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William P. Shofner

Neuroscience · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Hearing Loss and RehabilitationNoise Effects and ManagementHearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, GeneticsNeuroscience and Music PerceptionMarine animal studies overview

Publications

72

Citations

1,111

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

44

Publishing since 1981

Research summary
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William P. Shofner studies how humans and animals hear and perceive sounds, with a focus on pitch, timbre (the quality that distinguishes different instruments or voices), and speech. His work often compares hearing across species, such as humans, chimpanzees, and chinchillas, and examines how the ear and auditory nervous system represent complex sounds. He also investigates how hearing is affected by degraded or noisy sound conditions.

Pitch and timbre perceptionComparative hearing across speciesCochlear (inner ear) function and representation of soundSpeech and vowel perception under degraded conditionsNeural responses to sound (frequency-following response)

Publication activity has been steady but modest over the past decade, averaging about one paper per year.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.0/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications2182019: 1 publication192020: 1 publication202021: 1 publication212022: 2 publications2222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications2242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America×6
  • Journal of Comparative Physiology A×1
  • Hearing Research×1
  • Journal of comparative psychology×1
  • The Hearing Journal×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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