News From The Perceptual Science Lab

Department of Psychology
Social Sciences II
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA

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

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

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.

Lessons from a talking head The Oregonian
Did you see what I said? The Times
Seeing is Hearing The Observer
UCSC Currents article: UCSC psychologist teams up with Oregon school to help deaf children.
Speech Recognition and Sensory Integration by Dominic W. Massaro and David G. Stork. In May-June 1998 American Scientist. Consider what goes through your mind when you attempt to identify an apples variety - Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, McIntosh or Fuji...

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.