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Psychoacoustics Laboratory

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Psychoacoustics: the relationship between perception and the acoustic parameters of sound...

Welcome to the UB PsychoAcoustics Laboratory (PAL), affiliated with the Center for Hearing & Deafness, the Center for Cognitive Science, and the Department of Communicative Disorders & Sciences. The UB PAL is under the direction of Dr. David A. Eddins, an audiologist and experimental psychologist.

 
 

UB PAL Research Interests...

  • auditory perception with and without hearing loss
  • physiological correlates of auditory perception
  • speech perception and spectral cues
  • speech perception and hearing protectors
  • characterization of tinnitus and residual inhibition
  • cognitive and sensory factors in academic achievement
  • auditory and visual pattern perception
  • characterization of methods for modulating tinnitus
  • development of laboratory and teaching software

UB PAL News...

  • Aniket Saoji receives Mark Diamond Research Fund Award
  • Kristen Schroeder receives Mark Diamond Research Fund Award
  • Report of Benton Project published in Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Now recruiting new listeners (see Research Participants)
PAL investigators welcome inquiries from prospective subjects, students, and colleagues around the world...