Biography:
Sheila studied for her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis investigated timbre perception in reverberant spaces with two distinctly different types of acoustic radiator; the distributed mode loudspeaker and a cone loudspeaker. She has an MSc in Music Technology from the University of York. Her research career grew from her fascination with psychoacoustics whilst she worked as a senior electronics engineer.
Research Interests
• Auditory Perception - Music and Language
• Acoustics and Psychoacoustics - Spatial hearing: In a world full of noise and cocktail parties, how do we understand anything?
• Developmental Auditory Perception
• Atypical auditory development: Developmental Dyslexia - Phonological Processing, Auditory Processing Disorder
Member of the British Society of Audiology, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Subject groups/Research projects
- Educational Neuroscience & Developmental Dyslexia:
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Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia
Oscillatory Rhythmic Entrainment and the Foundations of Language Acquisition
- Botnar project: Developing Prototype Assistive Listening Technology for Remediating Developmental Dyslexia:
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Key Publications
Flanagan, S and Goswami, U. (2018) "The role of phase synchronisation between low frequency amplitude modulations in child phonology and morphology speech tasks", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 143, 1366. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1121/1.5026239
Flanagan, S., Zorila, T.C., Stylianou, Y., and Moore, B.C.J., (2018) "Speech Processing to Improve the Perception of Speech in Background Noise for Children with Auditory Processing Disorder and Typically Developing Peers", Trends in Hearing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2331216518756533.
Carlyon R.P., Flanagan S., and Deeks J.M. (2017). "A Re-examination of the Effect of Masker Phase Curvature on Non-simultaneous Masking". JARO https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-017-0637-5
Zorila, T.C., Stylianou, Y., Flanagan, S., and Moore, B.C.J., (2017). "Evaluation of near-end speech enhancement under equal-loudness constraint for listeners with normal-hearing and mild-to-moderate hearing loss." J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,141, 189 (2017); doi: 10.1121/1.4973533
Zorila, T.C., Stylianou, Y., Flanagan, S., and Moore, B.C.J., (2016). “Effectiveness of a loudness model for time-varying sounds in equating the loudness of sentences subjected to different forms of signal processing,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 140(2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4955005.
Zorila, T.C., Flanagan, S., Moore, B.C.J. and Stylianou, Y., (2016). "Effectiveness of near-end speech enhancement under equal-loudness and equal-level constraints" Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2016 DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-594.
Flanagan S., Moore B.C.J., & Stone M.A. (2005). "Discrimination of group delay in
click-like signals presented via headphones and loudspeakers". J. Audio Eng. Soc. 53: 593-611 http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=13428
Other Publications
Araújo, J., Flanagan, S., Castro-Caldas, A., & Goswami, U. (2016, June). The temporal modulation structure of illiterate versus literate speech. Poster presented at the 9th National Symposium on Research in Psychology, Portuguese Psychological Association, Faro, Portugal.
Flanagan, Sheila; Moore, Brian C. J. (2001) "The Effect of Loudspeaker Type on the Identification of Vowel-like Harmonic Complexes" AES 111th Convention, New York: 5456. http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=9875
Flanagan, Sheila; Moore, Brian C. J. (2000) "The Influence of Loudspeaker Type on Timbre Perception" AES 109th Convention, Los Angeles:5226. http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=9112
Flanagan, Sheila; Taylor, Valerie (1999)"Investigation Into the Relationship Between Subjective Loudness and Auditory Distance Perception" AES 107th Convention, New York:5049. https://secure.aes.org/forum/pubs/conventions/?elib=8131
Flanagan Sheila, Harris Neil (1999) "Loudness: A Study of the Subjective Difference between DML and Conventional Loudspeaker" AES 106th Convention, Munich:4872; http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=8308
Harris, Neil; Flanagan, Sheila; Hawksford, Malcolm J. (1998) "Stereophonic Localization in Rooms, Comparing Conventional and Distributed-Mode Loudspeakers" AES 105th Convention, San Francisco:4794. http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=8386
Harris, Neil; Flanagan, Sheila; Hawksford, Malcolm J. (1998) "Stereophonic Localization in the Presence of Boundary Reflections, Comparing Specular and Diffuse Acoustic Radiators"