Research Investigator, NCRAR
Assistant Professor, Dept. Otolaryngology, Oregon Health and Science University
Dr. Molis received her Ph.D. in 2002 in experimental psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. After three years as a postdoctoral research associate at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, she joined the NCRAR in 2005, where she continues her work with Dr. Marjorie Leek. Her research focuses on speech perception by people with hearing loss as well as normal-hearing individuals, and on modeling vowel perception. She is particularly interested in understanding the distortions in vowel sounds that result from processing by an impaired auditory system, and that are likely to increase listening effort for hearing-impaired listeners.
Perception of Ambiguous Vowels in Background Noise by People with Hearing Loss, Michelle Molis, Ph.D., OHSU Medical Research Foundation, 12/1/06–11/30/07
Hearing Loss and the Perception of Complex Sounds, Marjorie Leek, Ph.D., NIH NIDCD, 04/01/98–08/31/08
Age, Temporal Speech Processing, and Hearing Aid Benefit, Marjorie Leek, Ph.D., VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service, 10/1/06–9/30/09
Tufts, JB and Molis, MR (in press) Perception of roughness by listeners with sensorineural hearing loss, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters.
Molis, MR (2005). Evaluating models of vowel perception, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(2), 1062-1071.
Tufts, JB, Molis, MR, and Leek, MR (2005). Perception of dissonance by people with normal hearing and sensorineural hearing loss, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(2), 955-967.
Lentz, JJ, Leek, MR, and Molis, MR (2004). The effect of onset asynchrony on profile analysis by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(4), 2289-2297.
Summers, V and Molis, MR (2004). Speech recognition in fluctuating and continuous maskers: Effects of hearing loss and presentation level? Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 47, 245-256.
Molis, MR and Summers, V. (2003). Effects of high presentation levels on recognition of low- and high-frequency speech, Acoustics Research Letters Online, 124-128.
Summers, V, Molis, MR, Müsch, H, Walden, BE, Surr, RK, Cord, MT (2003). Identifying Dead Regions in the Cochlea: Psychophysical Tuning Curves and Tone Detection in Threshold-Equalizing Noise. Ear & Hearing, 24, 133-142.
Tufts, JB and Molis, MR (2006). Perception of roughness by people with normal hearing and sensorineural hearing loss. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 3239.
Molis, MR and Leek, MR (2006). Categorization of ambiguous vowel stimuli by hearing-impaired listeners. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March, 2006.
Leek, MR, Molis, MR, and Lentz, JJ (2005). Perception of combined intensity and frequency contours by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 2598.
Leek, MR, Molis, MR, Kubli, LR, Tufts, JB, and Cord, MT, (2005). Enjoyment of music of elderly hearing-impaired listeners, Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March, 2005.
Lauer, AM, Molis, MR, and Leek, MR (2005). Discrimination of temporal fine structure by listeners with sensorineural hearing loss, Poster presented at the Midwinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, New Orleans, LA, February, 2005.
Tufts, JB, Molis, MR, and Leek, MR (2004). Dissonance perception be listeners with sensorineural hearing loss. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2385.
Molis, MR and Leek, MR (2003). Synthetic vowel categorization by hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 2359. |
