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'''Monita Chatterjee''' is an [[Auditory science|auditory scientist]] and Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston, IL]]. Until 2025, she was a Scientist and Director of the Auditory Prostheses & Perception Laboratory at [[Boys Town (organization)|Boys Town National Research Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/Faculty/Pages/MonitaChatterjee.aspx|title=Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140721/https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/Faculty/Pages/MonitaChatterjee.aspx|archive-date=2018-03-11}}</ref> She investigates the basic mechanisms underlying auditory processing by [[cochlear implant]] listeners.

==Biography==
Chatterjee did her undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at [[Jadavpur University]] in [[Kolkata]], India, graduating in 1987. After obtaining her PhD in Neuroscience from [[Syracuse University]] in 1994, she spent 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, at the [[House Ear Institute]], first as [[postdoctoral researcher]] in the group led by [[Robert V. Shannon]], and then as a scientist. She joined the [[University of Maryland, College Park]], in 2005 as an [[assistant professor]], and was promoted to associate professor in 2009. In 2012, she moved to [[Omaha, NE]], joining the research group at [[Boys Town National Research Hospital]].<ref>[https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/Faculty/Documents/ChatterjeeCV.pdf Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2016-07-09.</ref> At Boys Town, Chatterjee lead the APPLab<ref>{{cite web |title=Chatterjee Lab website |url=https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/HearingResearch/Pages/AuditoryProsthesesAndPerceptionLaboratory.aspx}}</ref> and served as Director of the Technology Core.<ref>{{cite web |title=BTNRH Technology Core |url=https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/COBRE/Pages/Technical-Core.aspx}}</ref> She was Program Director of the Post-Doctoral Training Grant at Boys Town, funded continuously by NIH for 41 years.

Chatterjee's work has been funded by the [[National Institutes of Health]] since 1998. She has served as a member of the Program Committee of the [[Association for Research in Otolaryngology]].<ref>[https://aro.site-ym.com/?ProgramCommittee Program Committee], [[Association for Research in Otolaryngology]], retrieved 2018-03-09.</ref> In 2017, she was elected Fellow of the [[Acoustical Society of America]] "For contributions to cochlear implant psychophysics and speech perception."<ref>[http://acousticalsociety.org/fellows-of-the-society/ Fellows of the Society], [[Acoustical Society of America]], retrieved 2018-03-09.</ref>

Chatterjee was a keynote speaker at the 105th convention of the [[Audio Engineering Society]] in 1998.<ref>[http://www.aes.org/events/105/special.cfm 105th AES Convention], [[Audio Engineering Society]], retrieved 2016-07-09.</ref> She was also a keynote speaker at the 2017 conference of the [[American Cochlear Implant Alliance]] (CI2017).<ref>{{cite web |date=2017 |title=15th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children Program Book |url=https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.acialliance.org/resource/resmgr/ci2017/aci_2017_program_final_digit.pdf |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=American Cochlear Implant Alliance}}</ref> She was elected Scientific Chair of the 2013 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ciaphome.org/ciap2013/ |title=CIAP 2013 Home Page |website=www.ciaphome.org |access-date=2018-06-13}}</ref> In 2018 she was an invited Translational Research Speaker at the American Auditory Society's annual meeting <ref>{{Cite web|title=AAS 2018 Final Program|url=https://aas.memberclicks.net/assets/2018_Final_Program.pdf}}</ref> and received their Carhart Memorial award/lecture recognition in 2023<ref>{{Cite web|title = AAS Honors of the Society|url=https://www.amauditorysoc.org/society-honors}}</ref>.She has served as Associate Editor of ''Ear & Hearing'', ''American Journal of Audiology,'',''Frontiers in Aud. Cog. Neurosc.'' and ''JASA Express Letters''<ref>{{Cite web|title=JASA EL Editorial Board|url=https://asa.scitation.org/jel/info/editors}}</ref> and is currently Associate Editor of the ''Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology''<ref>{{Cite web|title=JARO Editorial Board|url=https://www.jaro-online.org/pages/Editors/}}</ref>

In 2021, Chatterjee established a network for Black, Indigenous, and other Persons of Color working in the area of Communication Sciences and Disorders at any career level.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BIPOC-CSD network|url=https://www.monitachatterjee.com/bipoc-csd}}</ref> The primary objective of this grassroots network is to share resources, mentoring, and collaborative interests between members.

