Dawn Marie Behne

Dawn Marie Behne is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research focuses on audiovisual speech perception, phonetic adaptation, and cognitive neuroscience, often using ERP and behavioral methodologies.

Her work explores:

• Audiovisual integration in speech and music
• Phonetic adaptation in human-computer interaction
• Age-related changes in perceptual processing
• Cross-linguistic speech perception
• Effects of musical expertise on speech processing

Recent publications analyze speech style expectations, real-time conversations with AI, and gender representation in cognitive tasks. Collaborations span linguistics, psycholinguistics, and artificial language studies.

Key research areas include speech perception, cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and phonetics. Her lab (SCaLa Group) investigates perception of speech, music, and infant-directed speech dynamics.