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My auditory research examines the human ability to understand what events are happening in the environment through sound. Perceptual experiments address whether there are auditory prototypes that represent different event attributes, whether those prototypes can be used to predict psychological phenomena such as a preference for exaggeration or the ability to recognize caricatures, and whether audition plays a significant role in the perception of multi-modal events. This basic research will relate psychological performance to acoustic properties and high-level auditory information. The results of this research may have potential to enhance hearing aids and auditory displays.
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After receiving my bachelor of science from MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, I conducted doctoral (U. of Pennsylvania) and postdoctoral (U. of Conn.) research on the auditory perception of sound location, motivated by fundamental questions about how people segregate multiple sources of information in complex scenes and how people perceive the space around them. I have also conducted research on auditory health, using otoacoustic emissions (sound emitted from the ear) as a tool to detect and prevent hearing loss. I have also tested the limits of human sensitivity to very brief sounds and underwater sounds.
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 LAURIE HELLER http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Laurie_Heller On The Web: Perceptions of sound effects (GSJ of May 31, 2002) Laurie Heller CLS website Laboratory home page Collaborators at other institutions: Are you Laurie Heller? Click here to edit your research profile. |
