Professor Christopher Davis

Professor Christopher Davis

PROFESSOR,
The MARCS Institute

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Monash University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • The MARCS Institute

Contact

Email:chris.davis@uws.edu.au
Extension:6855
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Location:1.1.57
Bankstown
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Biography

Davis's interest is in studying the information processing involved in human communication. His aim is to explore such processing at the level of the embodied, active human participant. His research approach emphasises (a) the nature of the linguistic input (including both written and spoken forms of language), (b) the neural mechanisms engaged when perceiving language, and (c) the effects of linguistic input and neural mechanisms on quantifiable measurements of human behaviour. To this end his research has been guided by three interrelated themes: 1. Human processing of linguistic complexity. Davis (along with colleagues) have been investigating the extent to which components of language processing can be probed when the contribution of task and decision components have been minimized (chiefly by using masked priming techniques). 2. Multimodal processing. Davis's research investigates both the auditory and visual information involved in speech perception. The research interest, here, can be summed up by the concept of interacting signals and the notion that the different types of signal all contribute to the interpretation of a message. 3. Cross-language and developmental comparisons. His work on language development utilizes a cross-linguistic developmental paradigm to examine the processes by which children learn first spoken and then written language (or how adults may learn other languages).

This information has been contributed by Professor Davis.

Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2009), 'Developmental reading disorders in Korean', The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume III Korean, Cambridge University Press 9780521833356.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2006), 'Changing circumstance: How flexible is lexical access', From Inkmarks to Ideas, Psychology Press .
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2006), 'Literacy acquisition in Korean Hangul', Handbook of Orthography and Literacy. Part1, Lawrence Erlbaum .
  • Davis, C., Kim, J. and Sanchez-Casas, R. (2003), 'Masked priming across languages: An insight into bilingual lexical processing', Masked Priming: State of the Art, Psychology Press .

