PHONETICS · SPEECH PROCESSING · SPEECH PROCESSING
Dušan Nikolić
Research Scientist
Acoustics Research Institute
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
I am currently working on the processing of acoustic cues of lexical prosody by native and non-native listeners. My goal is to explore the cognitive and neural activity of the brain during the integration of acoustic cues as they are being processed in speech.

Research
My overarching research goal is to contribute to an understanding of the architecture of human speech processing.
My work investigates the interaction between acoustic, phonetic and neurocognitive processes involved in speech production and perception.
Research interests
- Neurocognition — how evidence accumulation shapes the moment-by-moment choices in speech perception and production.
- Variation and variability — how individual, linguistic, and contextual sources of variation shape speech processing
- Cross-linguistic effects — how differences in listners’ and speakers’ native languages shape speech production and perception.
- Prosodic representation — how prosodic information contributes to the recognition and processing of spoken language.
Current affiliation
Acoustics Research Institute (ISF)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Vienna, Austria