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Department of Psychology

Biography

Brian Moore is Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. His research interests are: the perception of sound; mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual; design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment; perception of music and of musical instruments. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (U.K.), the British Society of Audiology, The American Auditory Society, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.  He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK). He has written or edited 19 books and over 700 scientific papers and book chapters. He is an associate editor of the journal Hearing Research. He has been awarded the Littler Prize and the Littler Lecture of the British Society of Audiology, the Silver and Gold medals of the Acoustical Society of America, the first International Award in Hearing from the American Academy of Audiology, the Award of Merit from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, and the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement from Northwestern University. In 2015 he received a Doctorate "Honoris Causa" from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He is wine steward of Wolfson College, Cambridge. 

Research

Mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; fitting of hearing aids to suit the individual; electrical stimulation as a means of restoring hearing to the totally deaf; design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment; development of models of auditory perception, especially loudness perception.

Publications

Key publications: 

Moore, B. C. J. (2012). An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 6th Ed. (Emerald, Bingley, UK), pp. 1-441.
Moore, B. C. J., Füllgrabe, C., and Stone, M. A. (2010). "Effect of spatial separation, extended bandwidth, and compression speed on intelligibility in a competing-speech task," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 360-371.
Moore, B. C. J. (2008). "The role of temporal fine structure processing in pitch perception, masking, and speech perception for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired people," J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 9, 399-406.

 

 
Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception

Contact Details

Classifications: 
Person keywords: 
mechanisms of normal and impaired hearing
hearing aids
hearing
audiology
hearing loss
psychoacoustics
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