Delphine Dahan

Associate Professor

Levin Building
425 S. University Avenue, Room 253


Research Interests

Language and Communication; Sensation and Perception

Specific Research Areas

Language and communication; speech comprehension

Professor Delphine Dahan will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.

Courses Taught
PSYC 151 Language and Thought
PSYC 235 Psychology of Language
PSYC 435 Seminar in Psychology of Language

Advisee

Catherine Apgar [Psychology Graduate Student]
Education

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Paris

Selected Publications

(These are selected publications that best illustrate my work. For a complete list of publications, click here)

Dahan, D. (in press). The time course of interpretation in speech comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science.  

Dahan, D., Drucker, S. J., & Scarborough, R. A. (2008). Talker adaptation in speech perception: adjusting the signal or the representations? Cognition, 108, 710-718.

Dahan, D., & Gaskell, M. G. (2007). Temporal dynamics of ambiguity resolution: Evidence from spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 483-501.

Dahan, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2005). Looking at the rope when looking for the snake: Conceptually mediated eye movements during spoken-word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 453-459.

Dahan, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2004). Continuous mapping from sound to meaning in spoken-language comprehension: Immediate effects of verb-based thematic constraints. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 498-513.

Salverda, A. P., Dahan, D., & McQueen, J. M. (2003). The role of prosodic boundaries in the resolution of lexical embedding in speech comprehension. Cognition, 90, 51-89.

Dahan, D., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Chambers, C. G. (2002). Accent and reference resolution in spoken-language comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 292-314.

Dahan, D., Magnuson, J. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2001). Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: Evidence from eye movements. Cognitive Psychology, 42, 317-367.