.

Jesse, A. (2009, June). The face in speech perception. Invited talk presented at the Max Planck Research Network on Cognition's Workshop "Faces in social interactions". Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany.

Jesse, A. (2007, October). Prosodic structure in audiovisual spoken-word recognition. Invited talk presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Research Priority Program “Phonological and phonetic competence: Between grammar, signal processing, and neural activity”. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Jesse, A. (2007, June). Audiovisual prosodic information. Invited talk presented at the Symposium on Audiovisual Speech. University Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Jesse, A. (2007, June). Prosodic information in audiovisual spoken-word recognition. Invited talk presented at the Prosody Day of the Netherlands Association for Phonetic Sciences. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Jesse, A. (2007, May). Visual prosodic information in spoken-word recognition. Invited talk presented at the Workshop “Visual Prosody in Language Communication”. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Jesse, A. (2006, October). Prosodic structure in audiovisual word recognition. Invited talk presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Research Priority Program “Phonological and phonetic competence: Between grammar, signal processing, and neural activity”. University Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

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Jesse, A. (2005, September). Prosodic structure in audiovisual spoken-word recognition. Invited talk presented at the Pre-Meeting of the Research Priority Program “Phonological and phonetic competence: Between grammar, signal processing, and neural activity”. Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

Jesse, A. (2004, August). The Lexical Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception for Audiovisual Spoken Word Recognition. Invited talk presented at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Jesse, A. (2004, August). Probability Biases in Lexical Compensation for Coarticulation. Invited talk presented at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Jesse, A. (1999, July). Consistency effects in English and German. Invited talk presented at the Cognitive Psychology Colloquium, Catholic University Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Germany.

Fellowships and Research Grants

Funded Proposals

2016/2017 Course Family Research Scholar buyout Received from the Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

May 2014 – $2,000 Phonotactic Knowledge in Audiovisual Speech Perception November PIs: Dr. A. Jesse, & Dr. J. Kingston (Dept. of Linguistics, University of 2014 Massachusetts, Amherst) Seed Grant received from the Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2012 – 2017 $1,549,842 R01DC012057-01A1 PI: Dr. K. Helfer (Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Co-Investigators: Dr. A. Jesse & Dr. R. Freyman (Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Received from NIH

June 2011 N/A 2011 Summer Online Writing Fellowship Recipient: Dr. A. Jesse; Received from the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2011 – 2012 $1,200 Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant Recipient: Dr. A. Jesse Faculty Development Mentoring Grant Received from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Mentors: Dr. D. H. Whalen (Haskins Laboratories, City University of New York) & Dr. J. Magnuson (Haskins Laboratories, University of Connecticut, Storrs)

2011 – 2012 $10,000 Mellon Mutual Mentoring Team Grant Mentoring grant received for fostering mutual mentoring relationships between faculty members of the Institute of Computational and Experimental Study of Language Received from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant Authors: Dr. L. Sanders, Dr. A. Jesse, Dr. B. Dillon

May 2012 – $2,000 Masking Effects on the Time-Course of Spoken-Word Recognition – Part II November PIs: Dr. A. Jesse & Dr. K. Helfer (Communication Disorders, University of 2013 Massachusetts, Amherst) Seed Grant received from the Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

May 2011 – $2,000 Masking Effects on the Time-Course of Spoken-Word Recognition November PIs: Dr. A. Jesse & Dr. K. Helfer (Communication Disorders, University of 2011 Massachusetts, Amherst) Seed Grant received from the Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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May 2011 – $2,000 Spatial Hearing in Speech Comprehension November PIs: Dr. L. Sanders (Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. A. Jesse, 2011 & Dr. R. Freyman (Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Seed Grant received from the Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2010 – $800 Faculty Research Support Fund Grant March, 2011 Received from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2010 – 2012 120,000€ Dynamic multisensory action perception and prediction [30,000€ for Co-PI: Dr. A. Jesse; joint grant with 7 other Co-PI (no PI) at the Max Planck Institutes Dr. Jesse] in Berlin, Leipzig, and Tübingen MaxNet Research Network on Cognition Grant (Face perception in social contexts) Received from the Max Planck Society, Germany

