Jonathan Peelle

Contact

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
3 West Gates
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Education

PhD (Neuroscience), Brandeis University 2005
MA (Cognitive Psychology), Brandeis University 2002
BA (Psychology), BMus (Horn), Houghton College 1999

Positions Held

Research associate, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania 2011–present
Research scientist (CDF), MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge UK 2008–2010
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania 2006–2008
Postdoctoral fellow, Volen Center, Brandeis University 2005–2006

Peer-reviewed Publications

Peelle JE, Gross J, Davis MH (In press) Phase-locked responses to speech in human auditory cortex are enhanced during comprehension. Cerebral Cortex. PDF

Szenkovits G, Peelle JE, Norris D, Davis MH (In press) Individual differences in premotor and motor recruitment during speech perception. Neuropsychologia. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.023 PDF

Sohoglu E, Peelle JE, Carlyon RP, Davis MH (In press) Predictive top-down integration of prior knowledge during speech perception. Journal of Neuroscience.

Peelle JE, Cusack R, Henson RNA (2012) Adjusting for global effects in voxel-based morphometry: Gray matter decline in normal aging. NeuroImage, 60, 1503–1516. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.086 PDF

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Grossman M, Wingfield A (2011) Hearing loss in older adults affects neural systems supporting speech comprehension. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 12638–12643. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2559-11.2011 PDF

Rogalski Y, Peelle JE, Reilly J (2011) Effects of perceptual and contextual enrichment on visual confrontation naming in adult aging. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 1349–1360. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0178) PDF

Reilly J, Peelle JE, Antonucci SM, Grossman M (2011) Anomia as a marker of distinctive semantic memory impairments in Alzheimer's Disease and Semantic Dementia. Neuropsychology, 25, 413–426. doi:10.1037/a0022738 PDF

Reilly J, Rodriquez AD, Peelle JE, Grossman M (2011) Frontal lobe damage impairs process and content in semantic memory: Evidence from category specific effects in progressive nonfluent aphasia. Cortex, 47, 645–658. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2010.05.005 PDF

Peelle JE, Eason RJ, Schmitter S, Schwarzbauer C, Davis MH (2010) Evaluating an acoustically quiet EPI sequence for use in fMRI studies of speech and auditory processing. NeuroImage, 52, 1410–1419. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.015 PDF

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Wingfield A, Grossman M (2010) Neural processing during older adults' comprehension of spoken sentences: Age differences in resource allocation and connectivity. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 773–782. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp142 PDF

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Grossman M (2009) Interaction between process and content in semantic memory: An fMRI study of noun feature knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 47, 995–1003. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.10.027 PDF

Troiani V, Peelle JE, Clark R, Grossman M (2009) Is it logical to count on quantifiers? Dissociable networks underlying quantity-based and logical quantifiers. Neuropsychologia, 47, 104–111. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.015 PDF

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Gee J, Moore P, McMillan C, Vesely L, Grossman M (2008) Sentence comprehension and voxel-based morphometry in progressive nonfluent aphasia, semantic dementia, and nonaphasic frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21, 418–432. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.01.004 PDF

Golomb JD, Peelle JE, Addis KM, Kahana MJ, Wingfield A (2008) Age differences in temporal and semantic associations in free and serial recall. Memory and Cognition, 36, 947–956. doi:10.3758/MC.36.5.947 PDF

Reilly J, Peelle JE (2008) Effects of semantic impairment on language processing in semantic dementia. Seminars in Speech and Language, 29, 32–43. PDF

Peelle JE, Grossman M (2008) Language processing in frontotemporal dementia: A brief review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2, 101–118. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00047.x PDF

Peelle JE, Cooke A, Moore P, Vesely L, Grossman M (2007) Syntactic and thematic components of sentence processing in progressive nonfluent aphasia and nonaphasic frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 20, 482–494. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.04.002 PDF

Golomb JD, Peelle JE, Wingfield A (2007) Effects of stimulus variability and adult aging on adaptation to time-compressed speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1701–1708. doi:10.1121/1.2436635 PDF

Wingfield A, McCoy SL, Peelle JE, Tun PA, Cox C (2006) Effects of adult aging and hearing loss on comprehension of rapid speech varying in syntactic complexity. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 17, 487–497. doi:10.3766/jaaa.17.7.4 PDF

Fallon M, Peelle JE, Wingfield A (2006) Spoken sentence processing in young and older adults modulated by task demands: Evidence from self-paced listening. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61, P10–P17. PDF

Peelle JE, Wingfield A (2005) Dissociable components of perceptual learning revealed by adult age differences in adaptation to time-compressed speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 1315–1330. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.31.6.1315 PDF

Peelle JE, Wingfield A, McMillan C, Moore P, Grossman M (2004) Dissociable patterns of brain activity during comprehension of rapid and syntactically complex speech: Evidence from fMRI. Brain and Language, 91, 315–325. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.05.007

Wingfield A, Tun PA, O'Kane G, Peelle JE (2004) Language comprehension in complex environments: Distraction by competing speech in young and older adult listeners. In Advances in Psychology Research, 33. Nova Publishers: Hauppage, NY.

