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Degrees:
Ph.D., Indiana Univ., Bloomington
M.A., Indiana Univ., Bloomington
B.A., Yale College
My research and teaching focus on human cognition, particularly with respect to speech and communication. These are inherently interdisciplinary topics - understanding the mind requires knowledge from neuroanatomical connections and electrophysiology to schools of philosophical thought and contemporary computer science; my particular study of language has involved physics, engineering, formal linguistics, fieldwork on Scandinavian languages in the North Atlantic, computer science, psychology, and the speech and hearing sciences. I believe that it is only when we bring these diverse views together that we can hope to unpack the complexities of humanity's cognitive underpinnings. Speech, for example, involves the mind, the brain, social pressures, the physics of sound transmission, and the particular language being spoken. Missing any of these pieces leaves us with a picture that is incomplete, at best, and misleading at worst.
My belief in the power of interdisciplinary inquiry has shaped my career so far (I was a Linguistics major as an undergraduate, completed a joint PhD in Linguistics and the Psychological & Brain Sciences, and am an active member in professional organizations from Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech & Hearing), and it continues to do so. I have a courtesy appointment in the Neuroscience Program, for example, in addition to my position in Psychology, and in 2020 I became the coordinator for the Cognitive Science minor at Trinity, where students can bring together courses from across the curriculum to create a rich scholarship surrounding the mind.
All in all, I hope to inspire students (and colleagues!) to see and appreciate connections across disparate specializations and scholarly work.
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Psychology of language
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Perception across sensory modalities
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Experimental methods in cognitive psychology
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Theories of cognition, embodiment, and perception/action
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Linguistics
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Complex language-mediated relationships (e.g., hearing and Deaf culture, political rhetoric)
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Speech production and motor control
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Interpersonal interaction in spoken communication
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Deafness and hearing loss
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Psycholinguistics of real-time language use
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Sociolinguistics and perception of indexical cues
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Publications: (* denotes Trinity undergraduate)
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Casserly, E.
& Barney, E.* (2017). Auditory training with multiple talkers and
passage-based semantic cohesion. Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 159-171.
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Casserly, E.
& Pisoni, D.B. (2015). Auditory learning using a portable real-time
vocoder: Preliminary findings. Journal of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(3),
1001-1016.
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Casserly, E.
(2015). Effects of real-time cochlear implant simulation on speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 137(5), 2791-2800.
- Snapp-Childs, W., Casserly, E., Mon-Williams, M., & Bingham, G.P. (2013). Active prospective control is required for effective sensorimotor learning. PLoS One, 8(10): e77609.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2013). Nonword repetition as a predictor of long-term speech and language skills in children with cochlear implants. Otology & Neurotology, 34(3). 460-470.
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Casserly, E. (2012). Gestures in Optimality Theory and the laryngeal phonology of Faroese. Lingua, 122(1). 41-65.
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Casserly, E. (2011). Speaker compensation for local perturbation of fricative acoustic feedback. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129 (4). 2181-2190.
- Snedeker, J. & Casserly, E. (2010). Is it all relative? Effects of prosodic boundaries on the comprehension and production of attachment ambiguities. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(7). 1234-1264.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2010). Speech perception & production. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1(5). 629-647.
Presentations:
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Casserly, E., & Marino, F.* (2017). Introduction of real-time visual feedback impairs intelligibility when other senses are degraded. Poster presentation, 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Boston, MA, Jun 25-29.
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Casserly, E. & Drews, H.* (2016). The effects of action and attention on auditory learning. Research presentation, 15th Annual Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 17.
- Pollack, E.*, Rowley, M.*, & Casserly, E. (2016). Worse than the dentist: Effects of simultaneous acoustic and somatosensory feedback degradation on speech. Poster presentation, 172nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Honolulu, HI, Nov 28-Dec 2.
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Casserly, E., Ballenger, D.*, & Talesnick, L.* (2016). Speakers respond to unlikely changes in the voice of a conversational partner. Poster presentation, 28th Annual Convention, Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, IL, May 26-29.
