Erick Gallun

Investigator into the cognitive abilities of listeners with hearing loss. Training is as a cognitive psychologist focused on auditory perception, memory and attention. Consultant on experimental design and analysis with an emphasis on auditory stimuli and statistics. New areas of interest include the effects of aging and traumatic brain injury on auditory processing abilities as well as rehabilitative strategies that can be used to improve such abilities in various patient populations.
Areas of expertise: amplitude modulation senstivity and intensity perception; speech and modulation; binaural hearing and masking; hearing loss; aging; potential effects of traumatic brain injury on auditory perception. Skills and specialties: Repeated-measures analysis of variance; signal detection theory; energetic and informational masking; psychometric functions.