William A. Yost is a research professor in the College of Health Solutions. He has published more than 335 reports, articles, book chapters, and books in areas of hearing science, especially auditory behavioral neuroscience. His research has been continuously funded since 1968. He is currently supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health and Oculus/Facebook Reality Labs.
He is a fellow and former president of the Acoustical Society of America; and a fellow of the American Speech, Hearing, and Language Association; Association for Psychological Sciences; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council National Associate; former president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology; former member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communications Disorders. He has also served on boards of the American Institute of Physics; National Science Foundation; several institutes at the National Institutes of Health; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Office of Naval Research; Veterans Administration; American Auditory Society; House Ear Institute; University of Iowa; University of Maryland; Boston University; Cambridge University; American Academy of Audiology; American Psychological Association; and Association for Psychological Sciences.
He has received major awards from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology; Acoustical Society of America (2 awards); The Colorado College; Loyola University Chicago; American Speech, Language and Hearing Association; and the National Research Council
Education
National Science Foundation Postd-Doctoral Fellow: University of California at San Diego 1970-1971
Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, Indiana University 1970
B.A. Psychology; minor: Mathematics, The Colorado College 1966
Auditory perception and psychoacoustics in areas of pitch perception, sound localization including localizing sounds in reverberant environments and virtual auditory environments, processing sounds with modulated waveforms, sound source determination and segregation, and computational modeling with respect to time-based neural models of complex sounds. Animal psychophysics in areas related to pitch perception and processing modulated sounds. Applications of this work to societal issues such as noise pollution (on land and in the seas), hearing impairment and hearing aids, and people-machine interactions.