2009 – 2010 14,850€ Use of tone of voice in spoken-word recognition and word learning PI: Dr. A. Jesse Grant for the Initiation and Enhancement of Bilateral Cooperation Received from the German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaboration Partner: Dr. L. Nygaard (Emory University)

2008 – 2013 208,000€ Seeing and hearing words: How real speech perception changes over time (direct PI: Dr. A. Jesse (275-70-026) costs) Innovational Research Incentives Scheme VENI Grant Received from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

2006 - 2008 129,674€ Prosodic structure in audiovisual spoken word recognition (estimated PI: Dr. A. Jesse (JE 510/1-1) total) Grant within the Priority Program SPP 1234 “Phonological and Phonetic Competence: Between Grammar, Signal Processing, and Neural Activity”, Received from the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2004 (Summer) $1,400 Dissertation Summer Fellowship Received from the Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

2003 (Fall) $6,515 Doctoral Student Sabbatical Fellowship Received from the Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

2003 $305 Travel Research Grant Received from the University of California, Santa Cruz

2002 (Summer) $1,400 Graduate Student Research Summer Fellowship Received from the Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz 2000 – 2003 Tuition & Graduate Student Research Fellowships (4) monthly Received from the Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz wage

1999 – 2000 Tuition/fees Fulbright Scholarship (one year) (est.$13,791) Received from the German-American Fulbright Commission maintenance $7,370 Host: Psychology Department (Graduate Program), University of California, Santa travel costs Cruz 800DM

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Professional Activities

Teaching

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010-present Undergraduate courses taught: Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language (Honors Course and Regular Course), Statistics in Psychology; Speech Perception (Senior Seminar); Graduate courses taught: Speech Perception

Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2008 Graduate courses taught: Statistical Methods

University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000 – 2005 Undergraduate courses taught: Introduction to Psychological Statistics, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Research Methods in Psychology Undergraduate courses assisted: Feelings and Emotions, Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Statistics, Research Methods in Psychology, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, 1998 Undergraduate courses assisted: Research Methods in Psychology, Experimental Demonstrations

Student Supervision Supervised at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, unless specified otherwise. Ph.D. Students, Primary Supervisor of: • Ana Alves Francisco (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Co-Supervisor ("co-promotor")), 2013 – 2017, Doctoral Dissertation: Audiovisual processing in dyslexia • David Kajander (Psychological and Brain Sciences), 2015 - present. • Monica Bennett (Psychological and Brain Sciences), 2011 – 2014, M.Sc. • Elina Kaplan (Neuroscience and Behavior Program), 2010 – present, Doctoral Dissertation: Attentional processes in audiovisual speech perception • Patrick van der Zande (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), 2009 – 2013, Doctoral Dissertation: Hearing and seeing speech: Perceptual adjustments in auditory-visual speech processing • Eva Reinisch (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), 2006 – 2010, Doctoral Dissertation: Processing the fine-temporal structure of spoken words; Dissertation won the Max- Planck Society’s Otto-Hahn medal

Ph.D. Students, Member on Doctoral Committee of: • Ahren Fitzroy (Neuroscience and Behavior Program), 2011 – 2013, Doctoral Dissertation: The effects of metric strength on the allocation of attention across time • Kevin Mullin (Linguistics), 2013 – present

Ph.D. Students, Member on Committee of: • Sarah Laakso (Communication Disorders), Capstone Committee, 2015 - 2016. • Amanda Rysling (Psychological and Brain Sciences), Master's Thesis Committee, 2015 - present • Margaret Ugolino (Neuroscience and Behavior Program), Advising Committee, 2015 – present

