Prof. Jackson T. Gandour

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Purdue University
Liberal Arts
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
ProfessorAppointed: 1988
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Mailing Address

Purdue University
Dept Speech Language Hearing Sciences
Heavilon Hall 1353
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2038
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (765) 494-3821
Fax: (765) 494-0771
gandour@purdue.edu
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~gandour/

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Linguistics, 1976.
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Linguistics, 1968.
B.A., Wheeling Jesuit University, Political Science, 1963.

Expertise and Research Interests

Current research focuses primarily on auditory electrophysiological (FFR) studies of pitch processing in normal adult speakers of tone languages (Chinese, Thai).

Other Expertise

Academic Experience:
Editorial Board, Brain and Language (1993-present); Aphasiology (2002-present)

Jack Gandour is a linguist. He served in the Peace Corps in Thailand (1964-66), taught at Niigata University in Japan as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer (1968-69), conducted predoctoral research in Hong Kong and Thailand (1974-75), and postdoctoral research at Bell Laboratories (1976-77). At Purdue, he has conducted crosslanguage research on tonal processing in the brain at Mahidol University, Bangkok (1980, 1989), and at the Indiana University School of Medicine (1997-2005). His teaching responsibilities include courses in phonetics, general linguistics, and neurolinguistics. His current research focuses on auditory electrophysiological studies of tonal processing in Mandarin Chinese and Thai. He is also a faculty member of the Purdue University Life Sciences (PULSe) program. He served as Interim Head of the department for two years (1993-1994), and Head for three years (1995-1998).

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Asia, Southeast, Brain Injury, International, Linguistics Or Philology, Medical or Diagnostic Imaging, Neurological Disorders, Neuroscience, Thailand.

Additional Terms:

Aphasia, Auditory Electrophysiology, FFR, FMRI, Functional Neuroimaging, MMN, Mandarin Chinese, Neurolinguistics, Neurophonetics, PET, Phonetics, Thai.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Thai: (Fluent, Functional, Fluent)

Memberships

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Honors and Awards

1971-1976, Academic Distinction Award, Division of Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, Linguistics

Previous Positions

1988-1989, Senior Fulbright Research Scholar, Mahidol University
1983-1988, Associate Professor, Purdue University
1977-1983, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
1968-1969, Visiting Lecturer, Niigata University
1964-1966, Peace Corps Volunteer, Phangnga High School, Thailand

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Crosslanguage studies of pitch representation in the human brainstem, $870,415, 2007 to 2010.

