Research output per year
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Professor
United Kingdom
Hearing is the process by which we perceive objects and events in the world from the sounds that they produce. Since it is rare for only one source of sound to be active at any one time, the auditory system must be able to group together those acoustic elements that come from one source and to segregate those that come from other sources. Without a solution to this “scene analysis” problem, our perceptions of sound would not correspond to the events that produced them. Research in the auditory perception laboratory at Aston employs a variety of psychophysical techniques to investigate the cues used by the human auditory system for perceptual grouping and scene analysis. Particular interests are the perceptual organization of speech, the role of harmonic relations and other kinds of spectral pattern in the perceptual organization of concurrent acoustic elements, and the acoustic properties that determine the perceptual streaming of sequences of sounds. Also of interest are: the neural bases of auditory grouping phenomena; how the effects of wideband inhibition may produce patterns of behaviour confusable with those produced by more cognitive grouping mechanisms; auditory streaming in cochlear implant listeners; and the categorization and identification of sounds.
1980 - 1983 University of Cambridge
BA Natural Sciences (Physiology & Psychology): First Class
1983 - 1984 University of Cambridge
PGCE Biology: Distinction
1987 University of Cambridge
MA N/A
1984 - 1988 University of Cambridge
PhD Experimental Psychology (Auditory Perception). Conferred 1989.
Professor, Aston University 2005, January
Reader, University of Birmingham 2001, October
Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham 1999, October
Lecturer, University of Birmingham 1993, January
Research Fellow, University of York 1990, January
Research Fellow, McGill University, Montreal 1988, October
Macquarie University, Sydney, 2019
Title: Research project on the effects of sudden change on auditory stream segregation.
Detail: Project exploring the effects of sudden changes in stimulus properties (modulation rate and interaural time differences) on the auditory stream segregation of sound sequences. Collaboration with Dr. Nick Haywood, postdoctoral researcher at The Australian Hearing Hub. Anticipated outputs = two papers.
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Roberts, B. (Creator) & Haywood, N. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 29 Jun 2023
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000601, https://researchdata.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/601/
Dataset
Roberts, B. (Creator) & Summers, R. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 27 Oct 2021
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000525
Dataset
Summers, R. (Creator) & Roberts, B. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 29 Jan 2020
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000459, https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0000688
Dataset
Roberts, B. (Creator) & Summers, R. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 14 Feb 2019
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000396, https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.5091443
Dataset
Roberts, B. (Creator) & Summers, R. (Creator), Aston Data Explorer, 20 Dec 2017
DOI: 10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000309, https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.5023476
Dataset
Roberts, B. (Recipient), Oct 2009
Prize: Election to learned society
Roberts, B. (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution