I'm Maddie Cusimano, recently graduated from the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT. I worked in the Computational Audition Lab, with Prof. Josh McDermott. You can contact me at mcusi--at--mit--dot--edu. The richness and intricacy of perceptual experience makes me curious about the back-and-forth of our senses and our world. Check out our paper on how we might use internal worlds to listen. Along similar lines are these papers on the perception and synthesis of contact sounds, that my co-authors presented at DAFx. And here's a fun (and actually deeply related) collab with Dae Houlihan on emotion understanding. Recently, I've had the sounds of other earthlings on rotation. [Picture: getting ready for class.]