Michael Dorman PhD

Michael F. Dorman received his Ph.D. 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.

Professor Michael Dorman is an emeritus professor of speech and hearing sciences at the College of Health Solutions. His group investigates many aspects of speech, voice, and music perception by patients fit with cochlear implants and by normal-hearing subjects listening to simulations of cochlear implants. One line of research focuses on neural plasticity in children. In this work, his group uses cortical auditory-evoked potentials to assess the development, deterioration, and plasticity of central auditory pathways in normal-hearing children, children with hearing impairments, and profoundly deaf children fit with cochlear implants.