The Perceptual Science Lab

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    University of California, Santa Cruz
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News From The Perceptual Science Lab

2008 News

  • Scholastic's System 44 is comprised of a team of experts, including Dominic Massaro, who worked together to create "The Breakthrough Foundational Reading Program for Our Most Challenged Readers in Grades 3-12+" -- Coming Fall 2008.
  • Science Daily article on Baldi helping remedial readers, language learners, and autistic children
  • Speech Technology magazine article on Baldi and cell phones
  • KUSP radio interview (starts at around the half-way point)
  • Swedish-language article on Baldi
  • Czech-language article on Baldi
  • UCSC Currents article: UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone
  • UCSC Currents article: Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children
  • KION 46 story on virtual speech therapist | Watch Video (2:07): Quicktime
  • Fox News article: Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Ones
  • ScienceDaily article: Animated Computer Tutors Help Remedial Readers, Language Learners, Autistic Children

2006 News

2005 News

  • The Patricia C. Lindamood, M.S., CC-SLP Leadership Award For Clinical Excellence In Language and Reading.
    CSUMB Center for Reading Diagnosis and Instruction, California State University, Monterey Bay.
  • Newsweek article: Baldi helping our children with Autism

2001 News

  • Dr. Dean Edell's Medical Journal reports on Baldi's use in training deaf children. Watch the streaming video report from ABC TV.
  • Primetime Thursday reports on a revolutionary 3D technology that may help deaf and autistic children as well as stroke victims. Watch a virtual Diane Sawyer for a preview.

1998 News

1997 News

  • A new book by Dominic Massaro entitled, "Perceiving Talking Faces: From Speech Perception to a Behavioral Principle" (Bradford Books: Cognitive Psychology Series - The MIT Press) is a comprehensive resource for those interested in speechreading, pattern recognition, face-to-face communication, and the Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception (FLMP). The book presents converging evidence across several domains of perception that supports the FLMP as a universal law of perception. Included is a CD-ROM with many examples, stimuli from experiments, and Baldi (the computer generated talking head) in action.

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