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Casserly, E., Talesnick, L.*, & Celestin, N.* (2015). Indirect evidence of perturbation leads to changes in production of voice amplitude and fundamental frequency. Poster presentation, 169th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA, May 18-22.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2014). The usefulness of chaos: Lab versus non-lab speech for perceptual learning. Oral research presentation, Conference on Laboratory Phonology 14, Tokyo, Japan, July 25-27.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2014). Perceptual learning in the laboratory versus real-world conversational interaction. Oral research presentation, 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, RI, May 5-9.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2013). Experience-dependent learning effects on speech production with spectrally degraded feedback. Invited research presentation and panel discussion, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Montréal, Québec, Canada. June 3-7.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2013). Acoustic feedback perturbation as a window to complex phonological representations. Plenary poster session selection, 87th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA, January 3-6.
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Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2012). Speech production under real-time simulation of cochlear implant acoustic feedback. Poster presentation, 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Kansas City, MO, October 22-26.
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Casserly, E., Pisoni, D.B., & Sherwood, K. (2012). Consonants versus vowels: Phonetic changes under acoustic feedback transformation. Oral research presentation, Conference on the Segment in Phonology. City University of New York, January 11-13.
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Casserly, E., Pisoni, D.B., Kronenberger, W., Geers, A., & Tobey, E. (2011). Relating nonword repetition and working memory to linguistic and cognitive development in children with cochlear implants. Oral research presentation, 5th International Conference on Memory. University of York, July 31-August 5.
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Casserly, E., Pisoni, D.B., Kronenberger, W., Geers, A., & Tobey, E. (2011). Nonword repetition as a long-term predictor of language outcomes in children with cochlear implants. Oral research presentation, 13th Annual Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children. Chicago, IL, July 14-16.
- Snapp-Childs, W., Casserly, E., Bingham, G. (2011). A sensorimotor approach to the training of manual actions in children with DCD. Poster presentation, 9th International Conference on Developmental Coordination Disorder. Lausanne, Switzerland, June 23-25.
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Casserly, E., Pisoni, D.B., Smalt, C., & Talavage, T. (2011). A portable, real-time vocoder: Technology and preliminary perceptual learning findings. Poster presentation, 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Seattle, WA, May 23-27.
- Bingham, G.P., Casserly, E., Snapp-Childs, W. (2011). Passive tracking versus active control in motor learning. Poster presentation, Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting. Naples, FL, May 6-11.
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Casserly, E. (2011). Effects of acoustic and temporal generality in speech feedback perturbation. Oral research presentation, Speech Production Workshop. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, May 5-6.
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Casserly, E., Pisoni, D.B., Kronenberger, W., Geers, A., & Tobey, E. (2011). Phonological processing skills as a predictor of language development. Poster presentation, 85th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA, January 6-9.
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Casserly, E. (2010). Compensation for perturbation of fricative acoustic feedback. Poster presentation, Conference on Laboratory Phonology 12. University of New Mexico, July 8-10.
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Casserly, E. (2010). Individual differences in use of English fricative perceptual cues. Poster presentation, 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Baltimore, MD, April 19-23.
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Casserly, E. (2010). Spread glottis in Faroese: Realization, neutralization and representation. Oral research presentation, Old World Conference in Phonology 7, Nice, France, January 28-30.
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Casserly, E. (2009). Spread glottis in Faroese: Realization, neutralization and opacity. Oral research presentation, Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology 15, Indiana Un
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- Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Trinity College Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014-2015 academic year.
- Pre-Doctoral Trainee, NIH-NIDCD Training Grant “Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition” (T32-DC00012), 2011-2013.
- Outstanding Associate Instructor, Dept. of Linguistics, Indiana University, 2011-2012 academic year.
- Profiled in the “Women in STEM” National Science Foundation publication highlighting the achievements of female Graduate Research Fellowship recipients, 2011.
- First Place, Student Paper Award in Speech Communication. 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City MO, October 22-26, 2012.
- Outstanding Research Methods Instructor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Spring 2011.
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Fall 2008-Summer 2011.
- Frank W. Householder Award Outstanding Graduate Paper, Dept. of Linguistics, Spring 2010.
- College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award, Indiana University, Spring 2010.
- Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, elected Spring 2007.
- Mellon Forum Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Yale University, Fall 2006.
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