== Research ==
Chatterjee has published extensively on the processing and perception of electrical signals by cochlear implant patients.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Chatterjee publication list |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Chatterjee+M+AND+(cochlear+OR+speech) |website=pubmed |accessdate=13 June 2018}}</ref> These include studies of channel-interaction,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Forward masked excitation patterns in multielectrode electrical stimulation |journal=Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |date=1998 |volume=103 |issue=5 |pages=2565–2572 |pmid=9604350 |doi=10.1121/1.422777|bibcode=1998ASAJ..103.2565C }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Effects of stimulation mode, level and location on forward-masked excitation patterns in cochlear implant patients. |journal= Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology|date=2006 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=15–25 |pmid=16270234 |doi=10.1007/s10162-005-0019-2|pmc=2504584 }}</ref> amplitude modulation processing,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Detection and rate discrimination of amplitude modulation in electrical hearing |journal=Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |date=2011 |volume=130 |issue=3 |pages=1567–1580 |pmid=21895095 |doi=10.1121/1.3621445|pmc=3188971 |bibcode=2011ASAJ..130.1567C }}</ref> modulation masking/modulation detection interference<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Modulation masking in cochlear implant listeners: envelope versus tonotopic components. |journal=Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |date=2003 |volume=113 |issue=4 |pages=2042–2053 |pmid=12703715 |doi=10.1121/1.1555613|bibcode=2003ASAJ..113.2042C }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Across- and within-channel envelope interactions in cochlear implant listeners. |journal= Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology|date=2004 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=360–375 |pmid=15675001 |doi=10.1007/s10162-004-4050-5 |pmc=2504569}}</ref> and voice pitch coding, an area of specific deficits in listeners with cochlear implants.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Monita |title=Processing F0 with cochlear implants: Modulation frequency discrimination and speech intonation recognition. |journal=Hearing Research |date=2008 |volume=235 |issue=1–2 |pages=143–156 |pmid=18093766 |doi=10.1016/j.heares.2007.11.004|pmc=2237883 }}</ref>

Chatterjee pioneered research on [[auditory scene analysis]] in cochlear-implant users.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Chatterjee|first1=M.|last2=Sarampalis|first2=A.|last3=Oba|first3=S. I.|title=Auditory stream segregation with cochlear implants: A preliminary report|journal=Hearing Research|date=2006|volume=222|issue=1–2|pages=100–107|doi=10.1016/j.heares.2006.09.001|pmc=1820844|pmid=17071032}}</ref> Until this study, the exploration of the auditory stream segregation phenomenon was limited to normal hearing listeners and hearing-impaired listeners.

Chatterjee's recent work turned to auditory,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deroche |first1=M.L.D. |last2=Zion |first2=D.J. |last3=Schurman |first3=J.R. |last4=Chatterjee |first4=M. |title=Sensitivity of school-aged children to pitch-related cues |journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |date=2012 |volume=131 |issue=4 |pages=2938–2947 |doi=10.1121/1.3692230|pmc=3339501 |pmid=22501071|bibcode=2012ASAJ..131.2938D }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deroche |first1=M.L.D. |last2=Lu |first2=H.-P. |last3=Limb |first3=C.J. |last4=Lin |first4=Y.-S. |last5=Chatterjee |first5=M. |title=Deficits in the pitch sensitivity of cochlear-implanted children speaking English or Mandarin |journal=Frontiers in Neuroscience |date=2014 |volume=8 |pages=282 |doi=10.3389/fnins.2014.00282|pmid=25249932 |pmc=4158799 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deroche |first1=M.L.D. |last2=Kulkarni |first2=A.M. |last3=Christensen |first3=J.A. |last4=Limb |first4=C.J. |last5=Chatterjee |first5=M. |title=Deficits in the sensitivity to pitch sweeps by school-aged children wearing cochlear implants |journal=Frontiers in Neuroscience |date=2016 |volume=10 |doi=10.3389/fnins.2016.00073|pmid=26973451 |doi-access=free |pmc=4776214 |page=73 }}</ref> affective,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=M. |last2=Zion |first2=D.J. |last3=Deroche |first3=M.L.D. |last4=Burianek |first4=B.A. |last5=Limb |first5=C.J. |last6=Goren |first6=A.P. |last7=Kulkarni |first7=A.M. |last8=Christensen |first8=J.A. |title=Voice emotion recognition by cochlear-implanted children and their normally-hearing peers |journal=Hearing Research |date=2015 |volume=322 |pages=151–162 |doi=10.1016/j.heares.2014.10.003|pmc=4615700 |pmid=25448167}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jiam |first1=N.T. |last2=Caldwell |first2=M. |last3=Deroche |first3=M.L.D. |last4=Chatterjee |first4=M. |last5=Limb |first5=C.J. |title=Voice emotion perception and production in cochlear implant users |journal=Hearing Research |date=2017 |volume=352 |pages=30–39 |doi=10.1016/j.heares.2017.01.006|pmc=5937709 |pmid=28088500}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tinnemore |first1=A.R. |last2=Zion |first2=D.J. |last3=Kulkarni |first3=A.M. |last4=Chatterjee |first4=M. |title=Children's recognition of emotional prosody in spectrally degraded speech is predicted by their age and cognitive status |journal=Ear and Hearing |date=2018 |pages=874–880 |doi=10.1097/AUD.0000000000000546|pmc=6046271 |pmid=29337761 |volume=39|issue=5 }}</ref> and linguistic development,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peng |first1=S.-C. |last2=Lu |first2=H.-P. |last3=Lu |first3=N. |last4=Lin |first4=Y.-S. |last5=Deroche |first5=M.L.D. |last6=Chatterjee |first6=M. |title=Processing of acoustic cues in lexical-tone identification by pediatric cochlear-implant recipients |journal=Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research |date=2017 |volume=60 |issue=5 |pages=1223–1235 |doi=10.1044/2016_JSLHR-S-16-0048|pmc=5755546 |pmid=28388709}}</ref> and has focused on deaf children with cochlear implants. The particularity of this unique population is the extraordinary neuroplasticity they exhibit during the first years of language acquisition following implantation. Chatterjee wondered to what extent their plastic brain could adapt to the relatively poor auditory inputs delivered by implants and overcome their limitations. Despite its remarkable success in restoring hearing to deaf individuals, the cochlear implant is not yet perfect in transmitting a speech signal with as much fidelity as acoustic hearing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Başkent |first1=D. |last2=Gaudrain |first2=E. |last3=Tamati |first3=T.N. |last4=Wagner |first4=A. |title=Perception and psychoacoustics of speech in cochlear implant users, in Scientific Foundations of Audiology: Perspectives from Physics, Biology, Modeling, and Medicine, Eds. A.T. Cacace, E. de Kleine, A.G. Holt, and P. van Dijk |date=2016 |publisher=Plural Publishing, Inc |location=San Diego, CA, USA |pages=285–319}}</ref> Much of Chatterjee’s early work was concerned with those limitations in spectro-temporal resolution, exacerbated by physiological interactions in electric stimulation patterns between multiple channels of the electrode array.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=M. |last2=Shannon |first2=R.V. |title=Forward masked excitation patterns in multielectrode electrical stimulation |journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |date=1998 |volume=103 |issue=5 |pages=2565–2572 |doi=10.1121/1.422777 |pmid=9604350|bibcode=1998ASAJ..103.2565C }}</ref> Those limitations should be particularly problematic for pitch perception, and she reasoned that cochlear-implanted children must find it especially challenging to recognize intonation within sentences or within words (as in the case of tonal languages) or to perceive emotion in a speaker’s voice. Those difficulties would represent a major obstacle when learning to interact with the primary caregiver, as well as peers, to communicate mood or intent, which has implications all the way to the development of theory of mind and psycho-social constructs.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/Faculty/Pages/MonitaChatterjee.aspx Monita Chatterjee's faculty bio at Boys Town National Research Hospital]
*Chatterjee Lab (APPLab) website [https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/clinicalbehavioralstudies/Pages/AuditoryProsthesesAndPerceptionLaboratory.aspx Auditory Prostheses & Perception Laboratory]
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