HRC FACULTY AND STAFF

FACULTY

Laurel H. Carney, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Neural processing of complex sounds
• Laboratory: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory

H. Steven Colburn, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Binaural interaction; simulated acoustic environments (virtual)
• Laboratory: Auditory Perception Laboratory

Douglas A. Cotanche, Ph.D., Anatomy and Neurobiology

• Research Interests: Developmental factors which regulate the growth of hair cells
• Laboratory: Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Hearing Research

L. Clarke Cox , Ph.D., Otolaryngology

• Research Interests: Auditory evoked response, pediatric/neonatal hearing loss, OAE's, cochlear hearing loss
• Laboratory: Vestibular Laboratory

William F. Dolphin, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Neural processing and encoding of complex sounds.
• Laboratory: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory

J. Michael Harrison, Ph.D., Psychology

• Research Interests: The way sounds control the behavior of land dwelling mammals

William S. Hellman, Ph.D., Physics

• Research Interests: Signal detection and neural- processing systems; loudness coding; intensity discrimination

Allyn E. Hubbard, Ph.D., Electrical,Computer, and Systems Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Auditory physiology; modeling; neurocomputing; VLSI in biomedical applications; Biosensors
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

Gerald Kidd, Jr., Ph.D., Communication Disorders

• Research Interests: Auditory perception of complex, nonspeech sounds; effects of hearing loss on the discrimination of complex sound and auditory processing
• Laboratory: Psychoacoustics Laboratory

Ruth Y. Litovsky, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Sensory and perceptual function and its development; precedence effect; directional hearing
• Laboratory: Auditory Perception Laboratory

Melanie L. Matthies, Ph.D., Communication Disorders

• Research Interests: Perception of speech; relation between speech perception and speech production; basic speech production processes
• Laboratory: Speech Perception Laboratory

David C. Mountain, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Auditory information processing; sensory biophysics; computer simulation; biomedical electronics and biomedical and signal processing
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

S. Hamid Nawab, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Digital signal processing; robotic hearing; signal understanding
• Laboratory: Knowledge-Based Signal Processing Group

Lisa Shatz, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

• Research Interests: The mechanics of the cochlea; analytic and numerical >methods in fluids.
• Laboratory: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D., Cognitive and Neural Systems

• Research Interests: Binaural Hearing, localization, modeling of psychoacoustic phenomena, resolution and bias in psychoacoustic tasks
• Laboratory: (type of lab)

John R. Stram, M.D., Otolaryngology

• Research Interests: Temporal bone based disease

Malvin C. Teich, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Biomedical signal processing, neural coding, psychophysics
• Laboratory: Biological Information Transmission Laboratory

Herbert F. Voigt, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering/Otolaryngology

• Research Interests: Auditory neurophysiology; neural circuitry; neural modeling
• Laboratory: Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory

STAFF

H. Steven Colburn, Director

Ann Green, Administrator