United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research

Frederick (Erick) J. Gallun , PhD

E-mail: Frederick.Gallun@va.gov
Phone: 503-220-8262 ext. 57472
Fax: 503-721-1402

Frederick (Erick) J. Gallun , PhD

Current Appointments
Staff Investigator
Assistant Professor, Dept. Otolaryngology, Oregon Health and Sciences University

Research Interests
The ability of listeners to attend to multiple dimensions either in audition or simultaneously in audition and in vision; increment detection and amplitude modulation; informational masking and the difficulty that hearing-impaired people have in real-world listening situations that involve multiple sound sources; cognitive topics such as dichotic listening, divided auditory attention, and short-term memory; the impact of hearing loss and aging on attention and memory for the location, pitch and intensity of target sounds in the presence of interfering sounds.

Research Project
"The ability to make multiple auditory judgments about non-speech stimuli"
National Institutes of Health, NIDCD, R03 2007-2010

“Modeling auditory integration in people with impaired hearing”
VA RR&D Career Development II Award 2007-2011.

Selected Recent Publications
Gallun, F. J., Mason, C.R. and Kidd, G., Jr. (2007) “Task-dependent costs in processing two simultaneous auditory stimuli” Percept. Psych. 69(5), 757-771.

Durlach, N.I. and Gallun, F.J. (2007) “Theory construction in auditory perception: Need for development of teaching materials” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112(2), 1014-1016.

Gallun, F. J., Mason, C.R. and Kidd, G., Jr. (2007) “The ability to listen with independent ears” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 2814-2825

Best, V., Gallun, F. J., Carlile, S. and Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2007). “Binaural interference and auditory grouping” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(2), 1070-1076.

Kidd, G., Jr., Mason, C. R., Richards, V. M., Gallun, F. J., Durlach, N. I. (2007) “Informational Masking” In Yost, W. (Ed.) Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 29: Auditory Perception of Sound Sources. New York: Springer, pp. 143-190.

Best, V., Gallun, F. J., Ihlefeld, A., and Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2006)."The influence of spatial separation on divided listening" J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,120(3), 1506-1516. (link to Page 3avG Gallun 2006)

Gallun, F. J. and Hafter, E. R. (2006) "Amplitude modulation as a mechanism for increment detection" J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119(6), 3919-3930. (link to Page 3avH Gallun & Hafter 2006)

Plack, C. J, Gallun, F. J., Hafter, E. R., Raimond, A. (2006) "The detection of increments and decrements is not facilitated by abrupt onsets or offsets" J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119(6), 3950-3959

Selected Recent Presentations
Gallun, F. J. (2007) “On the limits of selective and divided auditory attention”, Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of CSAIL.

Gallun, F.J. (2007) “Hearing Loss and Informational Masking”, Aging and Speech Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Gallun, F. J. (2006) "Auditory attention: One term for several concepts?" J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119: 3415

Gallun, F. J., Mason, C. R. and Kidd, G., Jr. (2006) "Informational masking: Effects of similarity and uncertainty for detection of a high-frequency amplitude-modulated tone" J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119: 3236

Gallun, F. J., Mason, C. R. and Kidd, G., Jr. (2006) "Contralateral Masking of Narrow Bands of Speech" Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abs.: 558.

For additional information on research, presentations and publications see: Complete CV