Antje Heinrich

Biography

sELF bIOGRAPHY I completed my PhD at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Bruce Schneider, Meredyth Daneman and Fergus Craik, where I investigated the effect of listening effort for speech-in-noise perception on memory performance. I then moved to the UK where I held a postdoctoral position at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge and worked with Ingrid Johnsrude, Matt Davis and Bob Carlyon on attentional aspects of vowel perception in the auditory cortex using fMRI. Given my particular interest in phonetically and linguistically informed speech research, I subsequently moved to the Linguistics Department at the University of Cambridge to work with Sarah Hawkins on age-related differences in the perception of phonetic detail of speech presented in noise.

Research Interest

Besides his main interest in the perception of spoken words, typically explored in well-controlled environments, he is also interested in understanding how findings from more conventional speech research extend to speech perception in singing, and how findings collected in well-controlled environments extend to ecologically valid environments such as concert halls. Work on these topics has been carried out in collaboration with Sarah Hawkins from the University of Cambridge and The Clerks (http://www.talesfrombabel.co.uk/the-clerks/).