Heather Kreft, who earned an MA in audiology at the University of Iowa, is the heart of the Auditory Perception and Cognition Laboratory (APC Lab) in the Department of Psychology. She works as a scientist in the lab and manages the day-to-day lab…
Kelly Whiteford, PhD, research associate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, received funding of $581,250 from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (…
Elaea Purmalietis, now a senior in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, was first introduced to the field of psychology by her mother, who herself majored in Psychology at UMN. Taking her first psychology course is what…
Lisanne Bogaard joins the lab as a new graduate student. Lisanne comes to us from the University of Amsterdam, where she completed Masters' degrees in both Psychology and Musicology. Welcome, Lisanne!
Members of the Psychology Department’s Auditory Perception and Cognition lab, Dr. Anahita Mehta, Dr. Lei Feng, and Professor Andrew Oxenham, recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of…
On July 15, Andrew Oxenham, professor and director of the APCLab at the University of Minnesota, presented a webinar for the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) webinar series on "The Perception and Neural Coding of Pitch for Speech and Music."
Each year, graduating psychology undergraduates are tasked with completing a project to explore an area of interest. The Sharon Borine Top Capstone Award acknowledges students whose senior projects were of the highest quality. This spring semester…
Researchers from the Auditory Perception and Cognition (APC) Lab in the Psychology Department recently released research on the effect of age on cortical tracking of word-level features of continuous competing speech. The paper titled, “Effects of…
Andrew Oxenham, Distinguished McKnight University professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, was part of the team that organized the world’s first Cochlear Implant Hackathon. Oxenham and Jordan Beim, postdoctoral…
Two APC Lab doctoral students, Coral Dirks and Erin O'Neill graduated.Coral Dirks graduated with the defense of her thesis, “Using binaural beat sensitivity to describe mechanisms that may enhance binaural interactions in single-sided-deafness…