Research Overview

Research Overview of The Perceptual Science Lab Embodied Conversational Agents And Speech Science: Speech and language science and technology evolved under the assumption that speech was a solely auditory event. However, a burgeoning record of research findings reveals that our… Continue Reading Research Overview

Book Reviews

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Review of Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures) by Herbert S. Terrace. Review by Dom Massaro. email: massaro@ucsc.edu… Continue Reading Book Reviews

Book Review Reviewer Index

Abbeduto, Leonard Abramson, Charles I. Adams, Marilyn Jager Adams-Webber, Jack Allan, Lorraine G. Amsel, Abram Anderson, Nancy S. Anderson, Norman H. Aron, Arthur Aron, Elaine N. Aronson, Elliot Ash, Mitchell G. Ashby, F. Gregory Azmitia, Margarita (Social Interaction and the… Continue Reading Book Review Reviewer Index

Book Review Contents

Book Reviews – Fall 1986, Volume 99, Number 3 The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology. By Jerry A. Fodor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983, 145 pp. Reviewed by Dominic W. Massaro. Fall 1986, Vol. 99, No. 3,… Continue Reading Book Review Contents

Michael M Cohen

Michael M. Cohen Michael M. Cohen is a research associate in the Perceptual Science Laboratory at the University of California – Santa Cruz. His research interests include speech perception and production, speechreading, information integration, learning, and computer facial animation. He… Continue Reading Michael M Cohen

Dominic (Dom) Massaro

Dom Massaro is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering, director of the Perceptual Science Laboratory, and Founding Chair of Digital Arts and New Media M.F. A. program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a BA in… Continue Reading Dominic (Dom) Massaro

Psychology 134

Psychology 134: Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition Dom Massaro Interdisciplinary Course: Linguistics, Psychology, Engineering Sciences, Cognitive Sciences, Infant Development, Language and its Acquisition, Speech, Reading, Literacy, Economics & Business, Technology Learning Objectives: The primary learning objective is to achieve an understanding… Continue Reading Psychology 134

Demos

Research Demonstrations My Dad Taught Me To Drive Baldi Tutoring Hard of Hearing Children Autistic Boy Learning Language with Baldi McGurk Illusion with Baldi Read With Me! Demo 2 Internationalization of Synthetic Visual Speech AVI and Quicktime Movies: (scroll right… Continue Reading Demos

Publications

  Massaro, D., Bernstein, J., 2023. Artificial Intelligence in Literacy. In: Tierney, R.J., Rizvi, F., Erkican, K. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 10. Elsevier. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.07005-6. Understand My World: An Interactive App for Children Learning Arabic Vocabulary. Abou El-Seoud, M. Samir;… Continue Reading Publications