Scientist III 
Head, Department of Communication Neuroscience

lbernstein@hei.org

• Ph.D. University of Michigan
• M.A. University of Michigan
• B.A. Brandeis University

• Scientist III and Head, Department of Communication Neuroscience, House Ear Institute. 1995 - present.
• Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2006-present.
• Member, Advisory Board of the "3T MRI Research Resource for Cardiovascular and Neuro Imaging," University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus, Los Angeles, CA.
• Program Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, National Science Foundation, 2003- 2005. Program Director, Science of Learning Centers Program, 2004- 2005.
  
  

• Bernstein, L. E. (in press 2006). Visual speech perception. In E. Vatikiotis-Bateson, G. Bailly, & P. Perrier (Eds.), Audio-Visual Speech Processing. MIT Press.
• Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T., Jr., Wagner, M., & Ponton, C. W. (2008). Spatio-temporal dynamics of audiovisual speech processing. NeuroImage, 39, 423-435.
• Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T., Jr., & Jiang, J. (in press). Lipreading, the lexicon, and Cued Speech. In C. la Sasso, J. Leybaert,K. Crain (Eds.), Cued Speech for the Natural Acquisition of English, Reading, and Academic Achievement. Oxford University Press.
• Jiang, J., Alwan, A., Keating, P.A., Auer, E. T., Jr., & Bernstein, L.E. (2007). Similarity structure in visual speech perception and optical phonetics. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(7), 1070-1083.
• Auer, E. T., Jr., Bernstein, L. E., Sungkarat, W., & Singh, M. (2007). Vibrotactile activation of the auditory cortices in deaf versus hearing adults. NeuroReport, 18, 645-648.
• Auer, E. T., Jr., & Bernstein, L. E. (2007). Enhanced visual speech perception in individuals with early onset hearing impairment. Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research, 50, 1157-1165.
• Bernstein, L. E. (in press). Visual speech perception. In E. Vatikiotis-Bateson, G. Bailly, & P. Perrier (Eds.), Audio-Visual Speech Processing. MIT Press.
• Moody-Antonio, S., Takayanagi, S., Masuda, A., Auer, Jr., E. T., Fisher, L., & Bernstein, L. E. (2005). Improved speech perception in adult prelingually deafened cochlear implant recipients. Otology & Neurotology, 26, 649-654.
• Bernstein, L. E. (2005). Some principles of the speech perceiving brain. In D. B. Pisoni & R. E. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception. Blackwell. pp. 79-98.
• Bernstein, L. E., Takayanagi, S., & Auer, E. T., Jr. (2004). Auditory speech detection in noise enhanced by lipreading. Speech Communication, 44, 5-18.
• Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T, Jr., & Moore, J. K. (2004). Audiovisual speech binding: Convergence or association? In G. Calvert, Spence, C. & Stein, B. E. (Eds.), Handbook of Multisensory Processing. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 203-223.
• Bernstein, L. E., & Auer, E. T. (2003). Speech perception and spoken word recognition. In M. Marschark & P. E. Spencer (Eds.), Oxford University Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education. Cambridge, England: Oxford University. pp. 379-391.
• Jiang, J., Alwan, A., Bernstein, L. E., Keating, P., & Auer, E. T. (2002). On the correlation between face movements, tongue movements, and speech acoustics. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 11, 1174-1188.
• Mattys, S., Bernstein, L. E., & Auer, E. T., Jr. (2002). Stimulus-based lexical distinctiveness as a general word recognition mechanism. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 667-679.
• Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T., Moore, J. K., Ponton, C., Don, M., & Singh, M. (2002). Visual speech perception without primary auditory cortex activation. NeuroReport, 13, 311-315.
• Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T., Jr., & Tucker, P. E. (2001). Enhanced speechreading in deaf adults: Can short-term training/practice close the gap for hearing adults? Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research, 44, 5-18.
• Bernstein, L. E., & Weismer, G. (2000). Basic science at the intersection of speech science and communication disorders. Journal of Phonetics, 28 (3), 225-232.
• Weismer, G., & Bernstein, L. E. (Eds.) (2000). Basic science at the intersection of speech science and communication disorders. Special Issue, Journal of Phonetics, 28 (3).
• Auer, E. T., Jr., Bernstein, L. E., & Tucker, P. E. (2000). Is subjective word familiarity a meter of ambient language? A natural experiment on effects of perceptual experience. Memory & Cognition, 28, 789-797.
• Bernstein, L. E., Demorest, M. E., & Tucker, P. E. (2000). Speech perception without hearing. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 233-252.
• Auer, E. T., Jr., Bernstein, L. E., & Coulter, D. C. (1998). Temporal and spatio-temporal vibrotactile displays for voice fundamental frequency: An initial evaluation of a new vibrotactile speech perception aid with normal-hearing and hearing-impaired individuals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 2477-2489.
• Bernstein, L. E., Demorest, M. E., & Tucker, P. E. (1998). What makes a good speechreader? First you have to find one. In R. Campbell, B. Dodd, & D. Burnham (Eds.), Hearing by eye (II): The psychology of speechreading and auditory-visual speech. 211-228. East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
• Bernstein, L. E., Tucker, P. E., & Auer, E. T., Jr. (1998). Potential perceptual bases for successful  use of a vibrotactile speech perception aid. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 39(3), 181-186. (Invited)
• Iverson, P., Bernstein, L. E., Auer, E. T., Jr. (1998). Modeling the interaction of phonemic intelligibility and lexical structure in audiovisual word recognition. Speech Communication, 26, 45-63.
• Rinker, M. A., Craig, J. C., & Bernstein, L. E. (1998). Frequency and amplitude discrimination of haptic stimuli. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 453-463.
• Auer, E. T., Jr., & Bernstein, L. E. (1997). Speechreading and the structure of the lexicon: Computationally modeling the effects of reduced phonetic distinctiveness on lexical uniqueness. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 3704-3710.
• Demorest, M. E., & Bernstein, L. E. (1997). Relationships between subjective ratings and objective measures of performance in speechreading sentences. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40, 900-911.
• Demorest, M. E., Bernstein, L. E. & DeHaven, G. P. (1996). Generalizablity of speechreading performance on nonsense syllables, words, and sentences: Subjects with normal hearing. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 697-713.
• Bernstein, L. E., Demorest, M. E., & Eberhardt, S. P. (1994). A computational approach to analyzing sentential speech perception: Phoneme-to-phoneme stimulus-response alignment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95, 3617-3622.
• Demorest, M. E., & Bernstein, L. E. (1993). Applications of generalizability theory to measurement of individual differences in speech perception. Journal of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, 26, 39-50.
• Stark, R. E., Bernstein, L. E., & Demorest, M. E. (1993). Vocal communication in the first eighteen months of life. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 36, 548-558.
• Demorest, M. E., & Bernstein, L.E. (1992). Sources of variability in speechreading sentences: A generalizability analysis. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 876-891.
• Bernstein, L. E., Demorest, M. E., Coulter, D. C., & O'Connell, M. P. (1991). Lipreading sentences with vibrotactile vocoders: Performance of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 2971-2984.
• Eberhardt, S. P., Bernstein, L. E., Demorest, M. E., & Goldstein, M. H. (1990). Speechreading sentences with single-channel vibrotactile presentation of voice fundamental frequency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88, 1274-1285.
• Bernstein, L. E. (1989). Independent or dependent feature evaluation: A question of stimulus characteristics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12,756-757.
• Bernstein, L. E., Eberhardt, S. P., & Demorest, M. E. (1989). Single-channel vibrotactile supplements to visual perception of intonation and stress. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 85, 397-405.
• Bernstein, L. E., Schecter, M. G. & Goldstein, Jr., M. H. (1986). Child and adult vibrotactile thresholds for sinusoidal and pulsatile stimuli. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 80, 118-123.
• Bernstein, L. E. & Stark, R. E. (1985). Development of Speech perception in language impaired children: A four-year follow-up study. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 50, 21-30.
  
