Deborah A. Yakel
Ph.D. Student in UCR Audiovisual Speech Perception Laboratory
Date of Birth: December 29, 1958
Office:
Department of Psychology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
yakel@citrus.ucr.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Cognitive Semiotics, Audiovisual Speech
Perception, Dynamic Systems Approach toLanguage and Perception, Linguistics
EDUCATION:
1994-1996 University of California, Riverside M.A.
1990-1993 University of California, Riverside B.A. with High Honors
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
1994-Present Teaching Assistant University of CA
Riverside, CA
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Acoustical Society of America: 1995-present
Phi Beta Kappa: 1993-present
TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE:
Introductory Psychology; Perception; Research Methods; Psychology Statistics
DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS:
March 1995 Language as a Dynamic System
February 1996 Inversions and the McGurk Effect
PUBLICATIONS:
Yakel, D.A. (1993). Iconicity and indexes in graphemic systems.
Dialectic, 19-24.
Yakel, D.A. (1993). A systemic and semiotic analysis of four phonetic
notational systems. University Honors Thesis. University of CA,
Riverside.
Yakel, D.A., Rosenblum, L.D., Green, K.P., Bosley, C.L. & Vasquez, R.A.(1995).
The effect of face and lip inversion on audiovisual speech integration.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(5), 3286
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:
Yakel, D.A. (in preparation). A semiotic analysis of the IPA. To be
submitted to Semiotica.
Rosenblum. L.D., Yakel, D.A., & Green, K.P. (in preparation). Facial
inversions and the McGurk effect. To be submitted to Perception and
Psychophysics.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Yakel, D.A. and Levin, J.F. (1993). Henry Sweet as semiotician: Iconicity
in phonetic notation. Paper presented at the 8th meeting of the
Semiotic Circle of California, Berkeley, CA, January 30.
Yakel, D.A. (1993). Iconicity and indexicality in graphemic systems. Paper
presented at University of CA Research Conference, Riverside, CA,
May 29.
Yakel, D.A. (1995). The linguistic sign as a dynamic system. Paper presented
at the 10th meeting of the Semiotic Circle of California, Berkeley, CA,
January 28.
Yakel, D.A., Rosenblum, L.D., Green, K.P., Bosley, C.L., & Vasquez,R.A. (1995).
The effect of face and lip inversion on audiovisual speech integration.
Poster presented at the 129th meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Washington, DC, May 30 - June 3.
Yakel, D.A., Rosenblum, L.D., & Green, K.P. (1996). Visual Speech Information
for Face Identification. Poster presented at CogSci96, La Jolla, Ca, July12-15.
PERSONAL REFERENCES:
1) Dr. Lawrence D. Rosenblum
Department of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
phone #: (909) 787-4400
e-mail: rosenblu@citrus.ucr.edu
2) Dr. Curt Burgess
Department of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
phone #: (909) 787-2392
e-mail: curt@cassandra.ucr.edu
3) Dr. John Ashe
Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
phone #: (909) 787-5792
e-mail: ashe@citrus.ucr.edu