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Alexandra Jesse, Ph.D., Associate Professor

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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Senior Fellow
August 2022 – August 2023

Website
Language, Intersensory Perception, and Speech (LIPS) Lab

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DSA-Project

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.

  • 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.

  • Research Interests

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

  • Publications (Selection)

    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