Yost, William A.
Oral history interview with William Yost, 2019 December 2.
In this interview, William Hartmann of the Acoustical Society of American interviews William Yost, Research Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Arizona State University. Yost discusses his graduate work on signal detection at Indiana University, the development of his Fundamentals of Hearing textbook, co-authored with Donald Nielson, and his early research into noise control at the University of Florida. Yost describes his activities with the Acoustical Society of America, his efforts to promote hearing science at NIH and NSF, and the ASAs relationship with the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. The interview concludes with a discussion of Yosts research into modulation detection interference and his move to his current position at Arizona State University.
William Yost received a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Indiana University in 1970, and a BA in Psychology from The Colorado College in 1966. He is currently Research Professor at Arizona State University and has been there since 2007. Prior to that, Yost was on faculty at the University of Florida and Loyola University Chicago. He has published hundreds of reports, articles, and books in areas of hearing science, especially auditory behavioral neuroscience. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), American Speech, Hearing, and Language Association (ASHLA), American Psychological Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Yost, William A.
Acoustical Society of America
Arizona State University
Association for Research in Otolaryngology (U.S.)
Indiana University
National Institute of Health (U. S.).
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
University of Florida
Hearing.
Neurobiology
Psychoacoustics.
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Hartmann, William K. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA