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55
Citations
12463
World Ranking
2018
National Ranking
970

Overview

Richard Wright is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the intersection of computer science and cognitive neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on speech and audio processing.

The scientist's main fields of study include Computer Science with an emphasis on subfields such as Signal Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas, notably:

  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Richard Wright has contributed numerous papers to prominent publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Proceedings of meetings on acoustics
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • British Journal of Sociology

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • Attachment and the (mis)apprehension of Aboriginal children: epistemic violence in child welfare interventions, 2024, Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • Contributions to Speech-Cue Weighting in Older Adults With Impaired Hearing, 2020, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Does the Speech Cue Profile Affect Response to Amplitude Envelope Distortion?, 2021, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Introduction to the special issue on the phonetics of under-documented languages, 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Reconsidering commonly used stimuli in speech perception experiments, 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent collaborators in their research include Benjamin V. Tucker, Marina Oganyan, Pamela E. Souza, Frederick J. Gallun, and Volkan Topalli. These coauthors have appeared repeatedly in Wright's work across various projects and publications.

Best Publications

  • Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins

    Richard T. Wright;Scott H. Decker;Gilbert Geis

  • Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture

    Richard T. Wright;Scott H. Decker;Neal Shover

  • Burglars on Burglary: Prevention and the Offender

    Trevor Bennett;Richard Wright

  • The Hyperspace Effect: Phonetic Targets Are Hyperarticulated.

    Keith Johnson;Edward Flemming;Richard Wright

  • Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld

    Bruce A. Jacobs;Richard Wright

  • DRUG DEALERS, ROBBERY AND RETALIATION Vulnerability, Deterrence and the Contagion of Violence

    Volkan Topalli;Richard Wright;Robert Fornango

  • Perceptual deterrence among active residential burglars: A research note.

    S Decker;R Wright;R Logie

  • The color curtain : a report on the Bandung Conference

    Richard Wright

  • A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars

    Richard Wright;Scott H. Decker;Allison K. Redfern;Dietrich L. Smith

  • The phonetics of phonological speech errors: An acoustic analysis of slips of the tongue

    Stefan A. Frisch;Richard Wright

  • The God that Failed

    Richard Crossman;Andre Gide;Richard Wright;Ignazio Silone

  • Test-Retest Reliability of Cortical Evoked Potentials Using Naturally Produced Speech Sounds

    K. L. Tremblay;L. Friesen;B. A. Martin;R. Wright

  • Is Structured Observation a Valid Technique to Measure Handwashing Behavior? Use of Acceleration Sensors Embedded in Soap to Assess Reactivity to Structured Observation

    Pavani K. Ram;Amal K. Halder;Stewart P. Granger;Therese Jones

  • GENDER, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY*

    Christopher W. Mullins;Richard Wright

  • THE RELEVANCE OF PEACE TO STUDIES OF DRUG MARKET VIOLENCE

    Scott Jacques;Roosevelt Wright

  • The effect of a soap promotion and hygiene education campaign on handwashing behaviour in rural India: a cluster randomised trial

    Adam Biran;Wolf Peter Schmidt;Richard Wright;Therese Jones

  • Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

    Richard Nathaniel Wright

  • LESS CASH, LESS CRIME: EVIDENCE FROM THE ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER PROGRAM

    Richard Wright;Erdal Tekin;Volkan Topalli;Chandler McClellan

  • Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size

    Steven Moran;Daniel Robert McCloy;Richard A. Wright

  • Blueprint for Negro writing

    Richard Wright;Marcosarruda

  • The Vocal Joystick: A Voice-Based Human-Computer Interface for Individuals with Motor Impairments

    Jeff A. Bilmes;Xiao Li;Jonathan Malkin;Kelley Kilanski

  • Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos

    Richard Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University
Robert H. Logie
Robert H. Logie University of Edinburgh
Howard Jay Chizeck
Howard Jay Chizeck University of Washington
Bruce McClure
Bruce McClure University of Missouri
Patricia K. Kuhl
Patricia K. Kuhl University of Washington
Eric P. Baumer
Eric P. Baumer Pennsylvania State University
Peter Ladefoged
Peter Ladefoged University of California, Los Angeles

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