Roy Patterson#
| Membership Number: | 4016 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - 2015 Professor of Psychology (part time), University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
- 1997 - 2015 Head of Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing in PDN, Cambridge University, Cambridge
- 1997 - 2015 Academic Staff, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University
- 1975 - 1997 Research Scientist, Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK
- 1971 - 1974 Research Scientist, Defense and Civil Institute for Environmental Medicine (DCIEM) Toronto, Canada
- 1967 - 1971 Teaching assistant during graduate education at University of California, San Diego
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational models of human pitch perception
- Computational models of auditory filtering
- Behavioural method for measuring auditory filter shape
- The role of temporal integration in auditory perception
- The representation of environmental sound in the auditory system
- Scale invariance in the auditory images of speech sounds
- Auditory warnings for noisy environments associated with planes, trains, fire engines, etc.
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2015 Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America for research in pitch and timbre
- 1987 Member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology for regular presentation of research
- 1984 Member of the British Society of Audiology for regular presentation of research
- 1982 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for research into auditory filtering in humans
- 1980 Member of the Experimental Psychology Society for regular presentation of research
