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Christopher J. Plack

Christopher J. Plack

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
41
Citations
6677
World Ranking
6981
National Ranking
440

Overview

Christopher J. Plack is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on fields of neuroscience and health professions, with a particular concentration on cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, and speech and hearing. Additional subfields include neurology and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to hearing loss and rehabilitation, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, and genetics, noise effects and management, vestibular and auditory disorders, neuroscience and music perception, autism spectrum disorder research, and assistive technology in communication and mobility.

Frequent venues for Christopher J. Plack's publications include Hearing Research, International Journal of Audiology, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, and Ear and Hearing. These journals have featured multiple articles authored or coauthored by them.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • The Effects of Age-Related Hearing Loss on the Brain and Cognitive Function, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Investigating the effects of noise exposure on self-report, behavioral and electrophysiological indices of hearing damage in musicians with normal audiometric thresholds, 2020, Hearing Research
  • Extended high-frequency audiometry in research and clinical practice, 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Effects of age on electrophysiological measures of cochlear synaptopathy in humans, 2020, Hearing Research
  • Self-reported hearing difficulties are associated with loneliness, depression and cognitive dysfunction during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, International Journal of Audiology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their career. Frequent coauthors include Hannah Guest, Garreth Prendergast, Kevin J. Munro, Helen E. Nuttall, and Adnan M. Shehabi.

Best Publications

  • Perception of soundscapes: An interdisciplinary approach

    William J. Davies;Mags D. Adams;Neil S. Bruce;Rebecca Cain

  • A behavioral measure of basilar-membrane nonlinearity in listeners with normal and impaired hearing

    Andrew J. Oxenham;Christopher J. Plack

  • The shape of the ear's temporal window

    Brian C. J. Moore;Brian R. Glasberg;C. J. Plack;A. K. Biswas

  • Pitch : neural coding and perception

    Christopher J. Plack;Andrew J Oxenham;Richard R. Fay;Arthur N. Popper

  • Basilar-membrane nonlinearity and the growth of forward masking

    Christopher J. Plack;Andrew J. Oxenham

  • Temporal window shape as a function of frequency and level

    Christopher J. Plack;Brian C. J. Moore

  • Listening effort at signal-to-noise ratios that are typical of the school classroom

    Clare S. Howard;Kevin J. Munro;Christopher J. Plack

  • Inter-relationship between different psychoacoustic measures assumed to be related to the cochlear active mechanism.

    Brian C. J. Moore;Deborah A. Vickers;Christopher J. Plack;Andrew J. Oxenham

  • Subcortical plasticity following perceptual learning in a pitch discrimination task.

    Samuele Carcagno;Samuele Carcagno;Christopher J. Plack

  • The psychophysics of pitch

    Christopher J. Plack;Andrew J. Oxenham

  • Cochlear nonlinearity between 500 and 8000 Hz in listeners with normal hearing

    Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda;Christopher J. Plack;Ray Meddis

  • Soundwalking as a methodology for understanding soundscapes

    Adams;NS Bruce;WJ Davies;R Cain

  • Inferred basilar-membrane response functions for listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss

    Christopher J. Plack;Vit Drga;Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda

  • Suppression and the upward spread of masking.

    Andrew J. Oxenham;Christopher J. Plack

  • Linear and nonlinear processes in temporal masking

    Christopher J. Plack;Andrew J. Oxenham;Vit Drga

  • Effects of masker frequency and duration in forward masking : further evidence for the influence of peripheral nonlinearity

    Andrew J. Oxenham;Christopher J. Plack

  • The upper frequency limit for the use of phase locking to code temporal fine structure in humans: A compilation of viewpoints

    Eric Verschooten;Shihab Shamma;Shihab Shamma;Andrew J. Oxenham;Brian C.J. Moore

  • Pitch coding and pitch processing in the human brain

    Christopher J. Plack;Daphne Barker;Deborah A. Hall

  • Basilar-membrane nonlinearity estimated by pulsation threshold.

    Christopher J. Plack;Andrew J. Oxenham

  • Psychophysical evidence for auditory compression at low characteristic frequencies

    Christopher J. Plack;Vit Drga

  • The effects of age and hearing loss on interaural phase difference discrimination.

    Andrew King;Kathryn Hopkins;Christopher J. Plack

  • The frequency following response (FFR) may reflect pitch-bearing information but is not a direct representation of pitch

    Hedwig E. Gockel;Robert P. Carlyon;Anahita Mehta;Christopher J. Plack

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert P. Carlyon
Robert P. Carlyon University of Cambridge
Andrew J. Oxenham
Andrew J. Oxenham University of Minnesota
Brian C. J. Moore
Brian C. J. Moore University of Cambridge
William J. Davies
William J. Davies Lancaster University
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
David R. Moore
David R. Moore Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Ananthanarayan Krishnan
Ananthanarayan Krishnan Purdue University West Lafayette
Jim Woodhouse
Jim Woodhouse University of Cambridge
Michael A. Stone
Michael A. Stone University of Manchester
James B. Rowe
James B. Rowe University of Cambridge

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