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Dr. Dawn M. Behne is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), affiliated with the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. She leads the Speech, Cognition & Language Group (SCaLa), focusing on audiovisual speech perception and cognitive processing.
Her research interests span speech perception, multisensory integration, language development, and cognitive neuroscience. Key topics include audiovisual speech processing in bilingualism, musical expertise effects, and human-AI conversational dynamics. She has pioneered studies on phonetic adaptation in real-time interactions and the role of visual cues in speech comprehension.
Recent work (2024) explores real-time speech adaptations between humans and AI confederates, while 2023 studies highlighted gender representation biases in visual categorization tasks. Earlier research (2019–2020) investigated musical expertise's impact on multisensory speech perception using ERP methods.
Behne has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Frontiers in Psychology, and PLOS ONE. Her lab collaborates with institutions globally, including the University of Alberta (Jongman/Sereno group) and the University of Helsinki (Gabriel/Hyönä team).
Grants and funding details are not explicitly listed, but her active research program indicates sustained institutional and likely external support. Current projects likely involve AI-driven speech analysis and cross-linguistic perceptual studies.
