BIOGRAPHY

She studied Psychology as an undergraduate, and followed on with her Masters and PhD in Experimental Psychology. After a two-year post-doctoral position at the University of Minnesota, and a four-year appointment as a scientist at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham, she had her first teaching appointment at the University of Nottingham. She has been working in the Psychology Department here at Essex since it began in September, 1992, and is currently actively researching the area of complex sound perception in normal-hearing adults. CV is also available.

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

The overriding interest is in the processing of complex sounds by normal-hearing listeners. Specific interests include context effects on loudness perception, the processing of dynamically modulating sounds, and perceptual organization.

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Carlyon, R.P., Plack, C.J., Fantini, D.A., and Cusack, R. (2003). Cross-modal and non-sensory influences on auditory streaming, Perception 32, 1393-1402.

Meddis, R., Delahaye, R., O'Mard, L., Sumner, C, Fantini, D.A., Winter, I., and Pressnitzer, D. (2002). A model of signal processing in the cochlear nucleus: Comodulation masking release, Acustica 88, 387-398.

Delahaye, R., Meddis, R., and Fantini, D.A. (2001). A model of a brainstem circuit that might be involved in comodulation masking release," in Physiological and Psychological Bases of Auditory Function, edited by D.J. Breebaart, A.J.M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V.F. Prijs, and R. Schoonhoven, 252-257.

Delahaye, R., Fantini, D.A., and Meddis, R. (2001). Effects of flanking component spectral position and modulation pattern on thresholds for signals presented in the peaks of a modulated tonal masker, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 426 - 429.