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Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD

Professor
Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery

Mailing address

Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
660 S. Euclid Ave.-Campus Box 8115
St. Louis, MO 63110

Education

  • BA, Deaf Education, Texas Christian Univeristy, Fort Worth, TX 1977
  • MA, Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 1979
  • PhD, Speech and Hearing Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1984
  • Advanced Certification, Non-Profit Management, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998

Honors

  • Adjunct Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010-present
  • Erksine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, 2011, 2014, 2015
  • Dorismae and Harvey Friedman Award for Aging Research, 2011
  • Keynote address, Audiology Society of Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2012
  • Editor-in-Chief- Hearing, Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 2014-2017
  • Keynote address, Asian Speech-Language-Hearing Society, Guangzhou, China, 2015
  • Keynote address, Iranian Speech-Language Society, Tehran, Iran, 2016

Selected publications

  1. 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.
  2. 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, 56, 556-565.
  3. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Sommers, M., & Hale, S. (2014). The self-advantage in visual speech processing enhances audiovisual speech recognition in noise. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, DO1 10.s758/s 13423-014-0774-3.
  4. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Barcroft, J., & Sommers, M. (2016). Auditory training for frequent communication partners. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 59, 871-875.
  5. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Hale, S., & Sommers, M. (2016). Lipreading and audiovisual recognition across the adult lifespan: Implications for audiovisual integration. Psychology and Aging, 43, 380-389.
  6. Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Barcroft, J., & Sommers, M. S. (2017). Auditory training for adults who have hearing loss: A comparison of spaced versus massed practice schedules. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 60, 2337-2345.