Audiology Research Laboratory

Student Theses & Dissertations

Undergraduate Honors Theses:

Calandruccio, Lauren: 2000, Senior Honors Program, Indiana University. Thesis: Stability of hearing-aid outcome measures following two years of hearing-aid use.

Floyd, Shari S.: 2001-02, Senior Honors Program, Indiana University. Thesis: Effects of aging and hearing loss on two measures of working memory.

Hansen, Janet: 1991-1992, Senior Honors Program, Indiana University. Thesis: Exploring the use of single-subject designs in hearing aid evaluations.

Hart, Allison: 2000-2001, Senior Honors Program, Indiana University. Thesis: Impact of long-term hearing-aid use on the CPHI.

Howard, Amy: 1999-2000, Senior Honors program, Indiana University. Thesis: Comparison of two measures of hearing-aid satisfaction.

Karpicke, Jennifer: 2006-2007: Senior Honors program, Indiana University. Thesis: Cognitive function, working memory, perceptual-motor skills, and speech perception in normal-hearing children: Some preliminary findings. (Mentored with Chris Cochran, Psychology).

Nelson, Kathleen: 1990, Senior Honors program, Indiana University. Thesis: Intelligibility of synthetic speech by the hearing-impaired elderly.

Rickards, Amy: 2008, Senior Honors Thesis, Indiana University. Thesis: Comparing speech-recognition performance for concatenated word strings and naturally produced sentences.

Riker, Susan: 1989, Senior Honors program, Indiana University. Thesis: A comparison of speech intelligibility ratings and scores.

Master’s Theses:

Branam, Melissa Coy: 1999-2002, M.A., Indiana University. Thesis: Long-term effects of hearing-aid use in older adults.

Christopherson, Laurel: 1988-1990., M.A., Indiana University. Thesis: Application of the Test of Basic Auditory Capabilities (TBAC) to the elderly.

Hackett, Troy: 1987-1988, M.A., Indiana University.Thesis: Comparison of speech-recognition performance for three hearing aid selection methods.

Kirn, Elizabeth: 1987-1988, M.A.T., Indiana University. Thesis: Reliability of functional gain.

Koval, Charles B. (Chip): 1979-1980, M.A., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Hearing-aid induced temporary threshold shift.

Lekarczyk, Debbie: 1989-1992, M.A., Indiana University. Thesis: Intelligibility of nonlinearly spectrally compressed speech in listeners with high-frequency hearing loss.

Nelson, Kathleen: 1992, M.A., Indiana University. Thesis: Serial recall of speech by hearing-impaired elderly listeners.

Riker, Susan: 1989-1990, M.A., Indiana University. Thesis: A comparison of two clinical methods of calculating the Articulation Index.

Roberts, Lisa: 1988-1990, M.A., Indiana University. Thesis: Binaural speech-recognition of the elderly in noise and reverberation.

Tharpe, Anne Marie: 1979-1980, M.A., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Effects of unilateral atresia on the auditory brainstem response.

Ph.D. Dissertations:

Ahlstrom, Christopher: 1980-1984, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Psychoacoustical modulation transfer functions and speech recognition in listeners with normal hearing.

Amos, Nathan E.: 1996-2001, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: The contribution of high frequencies to speech recognition in sensorineural hearing loss.

Boney, Stephen J.: 1982-1986, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: The binaural advantage in reverberation for speech stimuli with controlled predictability.

Christensen, Laurel A.: 1990-1993, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: Categorization of multidimensional acoustic stimuli.

Cokely, Carol G.: 1989-1993, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: The additivity of auditory masking.

Coughlin, M.: 1995-2004, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: Aided speech recognition in single-talker competition by elderly hearing-impaired listeners.

Gravel, Judith S.: 1981-1985, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Speech recognition in normal and hearing-impaired listeners: Effects of bandwidth variations.

Halling, D.: 1990-1994, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: The relation between temporal resolution and speech recognition in the elderly.

Lee, Jae Hee: 2004-2009, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: Effect of fundamental frequency and sentence onset differences on the intelligibility of two competing sentences.

Lee, Lidia W.: 1989-1993, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: Loudness growth for speech sounds.

Narendran, Mini M.: 1998-2004, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: Individual differences in auditory discrimination of spectral shape and speech-identification performance among elderly listeners.

Ochs, Marleen T.: 1979-1983, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: The perception of stop consonants by listeners having high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss.

Peek, Barbara F.: 1977-1982, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Intrasubject variability in susceptibility to temporary threshold shift.

Scott, Diane M.: 1982-1986, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Measurement of temporal resolution in the auditory system.

Wang, Xin: 2004-2009, Ph.D., Indiana University. Thesis: The effects of glimpsing and lexical difficulty on word recognition in young normal-hearing listeners.

Wilde, Graham L.: 1983-1986, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Thesis: Effects of ear protection on speech recognition by normal and hearing-impaired listeners.

Post-doctoral Appointees Mentored:

Sommers, Mitchell (co-mentored with Diane Kewley-Port and David Pisoni)

Coughlin, Maureen

Burk, Matthew