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Michael Akeroyd

Professor of Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

I am Professor of Hearing Sciences at the 糖心原创. I did my PhD at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, then postdocs at MRC IHR Nottingham, University of Connecticut Health Centre, and the University of Sussex before joining the Scottish Section of MRC /CSO Institute of Hearing Research, Glasgow in 2002 as a Programme Leader Track. I became the Section Director in Glasgow in 2008 then overall Director of MRC IHR from 2015 to its closure in 2018. I am presently Academic Head of Hearing Sciences at UoN and Deputy Director of Research for the School of Medicine.

My research concentrates on on topics of spatial hearing, auditory impairment and disability, hearing aids, and quality of life using psychophysics, speech and questionnaires. I currently hold MRC and EPSRC funding.

I was awarded the 2013 Thomas Simm Littler Prize of the British Society of Audiology, am a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and past President of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology. In 2021 I was an Output Assessor for Unit-of-Assessment #3 of the UK "REF".

Expertise Summary

Auditory perception; spatial hearing; auditory impairment and disability; hearing aids; hearing-related quality of life ;psychophysics; psychoacoustics; speech perception; questionnaires

Research Summary

About one in six UK adults has an auditory disability, rising to one in two over 75. IHR is as an interdisciplinary research institute, conducting experimental research on hearing impairment in… read more

Recent Publications

  • BAUER, RALF, ZHANG, YANSHENG, JACKSON, JOSEPH C., WHITMER, WILLIAM M., BRIMIJOIN, W. OWEN, AKEROYD, MICHAEL A., UTTAMCHANDANI, DEEPAK and WINDMILL, JAMES F. C., 2017. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL. 17(17), 5529-5536
  • VAS V, AKEROYD M and HALL DA, 2017. Trends in Hearing. 21, 1-25
  • HENDRY J, CHIN A, SWAN IR, AKEROYD MA and BROWNING GG, 2016. Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery. 41(3), 259-75
  • MCSHEFFERTY D, WHITMER WM and AKEROYD MA, 2016. Trends in hearing. 20,

Current Research

About one in six UK adults has an auditory disability, rising to one in two over 75. IHR is as an interdisciplinary research institute, conducting experimental research on hearing impairment in adults and children underpinned by basic science into the brain mechanisms of hearing. We conduct auditory science of the highest quality, continually championing the most exciting, innovative research, hoping to discover new phenomena and to further their explanations, while also developing innovative new methods and interventions. The questions motivating IHR's scientific research are the scientific "Grand Challenges" in hearing: to solve, for adults and children with (or without) hearing losses the questions of "What do they hear of the world?", "What do they miss?", "What can be done about it?", and, underpinning all these, "How do we hear?".

My programme is concerned with the problem of generating accurate perceptions of auditory space. This is , overall, akin to solving a three-dimensional jigsaw of multiple overlapping sounds, time delays, and power differences. Somehow our perceptual systems seamlessly and apparently effortlessly solves the puzzle of putting all the pieces together properly. We will use cutting-edge auditory experiments to answer two key questions. First, how does the auditory system join the multiple cues to location in complex, dynamic, multi-sound, audio-visual listening situations? Second, how does hearing impairment and aided listening affect this? We expect that the insights gained in this programme will help us to understand better how spatial hearing works in real, everyday listening, and will help inform how future hearing aids might be designed to improve spatial hearing

