Robert Remez http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/ is an American experimental psychologist

Psychology

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, cognitive scientist

Cognitive science

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, theoretician and teacher. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Barnard College

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...

, Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition (founded in 2000)http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/langcog.html. His teaching focuses on the relationships between cognition, perception and language http://www.barnard.edu/faculty/profiles/remez_r.html. He is best known for his theoretical and experimental work on perceptual organization

Perception

Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...

http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631229278_chunk_g97806312292785http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1C-3VCVPNH-5&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=005c143db745cdcfdc646c5513bdcff9 and speech perception

Speech perception

Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonetics and phonology in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology...

http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book?id=g9780631229278_9780631229278. With Carol Fowler

Carol Fowler

Carol A. Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was a former President and Director of Research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut from 1992 to 2008. She is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and...

, Philip Rubin

Philip Rubin

Philip E. Rubin is an American cognitive scientist and technologist who since 2003 has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut...

, and Michael Turvey

Michael Turvey

Michael T. Turvey is the Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. He is best known for his pioneering work in ecological psychology and in applying dynamic systems...

, he introduced the consideration of speech in terms of a dynamical systems/action theory perspective http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0295.pdf. With Rubin and various other colleagues, he has used the technique of sinewave synthesis

Sinewave synthesis

Sinewave synthesis, or sine wave speech, is a technique for synthesizing speech by replacing the formants with pure tone whistles. The first sinewave synthesis program for the automatic creation of stimuli for perceptual experiments was developed by Philip Rubin at Haskins Laboratories in the 1970s...

 as a unique tool for exploring perceptual organization http://www.haskins.yale.edu/MISC/SWS/SWS.htmlhttp://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0889.pdf. He is the co-editor, with David Pisoni, of the Handbook of Speech Perceptionhttp://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book?id=g9780631229278_9780631229278. He was the Ann Olin Whitney Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychology at Barnard College

Barnard College

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 and is a member of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories

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Remez is a member of the Language and Communication Study Section (LCOM)http://www.csr.nih.gov/Roster_proto/member_roster.asp?srg=LCOM&SRGDISPLAY=LCOM&CID=102251, at the National Institute of Health Center for Scientific Review. He is a graduate of Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

 and the University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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Awards and honors

• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
  Acoustical Society of America
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• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
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• Fellow, American Psychological Association
  American Psychological Association
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• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
  Association for Psychological Science
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Selected publications

• Fowler, C. A., Rubin, P. E., Remez, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1980). Implications for speech production of a general theory of action. In B. Butterworth (Ed.), Language Production, Vol. I: Speech and Talk (pp. 373–420). New York: Academic Press.
• Remez, R. E. (1994). A guide to research on the perception of speech. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 145–172). New York: Academic Press.
• Remez, R. E. (2005). The perceptual organization of speech. In D. B. Pisoni and R. E. Remez (Eds.), The Handbook of Speech Perception, (pp. 28–50). Oxford: Blackwell