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Research Overview
All of our research is designed to help us better understand how people hear complex sounds such as speech, how experience shapes the way he hear our world, and how we use what we hear to guide our actions and to communicate. These questions inspire us to be interdisciplinary in our thinking and our experimental methods. Our work is at an intersection between traditional problems in perception and cognitive psychology and communication disorders, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy. Our research questions encourage the use of many experimental tools. We study the performance of human listeners in a broad array of psychophysical and learning tasks. We use animal models to control effects of experience. We use neurophysiological recordings to reveal auditory processes and to inform models of learning and plasticity. We use computational simulations of hearing and learning to generate and test new hypotheses. Although our emphasis is upon basic questions, our work is being extended to clinical problems of hearing impairment or language delay and practical concerns about computer speech recognition and hearing aid design.
Click on the links below to learn more about our different lines of reserach.