Professor William Noble
Professor, School of Psychology
Qualifications
PhD (University of Manchester), MA (University of Manchester), BAHons (University of Machester)
Contact
| Email: | wnoble@une.edu.au |
| Room: | S5-6 Room 7 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2528 (or +61 2 6773 2528 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3820 |
Areas of Teaching
PSYC 316 Perception and Perceptual Impairment (Co-ordinator)
PSYC 401H Reading course: Psychosocial Effects of Hearing Disorder (Co-ordinator & Presenter)
Research interests
My major research interests are in psychosocial effects of hearing impairment and tinnitus and methods of assessment that bear on those problems. I am also very much interested in auditory spatial perception (sound localisation) and the effects of impaired hearing on this and related auditory functions.
A second research interest, stemming from an interest in communication and its relation to perception, is the evolution of human communicative behaviour. With Iain Davidson I have written Human Evolution, Language, and Mind (Cambridge University Press).
Representative Publications
Noble, W., & Perrett, S. (2002) Hearing speech against spatially separate competing speech versus competing noise. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1325-1336.
Noble, W. (2000). Self-reports about tinnitus and about cochlear implants. Ear & Hearing, 21, 50S-59S.
Gatehouse, S., & Noble, W. The Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ). International Journal of Audiology (in press).
Noble, W., & Gatehouse, S. Interaural asymmetry of hearing loss, SSQ disabilities, and handicap. International Journal of Audiology (in press).
Byrne, D., Sinclair, S., & Noble, W. (1998). Open earmoulds for improving aided auditory localization for sensorineural hearing losses with good high-frequency hearing. Ear & Hearing, 19, 62-71.
Noble, W., Byrne, D., & Ter-Horst, K. (1997). Auditory localization, detection of spatial separateness, and speech hearing in noise by hearing impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 2343-2352.
Perrett, S., & Noble, W. (1997). The effect of head rotations on vertical plane sound localization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102, 2325-2332
Web Documents (Download)
Good Practice Guidance for Adult Hearing Aid Fittings and Services (PDF 129 Kb)