BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Current Position:
Research Scientist, Department of Otolaryngology
Lecturer, Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences

Education:
B.S., Speech Pathology and Audiology, Southern Illinois University, 1997
M.S.S.H., Audiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1999
Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005

RESEARCH INTERESTS


PUBLICATIONS:

Tye-Murray, N, Sommers M.S, & Spehar, B.P. Joel Myerson, Sandra Hale, Nathan S. Rose (2008). Auditory-visual discourse comprehension by older and young adults in favorable and unfavorable conditions. International Journal of Audiology. 47 (Suppl. 2), S31-S37.

Spehar, B.P., Tye-Murray, N., & Sommers M. (2008). Intra- versus inter-modal integration in young and older adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123(5), 2858-2866. PMID:18529201

Tye-Murray, N, Sommers M.S, & Spehar, B.P. (2007). Auditory and Visual Lexical Neighborhoods in Audiovisual Speech Perception. Trends in Amplification. 11(4), 233-241. PMID:18003867

Tye-Murray, N, Sommers M.S, & Spehar, B.P. (2007). Audiovisual integration and lipreading abilities of older adults with normal and impaired hearing. Ear and Hearing. 28(5), 656-668. PMID: 17804980

Tye-Murray, N., Sommers M., & Spehar, B. (2007). The effects of age and gender on lipreading abilities. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 18, 889-899. PMID:18496997

Sommers, M., Tye-Murray, N., & Spehar, B. (2005). Auditory-visual speech perception and auditory-visual enhancement in normal-hearing younger and older adults. Ear and Hearing. 26(3):263-275, June. PMID: 15937408

Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N., & Sommers M., (2004). Time-compressed visual speech and age: a first report. Ear and Hearing. 25(6), 565-572. PMID: 15604917

Sarli C.C., Uchanski R.M., Heidbreder A., Readmond K., Spehar B.P. (2003). 19th-century camouflaged mechanical hearing devices. Otology & Neurotology. 24(4), 691-8, Jul. PMID: 12851567

Geers, A.E., Spehar, .B.P., & Sedey, A.L. (2002). Use of speech by children from total communication programs who wear cochlear implants. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 11, 50-58.

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