Virginia M. Richards: Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Publications

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• Richards, V. M., (1987). Monaural Envelope Correlation Perception, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 82, 1621-1630.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., (1988). Components of Monaural Envelope Correlation Perception, Hearing Research, 35, 47-58.
  
  
• Hafter, E. R., and Richards, V. M. (1988). Discrimination of the Rate of Filtered Impulses, Perception & Psychophysics, 43, 405-414.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Onsan, Z. A., and Green, D. M.. (1989). Auditory Profile Analysis: Potential Pitch Cues, Hearing Research, 39, 27-36.
  
  
• Green, D. M., Richards, V. M., and Forrest, T. G. (1989). Stimulus Step Size and Heterogeneous Stimulus Conditions in Adaptive Psychophysics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, 629-636.
  
  
• Raney, J. J., Richards, V. M., Onsan, Z. A., and Green, D. M. (1989). Signal Uncertainty and Psychometric Functions in Profile Analysis, J. Acoust Soc. Am., 86, 954-960.
  
  
• Green, D. M., Richards, V. M., and Onsan, Z. A. (1989). Sensitivity to Envelope Coherence, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 87, 323-329.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (1990). The role of Single-Channel Cues in Synchrony Perception: The Summed Waveform, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 88, 786-795.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Heller, L. M., and Green, D. M. (1991). The Detection of a Tone Added to Narrow Bands of Noise: The Energy Model Revisited, Quart. J. Exp. Psy., 43A, 481-501.
  
  
• Mellers, B. M., Richards, V. M., and Birnbaum, M. (1992). Distributional Theories of Impression Formation, Org. Beh. and Hum. Dec. Proc., 51, 313-343.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (1992). The Detectability of a Tone Added to Narrow Bands of Equal- Energy Noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 91, 3424-3435.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Nekrich, R. D. (1993). The Incorporation of Level and Level- Invariant Cues for the Detection of a Tone Added to Noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 94, 2560-2574.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Zhu, S. (1994). Relative Estimates of Combination Weights, Decision Criteria and Internal Noise Based on Correlation Coefficients, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 95, 423-434.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (1994). Experiments Related to the Detection of a Tone Masked by Another Tone, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 95, 3481-3498.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Buss, E. (1996). Frequency Correlation Functions for the Detection of a Tone Added to Modulated Noise Maskers, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99, 1645-1652.
  
  
• Buss, E., and Richards, V. M. (1996). The Effects on Comodulation Masking Release (CMR) of Systematic Variations in On- and Off-Frequency Masker Modulation Pattern, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99, 3109-3118.
  
  
• Buss, E., and Richards, V. M. (1996). CMR and Factors Influencing Grouping: Masker Bands Overlapping in Frequency, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 100, 1897-1900 (L).
  
  
• Lentz, J. J., and Richards, V. M. (1997). Sensitivity to Changes in Overall Level and Spectral Shape: An Evalatuion of the Channel Model, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 101, 3625-3634.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Buss, E., and Tian, L. (1997). Effects of Modulator Phase for Comodulation Masking Release (CMR) and Modulation Detection Interference, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 102, 468-476
  
  
• Keilson, S. E., Richards, V. M., Wyman, B. T., and Young, E. D. (1997). The Representation of Concurrent Vowels in the Cat Anesthetized Ventral Cochlear Nucleus: Evidence for a Periodicity-Tagged Spectral Representation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 102, 1056-1071.
  
  
• Lentz, J. J. and Richards, V. M. (1998). The Effects of Amplitude Perturbation and Increasing Numbers of Components in Profile Analysis. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 103, 535-541.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Buss, E., and Tian, L. (1998). The Effects of Different Envelope Patterns and Uncertainty for the Detection of a Tone Added to SAM Complex Tonal Maskers. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 103, 1058-1066.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Lentz, J. J. (1998). Sensitivity to Changes in Level and Envelope Patterns Across Frequency. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 104, 3019-3029.
  
