Faculty/Staff/PhD
Academic Faculty
Kapolowicz, Michelle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: PCD 4005
Phone: 813-974-6936
Dr. Kapolowicz uses behavioral, electrophysiological, and pharmacological approaches to investigate mechanisms that contribute to speech perception in difficult listening situations for people with normal hearing, tinnitus, or cochlear implants. She is particularly interested in the significance of talker-specific speech cues in facilitating this process.
| Ph.D. Cognition and Neuroscience | The University of Texas at Dallas | 2017 |
| M.S. Applied Cognition and Neuroscience | The University of Texas at Dallas | 2010 |
| B.A. Philosophy | The University of Texas at Arlington |
2008 |
Teaching
SPA 5303 | Auditory Anatomy and Physiology
SPA 7346 | Cochlear Implants
SPA 3101 | Auditory Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism
Recent Scholarly Activity
MR Kapolowicz, DR Guest, V Montazeri, MM Baese-Berk, & PF Assmann (2022). Perception of spectrally-shifted foreign-accented speech. Language and Speech, 65, 418-443. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211029679
V Montazeri, MR Kapolowicz, & PF Assmann (2021). Unsupervised repetition enables rapid perceptual learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 3964-3975. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0007062
S-P Sun, MR Kapolowicz, M Richardson, R Metherate, F-G Zeng (2021). Task-dependent effects of nicotine treatment on auditory performance in young-adult and elderly human nonsmokers. Scientific Reports, 11, 13187. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92588-z
MR Kapolowicz, V Montazeri, MM Baese-Berk, F-G Zeng, and PF Assmann (2020). Rapid adaptation to non-native speech is impaired in cochlear implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Express Letters, 148, EL267. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001941
MR Kapolowicz & LT Thompson (2020). Plasticity in limbic regions at early time points in experimental models of tinnitus. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2019.00088