  • BAUER, RALF, ZHANG, YANSHENG, JACKSON, JOSEPH C., WHITMER, WILLIAM M., BRIMIJOIN, W. OWEN, AKEROYD, MICHAEL A., UTTAMCHANDANI, DEEPAK and WINDMILL, JAMES F. C., 2017. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL. 17(17), 5529-5536
  • VAS V, AKEROYD M and HALL DA, 2017. Trends in Hearing. 21, 1-25
  • HENDRY J, CHIN A, SWAN IR, AKEROYD MA and BROWNING GG, 2016. Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery. 41(3), 259-75
  • MCSHEFFERTY D, WHITMER WM and AKEROYD MA, 2016. Trends in hearing. 20,
  • WHITMER WM, MCSHEFFERTY D and AKEROYD MA, 2016. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 894, 447-55
  • KOLLMEIER B, AKEROYD MA, ARLINGER S, BENTLE RA, BOOTHROYD A, DILLIER N, DRESCHLER WA, GAGN脡 JP, LUTMAN ME, WOUTERS J and WONG L, 2016. Reply to the Comment on 'International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the constructor of multilingual speech test by Akeroyd et al' by Cas Smits. International journal of audiology. 55(4), 269-71
  • VAS V, AKEROYD MA and HALL DA, 2016. BMJ open. 6(9), e011463
  • MOORE DR, ZOBAY O, MACKINNON RC, WHITMER WM and AKEROYD MA, 2016. Hearing research.
  • FREEMAN TC, CULLING JF, AKEROYD MA and BRIMIJOIN WO, 2016. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. (In Press.)
  • AKEROYD, MICHAEL A. and WHITMER, WILLIAM M., 2016. HEARING AIDS. 56, 181-215
  • WHITMER, WILLIAM M., WRIGHT-WHYTE, KAY F., HOLMAN, JACK A. and AKEROYD, MICHAEL A., 2016. HEARING AIDS. 56, 291-321
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO and AKEROYD, MA, 2015. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137, 2204
  • MCSHEFFERTY D, WHITMER WM and AKEROYD MA, 2015. Trends in hearing. 19,
  • AKEROYD MA, ARLINGER S, BENTLER RA, BOOTHROYD A, DILLIER N, DRESCHLER WA, GAGN脡 JP, LUTMAN M, WOUTERS J, WONG L and KOLLMEIER B, 2015. International journal of audiology. 54 Suppl 2, 17-22
  • JENKINS A, WILKINSON JV, AKEROYD MA and BROOM MA, 2015. Anaesthesia. 70(5), 543-8
  • HOARE DJ, EDMONDSON-JONES M, SEREDA M, AKEROYD MA and HALL D, 2014. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 1, CD010151
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2014. Trends in Hearing. 18,
  • AKEROYD, MA, FOREMAN, K and HOLMAN, JA, 2014. International Journal of Audiology. 53(1), 60-1
  • AKEROYD, MA, GUY, FH, HARRISON, DL and SULLER, SL, 2014. International Journal of Audiology. 53(2), 101-14
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO and AKEROYD, MA, 2014. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8,
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO, WHITMER, WM, MCSHEFFERTY, D and AKEROYD, MA, 2014. Ear and Hearing. 35(5), e204-12
  • MACPHERSON, A and AKEROYD, MA, 2014. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 135(3), 1027-30
  • MACPHERSON, A and AKEROYD, MA, 2014. Trends in Amplification. 18,
  • WHITMER, WM, HOWELL, P and AKEROYD, MA, 2014. International Journal of Audiology. 53(5), 345-51
  • WHITMER, WM, SEEBER, BU and AKEROYD, MA, 2014. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 135(6), 3548
  • BOYD, AW, WHITMER, WM, BRIMIJOIN, WO and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America). 19, 030046
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO, BOYD, AW and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. PloS One. 8(12), e83068
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO, AKEROYD, MA, TILBURY, E and PORR, B, 2013. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 133(2), EL118-22
  • MACPHERSON, A and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America). 19, 050068
  • HOARE, DJ, EDMONDSON-JONES, M, SEREDA, M, AKEROYD, MA and HALL, DA, 2013. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD010151
  • MCSHEFFERTY, D, WHITMER, WM, SWAN, IR and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. BMJ open. 3(4),
  • NOBLE, W, JENSEN, NS, NAYLOR, G, BHULLAR, N and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. International Journal of Audiology. 52(6), 409-12
  • SYED, MI, SULLER, S, BROWNING, GG and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. Clinical Otolaryngology. 38(4), 322-3
  • WHITMER, WM, MCSHEFFERTY, D and AKEROYD, MA, 2013. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America). 19, 015109
  • WHITMER, WM, SEEBER, BU and AKEROYD, MA., 2013. Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception. 303-310
  • HOARE, DJ, EDMONDSON-JONES, M, SEREDA, M, AKEROYD, MA and HALL, D, 2012. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
  • AKEROYD, MA, BRENNAN-JONES, CG and SULLER, SL, 2012. Clinical Otolaryngology. 37(1), 77
  • BOYD, AW, WHITMER, WM, SORAGHAN, JJ and AKEROYD, MA, 2012. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 131(3), EL268-74
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO and AKEROYD, MA, 2012. i-Perception. 3(3), 179-82
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO, MCSHEFFERTY, D and AKEROYD, MA, 2012. Hearing research. 283(1-2), 162-8
  • NOBLE, W, NAYLOR, G, BHULLAR, N and AKEROYD, MA, 2012. International Journal of Audiology. 51(3), 174-80
  • SWAN, IRC, GUY, F and AKEROYD, MA, 2012. Clinical Otolaryngology. 37, 35-43