  

• "Visual Speech Perception and Neural Processing," NIH/NIDCD R01 DC008583-01A1, 2007-2011.
• "Visual Speech Perception and Neural Processing," NIH/NIDCD R55 008583, 2007-2008.
• "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Patient-Oriented Studies of Neuropathy," NIH/NIDCD R24 008618, 2007.
• “Multisensory Processing: Plasticity & Accommodation to a Sensory Prosthesis,” NIH R01 DC008308. 2006-2011.
• “ITR - Hybrid Concatenation/Rule-Based Visual Speech Synthesis System,” NSF, IIS0312434. 2003-2007.
• “Audiovisual Speech Processing,” L. E. Bernstein, PI, NIH/NIDCD, R21 DC006035, 2003-2007.
• “Integration and Enhancement in Audiovisual Speech Perception,” NSF, BCS 0214224, 2002-2006.
• “Biocomplexity – Incubation Activity: Coordination of Perception and Spoken Language Processes,” NSF SBE.
• “KDI (Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence) - Segmental and Prosodic Optical Phonetics for Human and Machine Speech Processing,” NSF IIS 9996088. 1999 –2004.
• “Spoken Language Processing with Novel Stimuli,” NIH R01 DC000695. 1995-2002.
• “Spoken Language Processing without Audition.” NIH R01 DC02107. 1993 –2000.
• “Haptic Perception of Multidimensional Patterns Including Speech.” NIH R01 DC001577. 1992 -1997.
• “Cutaneous Communication Aids for the Deaf.” NIH R01 NS027775, R01 DC000695. 1988-1995.
• “Speech Perception Studies: Bimodal and Developmental.” NIH/NINCDS/NIDCD K04 DC000023. Research Career Development Award. 1986-1991.