Wingfield A, Peelle JE, Grossman M (2003) Speech rate and syntactic complexity as multiplicative factors in speech comprehension by young and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 10, 310–322. doi:10.1076/anec.10.4.310.28974

Commentaries, replies, and opinions

Wingfield A, Peelle JE (2012) How does hearing loss affect the brain? Aging Health, 8, 107–109. doi:10.2217/AHE.12.5

Peelle JE, Johnsrude IS, Davis MH (2010) Hierarchical processing for speech in human auditory cortex and beyond. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 51. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00051 Open access PDF

Troiani V, Peelle JE, McMillan C, Clark R, Grossman M (2009) Magnitude and parity as complementary attributes of quantifier statements. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2684–2685. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.025

Conference Presentations (talks)

Peelle JE, Olafsen T, Davis MH, Wingfield A. Perceptual learning in speech comprehension governed by power law dynamics. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Wingfield A, Grossman M. Making up for lost sound: Hearing acuity modulates neural recruitment for speech comprehension in older adults. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 2008.

Peelle JE, Reilly J, Anderson C, Moore P, Cross K, Swok S, Vesely L, Grossman M. Naming in PNFA and SD: Knowledge and processing impairments lead to distinct naming errors. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology: Boston, MA, April 2007.

Peelle JE. Age-related changes in speech comprehension: Effects of rate and syntax. IGERT Student Research Symposium: Pittsburgh, PA, June 2003.

Conference Presentations (posters) since 2010

Bonner MF, Price A, Peelle JE, Grossman M. Semantic retrieval recruits heteromodal and modality- specific association cortices. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, April 2012.

Price A, Bonner MF, Peelle JE, Grossman M. When concepts combine: Semantic processing in the angular gyrus. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, April 2012.

Peelle JE, Sohoglu E, Davis MH. Investigating the temporal evolution of speech comprehension using time-resolved sparse fMRI. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 2011.

Price AR, Bonner M, Peelle JE, Grossman M. Representations of sensory-motor word features during a semantic association task. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 2011.

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Wingfield A, Grossman M. Individual differences in older adults' hearing acuity affect the neural systems supporting speech comprehension. Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD, November 2011. PDF

Peelle JE, Sohoglu E, Davis MH. Investigating the temporal evolution of speech comprehension using time-resolved sparse fMRI. Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD, November 2011.

Price AR, Bonner M, Peelle JE, Grossman M. Representations of sensory-motor word features during a semantic association task. Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD, November 2011.

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Grossman M, Wingfield A. Hearing loss in older adults affects neural systems sup- porting speech processing. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, Canada, June 2011.

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Grossman M, Wingfield A. Individual differences in older adults' hearing acuity affect the neural systems supporting speech processing. First International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linköping, Sweden, June 2011.

Sohoglu E, Peelle JE, Carlyon RP, Davis MH. The timecourse of audiovisual interactions affecting perception of distorted speech. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, April 2011.

Wild C, Yusuf A, Wilson D, Peelle JE, Davis MH, Johnsrude I. The neural system supporting the enhancement by attention of the processing of degraded speech. Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD, Februrary 2010.

Peelle JE, Troiani V, Reilly J, Grossman M. Interpreting associative processing of nouns and verbs in the brain: Benefits of item analyses in fMRI. Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Peelle JE, Davis MH, Olafsen T, Wingfield A. Perceptual learning in speech comprehension governed by power law dynamics. Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Davis MH, Peelle JE, Vitello S, Eason RJ, Rodd J. Semantic ambiguity resolution is impaired in the absence of directed attention: fMRI studies. Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Reilly J, Peelle JE, Antonucci S, Grossman M. Distinctiveness of anomia in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia: A new wrinkle on the access-storage debate. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Athens, Greece, October 2010.

Sohoglu E, Peelle JE, Carlyon RP, Davis MH. The time course of audiovisual interactions affecting perception of distorted speech. British Society of Audiology Annual Conference, Manchester, England, September 2010.

Peelle JE, Henson RNA, Cusack R. Lifespan stability of structural covariance in human cortex assessed using voxel-based morphometry. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.

Parkin B, Peelle JE, Monti M, Davis MH, Owen A. Using fMRI to detect language comprehension in the vegetative state: Improving an existing paradigm. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.

Peelle JE, Gross J, Davis MH. The relationship between speech acoustics and cortical oscillations: An application of MEG coherence measures using auditory signals. International Conference on Biomagnetism, Dubrovnik, Croatia, March 2010.

Peelle JE, Gross J, Davis MH. Cerebro-acoustic coherence influenced by linguistic information in spoken sentence comprehension. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY, March 2010.

Peelle JE, Gross J, Davis MH. The relationship between speech acoustics and cortical oscillations depends on intelligibility: an MEG investigation of vocoded sentence processing. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions Workshop, Bristol, UK, March 2010.

Vitello S, Peelle JE, Rodd JM, Davis MH. Attentional modulation of semantic processing in speech comprehension: an fMRI study. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, London, January 2010.

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