Earl D. Schubert (November 8, 1916 – December 1, 1999) was an American academic scientist specialized inpsychoacoustics. He was a leading authority on hearing, especially musical and binaural psychoacoustics.[1]
Schubert got his start on psychoacoustics in theUS Army, working onspeech communication in noise duringWorld War II. After receiving aPh.D. at theUniversity of Iowa in 1948, he started his career in academia at theUniversity of Michigan, returning to Iowa in 1951. In 1955 he became the director of the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center where he continued to work on speech intelligibility. He moved toIndiana University in 1960, and toStanford University in 1964, where he remained for the rest of his life. After retiring from the Medical School in 1987, as professor emeritus he devoted his time to helping students atCCRMA.[1]
In 1956, Schubert showed that speech on headphones in a noisy environment could be made more intelligible by delaying the signal to one ear, or by presenting with opposite polarities in the two ears.[2]
From 1957 through 1970, Schubert co-edited the "References to Contemporary Papers on Acoustics" section of theJournal of the Acoustical Society of America.[1]
Schubert's 1979 bookPsychological Acoustics reprints many classic papers in the field, includingJ. C. R. Licklider's 1951 "A Duplex Theory of Pitch Perception".[3]
His 1980 monographHearing: Its Function and Dysfunction is a classic in the hearing field, summarizing years of research.[4]
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