Welcome to SHBT

The strange but familiar fact that an idea, an emotion, a warning, a song, can travel from one person’s brain to another depends on the dauntingly complex, deeply fascinating chain reaction known as human communication. At the Harvard-MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT), we study every link in that chain, at every level of understanding, from biochemistry to cognition.

Our faculty includes physicists, biologists, psychologists, linguists, clinicians, neurophysiologists, and at least five kinds of engineers. Our doctoral students cover the same dynamic range. Together, we take a strikingly cross-disciplinary approach, pursuing innovative answers to some very big questions: How do speech and hearing work? How do the mechanisms go wrong? And what can we do to restore them?

SHBT News and Events

SHBT Thesis Defense

Who: Daryush D. Mehta
Title:Impact of human vocal fold vibratory asymmetries on acoustic characteristics of sustained vowel production
When: Friday, January 8, 2010, 3:00 pm
Where:

@MIT (live): Haus Room at RLE, 36-428
@USC (videoconference): Williams-Brice Building, Room 515
Online: Attend virtually (log in as Guest)
Updates: http://web.mit.edu/dmehta/www/

Recent Events

SHBT Faculty featured in HST Connector

Jennifer Melcher featured in the Spring 2009 HST Connector [pdf].