  • WHITMER, WM, SEEBER, BU and AKEROYD, MA, 2012. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 132(1), 369-79
  • AKEROYD, MA and GUY, FH, 2011. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130(1), 312-23
  • AKEROYD, MA and WHITMER, WM, 2011. Spatial hearing and hearing aids: ENT and Audiology News ENT and Audiology News. 20, 76-78
  • WHITMER, WM and AKEROYD, MA, 2011. Ear and Hearing. 32(3), 391-8
  • WHITMER, WM, BRENNAN-JONES, CG and AKEROYD, MA, 2011. International Journal of Audiology. 50(12), 905-11
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2010. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 127(1), 9-12
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2010. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128(6), 3301-4
  • AKEROYD, MA and GUY, FH, 2010. The precedence effect for speech and hearing impairment: Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing: 2nd ISAAR conference Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing: 2nd ISAAR conference.
  • BRIMIJOIN, WO, MCSHEFFERTY, D and AKEROYD, MA, 2010. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 127(6), 3678-88
  • CULLING, JC and AKEROYD, MA, 2010. Spatial Hearing: Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science, Vol. III. Hearing Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science, Vol. III. Hearing.
  • SYED, MI, SULLER, S, BROWNING, G and AKEROYD, MA, 2010. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010. Issue 5, Art. No.: CD008512
  • WOODFIELD, A and AKEROYD, MA, 2010. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128(1), EL26-31
  • HALL D.A., CHAMBERS J., FOSTER J.R, AKEROYD M.A., COXON R. and PALMER A.R., 2009. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(1), 347鈥�359
  • AGUS, TR, AKEROYD, MA, GATEHOUSE, S and WARDEN, D, 2009. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 126(4), 1926-40
  • AGUS, TR, AKEROYD, MA, NOBLE, W and BHULLAR, N, 2009. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(1), 23-6
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2009. Sound stimulus: Encyclopedia of Perception Encyclopedia of Perception.
  • HALL, DA, CHAMBERS, J, AKEROYD, MA, FOSTER, JR, COXON, R and PALMER, AR, 2009. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(1), 347-59
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2008. Trends in Amplification. 12(2), 67-75
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2008. International Journal of Audiology. 47 Suppl 2, S53-71
  • GATEHOUSE, S and AKEROYD, MA, 2008. Trends in Amplification. 12(2), 145-61
  • GILBERT, G, AKEROYD, MA and GATEHOUSE, S, 2008. International Journal of Audiology. 47(4), 189-98
  • AKEROYD, MA, CHAMBERS, J, BULLOCK, D, PALMER, AR, SUMMERFIELD, AQ, NELSON, PA and GATEHOUSE, S, 2007. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 121(2), 1056-69
  • AKEROYD, MA, GATEHOUSE, S and BLASCHKE, J, 2007. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 121(2), 1077-89
  • GATEHOUSE, S and AKEROYD, MA, 2007. Tailoring hearing-aid and rehabilitative interventions to listeners: Hearing Care for Adults 2006: Proceedings of the First International Adult Conference Hearing Care for Adults 2006: Proceedings of the First International Adult Conference. 97 - 111
  • AKEROYD MA, CHAMBERS J, BULLOCK D, PALMER AR, SUMMERFIELD AQ, NELSON PA and GATEHOUSE S, 2007. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 121(2), 1056-69
  • AKEROYD MA, GATEHOUSE S and BLASCHKE J, 2007. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 121(2), 1077-89
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2006. International Journal of Audiology. 45, S25-S33
  • AKEROYD, MA, CARLYON, RP and DEEKS, JM, 2006. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118, 977-981
  • GATEHOUSE, S and AKEROYD, MA, 2006. International Journal of Audiology. 45, S120-S124
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2005. Some similarities between the temporal resolution and the temporal integration of interaural time differences: Auditory Signal Processing: physiology, psychoacoustics, and models Auditory Signal Processing: physiology, psychoacoustics, and models. 436-442
  • HALL, DA, BARRETT, DJK, AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 2005. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94, 3181-3191
  • AKEROYD MA, CARLYON RP and DEEKS JM, 2005. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118(2), 977-81
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(2), 1135-1148
  • AKEROYD MA, 2004. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(2), 1135-48
  • BUDD, T W, HALL, DEBORAH A, GON脟ALVES, MIGUEL S, AKEROYD, MICHAEL A, FOSTER, JOHN R, PALMER, ALAN R, HEAD, KAY and SUMMERFIELD, A QUENTIN, 2003. Binaural specialisation in human auditory cortex: an fMRI investigation of interaural correlation sensitivity. Neuroimage. 20(3), 1783-94
  • AKEROYD, MA, 2003. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114, 2167-2177
  • BUDD, TW, HALL, DA, GONCALVES, MS, AKEROYD, MA, FOSTER, JR, PALMER, AR, HEAD, K and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 2003. NeuroImage. 20, 1783-1794
