Keith R. Kluender
Phone: 262.9884 or
262.6110
Email: krkluend@facstaff.wisc.edu
Office: 528 Psychology
Professor
Ph.D. 1988,
My students and I are working to better
understand how people hear complex sounds such as speech and how experience
shapes the way we hear our world. Our research questions have encouraged the
use of many experimental tools. We study the performance of human listeners in
a broad array of tasks, and we use animal subjects to control effects of
experience. We also use neurophysiological recordings
to reveal auditory processes, and computational simulations of hearing and learning.
Although our emphasis is upon fundamental aspects of perception, our work is
being extended to practical problems or computer speech recognition and hearing
aid design.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Kluender, K.R., Coady, J.A., & Kiefte, M. (2003). "Sensitivity to change in perception of speech." Speech Communication, 41(1), 59-69.
Coady, J.A., & Kluender, K.R., &
Rhode, W.S. (2003). "Effects of contrast between
onsets of speech and other complex spectra." Journal of the Acoustical Society of
Kluender, K.R., & Lotto, A.J. (1999). "Virtues
and perils of empiricist approaches to speech perception." Journal
of the Acoustical Society of
Kluender, K.R., Lotto, A.J., Holt, L.L., & Bloedel, S.L. (1998). "Role of experience for language-specific functional mappings of vowel sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 3568-3582.
Lotto, A.J., & Kluender, K.R. (1998). "General contrast effects in speech perception: Effect of preceding liquid on stop consonant identification." Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 602-619.
Lotto, A.J., Kluender, K.R., & Holt, L.L. (1997). Perceptual compensation for coarticulation by Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 1134-1140.
Kluender, K.R., Lotto, A.J., &
Kluender, K.R. (1994). "Speech
perception as a tractable problem in cognitive science"
In M.A. Gernsbacher (Ed.) Handbook of
Psycholinguistics, pp. 173-217, Academic Press:
Kluender, K. R. (1994). Speech perception as a tractable problem in cognitive science in M.A. Gernsbacher (Ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics pp. 173-217, Academic Press: San Diego, CA.
Kluender, K.R., & Lotto, A.J. (1994). Effects of first formant
onset frequency on [-voice] judgments result from general auditory processes
not specific to humans. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
