Magdalene Chalikia, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology                                                                   

Minnesota State University  Moorhead                                                                

Moorhead, MN 56563                                                                        

(218) 477-4082

chalikia@mnstate.edu                                                              

www.mnstate.edu/chalikia                              

EDUCATION

1978

B.A.

Psychology, The American College of Greece (a.k.a. Deree College, Greece)

1980

M.A.

Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1985

Ph.D.

Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1988

B.A.

Philosophical and Social Studies, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1978-1984       Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1985-1988       Assistant Professor of Psychology, Technological Educational Institute (TEI), Athens, Greece

1987-1988       Assistant Professor of Psychology, the American College of Greece

1988-1989       Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (with A. S. Bregman)

1989-1991       Associate Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (with R. M. Warren)

1991-1996       Assistant Professor, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN

1996-2000       Associate Professor, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN

1998-1999             Visiting Scholar, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

2000-present    Professor, Minnesota State University Moorhead  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Acoustical Society of America, American Psychological Society, Psychonomic Society,

Midwestern Psychological Association, American Psychological Association (Division 3: Experimental Psychology, Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology)

Ad Hoc Reviewer

Perception and Psychophysics, Music Perception, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied. (2001- present)

PUBLICATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

(Asterisks next to names indicate undergraduate students.) 

Halikia, M. H., & Bregman, A. S. (1984a).  Perceptual segregation of simultaneous vowels presented as steady-states and as parallel and crossing glides.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 75, S83 (Abstract)

Halikia, M. H., & Bregman, A. S. (1984b). Perceptual segregation of simultaneous vowels presented as steady-states and as glides.  Canadian Psychology, 25-2a, 210 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & Bregman, A. S. (1989).  The perceptual segregation of simultaneous auditory signals:  Pulse train segregation and vowel segregationPerception and Psychophysics, 46, 487-496.

Chalikia, M. H., & Warren, R. M. (1990a).  Mapping the organization of vowel sequences into words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87, S160-161 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & Warren, R. M. (1990b). Spectral factors in the organization of vowel sequences into words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88, S54 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & Warren, R. M. (1991).  Phonemic Transformations:  Mapping the illusory organization of steady-state vowel sequences.  Language and Speech, 34(2), 109-143.

Chalikia, M. H., Warren, R. M., & Bashford, J. A. (1992). The phonemic transformation effect: Intersubject agreement on verbal forms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91, 2422 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & Bregman, A. S. (1993).  The perceptual segregation of simultaneous vowels with harmonic, shifted, or random componentsPerception and Psychophysics, 53, 125-133.

Chalikia, M. H., & Warren, R. M. (1994).  Spectral fissioning in phonemic transformations.   Perception and Psychophysics, 55, 218-226.

Chalikia, M. H., & *Dresser, T. (1994).  The effects of duration changes on the perception of vowel sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 3285 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., *Waldstein, R., & *Stech, W. J. (1994). Forward and backward presentation of Chinese and English speech in the verbal transformation effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 3349 (Abstract)

*Nordenstrom, B. K., Chalikia, M. H., & *Ebsen, E. (1994). The effects of pitch changes on the perception of vowel sequences.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 3284-5 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & *Dresser, T. (1995).  The perception of vowel sequences from voiced and whispered stimuli. Proceedings of the IV European Congress of Psychology, 102 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & *Parvey, N. (1995).  The effects of systematic duration changes on phonemic transformations.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 2967 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., *Becker, A., & *Laurila, J. (1996).  Effects of random or systematic changes on the perception of whispered vowel sequences.  International Journal of Psychology, 31, 51 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., *Laurila, J., *Folk, K., & *Newton, K. (1996).  Matching verbal organizations heard with voiced and whispered vowel sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2688 (Abstract)

Hinsz, V. B., Chalikia, M. H., & Matz, D. (1996).  Social influences on the phonemic transformation effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2574 (Abstract)

Warren, R. M., Healy, E. W., & Chalikia, M. H. (1996).  The vowel sequence illusion: Intrasubject stability and intersubject agreement of syllabic forms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2452-2461.

Chalikia, M. H. (1997).  What's being said about vowels.  Contemporary Psychology, 42, 39-40.