Journal Articles

  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'Recognizing prosody across modalities, face areas and speakers: Examining perceivers' sensitivity to variable realizations of visual prosody', Cognition, 12.
  • Harry, B., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2012), 'Subliminal access to abstract face representations does not rely on attention', Consciousness and Cognition, 11.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'Effects of seeing the interlocutor on the production of prosodic contrasts (L)', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, -86.
  • Cutler, A., Davis, C. and Davis, C. (2012), 'An orthographic effect in phoneme processing, and its limitations', Frontiers in Psychology, .
  • Harry, B., Davis, C., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2012), 'Exposure in central vision facilitates view-invariant face recognition in the periphery', Journal of Vision, .
  • Harry, B., Davis, C., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2012), 'Common and distinct mechanisms associated with view-specific and view-invariant recognition', Consciousness and Cognition, 2.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'Perceiving emotion from a talker: How face and voice work together', Visual Cognition, 20.
  • Harry, B., Davis, C., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2012), 'Common and distinct mechanisms associated with view-specific and view-invariant recognition', Consciousness and Cognition, 2.
  • Harry, B., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2012), 'Subliminal access to abstract face representations does not rely on attention', Consciousness and Cognition, 11.
  • Harry, B., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2012), 'Exposure in central vision facilitates view-invariant face recognition in the periphery', Journal of Vision, 9.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'Perceiving emotion from a talker : how face and voice work together', Visual Cognition, 20.
  • Cutler, A. and Davis, C. (2012), 'An orthographic effect in phoneme processing, and its limitations', Frontiers in Psychology, .
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'Recognizing prosody across modalities, face areas and speakers : examining perceivers' sensitivity to variable realizations of visual prosody', Cognition, 12.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'Effects of seeing the interlocutor on the production of prosodic contrasts (L)', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, -86.
  • Burnham, D., Kim, J., Davis, C., Ciocca, V., Schoknecht, C., Kasisopa, B. and Luksaneeyanawin, S. (2011), 'Are tones phones?', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 20.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2011), 'What's in a mask? Information masking with forward and backward visual masks', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 13.
  • Kim, J., Sironic, A. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Hearing speech in noise: Seeing a loud talker is better', Perception, 10.
  • Davis, C., Sanchez-Casas, R., Garcia-Albea, J., Guasch, M., Molera, M. and Ferre, P. (2010), 'Masked translation priming: Varying language experience and word type with Spanish-English bilinguals', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19.
  • Kim, J., Kroos, C. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Hearing a point-light talker: An auditory influence on a visual motion detection task', Perception, 12.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Prosody off the top of the head: Prosodic contrasts can be discriminated by head motion', Speech Communication, 10.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J. and Barbaro, A. (2010), 'Masked speech priming: Neighborhood size matters (L)', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 4.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Knowing what to look for: Voice affects face race judgements', Visual Cognition, 17.
  • Kinoshita, S., Castles, A. and Davis, C. (2009), 'The Role of Neighbourhood Density in Transposed-letter Priming', Language and Cognitive Processes, 21.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C. and Groot, C. (2009), 'Speech identification in noise: Contribution of temporal, spectral, and visual speech cues', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 12.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J. and Forster, K. (2008), 'Being forward not backward: Lexical limits to masked priming', Cognition, 12.
  • Mckay, A., Davis, C., Savage, G. and Castles, A. (2008), 'Semantic Involvement in Reading Aloud: Evidence from a Nonword Training Study', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23.
  • Mckague, M., Davis, C., Pratt, C. and Johnston, M. (2008), 'The role of feedback from phonology to orthography in orthographic learning: an extension of item-based accounts', Journal of Research in Reading, 22.
  • Taft, M., Castles, A., Davis, C., Lazendic, G. and Nguyen-Hoan, M. (2008), 'Automatic activation of orthography in spoken word recognition: Pseudohomograph priming', Journal of Memory and Language, 14.
  • Davis, C., Kislyuk, D., Kim, J. and Sams, M. (2008), 'The effect of viewing speech on auditory speech processing is different in the left and right hemispheres', Brain Research, 11.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C. and Cutler, A. (2008), 'Perceptual tests of rhythmic similarity: II. Syllable rhythm', Language and Speech, 17.
  • Castles, A., Davis, C., Cavalot, P. and Forster, K. (2007), 'Tracking the acquisition of orthographic skills in developing readers: Masked priming effects', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 18.
  • Mckay, A., Castles, A., Davis, C. and Savage, G. (2007), 'The impact of progressive semantic loss on reading aloud', Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2006), 'Audio-visual speech perception off the top of the head', Cognition, .
  • Warner, N., Kim, J., Davis, C. and Cutler, A. (2005), 'Use of complex phonological patterns in processing: Evidence from Korean', Journal of Linguistics, 35.
  • Davis, C. (2005), 'N-watch: A program for deriving neighborhood size and other psycholinguistic statistics', Behavior Research Methods, 6.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C., Burnham, D. and Lukasaneeyanawin, S. (2004), 'The effect of script on poor readers' sensitivity to dynamic visual stimuli', Brain and Language, 10.
  • Kim, J., Taft, M. and Davis, C. (2004), 'Orthographic and phonological links in the lexicon: When lexical and sublexical information conflict', Reading and Writing, 32.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2004), 'Characteristics of poor readers of Korean Hangul: Auditory, visual and phonological processing', Reading and Writing, 33.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C. and Krins, P. (2004), 'Amodal processing of visual speech as revealed by priming', Cognition, 9.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2004), 'Audio-visual interactions with intact clearly audible speech', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 19.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2004), 'Investigating the audi-visual speech detection advantage', Speech Communication, 12.
  • Castles, A., Davis, C. and Forster, K. (2003), 'Word recognition development in children: Insights from masked priming', Masked priming: State of the Art, 16.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2003), 'Task effects in masked cross-script translation and phonological priming', Journal of Memory and Language, 16.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2003), 'Hearing foreign voices: does knowing what is said affect visual-masked-speech detection', Perception, 10.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2002), 'Using Korean to investigate phonological priming effects without the influence of orthography', Language and Cognitive Processes, 23.
  • Holmes, V. and Davis, C. (2002), 'Orthographic representation and spelling knowledge', Language and Cognitive Processes, 26.
  • Savage, G., Saling, M., Davis, C. and Berkovic, S. (2002), 'Direct and indirect measures of verbal relational memory following anterior temporal lobectomy', Neuropsychologia, 15.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2001), 'Loss of rapid phonological recoding in reading Hanja, the logographic script of Korean', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2001), 'Repeating and remembering foreign language words: Implications for language teaching system', Artificial Intelligence Review, 11.
  • Davis, C., Castles, A., Mcnally, K. and Gary, J. (2001), 'Lapses of concentration and dyslexic performance on the Ternus Task', Cognition, .

Conference Papers

  • Fitzpatrick, M., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'The intellegibility of Lombard Speech: Communicative setting matters', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, US.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C. and Kitamura, C. (2012), 'Auditory-visual speech to infants and adults: Signals and correlations', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, US.
  • Fitzpatrick, M., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2012), 'The intelligibility of Lombard speech : communicative setting matters', Interspeech, Portland, Or..
  • Kim, J., Davis, C. and Kitamura, C. (2012), 'Auditory-visual speech to infants and adults : signals and correlations', Interspeech, Portland, Or..
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Testing Audio-Visual Familiarity Effects on Speech Perception in Noise', 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Temporal relationship between auditory and visual prosodic cues', Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Auditory speech processing is affected by visual speech in the periphery', Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy.
  • Paris, T., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Visual Speech Speeds Up Auditory Identification Responses', Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy.
  • Fitzpatrick, M., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'The effect of seeing the interlocutor on speech production in different noise types', Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy.
  • Paris, T., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Visual Speech Influences Speeded Auditory Identification', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing 2011, Volterra, Italy.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Perceiving Visual Prosody from Point-Light Displays', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Volterra, Italy.
  • Fitzpatrick, M., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'The effect of seeing the interlocutor on auditory and visual speech production in noise', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Volterra, Italy.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2011), 'Audiovisual speech processing in visual speech noise', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Volterra, Italy.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2010), 'It's all the same to me: Prosodic discrimination across speakers and face areas', Speech Prosody 2010 Conference, Chicago, USA.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2010), 'Transfer of Talker-Familiarity Effects', 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, Sydney, Australia.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Modification of prosodic cues when an interlocutor cannot be seen: The effect of visual feedback on acoustic prosody production', 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, Sydney, Australia.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Emotion perception by eye and ear and halves and wholes', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Abstracting visual prosody across speakers and face areas', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J., Davis, C. and Gibert, G. (2010), 'Prosody for the Eyes: Quantifying Visual Prosody using Guided Principal Component Analysis', Interspeech 2010, Japan.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2010), 'Is speech produced in noise more distinct and/or consistent?', 13th International Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Cutler, A., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2009), 'Non-automaticity of use of orthographic knowledge in phoneme evaluation', Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C., Kroos, C. and Hill, H. (2009), 'Speaker discriminability for visual speech modes', Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2009), 'Recognizing spoken vowels in multi-talker babble: Spectral and visual speech cues', 2009 AVSP Conference, Norwich, UK.
  • Kim, J., Kroos, C. and Davis, C. (2008), 'Hearing a talking face: An auditory influence on a visual detection task', The ISCA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2008), Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia.
  • Burnham, D., Abrahamyan, A., Cavedon, L., Davis, C., Hodgins, A. and Kim, J. (2008), 'From Talking to Thinking Heads: 2008', The ISCA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2008), Moreton Island, Australia.
