Jonathan Peelle, PhD

Jonathan Peelle is an Associate Professor in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University, with appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Department of Psychology. He obtained his PhD in neuroscience from Brandeis University, and went on for postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England.

Dr. Peelle's research investigates the neuroscience of human communication, aging, and hearing using a combination of behavioral and brain imaging methods. His work unravels how it is that humans can understand a complex acoustic signal like speech, and how our brains adjust when there are acoustic challenges like background noise or hearing loss. Because of the central role of spoken language in our everyday lives, understanding contributors to communication success—and how these might be modified—has implications for social, mental, and physical well-being.

Dr. Peelle has over 80 published research articles in the area, and has authored the textbook The Neuroscience of Language (In production, Cambridge University Press). He is a past editor for NeuroImage and Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, and is currently an action editor for eLife and Neurobiology of Language. Dr. Peelle routinely reviews for grants and other mechanisms for the NIH and international funding bodies. He is currently the chair-elect of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

More information on Dr. Peelle's research can be found on his lab webpage at peellelab.org.