Expertise
Tonya Bergeson-Dana is currently pursuing two areas of research within the larger fields of language acquisition and development of auditory perception. The first is audiovisual speech perception in hearing-impaired infants and children with cochlear implants. The second area of research is mothers’ speech and singing to hearing-impaired infants with hearing aids and cochlear implants. She is particularly interested in the effects of early experience on developing language and auditory perception.
  • Infant and child development
  • Language acquisition
  • Mother-infant interaction
  • Multimodal speech perception
  • Music perception
  • Cochlear implantation
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Associate Professor, Infant Language Laboratory, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Infant Language Laboratory, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Volunteer Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Degrees
PhD, University of Toronto, Canada, Cognitive Psychology, 2002
MA, University of Toronto, Canada, Cognitive Psychology, 1997
BM, Northwestern University, Music Theory, 1996
BA, Northwestern University , Psychology, 1996