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Dan C. Halling, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Audiology Coordinator

Office: HHS 1129
Phone: 568-3874
Email: hallindc@jmu.edu

Research and Teaching Areas

  • Speech Understanding Problems in the Elderly
  • Industrial Noise Monitoring and Annoyance
  • The Role of High Frequency Hearing on Speech Understanding

Research Laboratory

Psychoacoustic Research Laboratory

Current and Ongoing Research Projects

  • Noise and Annoyance
  • Industrial Hearing Conservation
  • Elderly speech understanding. Exploring the role of hearing and aging upon temporal resolution, and the combined effect of hearing loss, aging, and temporal resolution upon speech understanding.
  • Comparison of methods of measuring temporal resolution: gap detection, modulation detection, and modulation preservation.
  • The effect of talker familiarity on the intelligibility of spoken sentences in young and elderly, normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.
  • Temporal resolution and speech perception in young and elderly listeners. Hearing aids, acoustical indices and predicting speech understanding from peripheral auditory measures.

National and International Conference Presentations (last five years)

Ferraro, J., Ackley, S., Halling, D., Griffiths, S., and Nunez, L. (November 2008).  Innovative Models of PhD Education Facilitate AuD to PhD Education.  National Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

Snover, S., Baran, J., Halling, D., and Scudder, R. (November 2008).  Enhancing Skills as a Site Visitor.  National Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

Ernst, W., Evans, S., Gray, L., Halling, D., Reed, V., and Schulte, T. (2007).  Distractibility among College Students.  2007 Mosier Lecture, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Rout, A., Hanline, L., and Halling, D. (June, 2007). New stimuli for evaluation of multichannel noise reduction hearing aids. European Federation of Audiological Societies joint meeting with 10th Congress of the German Audiologic Society, Heidelberg, Germany.

Ruth, R.A., Schenkein, T., and Halling, D. (April, 2007)  The P300 Response to JNDs in Intensity and Duration.  National Meeting of American Academy of Audiology, Denver.             

Rout, A., Hanline, L., and Halling, D. (April, 2007). Novel stimuli for electroacoustic evaluation of multichannel noise reduction hearing aids. Annual Convention of the American Academy of Audiology, Denver, CO.

Rout, A., Hanline, L., and Halling, D. (March, 2007). A comparative electroacoustic evaluation of digital noise reduction in hearing aids. Annual Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ.

Delaney, K., Halling, D., and Hinkle, R.  (2005).  The Effects of Amplification of Vowel Transitions on Consonant Perception.  Technical Paper presented at annual meeting of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, November.

Channell, A. and Halling, D.C. (2005).  The Role of Contextual Information on Performance-Compression and Performance-Expansion Functions. Poster presented at National Conference for Undergraduate Research.

Halling, D.C. (2004).  Age vs Hearing Loss: Talker Familiarity and Speech Intelligibility.  Poster presented at CISAT Faculty Research Day, 2004.

Halling, D.C. (2004).  Cochlear Dead Regions: Bogus or Bonafide.  Innovations in Clinical Communication Sciences Conference.