Robert Remez
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Robert Remez is an American experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist, and is Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition (founded in 2000).{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/index/BiographicalSketch.html|title=Robert E. Remez Biographical Sketch|website=Columbia University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709142040/http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/index/BiographicalSketch.html|archive-date=July 9, 2018|access-date=July 9, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/LC/langcog/LanguageCognition.html|title=Language & Cognition|website=Columbia University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709142312/http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/LC/langcog/LanguageCognition.html|archive-date=July 9, 2018|access-date=July 9, 2018}} His teaching focuses on the relationships between cognition, perception and language. He is best known for his theoretical and experimental work on perceptual organization{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631229278_chunk_g97806312292785|title=2. Perceptual Organization of Speech|website=Blackwell Reference Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709142601/http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631229278_chunk_g97806312292785|archive-date=July 9, 2018|access-date=July 9, 2018}}{{Cite web |title=Multimodal perceptual organization of speech: Evidence from tone analogs of spoken utterances |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1C-3VCVPNH-5&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=005c143db745cdcfdc646c5513bdcff9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201222355/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1C-3VCVPNH-5&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=005c143db745cdcfdc646c5513bdcff9 |archive-date=2013-02-01 |access-date=July 8, 2018 |website=Science Direct}} and speech perception.{{Cite book |last1=Remez |first1=Robert E. |title=The Handbook of Speech Perception |last2=Pisoni |first2=David B. |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=9780631229278}}
With Carol Fowler, Philip Rubin, and Michael Turvey, he introduced the consideration of speech in terms of a dynamical systems/action theory perspective.{{Cite web |title=Implications for Speech Production of a General Theory of Action |url=http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0295.pdf |access-date=July 9, 2018 |website=Yale University}} With Rubin and various other colleagues, he has used the technique of sinewave synthesis as a unique tool for exploring perceptual organization.{{Cite web|url=http://www.haskins.yale.edu/MISC/SWS/SWS.html|title=Implications for Speech Production of a General Theory of Action|website=Yale University|access-date=July 9, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0889.pdf|title=On the Perceptual Organization of Speech|website=Yale University|access-date=July 9, 2018}} He is the co-editor, with David Pisoni, of the Handbook of Speech Perception.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book?id=g9780631229278_9780631229278|title=The Handbook of Speech Perception|website=Blackwell Publishing|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709142850/http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book?id=g9780631229278_9780631229278|archive-date=July 9, 2018|access-date=July 9, 2018}} He was the Ann Olin Whitney Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychology at Barnard College and is a member of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories.
Remez is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Connecticut.
Awards and honors
Selected publications
- Fowler, C. A., Rubin, P. E., Remez, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1980). Implications for speech production of a general theory of action. In B. Butterworth (Ed.), Language Production, Vol. I: Speech and Talk (pp. 373–420). New York: Academic Press.
- {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.7233191 | last1 = Remez | first1 = R. E. | last2 = Rubin | first2 = P. E. | last3 = Pisoni | first3 = D. B. | last4 = Carrell | first4 = T. D. | s2cid = 13039853 | year = 1981 | title = Speech perception without traditional speech cues | journal = Science | volume = 212 | issue = 4497| pages = 947–950 | pmid=7233191| bibcode = 1981Sci...212..947R }}
- {{Cite journal |doi=10.1037/0033-295X.101.1.129 |last1=Remez |first1=R.E. |last2=Rubin |first2=P.E. |last3=Berns |first3=S.M. |last4=Pardo |first4=J.S. |last5=Lang |first5=J.M. |year=1994 |title=On the perceptual organization of speech |journal=Psychological Review |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=129–156 |pmid=8121955}}
- Remez, R. E. (1994). A guide to research on the perception of speech. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 145–172). New York: Academic Press.
- {{Cite journal |doi=10.1037/0096-1523.23.3.651 |last1=Remez |first1=R. E. |last2=Fellowes |first2=J. M. |last3=Rubin |first3=P. E. |year=1997 |title=Talker identification based on phonetic information |journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=651–666 |pmid=9180039}}
- {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/1467-9280.00305 | last1 = Remez | first1 = R. E. | last2 = Pardo | first2 = J. S. | last3 = Piorkowski | first3 = R. L. | last4 = Rubin | first4 = P. E. | s2cid = 22521260 | year = 2001 | title = On the bistability of sinewave analogs of speech | journal = Psychological Science | volume = 12 | issue = 1| pages = 24–29 | pmid = 11294224 }}
- Remez, R. E. (2005). The perceptual organization of speech. In D. B. Pisoni and R. E. Remez (Eds.), The Handbook of Speech Perception, (pp. 28–50). Oxford: Blackwell
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Category:21st-century American psychologists
Category:Brandeis University alumni
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Category:Speech perception researchers
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Category:Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Category:Fellows of the American Psychological Association
Category:Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science