Publications

  • Chandrasekaran B, Krishnan A, Gandour JT (Jan 2009) Relative influence of musical and linguistic experience on early cortical processing of pitch contours., Brain and language, 108 (1), 1-9 Abstract
  • Krishnan A, Swaminathan J, Gandour JT (Aug 2008) Experience-dependent Enhancement of Linguistic Pitch Representation in the Brainstem Is Not Specific to a Speech Context., Journal of cognitive neuroscience Abstract
  • Swaminathan J, Krishnan A, Gandour JT (Jul 2008) Pitch encoding in speech and nonspeech contexts in the human auditory brainstem., Neuroreport, 19 (11), 1163-7 Abstract
  • Zatorre, Robert, Gandour, Jackson T (2008) Neural specializations for speech and pitch: Moving beyond the dichotomies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 363 (1493), 1087-1104
  • Swaminathan J, Krishnan A, Gandour JT, Xu Y (Jan 2008) Applications of static and dynamic iterated rippled noise to evaluate pitch encoding in the human auditory brainstem., IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 55 (1), 281-7 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Tong Y, Talavage T, Wong D, Dzemidzic M, Xu Y, Li X, Lowe M (Feb 2007) Neural basis of first and second language processing of sentence-level linguistic prosody., Human brain mapping, 28 (2), 94-108 Abstract
  • Chandrasekaran B, Krishnan A, Gandour JT (Jan 2007) Mismatch negativity to pitch contours is influenced by language experience., Brain research, 1128 (1), 148-56 Abstract
  • Chandrasekaran B, Gandour JT, Krishnan A (2007) Neuroplasticity in the processing of pitch dimensions: A multidimensional scaling analysis of the mismatch negativity., Restorative neurology and neuroscience, 25 (3-4), 195-210 Abstract
  • Gandour, JT (2007) Neural circuitry underlying the perception of linguistic prosody In Gussenhoven, C, Raid, T (eds), Tones and tunes: Experimental studies in word and sentence prosody Vol. 2, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 3-25 pages (bookchapter)
  • Xu Y, Krishnan A, Gandour JT (Oct 2006) Specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation in the brainstem., Neuroreport, 17 (15), 1601-5 Abstract
  • Xu Y, Gandour JT, Francis AL (Aug 2006) Effects of language experience and stimulus complexity on the categorical perception of pitch direction., The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120 (2), 1063-74 Abstract
  • Xu Y, Gandour J, Talavage T, Wong D, Dzemidzic M, Tong Y, Li X, Lowe M (Feb 2006) Activation of the left planum temporale in pitch processing is shaped by language experience., Human brain mapping, 27 (2), 173-83 Abstract
  • Gandour, J.T. (2006) Brain mapping of Chinese speech prosody, Handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press, 308-319 pages (bookchapter)
  • Gandour, J. (2006) Tone: Neurophonetics, Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd Edition, Oxford, UK, Elsevier, Vol. 12, 751-761 pages (bookchapter)
  • Tong Y, Gandour J, Talavage T, Wong D, Dzemidzic M, Xu Y, Li X, Lowe M (Nov 2005) Neural circuitry underlying sentence-level linguistic prosody., NeuroImage, 28 (2), 417-28 Abstract
  • Krishnan A, Xu Y, Gandour J, Cariani P (Sep 2005) Encoding of pitch in the human brainstem is sensitive to language experience., Brain research. Cognitive brain research, 25 (1), 161-8 Abstract
  • Li X, Wong D, Gandour J, Dzemidzic M, Tong Y, Talavage T, Lowe M, Neural Network for Encoding Immediate Memory in Phonological Processing., Neuroreport, 15(16), 2459-62, Nov 2004 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Tong Y, Wong D, Talavage T, Dzemidzic M, Xu Y, Li X, Lowe M (Sep 2004) Hemispheric roles in the perception of speech prosody., Neuroimage, 23 (1), 344-57 Abstract
  • Krishnan, A., Xu, Y., Gandour, J., & Cariani, P., Human frequency-following response: Representation of pitch contours in Chinese tones, Hearing Research, 189, 1-12, 2004
  • Gandour J, Dzemidzic M, Wong D, Lowe M, Tong Y, Hsieh L, Satthamnuwong N, Lurito J, Temporal integration of speech prosody is shaped by language experience: an fMRI study, Brain and Language, 84(3), 318-36, March 2003 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Wong D, Dzemidzic M, Lowe M, Tong Y, Li X, A cross-linguistic fMRI study of perception of intonation and emotion in Chinese, Human Brain Mapping, 18(3), 149-57, March 2003 Abstract
  • Li, X., Gandour, J., Talavage, T., Wong, D., Dzemidzic, M., Lowe, M., & Tong, Y., Selective attention to Chinese tones recruits left dorsal frontoparietal network, NeuroReport, 14(17), 2236-2266, 2003
  • Gandour, J., Xu, Y., Wong, D., Dzemidzic, M., Lowe, M., Li, X., & Tong, Y., Neural correlates of segmental and tonal information in speech perception, Human Brain Mapping, 20(4), 185-200, 2003
  • Gandour J, Wong D, Lowe M, Dzemidzic M, Satthamnuwong N, long Y, Lurito J, Neural circuitry underlying perception of duration depends on language experience, Brain and Language, 83(2), 268-90, November 2002 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Wong D, Lowe M, Dzemidzic M, Satthamnuwong N, Tong Y, Li X, A cross-linguistic FMRI study of spectral and temporal cues underlying phonological processing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(7), 1076-87, October 2002 Abstract
  • Wong, D., Pisoni, D., Learn, J., Gandour, J., Miyamoto, R., Hutchins, G, Differential cortical activation to monaural speech and nonspeech stimuli: A PET imaging study, Hearing Research, 166(1-2), 9-23, April 2002
  • Hsieh L, Gandour J, Wong D, Hutchins GD, Functional heterogeneity of inferior frontal gyrus is shaped by linguistic experience, Brain and Language, 76(3), 227-52, March 2001 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Frontiers of brain mapping of speech prosody, Brain Lang, 71(1), 75-7, 2000 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Wong D, Hsieh L, Weinzapfel B, Van Lancker D, Hutchins GD, A crosslinguistic PET study of tone perception, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(1), 207-22, Jan 2000 Abstract
  • Gandour, J, Tumtavitikul, A, Satthamnuwong, N, Effects of speaking rate on Thai tones, Phonetica, 56, 123-134, 1999
  • Grela B, Gandour J, Locus of functional impairment in the production of speech rhythm after brain damage: a preliminary study, Brain and Language, 64(3), 361-76, 1998 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Wong D, Hutchins G, Pitch processing in the human brain is influenced by language experience, Neuroreport, 9(9), 2115-9, 1998 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Ponglorpisit S, Potisuk S, Khunadorn F, Boongird P, Dechongkit S, Interaction between tone and intonation in Thai after unilateral brain damage, Brain and Language, 58(1), 174-96, 1997 Abstract
  • Potisuk S, Gandour J, Harper MP, Contextual variations in trisyllabic sequences of Thai tones, Phonetica, 54(1), 22-42, 1997 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Potisuk S, Ponglorpisit S, Dechongkit S, Khunadorn F, Boongird P, Tonal coarticulation in Thai after unilateral brain damage, Brain and Language, 52(3), 505-35, March 1996 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Larsen J, Dechongkit S, Ponglorpisit S, Khunadorn F, Speech prosody in affective contexts in Thai patients with right hemisphere lesions, Brain and Language, 51(3), 422-43, December 1995 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Ponglorpisit S, Khunadorn F, Dechongkit S, Boongird P, Boonklam R, Potisuk S, Lexical tones in Thai after unilateral brain damage, Brain and Language, 43(2), 275-307, August 1992 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Petty SH, Dardarananda R, Dysprosody in Broca's aphasia: a case study, Brain and Language, 37(2), 232-57, August 1989 Abstract
  • Marshall RC, Gandour J, Windsor J, Selective impairment of phonation: a case study, Brain and Language, 35(2), 313-39, November 1988 Abstract
  • Gandour J, Petty SH, Dardarananda R, Perception and production of tone in aphasia, Brain and Language, 35(2), 201-40, November 1988 Abstract
  • Gandour, J., Potisuk, S., & Dechongkit, S. (1994). Tonal coarticulation in Thai. Journal of Phonetics, 22, 477-492

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