Rosalie M. Uchanski, PhD
Associate Professor
Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Mailing address
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
660 S. Euclid Ave.-Campus Box 8115
St. Louis, MO 63110
Research interests
Speech perception by hearing-impaired listeners, especially cochlear implant users; perception of talker-specific properties of speech by cochlear implant users, perception of suprasegmental speech characteristics and its relation to learning words; psychoacoustic abilities of cochlear implant users and of persons with unilateral hearing loss.
Dr. Uchanski collaborates closely with Drs. Lisa S. Davidson and Jill B. Firszt.
Education
- BS Bioengineering, Univ of Illinois-Chicago (1978)
- MS Elec Eng & Comp Sci, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (1981)
- PhD Elec Eng & Comp Sci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988)
Selected publications
- Geers, A. E., Davidson, L. S., Uchanski, R. M., and Nicholas, J. G. (2013) Interdependence of Linguistic and Indexical Speech Perception Skills in School-Aged Children with Early Cochlear Implantation, Ear and Hearing (Epub ahead of print).
- Robinson, E. J., Davidson, L. S., Uchanski, R. M., Brenner, C. M., and Geers, A. E. (2012) A Longitudinal Study of Speech Perception Skills and Device Characteristics of Adolescent Cochlear Implant Users, Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 23, p. 341-349. PMCID: PMC3403824.
- Wright, R. and Uchanski, R. M. (2012) Music Perception and Appraisal: Cochlear Implant Users and Simulated CI Listening, Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 23, p. 350-365. PMCID: PMC3400338.
- Burton, H., Firszt, J. B., Holden, T., Agato, A., and Uchanski, R. M. (2012) Activation lateralization in human core, belt, and parabelt auditory fields with unilateral deafness compared to normal hearing, Brain Research, 1454:33-47 (PMCID: PMC Journal – In Process)
- Chang, N-Y N., Uchanski, R. M., and Hullar, T. E. (2012) Temporal Integration of Auditory and Vestibular Stimuli, Laryngoscope, 122:1379-1384 (PMCID: PMC Journal – In Process)
- Sanders, M. C., Chang, N-Y. N., Hiss, M. M., Uchanski, R. M., and Hullar, T. E. (2011) Temporal binding of auditory and rotational stimuli, Experimental Brain Research, 210, p. 539-547
- Mallery, R. M., Olomu, O. U., Uchanski, R. M., Militchin, V. A., and Hullar, T. E. (2010) Human discrimination of rotational velocities, Experimental Brain Research, 204, p. 11-20.
- Uchanski, R. M., Davidson, L. S., Quadrizius, S., Reeder, R., Cadieux, J. and Kettel, J. (2009) Two ears and two, or more?, devices: A pediatric case study of bilateral profound hearing loss, Trends in Amplification, 13(2), p. 107-113.
- Sagon, R. R. and Uchanski, R. M. (2006). The Development of Ilocano Word Lists for Speech Audiometry, Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 21(1&2), p. 11-19.
- Uchanski, R. M., Moore, B. C. J., and Glasberg, B. R. (2006). The effect of modulation maskers on the detection of second-order amplitude modulation in the absence and presence of notched noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119(5), p. 2937-2946.
- Uchanski, R. M. and Geers, A. E. (2003). Acoustic Characteristics of the Speech of Young Cochlear Implant Users: A Comparison with Normal-Hearing Age-mates, Ear and Hearing, 24(1), p. 90S-105S.
- Sarli, C. C., Uchanski, R. M., Heidbreder, A. F., Readmond, K., and Spehar, B. (2003) 19th-Century Camouflaged Mechanical Hearing Devices, Otology & Neurotology, Vol. 24, p. 691-698.
- Uchanski, R. M., Geers, A. E., and Protopapas, A. (2002). The intelligibility of ‘modified’ speech for young listeners with normal and impaired hearing, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Vol. 25, p. 1027-1038.
- Uchanski, R. M. and Braida, L. D. (1998). Effects of token variability on our ability to distinguish between vowels, Perception & Psychophysics, 60(4), 533-543.
- Uchanski, R. M., Choi, S., Braida, L.D., Reed, C.M. and Durlach, N.I. (1996) Speaking Clearly for the Hard of Hearing IV: Further Studies of the Role of Speaking Rate, J. Speech and Hearing Res., 39(3), p. 494-509.
- Uchanski, R. M., Delhorne, L. A., Dix, A. K., Braida, L. D., Reed, C. M., and Durlach, N. I. (1994) Automatic speech recognition to aid the hearing impaired: Prospects for the automatic generation of cued speech, J. Rehabilitation Research and Development, 31(1), p. 20-41.
- Payton, K. L., Uchanski, R. M., and Braida, L. D. (1994) Intelligibility of conversational and clear speech in noise and reverberation for listeners with normal and impaired hearing, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 95(3), p. 1581-1592.
- Kidd, G., Jr., Mason, C. R., Uchanski, R. M., Brantley, M. A., and Shah, P. (1991) Evaluation of simple models of auditory profile analysis using random reference spectra, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 90(3), pp. 1340-1354.
Invited Book Chapter - Uchanski, R. M. (2005). Clear Speech, In D. B. Pisoni & R. E. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception, Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, p. 207-235.
- Uchanski, R. M., Millier, K. M., Reed, C. M., and Braida, L. D. (1992) Effects of Token Variability on Resolution for Vowel Sounds, in The Auditory Processing of Speech: From Sounds to Words, M. E. H. Schouten, Ed., Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 291-302.