BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Current Position:
Research Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Research Professor (Joint), Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences

Education:
B.A., Deaf Education, Texas Christian University, 1977
M.A., Audiology, University of Iowa, 1979
Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Iowa, 1984

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Audiovisual speech perception; cochlear implants; conversational fluency; adult aural rehabilitation



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PUBLICATIONS:
Jerger, S., Damian, M. F., Tye-Murray, N., Dougherty, M., Mehta, J., and Spence, M. (2006). Effects of childhood hearing loss on organization of semantic memory: Typicality and relatedness. Ear and Hearing, 27, 686-702.

Barcroft, J., Sommers, M., and Tye-Murray, N. (2007). What learning a second language might teach us about auditory training. Seminars in Hearing, 28, 150-160.

Sommers, M. S., Hale, S., Myerson, J., Rose, N. S., Tye-Murray, N., & Spehar, B. (2007). Age-related changes in spoken discourse comprehension. Psychonomic Society, 12, 40.

Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., and Spehar, B. (2007). Lipreading and aging: Does gender make a difference? Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 18, 889-899.

Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., and Spehar, B. (2007). Audiovisual integration and lipreading abilities of older adults with normal and impaired hearing. Ear and Hearing, 28, 656-668.

Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., and Spehar, B. (2007). Auditory and visual lexical neighborhoods in audiovisual speech perception. Trends in Amplification, 11, 233-242.

Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Hale, S., and Rose, N. (2008). Auditory-visual discourse comprehension by older and young adults in favorable and unfavorable conditions. International Journal of Audiology, 47 (S2), S31-S37.

Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N., and Sommers, M. (2008). Intra- versus inter-modal integration in young and older adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 2855-2866.

Tye-Murray, N., Spry, J., and Mauze, E. (2008). Aural rehabilitation for the workplace: Listening in our offices helps clients listen in theirs. Asha Leader, 13, 14-17.

Jerger, S., Damian, M., Spence, M., and Tye-Murray, N. (2009). Developmental shifts in covert audiovisual speech processing in children: A new multimodal picture word task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 40-59.

Jerger, S., Tye-Murray, N., and Abdi, H. (2009). Role of visual speech in phonological processing by children with hearing loss. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 52, 412-434.

Tye-Murray, N., Spry, J., and Mauze, E. (2009). Professionals with hearing loss: Maintaining that competitive edge. Ear and Hearing, 30.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Nancy Tye-Murray, Ph.D.
Department of Otolaryngology
Washington University School of Medicine
Capus Box 8115, 660 S. Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110

Phone: (314) 747-7153
Fax: (314) 747-7230
Email address: nmurray@wustl.edu