Lloyd May

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• Audio-tactile association improves pitch perception in listeners with and without cochlear implants. Brain research Hodges, A., Fitzgerald, M., May, L., Lee, R. T., Goldsworthy, R., Fujioka, T. 2026: 150182

  Abstract

  Auditory perception can improve when accompanied by somatosensory information, with beneficial effects for hard-of-hearing individuals. Further enhancement could occur by mapping discrete musical pitch information onto tactile spatial patterns across four fingertips. Unlike previous studies, we used tactile stimuli that marked only the sound onsets via light pressure from air-inflated plastic membranes. Pre- and post-learning pitch discrimination tests used vocoded-audio only, vocoded-audio with tactile, and tactile-only conditions. The learning phase was a 10-minute nursery song melody listening task with the audio-tactile condition. In Exp. 1, normal-hearing listeners heard melodies in the original audio; in Exp. 2, normal-hearing listeners heard melodies with vocoded-audio; and CI users listened to the original audio. All groups performed best in the audio-tactile condition before the learning phase, and these immediate benefits were maximal at intermediate pitch intervals. Furthermore, CI users showed greater improvement in the audio-only condition after exposure, indicating the rapid transfer effect.

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.brainres.2026.150182

  View details for PubMedID 41605410

• A model of vocal persona: context, perception, production FRONTIERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Noufi, C., May, L., Berger, J. 2025; 7

  View details for DOI 10.3389/fcomp.2025.1575296

  View details for Web of Science ID 001592381500001

• Comparison of Impulse Response Generation Methods for a Simple Shoebox-Shaped Room ACOUSTICS May, L., Farzaneh, N., Das, O., Abel, J. S. 2025; 7 (3)

  View details for DOI 10.3390/acoustics7030056

  View details for Web of Science ID 001579362100001

• "Choices? That's the dream": challenges and opportunities in non-speech information closed-captioning FRONTIERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE May, L., Clemens, M., Dang, K., Ohshiro, K., Sridhar, S., Wee, P., Fuentes, M., Lee, S., Cartwright, M. 2025; 7

  View details for DOI 10.3389/fcomp.2025.1575176

  View details for Web of Science ID 001521984100001

• Participant Recruitment in Accessibility Research May, L., Hassan, S., Dang, K., Lee, S., Alonzo, O., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2025

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3663547.3748639

  View details for Web of Science ID 001609881500181

• Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Afective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers Pataca, C., Hassan, S., May, L., Olson, M. M., D'aurio, T., Peiris, R. L., Huenerfauth, M., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2025

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3706598.3713304

  View details for Web of Science ID 001496957100221

• Designing audio processing strategies to enhance cochlear implant users' music enjoyment FRONTIERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE May, L., Hodges, A., Park, S., Kaneshiro, B., Berger, J. 2024; 6

  View details for DOI 10.3389/fcomp.2024.1371728

  View details for Web of Science ID 001328058900001

• Unspoken Sound: Identifying Trends in Non-Speech Audio Captioning on YouTube May, L., Ohshiro, K., Dang, K., Sridhar, S., Pai, J., Fuentes, M., Lee, S., Cartwright, M., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3613904.3642162

  View details for Web of Science ID 001255317905007

• Towards a Rich Format for Closed-Captioning May, L., Williams, A., Hassan, S., Cartwright, M., Lee, S., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3663548.3688504

  View details for Web of Science ID 001352180500091

• Enhancing Non-Speech Information Communicated in Closed Captioning Through Critical Design May, L., Park, S., Berger, J., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2023

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3597638.3608398

  View details for Web of Science ID 001125956600016

• WAM-Studio: A Web-Based Digital Audio Workstation to Empower Cochlear Implant Users Buffa, M., Vidal-Mazuy, A., May, L., Winckler, M. edited by Nocera, J. A., Larusdottir, M. K., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2023: 101-110

  View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_6

  View details for Web of Science ID 001290139700006