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lutfi, robert

Lutfi, Robert, Ph.D.

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Phone: 813.974.9826
Office: PCD 3021
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Dr. Robert Lutfi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the 最新天美传媒, 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) 最新天美传媒 1977

B.A. (Psychology & Mathematics)
最新天美传媒 1975

Teaching

  • SPA 3030 | Introduction to Hearing Science
  • SPA 4901 | Reseach, Clinical, and Professional Issues in Communication Sciences & Disorders
  • SPA 6805 | Grad Research Procedures in Audiology 

Recent Scholarly Activity

  • Lutfi R.A, Rodriguez B, Lee J, Pastore T.(2020) 鈥淎 test of model classes accounting for individual differences in the cocktail-party effect.鈥 J Acoust Soc Am. Dec;148(6):4014. doi: 10.1121/10.0002961. PMID: 33379927; PMCID: PMC7775115.
  • Rodriguez B, Lee J, Lutfi R. Additivity of segregation cues in simulated cocktail-party listening. J Acoust Soc Am. 2021 Jan;149(1):82. doi: 10.1121/10.0002991. PMID: 33514184; PMCID: PMC7787694.
  • Lutfi R.A, Rodriguez B., and Lee, J. (2021). 鈥淭he listener effect in multitalker speech segregation and talker identification,鈥 Trends in Hearing 25, 1-11. DOI: 10.1177/23312165211051886.
  • Lutfi, R.A., and Brown, C. (2022). 鈥淲illiam A. Yost and the Perception of Sound Sources,鈥 Acoustics Today, Spring issue. Vol. 18, Issue 1, 41-48. Invited chapter.
  • Lutfi, R.A., Pastore, T., Rodriguez, B., Lee, J. and Yost, W.A. (2022). 鈥淢olecular analysis of individual differences in talker search at the cocktail party,鈥. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152 (3), 1804-1813,  doi: 10.1121/10.0014116
  • Lutfi, R.A. (2023). 鈥淭he ideal observer, The forgotten second half of detection theory,鈥  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 153, issue 3_supplement, pp. A116-A116