SHANNON L. M. HEALD

Curriculum Vitae

Psychology Department, 781-492-7568 5848 S. University Ave., Green Hall 302 [email protected] Chicago, IL 60637

Degrees:

Ph.D. in Cognitive , University of Chicago, 2012 M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Chicago, 2005 A.B. in Psychology, University of Chicago, 2002

Employment:

Research Professional, Center for Practical Wisdom, University of Chicago, Fall 2017- present Post-Doctoral Scholar, Cognitive Lab, University of Chicago Fall 2012 - Summer 2017

Honors:

Elected Fellow, Open and User Innovation Society – Summer 2019 Elected Fellow, Psychonomic Society - Spring, 2016 University of Chicago Unendowed Merit-Based Fellowship - Fall, 2002 John Dewey Prize Lectureship - Spring, 2010 Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize in Teaching Nomination - Fall, 2008 Doolittle-Harrison Travel Fellowship - Spring, 2008 Graduated with Honors (A.B.), University of Chicago – 2002

Peer-Reviewer for:

Journal of Phonetics Language, , Neuroscience , , & Psychophysics Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Journal of Memory and Language Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Journal of Neurolinguistics PLOS ONE Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Brain and Language Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology Linguistics Program at the National Science Foundation Language and

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

1. Stock-Homburg, R. M., Heald, S. L., Holthaus, C., Gillert, N. L., & von Hippel, E. (2020). Need-solution pair recognition by household sector individuals: Evidence, and a cognitive mechanism explanation. Research Policy, 104068.

2. Uddin, S., Reis, K. S., Heald, S. L., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2020). Cortical mechanisms of talker normalization in fluent sentences. Brain and Language, 201, 104722.

3. Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2019). Absolute pitch can be learned by some adults. PloS one, 14(9).

4. Zhen, A., Van Hedger, S., Heald, S.L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Tian, X. (2019). Manual directional gestures facilitate cross-modal perceptual learning. Cognition, 187, 178-187.

5. Van Hedger, S. C., Nusbaum, H. C., Heald, S. L., Huang, A., Kotabe, H. P., & Berman, M. G. (2019). The aesthetic preference for nature sounds depends on sound object recognition. Cognitive science, 43(5), e12734.

6. Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L., Uddin, S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2018). A note by any other name: Intonation context rapidly changes absolute note judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(8), 1268-1282.

7. Nusbaum, H.C., Uddin, S., Van Hedger, S.C., & Heald, S.L. (2018). Consolidating skill learning through . Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, 174-182.

8. Uddin, S., Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2018). Hearing sounds as words: Neural responses to environmental sounds in the context of fluent speech. Brain & Language, 179, 51-61.

9. Uddin, S., Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., Klos, S., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2018). Understanding environmental sounds in sentence context. Cognition, 72, 134-143.

10. Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2018). Long-term pitch memory for recordings is related to auditory working memory precision. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 879-891.

11. Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2017). Understanding sound: Auditory skill acquisition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 67, 10.1016/bs.plm.2017.03.003

12. Heald, S.L.*, Van Hedger, S.C.*, & Nusbaum, H.C. (2017). Perceptual plasticity for auditory object recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00781 *Co-First Authors

13. Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2017). Long-term pitch memory for music recordings is related to auditory working memory precision. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

14. Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Huang, A., Rutstein, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2017). Telling in-tune from out-of-tune: Widespread evidence for implicit absolute intonation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 481-488.

15. Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2016). What the [bleep?]: Enhanced absolute pitch memory for a 1000 Hz sine tone. Cognition, 154, 139-150.

16. Heald, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). Variability in Vowel Production within and between Days. PloS one, 10(9), e0136791.

17. Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L., Koch, R., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). Auditory working memory predicts individual differences in absolute pitch learning. Cognition, 140, 95-110.

18. Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). The effects of acoustic variability on absolute pitch categorization: Evidence of contextual tuning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1), 436-446.

19. Heald, S. L., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Auditory category knowledge in experts and novices. Frontiers in neuroscience, 8.

20. Heald, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Talker variability in audio-visual . Frontiers in psychology, 5.

21. Heald, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Speech perception as an active cognitive process. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 35(8), 1-18.

22. Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2013). Absolute pitch may not be so absolute. Psychological science, 24(8), 1496-1502.

Book Chapter:

Heald, S.L., Klos, S., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2015). Understanding speech in the context of variability. In G. Hickok, & S. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of Language (pp. 195- 206) San Diego: Academic Press

Manuscripts Under Review:

1. Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, Veillette, J., Reis, K., Snyder, J., Nusbaum, H.C. Rapid Generalized Perceptual Learning Affects Early Sensory Changes in Neural Processing.

2. Van Hedger, S.C., Veillette, J., Heald, S.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. Redefining perfect pitch to be less perfect.

3. Veillette, J., Heald, S.L., Reis, K.S., & Nusbaum, H.C. A Forward Model of Voice Frequency Contributes to Human Vocal Production.

