Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

• Auditory perception in listeners with normal hearing and hearing loss
• Development of assessment tools to diagnoses and characterize tinnitus
• Evaluation of the effects of hearing aid algorithms on auditory perception
• Application of physiological and psychological models to auditory perception

Jennifer J Lentz is a professor of Speech, Hearing and Language Sciences and is currently the chair of the department. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and received postdoctoral training in research audiology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She has been on faculty at Indiana Unversity since 2002. Currently, she is an associate editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Hearing Section). She has also served on numerous grant panels on topics related to perception by listeners with sensorineural hearing los and tinnitus. She is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and has served the ASA on multiple committees including the Physiological and Psychological Acoustics Technical Committee, the Women in Acoustics Committee, and the Committee on History and Archives. She has also recently written a psychoacoustics textbook targeted at students in Au.D. programs titled "Psychoacoustics: An introduction to the perception of normal and impaired hearing with audiology applications."

Altieri, N., Lentz, J. J., Townsend, J. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2016). The McGurk effect: An investigation of attentional capacity employing response times. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(6), 1712-1727.

Lentz, J. J., He, Y., & Townsend, J. T. (2014). A new perspective on binaural integration using response time methodology: super capacity revealed in conditions of binaural masking release. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 641.

Shen, Y and Lentz, JJ (2010) "Effect of fast-acting compression on modulation detection interference for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 3654-3665. 

Shen, Y and Lentz, JJ (2009) "Level dependence in behavioral measurements of auditory-filter phase characteristics," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 2501-2510.