Spehar B. 10 / 2014 BRENT P. SPEHAR WORK ADDRESS Department of Otolaryngology Washington University School of Medicine Campus Box 8115 660 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110 PHONE (314) 747-7157 Office E-MAIL speharb@ent.wustl.edu EDUCATION HISTORY Washington University, PhD 2005 Speech and Hearing Science CID Hearing Central, CCC-A 2000 ASHA Clinical Certification Central Institute for the Deaf, M.S. 1999 Audiology Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, B.S. Summa Cum Laude 1997 Speech Pathology & Audiology EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Research Scientist Department of Otolaryngology 2003-2014 Washington Univ. School of Medicine Research Audiologist Department of Otolaryngology 2000-2003 Washington Univ. School of Medicine Cochlear Corporation Fellow Central Institute for the Deaf 1999-2000 Clinical Audiologist / Central Institute for the Deaf 1999-2000 Assistive Listening Technology Manager Research Assistant Central Institute for the Deaf 1997 2000 Sign Language Interpreter Illinois Department of Rehabilitative Services 1994-1997 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Acoustic Analyst / United States Navy 1988-1993
Spehar B. 10 / 2024 Assistant Debrief/Brief Officer Petty Officer Third Class Anti-submarine Warfare Operations Command Misawa AB, Japan GRANTS NIH/NIA RO1 (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2000-2005 $1,217,500 Audiovisual integration and aging Role: Research Audiologist / Research Scientist NIH/NIDCD RO1 (S. Jerger, PI) 2003-2008 $1,885,500 Auditory speech processing in hearing impaired children Role: Paid Technical Consultant NIH/NIA RO1 (S. Hale, PI) 2004-2008 $1,300,000 Listening comprehension in the elderly Role: Database Manager, Technical Consultant NIH/NIA RO1 (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2005-2010 $1,530,000 Auditory-visual integration and age Role: Co-Principal Investigator NIH/NIDCD K23 (L. Davidson, PI) 2007-2013 Audibility, Sensory Aids and Cognition as Factors in Children s Speech Perception Role: Paid Consultant / Programmer NIH/NIDCD RO1 (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2008-2011 $872,100 Auditory training and talker variability Role: Programmer, Database Manager, Technical Consultant NIH/NIDCD Recovery Act Equipment Supplement (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2009 $44,608 Auditory training and talker variability Role: Technical Consultant NIH/NIA Recovery Act Supplement for Students and Science Educators 2009-2010 (N. Tye-Murray, PI) $37,267 Auditory-visual integration and age Role: Supervisor NIH/NIDCD Recovery Act Administrative Supplement (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2009-2011 $145, 350 Auditory training and talker variability Role: Programmer, Database Manager, Technical Consultant NIH/NIA Recovery Act Competitive Supplement (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2010-2011 $152,000 Auditory visual integration and age
Spehar B. 10 / 2034 Role: Co-Principal Investigator McDonnell Neuroscience Foundation (L. Davidson, PI) 2010-2012 Evaluating Verbal and Visuospatial Working Memory in Children with Cochlear Implants Role: Paid Consultant / Programmer BJHF Clinical and Translational Research Foundation (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2013-2014 $50,000 Promoting effective communication with patients who have hearing loss Role: Co-Principal Investigator NIH/NIDCD RO1 (S. Jerger & N. Tye-Murray, PIs) 2009-2014 $2,232,506 Auditory speech processing in hearing impaired children Role: Programmer, Database Manager, Technical Consultant NIH/NIA RO1 (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2011-2016 $1,555,000 Auditory visual integration and age Role: Co-Principle Investigator NIH/NIDCD RO1 (N. Tye-Murray, PI) 2012-2016 $1,300,000 Auditory training and talker variability Role: Programmer, Database Manager, Technical Consultant HONORS AND AWARDS 1993 Honorable Discharge, United Stated Navy 1997 Summa Cum Laude 2000 Cochlear Corporation Fellowship 2004 Most-thought-provoking article of 2004, the Hearing Journal, 6/2005, 58(6) 2005 Herb J. Oyer Student Research Award PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Speech-Language-Hearing Association PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION/LICENSE 2000-pres. 2000-pres. Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC - Audiology) American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Licensed Audiologist Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS 2004 - Pres Invited reviewer in the areas of audiovisual speech perception, visual perception of speech, cognitive effort and speech perception, and lexical processing for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Ear and Hearing, The Journal of the
