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| Richard R. Fay, PhD |
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Richard (Dick) Fay grew up in Massachusetts and attended
Bowdoin College, graduating with a B.A. in psychology in 1966. He earned his M.A. in
experimental psychology from Connecticut College and his PhD in experimental and
sensory psychology from Princeton University. Glen Wever was his dissertation supervisor.
He was a Researcher at the University of Hawaii with von Bekesy, and was on the faculty at
Bowman Grey School of Medicine at Wake Forest University before joining the psychology
faculty at Loyola University Chicago in 1975. He is now Professor of Psychology, Adjunct
Professor of the Parmly Hearing Institute and Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology, Loyola
University Chicago. Dick's research interest is the hearing of fish and the comparative
study of hearing. He is arguably the world's leading expert in fish hearing. He is the
author of over 250 journal articles, book chapters, and books. With his colleague Art
Popper he is the series co-editor of the Springer-Verlag Handbook of Auditory Research
series, which now has 14 volumes. He is also author of Hearing in Vertebrates: A
Psychophysics Databook, which contains basic psychoacoustical data from many different
animals for many different auditory tasks. Dick combines both psychoacoustical and
physiological measures of hearing in fish to better understanding vertebrate hearing in
general. He has defended the notion that all vertebrates solve the task of processing
sound with about the same general level of competency. Thus, there are no
fundamental differences among different animals in how they process sound.
More information about Dr. Fay and his research can be found at www.parmly.luc.edu/parmly/.
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