Welcome to SHBTThe 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 EventsSHBT Faculty Quoted in NYT SHBT faculty Dr. Steven Rauch is quoted in an article in the New York Times about keeping your ears healthy, one piece of a series on "A guided tour of your body" in the Health section. SHBT Thesis Defense Who: Anna Dreyer SHBT Distinguished Lecture Series Who: Ray Kent, PhD (Univ. of Wisconsin) Recent News and EventsSHBT Thesis Defense Who: Fabio A. Thiers EECS Thesis Defense Who: Watjana Lilaonitkul |