  
• Lentz, J. J., Richards, V. M., and Matiasek, M. R. (1999). Different Auditory Filter Bandwidth Estimates Based on Profile Analysis, Notched Noise, and Hybird Tasks. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106, 2779-2792.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Zeng, T. (2001). Information Masking in Profile Analysis: Comparing Ideal and Human Observers, J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn, 02, 189-198.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (2002). Effects of a Limited Class of Nonlinearities on Estimates of Relative Weights, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111, 1012-1017.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Tang, Z., and Kidd, G. D. Jr. (2002). Informational Masking with Small Set Sizes, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111, 1399-1366.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (2002). The Detection of a Tone Added to Noise: Effects of Feedback Variation, J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn, 03, 209-221.
  
  
• Tang, Z. and Richards, V. M. (2003). Estimation of a Linear Model in an Informational Masking Study, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 114, 361-367.
  
  
• Kidd, G., Mason, C., and Richards, V. M. (2003). Multiple bursts, Multiple Looks, and Stream Coherence in the Release From Informational Masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 114, 2835-2845
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Neff, D. L. (2004). Cuing Effects for Informational Masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115, 289-300.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Rong, H, and Kidd, G. (2004). Masker First Advantage for Cues in Informational Masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116, 2278-2288.
  
  
• Henning, G. B., Richards, V. M., Lentz, J. J. (2005). The Effect of Diotic and Dichotic Level-randomization on the Binaural Masking-level Difference, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118, 3229-3240
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Moore, B. C. J., and Launer, S. (2006). Potential Benefits of Across-aid Communication for Bilaterally Aided People: Listening in a Car, Int. J. Audiology, 45, 182-189.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. and Tang, Z. (2006). Estimates of Effective Frequency Selectivity Based on the Detection of a Tone Added to Complex Maskers, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 1574-1584
  
  
• Huang, R. and Richards, V. M. (2006). Coherence Detection: Effects of Frequency, Frequency Uncertainty, and Onset/Offset Delays, J. Acoust. Soc. Am 119, 2298-2304
  
  
• Qian, J. and Richards, V. M. (2008). Relative Weights for Frequency Glide Detection Using Narrowband Noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am 123, 2692-2700
  
  
• Huang, R., and Richards, V. M. (2008). Estimates of Internal Templates for the Detection of Sequential Tonal Patterns, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 124, 1831-1840.
  
  
• Kidd, G., Jr., Richards, V. M., Mason, C. R., Gallum, F. J., and Huang, R. (2008). Informational Masking Increases the Costs of Monitoring Multiple Channels, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.-EL, 124, EL223-EL229.
  
  
• Cao, X., Huang, R., and Richards, V. M. (2009). Sequential Effects on the Detectability of a Tone Added to a Multi-Tone Masker, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.-EL, 125, EL20-EL25.
  
  
• Shub, D.E., and Richards, V. M. (2009). Psychophysical Spectro- Temporal Receptive Fields in an Auditory Task, Hearing Research, 251, 1-9
  
  
• Qian, J., and Richards, V. M. (2010). The Effect of Onset Asynchrony on Relative Weights in Profile Analysis, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127, 2461-2465.
  
  
• Heller, L. M., and Richards, V. M. (2010). Binaural Interference in Lateralization Thresholds for Interaural Time and Level Differences, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 128, 310-319.
  
  
• Dai, H., and Richards, V. M. (2011). On the Theoretical Error Bound for Estimating Psychometric Functions, Att. Percept. & Psychophys., 73, 919-926.
  
  
• Lee, T. Y., and Richards, V. M. (2011). Evaluation of Similarity Effects in Informational Masking, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., EL280-EL285.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Shub, D. E. and Carreira, E. M. (2011). The Role of Masker Fringes for the Detection of Coherent Tone Pips, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 130 (2), 883-893.
  
