Lynne E. Bernstein
Adjunct Professor, USC
Scientist III and Head
Communication Neuroscience Department
House Ear Institute
Research Topics
- Speech perception
- Multisensory/multimodal perception
- Plasticity related to deafness and cochlear implants
- Auditory pathway disorders
Research Overview
Speech communication is a complex system. Effects of hearing loss on individuals' abilities to communicate effectively with speech are the result of diverse facts about this complex system. For example, individual differences in the timing and developmental course of hearing impairment, visual speech perception ability, the language environment, biologically and experientially influenced perceptual and cognitive characteristics, and social-cultural context are likely candidates for determining communication ability under conditions of hearing impairment. Recent technological developments in brain imaging and the analysis of event-related brain potentials, in combination with behavioral research methods, offer powerful methodologies for studying relationships between structure, function, and dynamics in the normal and the impaired speech communication system. An integrative research strategy has been undertaken involving these new imaging technologies in combination with behavioral methods to investigate questions about speech perception and spoken word recognition in individuals with normal hearing and with hearing loss.Contact Information
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Biography
Department - E-mail:
- lbernstein@hei.org
- Mailing Address:
- Communication Neuroscience Department
House Ear Institute
2100 W. Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057 - Office Phone:
- (213) 353-7038
- Fax:
- (213) 413-0950
Education
- B.A. Brandeis University
- M.A. University of Michigan
- Ph. D. University of Michigan
- Post-doc Northwestern University
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Bernstein LE, Lu ZL, Jiang J. (2008) Quantified acoustic-optical speech signal incongruity identifies cortical sites of audiovisual speech processing. Brain Res. (In press). -PubMed
Bernstein LE, Auer ET Jr, Wagner M, Ponton CW. (2008) Spatiotemporal dynamics of audiovisual speech processing. Neuroimage. 39(1):423-435. -PubMed
Auer, E. T., Jr., Bernstein, L. E., Sungkarat, W., & Singh, M. (2007). Vibrotactile activation of the auditory cortices in deaf versus hearing adults. NeuroReport. 18(7):645-648. -PubMed
Jiang, J., Alwan, A., Keating, P.A., Auer, E. T., Jr., & Bernstein, L. E. (2007). Similarity structure in visual speech perception and optical phonetics. Perception & Psychophysics. 69(7): 1070-1083. -PubMed
Auer, E. T., Jr., & Bernstein, L. E. (2007). Enhanced visual speech perception in individuals with early onset hearing impairment. Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research. 5: 1157-1165. -PubMed
Moody-Antonio, S., Takayanagi, S., Masuda, A., Auer, Jr., E. T., Fisher, L., & Bernstein, L. E. (2005). Improved speech perception in adult prelingually deafened cochlear implant recipients. Otology & Neurotology. 26:649-654. -PubMed
Bernstein, L. E., Takayanagi, S., & Auer, E. T., Jr. (2004). Auditory speech detection in noise enhanced by lipreading. Speech Communication. 44: 5-18.
Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T, Jr., & Moore, J. K. (2004). Audiovisual speech binding: Convergence or association? In G. Calvert, Spence, C. & Stein, B. E. (Eds.), Handbook of Multisensory Processing. Cambridge: MIT Press. 202-203.
Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T., Moore, J. K., Ponton, C., Don, M., & Singh, M. (2002). Visual speech perception without primary auditory cortex activation. NeuroReport. 13: 311-315. -PubMed
Bernstein, L. E., Demorest, M. E., & Tucker, P. E. (2000). Speech perception without hearing. Perception & Psychophysics. 62: 233-252. -PubMed