Author
Michael F. Dorman, PhD
Michael F. Dorman received his PhD in Experimental Child and Developmental Psychology (with a minor in Linguistics) from the University of Connecticut in 1971. A Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, he currently is a professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science and the Program in Linguistics at Arizona State University. Professor Dorman is the author of over 150 publications in areas including: (i) speech perception by infants, adults, hearing-impaired listeners and listeners fit with cochlear implants; (ii) cortical lateralization of function; and (iii) neural plasticity. His work on cochlear implants has been supported continuously by the National Institutes of Health since 1989.