  • Cvejic, E., Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2008), 'Visual Speech Modifies the Phoneme Restoration Effect', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J. and Barbaro, A. (2008), 'Masked speech priming: No priming in dense neighbourhoods', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2007), 'Restoration effects in auditory and visual speech', Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2007, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J., Kuratate, T. and Burnham, D. (2007), 'Making a thinking-talking head', Auditory-visual Speech Processing 2007, Hilvarenbeek. The Netherlands..
  • Mixdorff, H., Pech, U., Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2007), 'Map Task Dialogs in Noise - a Paradigm for Examining Lombard Speech.', 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany.
  • Groot, C. and Davis, C. (2006), 'Auditory-Visual Speech Recognition with Amplitude and Frequency Modulations', SST 2006, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Davis, C., Sironic, A. and Kim, J. (2006), 'Perceptual processing of audiovisual Lombard speech', Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J. and Sironic, A. (2006), 'In-Quiet and Lombard Audiovisual Speech', 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba SP BRAZIL.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J., Grauwinkel, K. and Mixdorff, H. (2006), 'Lombard speech: Auditory (A), Visual (V) and AV effects', Speech Prosody 2006, .
  • Kim, J., Davis, C., Vignali, G. and Hill, H. (2005), 'A visual concomitant of the lombard reflex', AVSP'2005, .
  • Kim, J. and Davis, C. (2004), 'Audio-Visual Spoken Language Processing', INTERSPEECH - ICSLP 2004, Seoul Korea.
  • Davis, C. and Kim, J. (2004), 'Off the top of the head: Audio-Visual Speech Perception from the nose up', INTERSPEECH - ICSLP 2004, Seoul Korea.
  • Burnham, D., Issa, Z., Schoknecht, C., Tam, H., Jones, C. and Davis, C. (2003), 'Are Tones Phones', Proceedings of 15th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Understanding speech in noise: linking perception and computation
Years:2013-03-01 - 2016-02-29
ID:P00020814
UWS Researchers:Jeesun Kim and Christopher Davis
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Unconscious processing: to what extent, how flexible and how smart?
Years:2010-03-11 - 2013-12-31
ID:P00016914
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Putting international heads together: Building on the UWS Thinking Head Project
Years:2007-06-05 - 2012-12-31
ID:P0015655
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Using written language to probe speech recognition models
Years:2006-09-01 - 2009-10-23
ID:P0015311
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis and Anne Cutler
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Establishing how head and face movement properties contribute to the perception of speech and identity
Years:2006-09-01 - 2012-01-31
ID:P0015312
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis and Jeesun Kim
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Disrupting visual awareness using the new Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) laboratory at UWS
Years:2006-12-20 - 2010-02-15
ID:P0015439
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis and Jeesun Kim
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility
Years:2006-09-01 - 2007-08-31
ID:P0015240
UWS Researchers:Catherine Best, Catherine Stevens, Michael Tyler, Christian Kroos, Christopher Davis and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans
Years:2007-08-06 - 2008-12-31
ID:P0015758
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Catherine Best, Roger Dean, Catherine Stevens, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate, Christian Kroos, Michael Tyler and Connie So
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:HCSNet Priority Area: Human and Machine Speech
Years:2007-01-01 - 2009-12-31
ID:P0015524
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
Title:Beyond the Uncanny Valley: establishing a rich statistically robust face dataset for new generation Thinking Heads
Years:2007-12-10 - 2009-06-30
ID:P0015908
UWS Researchers:Takaaki Kuratate and Christopher Davis
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Professor Davis is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Combinational (EEG/fMRI) neurophysiological recordings of early visual processing in clinical populations.
Field of Research:
Title:Understanding Audiovisual Interaction using Behaviour and Brain Based Measures
Field of Research:
Title:Hearing Under Difficult Circumstances
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:It's not just what you say, but also how you say it: Exploring the Auditory and Visual Properties of Speech Prosody
Field of Research:AUDIO VISUAL STUDIES
Thesis:It's not just what you say, but also how you say it: Exploring the Auditory and Visual Properties of Speech Prosody

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