Rosalie M. Uchanski, PhD

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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. 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.