4. Veillette, J., Heald, S.L., Reis, K.S., Wittenbrink, B. & Nusbaum, H.C. Visually Evoked Brain Potential Differences During Consumer Choice Reflect Ultimate Market Outcomes.

5. Reis, K., Heald, S.L., Veillette, J., Van Hedger, S.C, & Nusbaum, H.C. Individual Differences in Human Frequency Following Response Predict Pitch Labeling Ability.

Presentations:

Heald, S.L. (2020, March). Psychological Research: Best Practices and Common Challenges, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (Invited 2-day Workshop)

Van Hedger, Heald, S.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2019, August). Robust absolute pitch representations in the general population: Evidence from popular melodies, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY.

Heald, S.L. (2019, May). Recognizing speech in the context of talker variability, Acoustic Society of America, Louisville, KY. (Invited Talk for Special Session: ‘Exploring the Interface Between Linguistic Processing and Talker Recognition’) Heald, S.L. (2018, October). Need-Solution Pair Recognition as a new form of insight, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (Invited Lecture)

Heald, S.L. (2018, October). Need-Solution Pair Recognition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany (Invited Lecture)

Heald, S.L. (2018, August). Inducing Need-Solution Pair Recognition in a Laboratory Setting, Open and User Innovation Conference, New York, NY.

Heald, S.L. (2018, July). Object oriented Solution-finding: A New Way to Find Solutions, MIT Innovation Meeting, MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston, MA. (Invited Lecture)

Heald, S.L. (2017, August). Gaining Insight for Innovation. Open and User Innovation Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.

Heald, S.L. (2017, November). How perception works – how the mind makes sense of ambiguous signals. MIT Innovation Meeting, MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston, MA. (Invited Lecture)

Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2016, November). Working memory predicts individual differences in learning synthetic speech produced by rule. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Huang, A., Rutstein, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2016, November). Telling in-tune from out-of-tune: Widespread evidence for implicit absolute intonation. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., Nusbaum, H.C. (November, 2015). Incidental absolute pitch learning in an interactive, multi-modal environment. Acoustical Society of America 170th Meeting. Jacksonville, FL.

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Koch, R. & Nusbaum, H.C. (October 2014). Absolute memory for popular songs is predicted by auditory working memory ability. Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis

Heald, S.L., Winer, J., Wagner E., Colson, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (March, 2014). Gaining Insight into Perceptual Ambiguity. Wisdom Conference, University of Chicago

Heald, S.L. (May, 2012). Statistics in Research. Research Methods, University of Chicago (Guest Lecturer)

Heald, S.L., Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H.C. (December, 2012). Octave Normalization and Cognitive Cost. Perception and Understanding in Music Workshop.

Heald, S.L., Hedger, S.C., Hoeckner, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (November, 2010). Localized Context Influences the Perceptual Judgment of Musical Tones. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.

Heald, S.L., Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H.C. (October, 2010). Interaction of Knowledge and Context in Audition. Perception and Understanding in Music Workshop, University of Chicago.

Heald, S.L. (November, 2010). Speech and Music Perception. Sensation and Perception, University of Chicago (Guest Lecturer)

Heald, S.L. (November, 2009). Auditory Perception. Sensation and Perception, University of Chicago (Guest Lecturer).

Posters:

Heald S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., Nusbaum H.C. (2019, November) Interpretation of pitch patterns in spoken and sung speech. Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Zhen, A., Van Hedger, S.C., Heald S.L., Goldin-Meadow, S., Tian, X. (2019, November) Interpretation of pitch patterns in spoken and sung speech. Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald S.L., Nusbaum H.C., Batterink, L.J., Davis, M., Johnsrude, I.S. (2019, November) Learning Different Forms of Degraded Speech as a Cognitive Skill. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada.

Van Hedger, S.C., Veillette, J., Heald, S.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2019, August) Redefining perfect pitch to be less perfect. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY.

Heald S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., Nusbaum, H.C. (2019, August) ERP signatures of environmental sound processing in linguistic context. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY.

Heald S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., Nusbaum, H.C. (2018, November), Individual differences in auditory working memory is predictive of compensation response to spectral perturbation from /eh/ to /ae/. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, LA.

Uddin S, Heald S.L., Nusbaum, H.C. (2017, April) ERP signatures of environmental sound processing in linguistic context. American Physician Scientists Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Uddin, S., Heald, S.L., Van Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2016, November). Recognizing sounds in sentence context. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Wu, S., & Nusbaum, H.C. (November, 2015). Judging the absolute pitch of novel recordings of familiar songs. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Nusbaum, H.C. (November, 2015). The effects of acoustic variability on absolute pitch categorization: Evidence for contextual tuning. Acoustical Society of America 170th Meeting. Jacksonville, FL.