Spehar B. 10 / 2044 Acoustical Society of America, Perception and Psychophysics, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, International Journal of Audiology UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Committee Member (PhD) 2010 McKenzie Ballou, The influences of age-related declines in processing speed and inhibition on the fundamental mechanisms of speech perception. Doctoral Thesis. Washington University Department of Psychology, St. Louis MO Capstone Advisor (AuD) 2013 Stacey Goebel, Effects of type of context on use of context while lipreading and listening. AuD Capstone Project. Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences, St. Louis MO 2012 Stephanie Shapiro-Wieczorek, Lipreading difficulty during audiovisual integration. AuD Capstone Project. Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences, St. Louis MO 2011 Alyse Firtel, Evaluation of auditory-visual speech perception in individuals diagnosed with dementia of the Alzheimer s type. AuD Capstone Project. Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences, St. Louis MO Classroom Teaching 2000-2004 Guest Lecturer, Department of Speech & Hearing, Central Institute for the Deaf, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (Now the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences): Signal Processing in the Cochlear Implant Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology of the Hearing System Aural Rehabilitation - Assessment and Overview 2006 2008 Instructor (PACS 414) Hearing; Introduction to Psychoacoustics. Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences, St. Louis MO DOCTORAL DISSERTATION 2004 "Intra-modal and inter-modal integration in young and older adults, directed by Drs. Nancy Tye-Murray and Mitchell Sommers. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO RESEARCH INTERESTS Modeling of audiovisual integration of speech signals Age-related declines in audio and audiovisual speech perception ability Auditory / audiovisual speech perception training in adults and children Auditory training and subsequent changes in physiological systems Hearing and psychoacoustics
Spehar B. 10 / 2054 Effortful listing and speech perception among the elderly JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Geers, A.E., Spehar,.B.P., & Sedey, A.L. (2002) Use of speech by children from total communication programs who wear cochlear implants. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11, 46-58. Sarli C.C., Uchanski R.M., Heidbreder A., Readmond K., Spehar B.P. (2003) 19th-century camouflaged mechanical hearing devices. Otology & Neurotology. 24(4):691-8, Jul. Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N. and Sommers, M. (2004). Time-compressed visual speech and age: A first report. Ear and Hearing, 25, 565-572. PMID: 15604917 Sommers, M.S., Spehar, B., and Tye-Murray, N. (2005). The effects of signal-to-noise ratio on auditoryvisual integration: Integration and encoding are not independent. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 2574. PMCID: 18529201 Sommers, M., Tye-Murray, N., and Spehar, B. (2005). Auditory-visual speech perception and auditoryvisual enhancement in normal-hearing younger and older adults. Ear and Hearing, 26, 263-275. PMID: 15937408 Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., and Spehar, B. (2007). The effects of age and gender on lipreading abilities. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 18, 883-892. PMID: 18496997 Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., & Spehar, B. (2007). Audiovisual integration and lipreading abilities of older adults with normal and impaired hearing. Ear and Hearing, 28, 656-668. PMID: 17804980 Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., and Spehar, B. (2007). Auditory and visual lexical neighborhoods in audiovisual speech perception. Trends in Amplification, 11, 233-242. PMID: 18003867 Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Hale, S., & Rose, N. (2008). Auditory-visual discourse comprehension by older and young adults in favorable and unfavorable conditions. International Journal of Audiology, 47 (S2), S31-S37. PMCID: PMC2843553 Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N., & Sommers, M. (2008). Intra- versus intermodal integration in young and older adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 2855-2866. PMCID: PMC2811549 Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M. S., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., & Hale, S. (2010). Aging, integration, and the Principle of Inverse Effectiveness. Ear and Hearing, 31(5), 636-644. PMCID: PMC2924437 Hale, S., Rose, N., Myerson, J., Sommers, M., Strube, M., Tye-Murray, N., & Spehar, B. (2011). The structure of working memory abilities across the adult life span. Psychology of Aging. 26(1), 92-110. PMCID: PMC3062735 Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Sommers, M. S., & Hale, S. (2011). Cross-modal enhancement of speech detection in young and older adults: Does signal content matter? Ear and Hearing, 32, 650-655. PMCID: PMC3151349 Sommers, M., Hale, S., Myerson, J., Tye-Murray, N., & Spehar, B. (2011). Listening comprehension across the adult lifespan. Ear and Hearing, 32, 775-781. PMCID: PMC3189431
Spehar B. 10 / 2064 Barcroft, J., Sommers, M., Tye-Murray, N., Mauzé, E., Schroy, C., & Spehar, B. (2011). Tailoring auditory training to patient needs with single and multiple talkers: Transfer-appropriate gains on a four-choice discrimination test. International Journal of Audiology, 50, 1802-1808. PMCID: PMC3328192 Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., Mauzé, E., Schroy, C., Barcroft, J. & Spehar, B. (2012). Using patient perceptions of relative benefit and enjoyment to assess auditory training. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 23, 1-12. PMCID: PMC3684041 Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Sommers, M., & Hale, S. (2013). Reading your own lips: Common coding theory and visual speech perception. