Professor receives Silver Medal in Speech Communication

The Acoustical Society of America awarded David Pisoni, Chancellor’s Professor of psychology and cognitive science at IU, the Silver Medal in Speech Communication today.

According to an IU press release, the award is given “for advancing the basic science of speech perception and recognition and applying the knowledge to the clinical field of cochlear implantation,” and it will be presented to Pisoni in November at the 160th meeting of the ASA.

Pisoni directs the Speech Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, which has developed a broad research program on a range of problems dealing with speech perception, spoken word recognition, language comprehension and perceptual development. He also oversees one of the longest running training programs in the history of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

The training program, first funded in 1979, involves researchers from IU Bloomington and the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis and received more than $3 million to continue the program through 2014.

— Bailey Loosemore