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Overview

Gerald Kidd is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has significant contributions in the field of neuroscience, particularly focusing on cognitive neuroscience and hearing-related research. Their work encompasses various aspects of auditory processing, speech perception, and neural dynamics.

Their research spans several key topics including:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Gerald Kidd's publication record includes work in both broad and specialized areas such as speech and hearing, signal processing, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sensory systems. Their primary field of study is neuroscience with a subfocus on cognitive neuroscience and speech and hearing.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Gerald Kidd are:

  • "Musical training does not enhance neural sound encoding at early stages of the auditory system: A large-scale multisite investigation" (2024), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Speech intelligibility and talker gender classification with noise-vocoded and tone-vocoded speech" (2021), published in JASA Express Letters
  • "Can background noise increase the informational masking in a speech mixture?" (2020), published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Examining the sentence superiority effect for sentences presented and reported in forwards or backwards order" (2020), published in Applied Psycholinguistics
  • "Benefits of triple acoustic beamforming during speech-on-speech masking and sound localization for bilateral cochlear-implant users" (2021), published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The venues where Gerald Kidd frequently publishes include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (25 publications)
  • Trends in Hearing (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)
  • JASA Express Letters (2 publications)
  • Proceedings of meetings on acoustics (2 publications)

Their frequent collaborators reflect their interdisciplinary involvement, including:

  • Christopher Conroy (13 joint publications)
  • Andrew J. Byrne (9 joint publications)
  • Elin Roverud (8 joint publications)
  • Virginia Best (8 joint publications)
  • Tyler K. Perrachione (7 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Note on informational masking (L)

    Nathaniel I. Durlach;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd;Tanya L. Arbogast

  • The effect of spatial separation on informational and energetic masking of speech.

    Tanya L. Arbogast;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd

  • The advantage of knowing where to listen

    Gerald Kidd;Tanya L. Arbogast;Christine R. Mason;Frederick J. Gallun

  • Reducing informational masking by sound segregation

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Phalguni S. Deliwala;William S. Woods

  • Release from masking due to spatial separation of sources in the identification of nonspeech auditory patterns

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Tanya L. Rohtla;Phalguni S. Deliwala

  • Informational masking: Counteracting the effects of stimulus uncertainty by decreasing target-masker similarity

    Nathaniel I. Durlach;Christine R. Mason;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham;Tanya L. Arbogast

  • The effect of spatial separation on informational masking of speech in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.

    Tanya L. Arbogast;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd

  • The effects of hearing loss and age on the benefit of spatial separation between multiple talkers in reverberant rooms.

    Nicole Marrone;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd

  • Tuning in the spatial dimension: Evidence from a masked speech identification task

    Nicole Marrone;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd

  • Informational masking and musical training

    Andrew J. Oxenham;Brian J. Fligor;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd

  • Musical training, individual differences and the cocktail party problem

    Jayaganesh Swaminathan;Christine R. Mason;Timothy M. Streeter;Virginia Best

  • Executive Function, Visual Attention and the Cocktail Party Problem in Musicians and Non-Musicians

    Kameron K. Clayton;Jayaganesh Swaminathan;Arash Yazdanbakhsh;Jennifer Zuk

  • Listening to every other word: examining the strength of linkage variables in forming streams of speech.

    Gerald Kidd;Virginia Best;Christine R. Mason

  • The role of reverberation in release from masking due to spatial separation of sources for speech identification

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Andrew Brughera;William M. Hartmann

  • Similarity, uncertainty, and masking in the identification of nonspeech auditory patterns.

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Tanya L. Arbogast

  • Determining the energetic and informational components of speech-on-speech masking

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Jayaganesh Swaminathan;Elin Roverud

  • Stimulus factors influencing spatial release from speech-on-speech masking

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Virginia Best;Nicole Marrone

  • Combining energetic and informational masking for speech identification

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Frederick J. Gallun

  • Successive versus simultaneous comparison in auditory intensity discrimination.

    David M. Green;Gerald Kidd;Maria C. Picardi

  • The perceptual consequences of binaural hearing

    H. Steven Colburn;Barbara Shinn-Cunningham;Gerald Kidd;Nat Durlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine R. Mason
Christine R. Mason Boston University
David M. Green
David M. Green University of Florida
H. Steven Colburn
H. Steven Colburn Boston University
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Carnegie Mellon University
Aniruddh D. Patel
Aniruddh D. Patel Tufts University
William M. Hartmann
William M. Hartmann Michigan State University
William A. Yost
William A. Yost Arizona State University
Richard M. Warren
Richard M. Warren University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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