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 20, 115-119. PMCID: PMC3558632 Tye-Murray, N., Hale, S., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., & Sommers, M. (2014). Lipreading in school-age children: The roles of age, hearing status, and cognitive ability. Journal of Speech-Language- Hearing Research, 57, 556-565. PMC Journal - In Process CONVENTION PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS Spehar, B., Tye-Murray N. & Sommers M., Spectral integration of filtered CUNY sentences Poster presentation: New Frontiers in the amelioration of hearing loss, St. Louis, MO, March 2001 Spehar, B., Tye-Murray N. & Sommers M., Auditory integration of bandpass filtered sentences Invited speaker to the 141st meeting: the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL, June 2001 Spehar, B., & Stach, B. Audiovisual perception and aging Presentation to the St. Louis area audiology association, St. Louis, MO, January, 2002 Sommers M., Tye-Murray N. & Spehar, B., Visual enhancement for consonants, words, and sentences in normal-hearing young and older adults Poster Presentation at the Pan-American/Iberian meeting on acoustics: the Acoustical Society of America, Can Coon, Mexico, November 2002 Spehar, B. & Tye-Murray N., Promoting conversational skills in deaf children Invited speaker at honorary meeting: Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation, Providence, RI, May 2004 Spehar, B., Tye-Murray N. & Sommers M., The effects of age on identification of temporally altered visual-only speech signals Poster Presentation at the 147 th meeting: the Acoustical Society of America, New York, NY, May 2004 Sommers, M.,Tye-Murray N. & Spehar, B., Differential effects of speaking rate on auditory-only and visual-only speech perception Presented at the 12 th Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta Geogria, May 2004 Spehar, B., Tye-Murray N., Aural rehabilitation programs the emphasize communication strategies training Invited guest speaker: Annual Childhood Deafness Seminar, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan, September, 2004 Spehar, B., Tye-Murray N. & Sommers M., Age-related changes in lip-reading and audiovisual integration Invited guest speaker: Annual Childhood Deafness Seminar, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan, September, 2004 Sommers M., Spehar, B. & Tye-Murray N, The effects of signal-to-noise ration on auditory-visual integration; Integration and encoding are not independent Poster Presentation at the 149 th meeting: the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, Canada, May 2005
Spehar B. 10 / 2074 Spehar, B., Hale, S. Age and predictors of audiovisual discourse comprehension in easy and hard listening situations Podium presentation: American Academy of Audiology Convention Chicago, IL., 2011. Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N. Discourse comprehension in older first time hearing aid users Podium presentation: International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Convention Tampa, FL., 2011. Spehar, B., Hale, S. Age and predictors of audiovisual discourse comprehension in easy and hard listening situations Podium presentation: American Academy of Audiology Convention Chicago, IL., 2011. Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N. Discourse comprehension in older first time hearing aid users Podium presentation: International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Convention Tampa, FL., 2011. Davidson, L., Brenner, C., Geers, A., Hale, S., Sommers, M., Spehar, B. Verbal and Visual-Spatial Working Memory in Children with Cochlear Implants and Normal Hearing Poster Presentation at the HEAL 2014 Convention Padova, Italy June 2014. Barcroft, J., Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., Spehar, B. Improved Word Identification Performance in Auditory Training Focused on Frequent Communication Partners Podium Presentation at the HEAL 2014 Convention Padova, Italy June 2014. Spehar, B. Auditory Training and the frequent Communication Partner Podium presentation at the Midwest Auditory research Conference and the Midwest Auditory Neuroscience Symposium. July 2014. Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N. Practical Use of Transfer Appropriate Gains in Auditory Training Poster Presentation at the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology 2014 Institute. September 2014. AUDIOLOGY TEST MATERIALS Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., Spehar, B., Hale, S., & Myerson, J. (2007). The Build-A-Sentence (BAS) Audiovisual Sentence Test, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Hale, S., Myerson, J., Sommers, M., Tye-Murray, N. Spehar, B. (2007). The Lecture, Interview, and Spontaneous Narrative (LISN) Discourse test, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Sommers, M., Hale, S., & Myerson, J. (2012). The Tri-Build-A-Sentence (Tri-BAS) Audiovisual Sentence Test for Children, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Sommers, M., Hale, S., & Myerson, J. (2012). The Illustrated Audiovisual Sentence Test for Children, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Sommers, M., Hale, S., & Myerson, J. (2012). The Gist Audiovisual Sentence Test for Children, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. AURAL REHABILITATION TRAINING MATERIALS
Spehar B. 10 / 2084 Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Sommers, M., and Barcroft, J. (2009). I Hear What You Mean. Computerized auditory training program, Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine.