William Salloom, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
William Salloom earned his Ph.D. in Integrative Neuroscience through the PULSe program at Purdue University in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. His dissertation focused on the temporal dynamics of the medial olivocochlear efferent system in humans, examined using psychoacoustic and otoacoustic measures with mentorship from Dr. Elizabeth Strickland (Psychoacoustics lab). Following his Ph.D., he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Auditory Physics Group at the University of Southern California with mentorship from Dr. Christopher Shera. During his postdoctoral training, he investigated direction and rate dependencies of frequency sweeps in psychoacoustic and otoacoustic responses. Dr. Salloom is currently an assistant professor directing the Auditory Mechanics and Perception Lab in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. His research focuses on how the auditory periphery, particularly the cochlea, processes sound in typical hearing. He is also interested in how this processing changes with normal aging and with hearing impairment. His work uses psychoacoustic and physiological approaches to investigate these questions.
Cheng-Han Chou, B.S.
Ella Lilleberg, B.S.
Sam Aguilar, B.S.