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The University of Wisconsin has a long and distinguished history of contributions to understanding hearing,
and today Madison has the largest group of hearing researchers at any university in the world. In the Department
of Psychology, multiple laboratories are engaged in studying some of the most interesting and important aspects
of audition. A sample of topics being studied include development of auditory perception and attention, spatial
hearing, and perception of complex sounds including speech and music. Many experimental methods including
psychophysics, computational modeling, and neurophysiology are employed in studies with human listeners of
many ages and a variety of nonhuman species.
There is a great deal of intellectual interaction and collaboration with the many hearing researchers at the
University. Almost every aspect of audition is investigated in laboratories spanning Departments of Anatomy,
Communication Disorders, Otolaryngology, Neurosurgery, Physiology, and Psychology. Across all these departments,
we meet every week to share experimental findings and ideas in the long-running Hearing and Donuts seminar series.
Many faculty members collaborate with one another, and graduate students have the opportunity to work in more
than one lab.
Auditory Perception/Sensation Faculty and Laboratories with a sampling of current efforts:
| Rick L. Jenison |
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Cortical mechanisms of perception;
computational and mathematical models. |
| Keith R. Kluender |
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Speech perception in humans and animals;
role of experience in auditory perception. |
| Robert A. Lutfi |
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Perception of natural auditory objects and events by children and adults. |
| Jenny Saffran |
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Perception of speech and music by infants, children, and adults. |
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