Lab News
From May 18–23, 2025, members of the Auditory Perception and Cognition (APC) Lab participated in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
We are excited to congratulate Andrew Oxenham for receiving a Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America.
CATSS is pleased to announce that Elaea Purmalietis is the recipient of the first-ever CATSS Summer Fellowship in Translational Sensory Sciences.
Andrew Oxenham receives the Social Science Research Grant for the project “Encoding and decoding of natural timbre in the human cortex.”
The Auditory Perception and Cognition (APC) Laboratory participated in the Bell Museum's "Spotlight Science: The Science of Sound."
Read about Sara Madson, who first visited the APC Lab on a 3.5-month external research stay in 2016 and returned as a full lab member from 2019-2020.
Andrew Oxenham was quoted in the Minnesota Daily on the department of psychology being ranked 8th internationally based on the Shanghai rankings.
Congratulations to Andrew Oxenham and Magdalena Wojtczak for receiving a $766, 307 grant from the Uniformed Services University.
The APC lab would like to welcome its newest member, Jorji Emika Mesik, daughter of Research Assistant Professors Emily Allen and Juraj Mesik.
Congratulations to Juraj Mesik for receiving an NIH Administrative Assistant Supplement of $189,577.
In August 2024, Zi Gao successfully defended their PhD thesis, entitled "Perceptual Categorization and Neural Representations of the Human Voice." Zi is taking up a postdoc position with Shuman He at The Ohio State University. Best wishes Dr. Gao!
Meet APC Alum Coral Dirks, Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota Speech Language and Hearing Cochlear Implant Clinical Coordinator
Elaea Purmalietis shares her experience with low-frequency hearing loss in a Minnesota Daily article.
Congratulations to Andrew Oxenham for being the Waldfogel Scholar of the College.
Magdalena Wojtczak was awarded a grant from the NIH for the project “Effects of Age and Hearing Loss on Auditory Temporal Processing: Perceptual and Electrophysiological Measures.”
Emily Allen, PhD and Juraj Mesik, PhD have been appointed Research Assistant Professors in the Department of Psychology. Both are members of the Auditory Perception and Cognition Laboratory.