Lab Members

 
 

Tessa Bent, Ph.D.

Dr. Tessa Bent is a Provost Professor and Chair in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department at Indiana University and head of the Speech Perception Lab. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2005 in Linguistics. After graduation, she moved to Bloomington to complete post-doctoral training with Dr. David Pisoni in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU and then joined the Speech and Hearing faculty in 2008.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Contact information — 2631 East Discovery Parkway, 47408, Room C2022 tbent@iu.edu (812) 856-3279

Current lab members

  • Tessa Bent, Lab Director

  • Malachi Henry, PhD student

  • Comfort Fabode, PhD student

  • Tribby Tsai, PhD student

  • Yuka Tashiro, PhD student

  • Amelia Xanders, Cox Research Scholar

  • Abigail Bamidele, research assistant

  • Sami Branson, research assistant

  • Gabrielle Kilaras, research assistant

  • Rowan Kilgore, research assistant

Lab alumni

  • PhD students: Eriko Atagi, Brook Merritt, Dylan Pearson

  • Honors students: Kaylie Maucieri, Shelemiah Crockett, Sydney Perry, Emerson Wolff, Alex Danielides, Emma Brown, Emma Bonifield, Taylor Federspill, Julianne Frye, Megan McKee, Kelsey Marks, Rachel Shepherd (McNair Scholar), Amal Akbik, Alaine Payton, and Melissa Dorsey

  • Groups STEM Scholars: Amy Cardona and Jeshua Sotelo

  • STARS students: Emma Bonifield and Megan Hancock

  • TRACCS students: Kierra Villines and Jodene Jackson

  • CEW&T Emerging Scholars: Rowan Kilgore and Carina Obrecht

  • Undergraduate research assistants: Mimi Vraniskoski, Payton Bastie, Alondra Rodriguez, Jessica Bell, Tatum Devoe, Mary Schiff, Paige Shattuck, Michaela Sanger, Katelyn Oexmann, Mimi Tran, Josy Williams, Nicole Follman, Jesse Sherman, Danielle Pacholski, Amy Warrington, Lindsey Altum, Nicole Isroff, Claire Malkovich, Sierra Bell, Alex Julian, Zachary Smith, Laine Abrell, Kendall Begle, Emily Bussick, Amanda Trent, Amanda Helms, Layne Shidlofsky, Haley Craig, Taylor Burris, Alex Simeur, Kimberly Fishman, David Phillips, Kate Taelman, Steven Elmlinger, Nancy Eastman, Marissa Ganeku, Megan McGrath, and Nancy Lesniewski

  • MA / AuD students: Stacy Chen, Emma Folk, Katie Gray, Victoria Cook, Kristen Quinones, Matti Rhodes, Jessica Copperman, and Melissa Tiearney

  • PhD student research assistants: KuanYi Chao, Megan Loughnane, and Valentyna Filimonova

 
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