Bertram Scharf

Affiliations: 
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States 
Area:
Psychoacoustics, Psychophysics
Website:
http://www.psych.neu.edu/people/faculty/scharf.html
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Education:
City College of New York, cum laude B.A. 1953
U. de Paris, Experimental Psychology Diplôme 1955
Harvard U., Experimental Psychology Ph.D. 1958
Employment:
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University
Assistant Professor 1958-1964
Associate Professor 1964-1969
Professor 1969-1994
Research Professor 1994-

Other employment:
Psychoacoustics Laboratory, Harvard University
Research Assistant 1955-1956

Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, Germany
Visiting Research Associate 1962

Laboratory of Sensory Communication, Syracuse U.
Visiting Scientist 1966

Institute of Physiology, University of Helsinki Medical School, and Laboratory of Acoustics, Helsinki Technical University
Visiting Scientist 1971-1972

U. de Provence and Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, CNRS, Marseille
Professor (Professeur associé) 1978-1979

Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scientist 1979-1982

Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, CNRS Marseille
Visiting Scientist (Chercheur associé) 1982-1983

Université d'Aix-Marseille
Professor (Professeur associé) 1985-1986, 1989

Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique (CNRS)
Visiting Scientist (Chercheur associé) 6/90-5/91, 7/93-12/93

Université d'Aix-Marseille, Faculté de Médecine
Professor (Professeur associé) 1994-1995

Memberships:
International Society for Psychophysics
Acoustical Society of America

Professional Activities:
1976-1982 Editorial board of Sensory Processes
1980- Editorial board of British Journal of Audiology
1972-1983 Member, ANSI Working Group S3-51 on Auditory Magnitudes, (Chairman 1972-78)
1977-1981 Associate Editor, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer.
Chair, Organizing Committee: Fechner Day '86, '89, '95
1985-1989, 1995 Member of Executive Committee, International Society for Psychophysics

Honors :
1971 Elected Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
1976 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1977 Distinguished Service Award, Massachusetts Speech and Hearing Association
1978-1979 Exchange Award, NSF U.S.-France Program
1984 Honorary member, Acoustical Society of Finland
1985- 1986 Exchange Award, NSF U.S.-France Program
1995 Fechner medal, International Society for Psychophysics
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Reeves A, Scharf B. (2010) Auditory frequency focusing is very rapid. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 795-803
Scharf B, Reeves A, Giovanetti H. (2008) Role of attention in overshoot: frequency certainty versus uncertainty. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123: 1555-61
Nieder B, Buus S, Cazals Y, et al. (2007) Loudness reduction induced by a contralateral tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 122: 35-7
Scharf B, Reeves A, Suciu J. (2007) The time required to focus on a cued signal frequency. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 121: 2149-57
Wagner E, Scharf B. (2006) Induced loudness reduction as a function of exposure time and signal frequency. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 119: 1012-20
Scharf B, Wagner E, Nieder B. (2005) Induced loudness reduction: A review Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 117: 2454-2454
Nieder B, Buus S, Florentine M, et al. (2003) Interactions between test- and inducer-tone durations in induced loudness reduction. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114: 2846-55
Scharf B, Buus S, Nieder B. (2002) Loudness enhancement: induced loudness reduction in disguise? (L). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 112: 807-10
Nieder B, So, Buus r, et al. (2001) Effect of duration and level of the recalibration tone on the amount of loudness recalibration Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109: 2349-2349
Canévet G, Scharf B, Schlauch RS, et al. (1999) Perception of changes in loudness. Nature. 398: 673-4
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