Title: Chair, Department of Psychology

Office: 225 Coffey Hall

Phone: 773-508-3018

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1980) Specialty: Biological Psychology
Masters: University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors: University of California, Berkeley (1975)

 

Psychology 240 The Psychology and Biology of Perception

Psychology 250 Cognitive Psychology

Psychology 304 Statistics

Psychology 311 Lab in Psychobiology

Psychology 314 Lab in Experimental Psychology: Cognition

Psychology 316 Lab in Experimental Psychology: Sensation and Perception

Psychology 382 Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

Psychology 387 Capstone in Seminar in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences

My research is predominately in the area of human auditory information processing, with an emphasis on binaural hearing and sound localization. At the center of my research program is the question of how the auditory system, when operating in complex, multisource acoustic environments, "parses" the frequency components that are present to form auditory objects; how it assigns frequency components to their particular sound sources. My research is particularly aimed at examining the role that spatial hearing plays in segregating concurrent acoustic stimuli, although I have also examined the manner in which binaural cues interact with other variables that promote segregation of sources.  My goal is to develop a set of objective psychophysical procedures that allows one to characterize the tendency of listeners to analytically/synthetically process information across different stimulus dimensions. I have recently become interested in the effects of musical training on the ability to selectively attend to one sound and ignore other concurrent sounds.

Dye, R. H., Boomer, J., Frankel, J., Hill, J. P., and Peloquin, A. N (2016). “Lateralization of simulated sources and echoes differing in frequency based on interaural temporal differences,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, 4472-4489.

Dye, R. H., Brown, C., Stellmack, M. A, Gallegos, J., and Yost, W. A. (2006).  “The Influence of Later Arriving Sounds on the Ability of Listeners to Judge the Lateral Position of a Source,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120, 3946-3956.

Dye, R.H., Stellmack, M. A., Jurcin, N. F. (2005). “Observer weighting strategies in interaural-time difference discrimination and monaural level discrimination for multi-tone complexes,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 3079-3090.

Acoustical Society of America

American Psychological Society