Social Interaction Laboratory Eugene H. Buder, PhD is associate professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and has been a member of the faculty since 1996. His undergraduate degree from Harvard College
conversational communication, earning an MA degree in Education and Anthropology. He earned his doctoral degree with combined majors in Communication Arts and Communicative Disorders at the University
studying toddlers’ language acquisition under Carol Stoel-Gammon. He currently directs the Social Interaction Laboratory and the Adult Conversation Recording Laboratory, and supports the Infant Vocalization
combined the fields of Psychology and Linguistics to compare speech and music as modes of communication. He pursued these interests at the University of Alberta by studying rhythmic and melodic aspects of
of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. He served for four years as a post-doctoral research associate and as acting assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Washington
Laboratory. His primary collaborators at the University of Memphis include CSD professor D. Kimbrough Oller on infant vocal development and Computer Science professor Santosh Kumar on mobile sensing projects related to respiratory and vocal behaviors during conversation. Research Interests Dr. Buder is primarily a speech scientist and phonetician, a skillset which serves multiple interests related to communication. Beginning with visual, auditory and quantitative approaches to acoustic and physiological signals, he addresses many problems and objectives in both speech production and perception. In pursuit of his original interest in conversational interaction, Dr. Buder has studied normal conversational processes in adult and adult-infant vocal interactions, and adult-adult interactions involving speech and language disorders such as aphasia and stuttering. His approach is heavily influenced by dynamic systems analysis, with an emphasis on coupled oscillator models. His signal-based approach has also led to innovations
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