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Alexandra Jesse, Ph.D., Associate Professor

	University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Senior Fellow August 2022 – August 2023 Website Language, Intersensory Perception, and Speech (LIPS) Lab E-Mail: ajesse@psych.umass.edu

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.

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  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.

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

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  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