  
• Kidd, G., Richards, V. M., Streeter, T., Mason, C. R., Huang, R., (2011). Contextual Effects in the Identification of Nonspeech Auditory Patterns, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 130 (6), 3926-3938.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., Shen, Y. and Carreira, E. M. (2012). Toward an Objective Measure for a "Stream Segregation" Task, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 131 (1), EL8-EL13.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Richards, V. M. (2012). Spectral Processing of Two Concurrent Harmonic Complexes, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 131 (1), 386- 397.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Richards, V. M. (2012). A Maximum-Likelihood Procedure for Estimating Psychometric Functions: Thresholds, Slopes, and Lapses of Attention, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 132 (2), 957- 967.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Richards, V. M. (2012). Investigating the Auditory Enhancement Phenomenon Using Behavioral Temporal Masking Patterns, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 132 (5), 3363- 3374.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Richards, V. M. (2013). Temporal Modulation Transfer Function for Efficient Assessment of Auditory Temporal Resolution, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 133 (2), 1031-1042.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. Shen, Y. and Chubb, C. (2013). Level Dominance for the Detection of Changes in Level Distribution in Sound Streams, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. EL, 134 (2), EL237-EL243.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Richards, V. M. (2013). Bayesian Adaptive Estimation of the Auditory Filter, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 134 (2), 1134-1145.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Sivakumar, R., and Richards, V. M. (2014). Rapid Estimation of High-Parameter Auditory-Filter, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,136 (4), 1857-1868.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Wai, D.,and Richards, V. M. (2015). A Matlab Toolbox for the Efficient Estimation of the Psychometric Function Using an Updated Maximum-Likelihood Procedure, Beh. Res. Meth, 47 (1), 13-26.
  
  

Book Chapters

• Bernstein, L. B., Richards, V. M., and Green, D. M. (1987). The Detection of Spectral Shape Changes, in Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds, William Yost and Charles Watson eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, pp.6-15.
  
  
• Hafter, E. R., Buell, T. N., and Richards, V. M. (1988) Onset-coding in Lateralization: its Form, Site and Function, in Auditory Function: Neurological Basis of Hearing, G. Edelman, M. Cohen and E.Gall, eds., J. Wiley, New York, pp.647-676.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (1988). Aspects of Monaural Synchrony Detection, in Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Hearing: Basic Issues in Hearing, H. Duifuis, J. W. Horst and H. P. Wit, eds., Academic Press, London, pp. 317-322.
  
  
• Richards, V. M. (1991). The Effect of Level Uncertainty on the Detection of a Tone Added to Narrow Bands of Noise, in Advances in the Biosciences, vol 83: Auditory Physiology and Perception, Y. Cazals, L. Demany and K. Horner, eds., Academic Press, London, pp. 337-343.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Buss, E. (1994). An Evaluation of the Detection of a Tone Added to Modulated Noise Based on Reproducible Noise Samples, in Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Hearing: Advances in Hearing Research, G. A. Manley, G. M. Klump, C. Koppl, H. Fastl, and H. Oeckinghaus, eds., World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 567-575.
  
  
• Carney, L. H., Mason, C. R., Harrison, J. M., Richards, V. M., and Idrobo, F. (1997). A Classically Conditioned Rabbit Preparation for the Study of Binaural Maksing Level Differences, in Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Hearing: Advances in Hearing Research,, A.R. Palmer, A. Rees, Q.A. Summerfield, R. Meddis, eds., Whurr Publishers Ltd., London, pp. 419-425.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Kidd, G. D., Jr. (1999) Audition, in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil, eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, 48-50.

• Kidd, G. D., Jr. Mason, C. R., Richards, V. M. Gallun, F. J., and Durlach, N. I. (2008). Informational Masking, in Auditory Reception of Sound Source, Yost, W. A., Popper, A. N., and Fay, R. R. eds., Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. New York, pp. 143-190

• Richards, V. M., and Kidd, G. D., Jr. (2009). Auditory Masking with Complex Stimuli, in The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th edition, Gazzaniga, M. S., ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, pp.343-352.

Virginia M. Richards
Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
University of California
Social Science Lab
Irvine, CA 92697-5100

949.824.2051  (phone)
v.m.richards at uci.edu