  • AKEROYD MA, 2003. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114(4 Pt 1), 2167-77
  • DARWIN, CJ, AKEROYD, MA and HUKIN, RW, 2002. Binaural factors in auditory continuity: Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Auditory Display Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Auditory Display. 259-262
  • HALL, DA, JOHNSRUDE, IS, HAGGARD, M, PALMER, AR, AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 2002. Cerebral Cortex. 12, 140-149
  • AKEROYD MA and BERNSTEIN LR, 2002. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110(5 Pt 1), 2516-26
  • CHAMBERS J, AKEROYD MA, SUMMERFIELD AQ and PALMER AR, 2002. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110(6), 3041-54
  • AKEROYD, MA and BERNSTEIN, LR, 2001. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110, 2516-2526
  • AKEROYD, MA, MOORE, BCJ and MOORE, GA, 2001. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110, 1498-1504
  • AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 2001. A computational auditory model of the lateralization of the Huggins pitch: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced 糖心原创 Institute on Computational Hearing Proceedings of the NATO Advanced 糖心原创 Institute on Computational Hearing. 55-60
  • BERNSTEIN, LR, TRAHIOTIS, C, AKEROYD, MA and HARTUNG, K, 2001. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109, 1604-1615
  • CHAMBERS, J, AKEROYD, MA, SUMMERFIELD, AQ and PALMER, AR, 2001. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110, 1-14
  • HALL, DA, HAGGARD, M, SUMMERFIELD, AQ, AKEROYD, MA, PALMER, AR and BOWTELL, RW, 2001. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109, 1559-1570
  • TRAHIOTIS, C, BERNSTEIN, LR and AKEROYD, MA, 2001. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109, 321-330
  • TRAHIOTIS C, BERNSTEIN LR and AKEROYD MA, 2001. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109(1), 321-30
  • BERNSTEIN LR, TRAHIOTIS C, AKEROYD MA and HARTUNG K, 2001. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109(4), 1604-15
  • AKEROYD MA, MOORE BC and MOORE GA, 2001. Melody recognition using three types of dichotic-pitch stimulus. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110(3 Pt 1), 1498-504
  • AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 2000. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 108, 316-34
  • AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 2000. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 107, 3394-3406
  • HALL, DA, HAGGARD, M, AKEROYD, MA, SUMMERFIELD, AQ, PALMER, AR, ELLIOTT, M and BOWTELL, RW, 2000. Human Brain Mapping. 10, 107-119
  • AKEROYD MA and SUMMERFIELD AQ, 2000. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 107(6), 3394-406
  • AKEROYD MA and SUMMERFIELD AQ, 2000. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 108(1), 316-34
  • AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 1999. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105, 2807-2820
  • HALL, DA, CHAMBERS, J, FOSTER, JR, AKEROYD, MA and COXON, R, 1999. The benefits of active noise cancellation for auditory
  • HALL, DA, HAGGARD, M, AKEROYD, MA, PALMER, AR, SUMMERFIELD, AQ, ELLIOTT, M, GURNEY, E and BOWTELL, RW, 1999. Human Brain Mapping. 7, 213-223
  • AKEROYD MA and SUMMERFIELD AQ, 1999. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105(5), 2807-20
  • AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 1998. A computational model of the lateralization of dichotic pitches: NATO Advanced 糖心原创 Institute on Computational Hearing NATO Advanced 糖心原创 Institute on Computational Hearing. 55-60
  • AKEROYD, MA, SUMMERFIELD, AQ and PALMER, AR, 1998. Guest editorial introducing the abstracts of the papers presented at the British Society of Audiology Short Papers meeting on Experimental Studies of Hearing and Deafness, held at 糖心原创, September 1997: British Journal of Audiology British Journal of Audiology. 32, 69-70
  • SUMMERFIELD, AQ and AKEROYD, MA, 1998. Computational approaches to modeling auditory selective attention: Monaural and binaural processes: Computational approaches to modelling auditory selective attention: monaural and binaural processes Computational approaches to modelling auditory selective attention: monaural and binaural processes. 743-799
  • AKEROYD, MA and PATTERSON, RD, 1997. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 101, 430-439
  • AKEROYD, MA and SUMMERFIELD, AQ, 1997. Predictions of signal thresholds in a frozen-noise masker using monaural and binaural temporal windows.: Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing - Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Hearing Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing - Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Hearing. 433-439
  • AKEROYD MA and PATTERSON RD, 1997. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 101(1), 430-9
  • AKEROYD, MA and PATTERSON, RD, 1995. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 98, 2466-2475

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