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Lutfi, Robert, Ph.D.

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Dr. Robert Lutfi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the 51在线, formally Professor of Audiology at the University of Wisconsin 鈥� Madison. His research focuses on human auditory perception. He is particularly interested in how one's ability to detect and recognize complex sounds in noise is affected by both lawful and random variation in sound, as occurs in nature. He has published on a wide range of topics on human auditory perception, including humanauditory frequency analysis, human auditory pattern analysis, computational models of auditory masking, the perception of auditory motion, sound source identification, the auditory abilities of children and the problem of listening in noise for the hard-of-hearing. His research programs have been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Deafness Research Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a member of the Nation鈥檚 Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group, Natl. Acad. Sci., and a former member of the Laboratory Assessments Board, Natl. Acad. Sci.

Education

Post Doctoral Fellowship (Psychoacoustics)	Northwestern University	1983
Post Doctoral Fellowship (Psychoacoustics)	Cambridge University, England	1980
Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology)	Loyola University of Chicago	1980
M.A. (Experimental Psychology)	51在线	1977
B.A. (Psychology & Mathematics)	51在线	1975