Raymond H. Dye, Jr.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1981: Biological Psychology
Vita (Adobe Acrobat Format)
Research Goal: To describe the ability of the human listeners to process interaural differences of time and level associated with one sound source when other concurrent sources are also active. Of particular interest is the manner in which judgments regarding the location of the target source are influenced by the interaural cues associated with the other distracting or interfering sources. We are currently examing the dependence binaural interference upon (1) the spectral properties of the target and distractors, (2) the interaural differences associated with the target and the distractors, and (3) the temporal relationships between the target and the distractors.
Representative publications:
Dye, R. H., Stellmack, M. A., and Grange, A. N, and Yost, W. A. (1996). "The Effect of Distractor Frequency on Judgments of Target Laterality Based on Interaural Delays," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99, 1096-1107.
Dye, R. H. (1997). "The Relative Contributions of Targets and Distractors in Judgments of Laterality Based on Interaural Differences of Level," in Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments (eds. R. H. Gilkey and T. R. Anderson), Lawrence Erlbaum, Associates.
Yost, W. A., Dye, R. H., and Sheft, S. (1996). "A Simulated Cocktail Party' with Up to Three Sound Sources," Perception and Psychophysics, 1026-1036.