Gerald Kidd
Professor; Auditory Perception
- Title Professor; Auditory Perception
- Email gkidd@bu.edu
- Phone 617-353-7360/7481
- Education Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychoacoustics, Harvard University, 1984
Ph.D., Hearing Science, Purdue University, 1981
M.S., Audiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1977
B.A., Speech and Hearing, University of Oklahoma, 1975
Professor Gerald D. Kidd in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences has been selected to serve as a member of the Auditory System Study Section for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review. His term will run through June 2023.
Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements, and honors.
Study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their fields of science.
Kidd’s research interests include psychoacoustics, speech perception and intelligibility, and cognitive factors in hearing. He is a Fellow of both the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Acoustical Society of America.
- Auditory perception and processing of complex sounds in multiple-sound environments; effects of hearing loss on the discrimination of complex sound and auditory processing.
- Psychoacoustics, Speech Perception and Intelligibility, Cognitive Factors in Hearing