Dan C. Halling, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Audiology Coordinator

Office: HHS 1141
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.

Publications (last five years)

Halling, D.C., and Humes, L.E. (2000). Factors Affecting the Recognition of Reverberant Speech by Elderly Listeners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43, 414-431.

National and International Conference Presentations (last five years)

Channell, A. I. 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, Lexington, Virginia.