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Alexandra Jesse, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Alexandra Jesse, Ph.D., Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Senior Fellow
August 2022 – August 2023

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CV

  • 2018: Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • 2010-2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • 2005-2010:  Researcher, Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
  • 2005: Dissertation (Ph.D.), University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
  • Dissertation (Ph.D.), University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.

Forschungsinteressen

  • audiovisual speech perception
  • perceptual learning of speaker and dialectal variation
  • individual differences
  • aging-related changes across the adult lifespan

Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • Jesse, A. (2021). Sentence context guides phonetic retuning to speaker idiosyncrasies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(1), 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000805
  • Kaplan*, E., & Jesse, A. (2019). Fixating the eyes of a speaker provides sufficient visual information to modulate early auditory processing. Biological Psychology, 146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107724
  • Jesse, A., & Kaplan*, E. (2019). Attentional resources contribute to the perceptual learning of speaker idiosyncrasies in audiovisual speech. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81, 1006-1019. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-01651-x
  • Jesse, A., & Helfer, K. (2019). Lexical influences on errors in masked speech perception in younger, middle-aged, and older adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 1152-1166. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-H-ASCC7-18-0091
  • Jesse, A., & Bartoli*, M. (2018). Learning to recognize unfamiliar talkers: Listeners rapidly form representations of facial dynamic signatures. Cognition, 176, 195-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.03.018 

DSA-Projekt

While at the DSA, Dr. Jesse worked on research projects on the dynamics of speech perception. In particularly, she focused on the question of how listeners use lexical stress information during perception and how listeners adapt to speaker variation.