Chalikia, M. H., & Vaid, J. (1999a).  Perception of the tritone paradox by listeners in Texas: A re-examination of envelope effects.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 2208 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & Vaid, J. (1999b).  Do bilinguals perceive the tritone paradox as monolinguals do?  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 2207 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., *Norberg, A. M., & Paterakis, L. (2000) Greek bilingual listeners perceive the tritone stimuli differently from speakers of English.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 2572 (Abstract)

Chalikia, M. H., & *Leinfelt, F. (2000).  Listeners in Sweden perceive the tritone stimuli in a manner different from that of Americans and similar to that of British listeners.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 2572 (Abstract)

*Haugen, M., & Chalikia, M. H. (2000).  The perception of tritone stimuli by listeners in the Midwest. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 2572 (Abstract)

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (not listed as Abstracts elsewhere)

Asterisks next to names indicate undergraduate students.

Halikia, M. H., & Bindra, D. (1981). The effects of the duration of deleted segments on phonemic restoration.  Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.

Halikia, M. H., & Bregman, A. S.(1982). Auditory segregation of simultaneous frequency glides.  Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Canada.

Chalikia, M. H., *Meyer, R., & *Lindemann, R. (1993).  The effects of prosodic cues on the perception of vowel sequences.  Presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D.C.

Chalikia, M. H., Vaid, J., & Paterakis, L.(1998).  The tritone paradox as perceived by different linguistic groups. Presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 19-22, Dallas, TX.

Chalikia M. H., *Miller, K. J., & Vaid, J. (2001).  The tritone paradox is perceived differently by Koreans and Americans.  Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Chalikia, M. H., Hinsz, V. B., & *Gunderson, P. (2001).  An application of signal detection analysis to the tritone paradox.  Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November, Orlando, FL.

Chalikia, M. H., & Vaid, J. (2002). What confidence judgments reveal about the perception of the tritone paradox.  Presented at the 1st Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting, November, Kansas City, MO.

Chalikia, M. H., & *Haak, L. C. (2003). Indonesian and Mandarin speakers perceive the tritone paradox differently.  Presented at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, May, Atlanta, GA. 

Ertelt, T. W., Vollmer, A. M., & Chalikia, M. H. (2005). The effects of emotional content on encoding and retrieving auditory information.  Paper presented at the MPA annual convention in Chicago.

Neil, A. K., Ertelt, T. W., & Chalikia, M. H. (2005) Earwitness identification : Influences of regional and language accents on identification accuracy.  Paper presented at the MPA annual convention in Chicago.

Westergard, K. M., & Chalikia, M. H., (2005).  Performance on a SPIN task by second-language learners: Effects of age of acquisition and time of exposure.  Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Chalikia, M. H., & Hinsz, V. B. (2006).  Salary disparity, gender inequity, and regression remediation for a university's women faculty.  Presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 16-21, Athens, Greece.

                  

INVITED ADDRESSES

 "About the Cocktail Party Effect and Related Phenomena." Presented at the American College of Greece, Athens, Greece, in 1986.

 "Perceptual principles" and "Learning".  lectures presented at the Department of Health Sciences, Medical School, Athens University, Athens, Greece, in 1988.

 "Stream formation:  How we get from the whole to the parts." Presented at the Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, in 1989.

 "Scene analysis and the formation of auditory streams." Presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1990.

Auditory Scene Analysis: How we get from the whole to the parts."  Presented at the Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, in 1993.

 "Auditory processes and speech perception."  Mini course offered at the Psychology Department, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway, in 1995.

 "What speech illusions tell us about speech processing: The phonemic transformation effect."  Presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway, in 1995.

 "The tritone paradox:  A musical illusion influenced by speech." Presented at the American College of Greece, Athens, Greece, in 19998.

 "How Different Linguistic Groups Perceive a Musical Illusion." Presented at the Brown Bag Session of the Cognitive Group, Texas A&M University, in 1999.

 "Explorations of the Tritone Paradox." Presented at the Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, in 2000.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

·              Auditory and speech perception, in general 

·              Speech-related illusions

·              The organization of speech and non-speech sound patterns over time

·              The mechanisms involved in auditory scene analysis

·              The influence of linguistic background on the tritone paradox

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

1995    MSU Excellence Award for Service to the University

1996        Outstanding service in research with undergraduates, from the Dean of the College of  Social and Natural Sciences

2002    Inter Faculty Organization Award for Outstanding Contributions to Women's Advancement in MnSCU