Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Research Assistant Professor, Biology
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 353-5396
Fax: 353-6766
E-mail : wfd@enga.bu.edu
Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory
BS, Biology, Tufts University
Ph.D., Biology, Boston University.
Dr. Dolphin is interested in the theoretical and experimental examination of neural processing and encoding of biologically relevant signals,with particular emphasis on the processing of complex sounds by the auditory system. Experimental approaches range from single-unit recordings to auditory evoked potentials obtained from the scalp.
Graduate Students: Prateek Aggarwal, Sophia Marangas
Dolphin, W.F. (1997) "Auditory evoked responses to amplitude modulated stimuli consisting of multiple envelope components". J. Comp Physiol A. 179:113-121.
Dolphin, W.F., Au, W.W.L, Nachtigal, P.E., and Pawloski,J. (1995) "Modulation rate transfer functions to low-frequency carriers in three species of cetaceans". J. Comp Physiol A.177:235-245.
Dolphin, W.F. (1995) "The envelope following response in three species of cetaceans". In: Sensory Systems of Aquatic Mammals. R.A. Kastelein, J.A.Thomas, and P.E.Nachtigal, eds. De Spil Publishers, The Netherlands. pp25-49.
Dolphin, W.F., Chertoff, M.E. and Burkard, R. (1994) "Comparison of the Envelope Following Response in the Mongolian gerbil using two-tone and sinusoidally amplitude modulated tones". J.Acoust. Soc. Am. 96:2225-2234.
Dolphin, W.F. and. Mountain, D.C (1993) "The Envelope Following Response (EFR) in the mongolian gerbil to sinusoidally amplitude modulated signals in the presence of simultaneously gated pure-tones". J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94:3215-3226.