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Biographical Background
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Charlotte M. Reed
Senior Research Scientist
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Biographical Background
Dr. Charlotte M. Reed is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received the B.S. from Carlow College in 1969 and the Ph.D. in psychoacoustics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973. She joined RLE as a postdoctoral fellow in 1975, and was promoted to Principal Research Scientist in 1989 and Senior Research Scientist in 2003.
Dr. Reed's research centers on the tactual communication of speech. The goal of this research is to develop tactual aids which can substitute for the hearing functions in speech communication for the deaf and deaf-blind, thus enabling them to achieve improved speech perception and production. This work is also aimed at increasing knowledge about the nature of speech communication, the capabilities of the tactual sense, design principles for the tactile displays, sensory substitution, and human plasticity.
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