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Mitchell S. Sommers is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Sommers has contributed extensively to experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as sensory systems and social psychology.

Their work addresses several primary topics, including hearing loss and rehabilitation, hearing impairment and communication, multisensory perception and integration, neuroscience and music perception, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, olfactory and sensory function studies, and noise effects and management.

Mitchell S. Sommers has published research in prominent academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Ear and Hearing
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sommers include:

  • Teaching Children With Hearing Loss to Recognize Speech: Gains Made With Computer-Based Auditory and/or Speechreading Training (2021) published in Ear and Hearing
  • Pupillometry reveals cognitive demands of lexical competition during spoken word recognition in young and older adults (2021) published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Audiovisual speech perception: Moving beyond McGurk (2022) published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Test-Retest Reliability of Audiometric Assessment in Individuals With Mild Dementia (2021) published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
  • Give me a break! Unavoidable fatigue effects in cognitive pupillometry (2023) published in Psychophysiology

Frequent collaborators with whom Sommers has co-authored multiple publications include Brent Spehar, Jonathan E. Peelle, Nancy Tye-Murray, Joe Barcroft, and Kristin J. Van Engen.

Best Publications

  • Hearing impairment and cognitive energy: the Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL)

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Sophia E. Kramer;Mark A. Eckert;Brent Edwards

  • Speech Perception as a Talker-Contingent Process

    Lynne C Nygaard;Mitchell S Sommers;David B Pisoni

  • The facilitative influence of phonological similarity and neighborhood frequency in speech production in younger and older adults.

    Michael S. Vitevitch;Mitchell S. Sommers

  • Inhibitory processes and spoken word recognition in young and older adults: the interaction of lexical competition and semantic context.

    Mitchell S. Sommers;Stephanie M. Danielson

  • Auditory-Visual Speech Perception and Auditory-Visual Enhancement in Normal-Hearing Younger and Older Adults

    Mitchell S Sommers;Nancy Tye-Murray;Brent Spehar

  • Prediction and constraint in audiovisual speech perception

    Jonathan E. Peelle;Mitchell S. Sommers

  • Audiovisual integration and lipreading abilities of older adults with normal and impaired hearing

    Nancy Tye-Murray;Mitchell S. Sommers;Brent Spehar

  • Who Really Lives Next Door: Creating False Memories with Phonological Neighbors☆☆☆★

    Mitchell S. Sommers;Bryan P. Lewis

  • The structural organization of the mental lexicon and its contribution to age-related declines in spoken-word recognition.

    Mitchell S Sommers

  • Stimulus variability and spoken word recognition. I. Effects of variability in speaking rate and overall amplitude.

    Mitchell S. Sommers;Lynne C. Nygaard;David B. Pisoni

  • The Structure of Working Memory Abilities across the Adult Life Span

    Sandra Hale;Nathan S. Rose;Joel Myerson;Michael J. Strube

  • Effects of Acoustic Variability on Second Language Vocabulary Learning.

    Joe Barcroft;Mitchell S. Sommers

  • Effects of stimulus variability on perception and representation of spoken words in memory

    Lynne C. Nygaard;Mitchell S. Sommers;David B. Pisoni

  • The effects of talker familiarity on spoken word identification in younger and older listeners.

    Cynthia A. Yonan;Mitchell S. Sommers

  • Aging, audiovisual integration, and the principle of inverse effectiveness.

    Nancy Tye-Murray;Mitchell Sommers;Brent Spehar;Joel Myerson

  • Some considerations in evaluating spoken word recognition by normal-hearing, noise-masked normal-hearing, and cochlear implant listeners. I: The effects of response format.

    Mitchell S. Sommers;Karen Iler Kirk;David B. Pisoni

  • Lipreading, Processing Speed, and Working Memory in Younger and Older Adults

    Julia E. Feld;Mitchell S. Sommers

  • Formant frequency discrimination by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

    Mitchell S. Sommers;David B. Moody;Cynthia A. Prosen;William C. Stebbins

  • Auditory filter shapes in normal-hearing, noise-masked normal, and elderly listeners.

    Mitchell S. Sommers;Larry E. Humes

  • Stimulus variability and spoken word recognition. II. The effects of age and hearing impairment

    Mitchell S. Sommers

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra Hale
Sandra Hale Washington University in St. Louis
Joel Myerson
Joel Myerson Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan E. Peelle
Jonathan E. Peelle Washington University in St. Louis
David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University
Michael S. Vitevitch
Michael S. Vitevitch University of Kansas
Larry L. Jacoby
Larry L. Jacoby Washington University in St. Louis
Henry L. Roediger
Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Gallo
David A. Gallo University of Chicago
Michael J. Strube
Michael J. Strube Washington University in St. Louis
Ellen Bialystok
Ellen Bialystok York University

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