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Beverly A. Wright

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Beverly Wright and her students seek to understand how to train people to increase their ability to hear subtle changes in pitch and rhythm—skills useful to musicians, physicians listening to heartbeats, as well as people learning a second language. Currently what they have found is that passive listening plays an important role as much as active listening to train the ear.

Lab Affiliation

Principal Investigator, Psychoacoustics Laboratory

Education

PhD	University of Texas at Austin
BS	Indiana University

Publications

Fitzgerald, M.B., and Wright, B.A. (In Press). "Generalization to untrained carriers after training on sinusoidal-amplitude-modulation rate discrimination,". Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. (A).

Mossbridge, J.A., Scissors, B.N., and Wright, B.A. (In Press). "Improved representations of individual stimuli induced by a two-interval discrimination procedure,". Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. (A).

Ortiz, J.A, and Wright, B.A. (In Press). Different effects of overnight consolidation on three types of learning in interaural-time-difference discrimination,". Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. (A).

Recent Awards and Honors

2003	Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
2000–2003	24 invited lectures given, or scheduled from, including the "8th Annual German-American Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium" (sponsored by the Alexander von Humbodlt Stiftung and U.S. National Academy of Sciences) and the "14th Annual Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium"
1999	Visiting Scientist, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

Recent Grants and Funding

2001	NIH/NIDCD R01 "Learning on basic auditory tasks"
1995	NIH/NIDCD R29 "Auditory enhancement and suppression"

Courses

CSD 306	Introduction to Psychoacoustics
CSD 412	Scientific Writing