Education

University of Minnesota	B.S.	1969   Speech Pathology
University of Minnesota	M.A.	1970   Speech Pathology
University of Minnesota	Ph.D.	1974   Speech Science

Main Positions Held

1974-1976		National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
1976-present		Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University
1994-present		College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor (Psychology)
1997-present		Matthews Distinguished University Professor (Psychology)

                         

Selected Current and Past Professional Activities

National Institutes of Health NIDCD Advisory Council; Communication Disorders Review Committee; Integrated Planning and Policy Committee
Fachbeirat (Scientific Council), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee
Associate Editor, Perception & Psychophysics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Editorial Board, Cognition; Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing Series (Springer-Verlag)
Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories

Selected Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi

Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota

National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University

National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award

National Institutes of Health Javits Neuroscience Investigator

Award/ Claude Pepper Award

Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, AAAS, Association for

Psychological Science

Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award

Précis of Current Research

Joanne Miller’s research aims to increase our understanding of spoken language processing. It is well known that the acoustic form of any given word is not constant from utterance to utterance, but changes as a function of such factors as the specific talker who is speaking, the rate of speech, and the context in which the word is produced. Despite such variability, human listeners recognize spoken words with apparent ease. Dr. Miller’s research team uses a variety of experimental paradigms to investigate the perceptual processes that underlie this ability, focusing on how listeners map the speech signal onto the sequences of phonetic segments (consonants and vowels) that comprise the lexical items of the language. The results of such investigations constrain theories of normal speech and language processing as well as theories of speech and language processing disorders, and they have implications for the development of human speech technologies. Dr. Miller’s research has primarily been funded by the National Institutes of Health.