M.Sc. Students, Member on Committee of: • Evan Hare (Neuroscience and Behavior Program), Master's Thesis Committee, 2016 - present

Supervised Research Projects at the Master’s level • Monica Bennett (Psychological and Brain Sciences), 2011 – 2014, Thesis: A heart thing to hear but you’ll earn: Processing and learning about foreign-accent features generated by phonological rule violations • Elina Kaplan (Neuroscience and Behavior Program), 2010 – 2013, Thesis: The neural time-course of audiovisual speech perception in younger and older adults • Patrick van der Zande (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), 2008 – 2009, Thesis: Word-boundary information in visual speech

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Supervised Undergraduate Thesis Projects • Gabrielle St. Pierre, 2016/17, Honors Thesis: Cross-modal phonetic retuning • Paul Saba, 2015/16, Thesis (in Linguistics): The benefits of learning visual voices • Michael Bartoli, 2014/15, Thesis (in Linguistics): Learning visual voices • Lauren Lyon, 2013/14, (Informal) Thesis: Auditory attention in visually-guided phonetic retuning • Sarah Laakso, 2012/13, Thesis: Perceptual learning of word-initial idiosyncrasies from sentential context • Kate DeVane Brown, 2011/12, Honors Thesis: Perceptual learning of foreign-accented speech, Awarded an Honors Research Grant

Undergraduate Thesis Committees • Jenna Adelsberger, 2012 – 2013, Thesis: Relationships between echo thresholds and temporal order thresholds in the auditory and visual modalities

Supervised Internship Research Projects • Sabrina Jung (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Summer 2008, Project: Dialectal learning from subtitles

Graduate Research Assistants At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (6): Monica Bennett (Psychology Dept.), Angela Costanzi (Communication Disorders), Elina Kaplan (Neuroscience and Behavior Program), Sarah Laakso (Communication Disorders), Gabrielle Merchant (Communication Disorders), Jessica Rhodes (Communication Disorders)

Post-baccalaureate Research Assistants At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (5): Michael Bartoli, Benjamin McLaughlin, Robert Moura, Bernadette Ojukwu (PREP/NEAGEP), Dominique Simmons (PREP/NEAGEP).

Undergraduate Research Interns At the University of California, Santa Cruz (15): Nikolaus Ackermann, Shazia Bashiruddin, Mary Bradbury, Astrid Carillo, Martyna Citkowicz, Kris Coontz, Denise Coquia, Lisa Holton, Monet Huang, Laura Ladner, Neil Ryan, Sally Scrutchin, Nelle Seidenspinner, Emily Stender, Robert Wolbach.

At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (48): Christopher Baron, Michael Bartoli, Emilee Bates, Ashley Boulanger, Jessica Bowe, Chantel Brennan, Emmaline Brown, Katherine DeVane Brown, Sarah Bryand, Deanna Ferrante, Alexander Fine, Hannah Franz, Kelly Fuller, John Gallagher, Sarah Hammond, Joanna Kalucki, Melissa Karp, Smriti Karwa, Alexander Kinney, Sarah Kneip, Austin Kopack, Sarah Laakso, Anna Lam, Emma Leahey, Joshua Levin, Justine Loi, Victoria Lord, Lauren Lyon, Benjamin McLaughlin, Alexis Melvin, Andre Michalowski, Annika Monkarsh, Robert Moura, Grace Murray, Bridget North, Timothy Noonan, Charlotte Olson, Amanda Orlando, Sarabeth Parent, Anna Paterson, Kara Rancourt, Alexander Roll, Paul Saba, Megan Sorel, Christina Steinmann, Megan Stoutenburgh, Gabrielle St. Pierre.

Employed Student Research Assistants At the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands (9): Vera Hoskam, Jessica Koppers, Marieke Pompe, Robbert van Sluijs, Eelke Spaak, Lukka Popp, Marlies Vissers, Jelmer Wolterink, Patrick van der Zande.

At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2): Michael Bartoli, Sarah Bryand.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (6): Georgia Becker, Meghan Butler, Ashley Dion, Rachel Ferry, Elizabeth Fleming, Jason Robbat

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Professional Service

Departmental Service • Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010 – present • Max Planck Institute Library Committee, 2008 – 2010 • Max Planck Institute Lab Manager Web Experiments, 2009 – 2010 • Max Planck Institute Lab Manager Recording Lab, 2009 – 2010 • Max Planck Institute Lab Manager Eye-tracking Labs, 2008 • Graduate Student Representative to the Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000 – 2002 • Graduate Student Representative at the Minority Graduate School Recruitment Fair, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002 • Teaching Assistant Mentor, 2001 • Student Research Assistant Supervisor, 1999 – present

Board Membership of Professional Organizations • Executive Board Member, Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA), 2013 – present

Editorial Service Ad hoc Reviewer for Journals: American Journal of Audiology, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; Cerebral Cortex; Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Interpreting; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA); Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL); Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Memory and Language; Journal of Phonetics; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language and Cognitive Processes; Language and Speech; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Ad hoc Reviewer for Conferences: • International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, 2001, 2013, 2015, 2017 • International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Scientific Committee, 2011- present • Interspeech, Scientific Review Committee, 2007 – present

Ad hoc Reviewer for Federal Institutes: • National Science Foundation, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Perception and Action Panel 2014

Editor • Editor, Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 2017 • Editor, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 2013

Organized Workshops and Conferences: th 2017 August 25- 14 International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP); jointly 26 organized with Drs. Chris Davis, Jonas Beskow, & S. Ouni th 2013 August 29- 12 International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP); jointly September 1 organized with Dr. S. Ouni and Dr. F. Berthommier 2007 October 8 4th Annual Meeting of Phonetics and Phonology; jointly organized with Dr. H. Mitterer 2007 October 6-7 2nd Annual Meeting of the Research Priority Program "Phonological and phonetic competence: Between grammar, signal processing, and neural activity"; jointly organized with Dr. H. Mitterer 2007 May 10-11 Visual Prosody in Language Communication; jointly organized with Dr. E. Johnson

Membership in Professional Organizations Acoustical Society of America (ASA); Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA; Executive Board Member since 2013); International Speech Communication Association (ISCA); National Society for Neuroscience (Western Massachusetts Neuroscience Chapter); Psychonomic Society (Fellow)

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Research Areas

Speech Perception (Auditory, Audiovisual, Visual); Spoken-Word Recognition; Multisensory Perception; Perceptual Learning; Individual Differences; Aging; Talker Variability; Word Learning; Processing Dynamics; Quantitative Modeling

Technical Skills

Scientific Software Adobe Premiere, Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe After Effects, avisynth, BAPI (Baldi), Elan, EEGlab, ERPLab, PRAAT, TmPEnc, VirtualDub Experimental Software PsychToolbox, CSLU toolkit, DMDX, ERTS, NESU, PsyScope, Presentation, Runword, SR Experiment Builder Statistical Packages R, SPSS, SAS Programming AWK, Bash, C, C++, Excel, Fortran, HTML Matlab/Octave, Perl, PRAAT, Tcl/Tk

References

Dr. Dominic W. Massaro (Emeritus) Dr. Anne Cutler Department of Psychology The MARCS Institute University of California, Santa Cruz University of Western Sydney Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, NSW 2751 Tel: (+1) 831-459-2330 Australia Email: [email protected] Tel: (+61) 2 9772 6684 Email: [email protected]

Dr. James M. McQueen Dr. Rochelle Newman Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences Postbus 9104 Program in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands 0100 Lefrak Hall, University of Maryland, Tel: (+31) 24-3612-608 College Park, MD 20742 Email: [email protected] Tel: (+1) 301-405-4226 Email: [email protected]