Bill Yost

William A. Yost, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Hearing Sciences of the Parmly Hearing Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the former Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, former Director of the Parmly Hearing Institute, and former Director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Minor at Loyola University Chicago. He was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at San Diego from 1970 to 1971 and on the faculty at the University of Florida, Gainesville Florida from 1971 to 1977 before coming to Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Yost received a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Indiana University in 1970, and a BA in Psychology from The Colorado College in 1966. He has published more than 300 reports, articles, book chapters, and books in areas of hearing science, especially auditory behavioral neuroscience. He is a Fellow of: Acoustical Society of America (ASA); American Speech, Hearing, and Language Association (ASHLA); American Psychological Society (APS); and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr Yost received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from The Colorado College in 1997; several service awards from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO); and he was Faculty Member of the Year (1994) at Loyola University Chicago and is a Faculty Scholar. He is currently on boards of the Psychonomic Society (Associate Editor); National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (a National Associate), American National Standards Institute (Individual Expert); Acoustical Society of America (former Vice-President, currently President), Association for Research in Otolaryngology (former Secretary-Treasurer and President), and National Institutes of Health (former Chair of the Communication Disorders Review Group). He also served on boards of the National Science Foundation; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Office of Naval Research; Veterans Administration; American Auditory Society; House Ear Institute; University of Iowa; University of Maryland; Boston University; American Speech, Hearing, and Language Association; American Psychological Association; American Psychological Society; and American Institute of Physics. His research has been continuously funded since 1968 from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Recent Publications

Yost, William A., 2006 (in press) Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction, (5th Edition), Elsevier Press (Academic), NY.

Yost, William A., Dan Mapes-Riordan, William Shofner, Raymond Dye, and Stan Sheft, (2005) Discrimination of first- and second-order regular intervals from random intervals as a function of highpass filter cutoff frequency, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 59-62.

Yost, William A., Dan Mapes-Riordan, Stan Sheft, William Shofner, and Raymond Dye, (2005) Pitch Strength of Regular Interval Click Trains with Different Length “Runs” of Regular Intervals, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 3054-3068.

Yost, William A. (2004) Audition, in Experimental Psychology in the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Yost, William A. (2004) Determining the Auditory Scene, in The Cognitive Neurosciences (3rd Edition), M.S. Gazzaniga, (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004.

Sheft, S. and Yost, (2004) William A. Minimum integration times for processing of amplitude modulation, in Auditory Behavior and Physiology, Springer-Verlag, Germany.