Facilities

IASCP consists of several state-of-the art research laboratories to study all aspects of communication. These laboratories are located across several departments within and outside the University of Florida . The Institute encourages and facilitates interaction and cooperation between different laboratories.

The overall objective of IASCP is the maintenance of a scientific center of excellence focused on human communicative behavior. The institute’s program includes (but is not confined to) three broad areas:

1. The communicator(s), i.e., the physiological/physical/psychological processes by which individuals generate and transmit communicative signals (speech),
2. The respondent(s), and how receptive (hearing) and neural mechanisms function to process signals within a variety of environments,
3. The message i.e., the codes and signals within a variety of sum total of these communicative messages.

The IASCP faculty includes students and scientists with a variety of interests and training. Expertise is represented by the phonetic sciences, speech pathology and audiology, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, psychoacoustics, auditory neurophysiology, electrical engineering, computer sciences, physics, communication studies, bilingual communication, biocommunication, dentistry, and medicine.

As stated, IASCP’s overall research effort is basically an interdisciplinary one, but the focus of each investigator’s interests is the advancement of knowledge about human communication. For information, write Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes, 63 Dauer Hall.