Adrienne Roman, Ph.D.

Adrienne Roman is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D from Indiana University in Psychology in 2015 and her B.A. from the University of Louisville in Psychology in 2006. During her time at the University of Louisville, Dr. Roman worked in a Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory investigating the effects of sleep restriction on cognitive functioning in young children. Her early graduate training at Indiana University focused on understanding the developmental trajectory of working memory and other neurocognitive factors involved in speech perception, particularly within a group of children with cochlear implants relative to normal-hearing controls.  Her doctoral work investigated neurocognitive functions related to spectrally-degraded speech perception abilities in young adults with normal hearing. While at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Roman is researching the effects of increased auditory exposure during sleep in individuals with hearing loss, particularly those related to cognitive abilities and levels of fatigue.