Dr Antje Ihlefeld

University position

Postdoctoral scientist

Institutes

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Home page

http://cns.bu.edu/~ihlefeld/

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

My research interests include:

* Cochlear Implants: What cues can cochlear implant listeners use to understand speech? (Psychophysics)

* Auditory Spatial Attention: How does attention to auditory spatial features affect speech intelligibility? (Psychophysics and Modelling)

* Binaural Hearing : How is information combined across the two ears in speech understanding? (Psychophysics)

* Spatial Hearing : How do human listener localize sounds in reverberant rooms? What is the role of interaural level differences and how does it compare to interaural time differences? (Psychophysics and Modelling)

Research Focus

Keywords

auditory

psychophysics

cochlear implant

binaural

computational modelling

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Computational modelling

Collaborators

International

Gerald Kidd Web: http://www.bu.edu/hrc/kid...

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Web: http://cns.bu.edu/~shinn/

Key publications

Best V, Gallun FJ, Ihlefeld A, Shinn-Cunningham BG (2006), “The influence of spatial separation on divided listening” J Acoust Soc Am 120:1506 Details

Devore S, Ihlefeld A, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Delgutte B (in press), “Neural and behavioral sensitivities to azimuth degrade with distance in reverberant rooms. In: Hearing - from basic research to applications, Kollmeier, Klump, Hohmann, Langemann, Mauermann, Uppenkamp, Verhey” eds: in press

Shinn-Cunningham BG, Ihlefeld A, Satyavarta, Larson E (2005), “Bottom-up and top-down influences on spatial unmasking” Acta Acustica united with Acustica 91:967