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Overview

Denis K Burnham is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Their work spans several interrelated topics including language development and disorders, phonetics and phonology research, and reading and literacy development.

Burnham's research investigates multisensory perception and integration, neuroscience and music perception, hearing loss and rehabilitation, and categorization, perception, and language. These domains reflect a multidisciplinary approach combining aspects of cognitive processing and auditory perception.

The scientist has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Developmental Science
  • Infancy
  • Brain Sciences
  • Brain and Language

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Seeing a talking face matters: The relationship between cortical tracking of continuous auditory-visual speech and gaze behaviour in infants, children and adults" (2022, NeuroImage)
  • "Infants show enhanced neural responses to musical meter frequencies beyond low-level features" (2022, Developmental Science)
  • "Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities" (2020, Child Development)
  • "Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia" (2021, Cognitive Development)
  • "Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants' expressive language abilities" (2023, PLoS ONE)

Burnham has collaborated frequently with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Marina Kalashnikova
  • Usha Goswami
  • Varghese Peter
  • Catherine T. Best
  • Antonia Götz

Best Publications

  • What's New, Pussycat? On Talking to Babies and Animals

    Denis K Burnham;Christine Kitamura;Ute Vollmer-Conna

  • Universality and specificity in infant-directed speech: Pitch modifications as a function of infant age and sex in a tonal and non-tonal language

    Christine Kitamura;Chayada Thanavishuth;Denis K Burnham;Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin

  • Pitch and Communicative Intent in Mother's Speech: Adjustments for Age and Sex in the First Year

    Christine Kitamura;Denis K Burnham

  • Chinese and English Infants' Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization

    Karen Mattock;Denis K Burnham

  • Do you speak E-NG-L-I-SH? A comparison of foreigner- and infant-directed speech

    M. Uther;M. A. Knoll;D. Burnham

  • Auditory–visual speech integration by prelinguistic infants: Perception of an emergent consonant in the McGurk effect

    Denis K Burnham;Barbara Dodd

  • The Developmental Course of Lexical Tone Perception in the First Year of Life.

    Karen Mattock;Monika Molnar;Linda Polka;Denis K Burnham

  • Developmental loss of speech perception: Exposure to and experience with a first language.

    Denis K. Burnham

  • Comparing Action Gestures and Classifier Verbs of Motion: Evidence From Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and Nonsigners' Gestures Without Speech

    Adam Schembri;Caroline Jones;Denis K Burnham

  • Impact of language on development of auditory‐visual speech perception

    Kaoru Sekiyama;Kaoru Sekiyama;Denis K Burnham

  • Benefits of Sign Language Interpreting and Text Alternatives for Deaf Students' Classroom Learning

    Marc Marschark;Greg Leigh;Patricia Sapere;Denis K Burnham

  • The Role of Audiovisual Speech and Orthographic Information in Nonnative Speech Production

    V. Doǧu Erdener;Denis K. Burnham

  • Atypical cortical entrainment to speech in the right hemisphere underpins phonemic deficits in dyslexia.

    Giovanni M. Di Liberto;Giovanni M. Di Liberto;Giovanni M. Di Liberto;Varghese Peter;Varghese Peter;Marina Kalashnikova;Usha Goswami

  • Infant-directed speech from seven to nineteen months has similar acoustic properties but different functions.

    Marina Kalashnikova;Denis K Burnham

  • Mood, memory, and social judgments in children.

    Joseph P. Forgas;Denis K. Burnham;Carmelina Trimboli

  • Music therapy with hospitalized infants-the art and science of communicative musicality.

    Stephen Malloch;Helen Shoemark;Rudi Crncec;Carol Newnham

  • Infant-directed speech facilitates seven-month-old infants' cortical tracking of speech.

    Marina Kalashnikova;Varghese Peter;Giovanni M Di Liberto;Giovanni M Di Liberto;Edmund C Lalor;Edmund C Lalor

  • Emotional prosody perception and production in dementia of the Alzheimer's type

    Kaye Horley;Amanda Reid;Denis K Burnham

  • Development of categorical identification of native and non-native bilabial stops: infants, children and adults.

    Denis K. Burnham;Lynda J. Earnshaw;John E. Clark

  • Congenital Amusia (or Tone-Deafness) Interferes with Pitch Processing in Tone Languages

    Barbara Tillmann;Barbara Tillmann;Denis K Burnham;Sebastien Nguyen;Nicolas Grimault

  • The Temporal Modulation Structure of Infant-Directed Speech

    Victoria Leong;Marina Kalashnikova;Denis Burnham;Usha Goswami

Frequent Co-Authors

Usha Goswami
Usha Goswami University of Cambridge
Barbara Dodd
Barbara Dodd University of Queensland
Mark Onslow
Mark Onslow University of Technology Sydney
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Leher Singh
Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Peter E. Keller
Peter E. Keller University of Sydney
Gary E. McPherson
Gary E. McPherson University of Melbourne
Barbara Tillmann
Barbara Tillmann Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University

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