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Koch, R., Nusbaum, H.C. (August, 2015). Auditory working memory predicts individual differences in absolute pitch learning: Evidence from short- and long-term training. Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Heald, S.L., Bartram, N., Colson, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (October, 2014). Labels facilitate the learning of competing abstract perceptual mappings. Acoustical Society of America.

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Koch, R., Nusbaum, H.C. (October, 2014). Absolute memory for popular songs is predicted by auditory working memory ability. Acoustical Society of America 168th Meeting. Indianapolis, IN.

Heald, S.L., Winer, J., Trude, A., Wagner E., Colson, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (November, 2013). Neural Correlates Associated with the Perceptual Learning of Synthetic Speech. Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Nusbaum, H.C. (August, 2013). Absolute pitch may not be so absolute. Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference.

Heald, S.L., Hedger, S.C., Klos, S.R., Colson, B., and Nusbaum, H.C. (January, 2013) Spoken gesture is integrated with sentence meaning during speech comprehension. Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L., Nusbaum, H.C. (November, 2012). Absolute pitch may not be so absolute. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Kim, C.H., Heald, S.L., Nusbaum, H.C. (May, 2012). The Role of Visual Social Cues in Speech Perception Under Talker Variability. Midwest Cognitive Science Conference.

Heald, S.L., Klos, S.R., Colson, B., & Nusbaum, H.C. (May, 2012). Spoken Gesture Is Integrated with Sentence Meaning During Speech Comprehension. Midwest Cognitive Science Conference.

Heald, S.L., Kim, C.H., Lescop O., & Nusbaum H.C. (May, 2012). Multiple-Talker Speech Processing: Cognitive Costs in Audio-Only and Audio-Visual Contexts. Midwest Cognitive Science Conference.

Teaching Experience:

Research Mentor (University of Chicago) Guided 24+ undergraduate students at the University of Chicago through all stages of the research process, 2007 - present

Instructor: Concepts and Categories University of Chicago, Spring 2010 Self-designed undergraduate seminar taught independently Awarded via the John Dewey Prize Introduction to Statistical Concepts and Methods (University of Chicago) University of Chicago, Spring 2020 Mind: How the Mind constructs Reality (Taught remotely) University of Chicago, Fall 2020

Lab Practicum Advisor (University of Chicago) Trained and advised MA thesis students from Fall 2010 to Spring 2010

Teaching Assistant (MBA courses, University of Chicago Booth School of Business): Strategies and Processes of Negotiation, Winter 2018, Spring 2018 Advanced Negotiation, Spring, 2019

Teaching Assistant (undergraduate courses, University of Chicago): Psychological Research Methods: PSYC 202, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012 Psychological Statistics, PSYC 201, Fall 2008 Sensation & Perception, PSYC 207, Winter 2009, Winter 2010 Theories of Emotion and Well Being, PSYC 264 Spring 2011 Cross Cultural Approaches to Learning, PSYC 248, Winter 2011 Social Science Seq.: SOSC 141 MIND I, Sec 1 - Fall 2008, Sec 8 - Fall 2009 Social Science Seq.: SOSC 141 MIND II, Sec 1- Winter 2009, Sec 8 - Winter 2010 Social Science Seq.: SOSC 141 MIND III, Sec 1 - Spring 2009, Sec 8 - Spring 2010

Pedagogy Training: Academic and Professional Writing (The Little Red Schoolhouse – University of Chicago) Teaching in the College (Center for Teaching and Learning – University of Chicago)

Academic Involvement:

Open and User Innovation Society – Elected Fellow Psychonomic Society – Elected Fellow Association of Psychological Science - member Society for the Teaching of Psychology, The American Psychological Association – member Psi Chi Honor Society - member

Skills:

Data & Statistical Analysis: Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox (Matlab), JASP, SPSS, Python, R, RAGU (EEG), BESA (EEG), Fieldtrip (Matlab toolbox for EEG) Experimental Presentation (including interaction with EEG): Psychtoolbox (Matlab toolbox), Inquisit, E-prime Stimulus Generation: Adobe Audition, Praat (including scripting), Matlab, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

Service:

Departmental Subject Matter Expert: EEG, Fall 2015 - present Works with EEG product managers (EGI and BrainVision) to test new equipment, providing feedback, and recommending enhancements. Oversees and coordinates the installation and maintenance of departmental EEG equipment and software. Advises and trains new departmental users

Initiated collaboration between Psychology and Computer Science Department, Fall 2016-2017 Designed, advised, and assessed interdisciplinary master level projects which allowed computer science students to tackle significant research challenges in psychology using skills in software engineering and computer architecture. Tools developed through these practicums were incorporated into current research projects

Travel and Research Committee Member, Fall 2004- Spring 2006 Reviewed applications for travel and research related expenses among graduate students. Allocated funds based on merit and availability. References:

Prof. Howard Nusbaum, [email protected] Prof. Daniel Margoliash, [email protected] Prof. George Wu, [email protected] Prof. Ruth Stock, [email protected]