Virginia M. Richards: Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Group Participation
Graduate Group member in Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.

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. (in press). Relative weights for frequency glide detection using narrowband noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am 119, 2298-2304
  
  

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. 615.
  
  
• 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 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Hearing: Advances in Hearing Research, in press.
  
  
• Richards, V. M., and Kidd, G. D., Jr. (1999) Audition, The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil, eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, 48-50.

Virginia M. Richards
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut St. 316C
Philadelphia, PA, 19104

215.898.0223  (phone)
richards at psych.upenn.edu