Dr. Tessa Bent is a Professor in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department at Indiana University and head of the Speech Perception Lab. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2005 in Linguistics. After graduation, she moved to Bloomington to complete post-doctoral training with Dr. David Pisoni in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU and then joined the Speech and Hearing faculty in 2008.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Contact information — 2631 East Discovery Parkway, 47408, Room C2022 tbent@iu.edu (812) 856-3279
Current lab members
Tessa Bent, Lab Director
Brandon Merritt, PhD student
Malachi Henry, PhD student
Dylan Pearson, PhD student
Shelemiah Crockett, honors student
Kaylie Maucieri, honors student
Jessica Bell, research assistant
Alondra Rodriguez, research assistant
Payton Bastie, research assistant
Lab alumni
PhD student: Eriko Atagi
Honors students: Sydney Perry, Emerson Wolff, Alex Danielides, Emma Brown, Emma Bonifield, Taylor Federspill, Julianne Frye, Megan McKee, Kelsey Marks, Rachel Shepherd (McNair Scholar), Amal Akbik, Alaine Payton, and Melissa Dorsey
Groups STEM Scholar: Amy Cardona
STARS students: Emma Bonifield and Megan Hancock
TRACCS students: Kierra Villines and Jodene Jackson
Undergraduate research assistants: Tatum Devoe, Mary Schiff, Paige Shattuck, Michaela Sanger, Katelyn Oexmann, Mimi Tran, Josy Williams, Nicole Follman, Jesse Sherman, Danielle Pacholski, Amy Warrington, Lindsey Altum, Nicole Isroff, Claire Malkovich, Sierra Bell, Alex Julian, Zachary Smith, Laine Abrell, Kendall Begle, Emily Bussick, Amanda Trent, Amanda Helms, Layne Shidlofsky, Haley Craig, Taylor Burris, Alex Simeur, Kimberly Fishman, David Phillips, Kate Taelman, Steven Elmlinger, Nancy Eastman, Marissa Ganeku, Megan McGrath, and Nancy Lesniewski
MA / AuD students: Stacy Chen, Emma Folk, Katie Gray, Victoria Cook, Kristen Quinones, Matti Rhodes, Jessica Copperman, and Melissa Tiearney
PhD student research assistants: KuanYi Chao, Megan Loughnane, and Valentyna Filimonova