Kelly Whiteford, PhD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Available to mentor
Kelly Whiteford, PhD
Assistant Professor
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    • About

    Dr. Kelly Whiteford received a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley in 2012. After graduating, she worked in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley as a lab manager studying auditory and visual perception. She received her PhD in Psychology at the University of Minnesota in the area of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and she continued in Minnesota as a postdoctoral associate. In 2021, she received an early-career R21 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. She remained at the University of Minnesota as a research associate before joining the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor.

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      Kresge Hearing Research Institute
    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Musical training does not enhance neural sound encoding at early stages of the auditory system: A large-scale multisite investigation.
      Whiteford KL, Baltzell LS, Chiu M, Cooper JK, Faucher S, Goh PY, Hagedorn A, Irsik VC, Irvine A, Lim S-J, Mesik J, Mesquita B, Oakes B, Rajappa N, Roverud E, Schrlau AE, Van Hedger SC, Bharadwaj HM, Johnsrude IS, Kidd G, Luebke AE, Maddox RK, Marvin EW, Perrachione TK, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Oxenham AJ. bioRxiv, 2024 Sep 4; DOI:10.1101/2024.09.02.610856
      PMID: 39282463
    • Journal Article
      Musical training is not associated with spectral context effects in instrument sound categorization.
      Shorey AE, King CJ, Whiteford KL, Stilp CE. Atten Percept Psychophys, 2024 Apr; 86 (3): 991 - 1007. DOI:10.3758/s13414-023-02839-6
      PMID: 38216848
    • Journal Article
      Dissociating sensitivity from bias in the Mini Profile of Music Perception Skills.
      Whiteford KL, Goh PY, Stevens KL, Oxenham AJ. JASA Express Lett, 2023 Sep 1; 3 (9): DOI:10.1121/10.0021096
      PMID: 37747320
    • Journal Article
      Sensitivity to Frequency Modulation is Limited Centrally.
      Whiteford KL, Oxenham AJ. J Neurosci, 2023 May 17; 43 (20): 3687 - 3695. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0995-22.2023
      PMID: 37028932
    • Journal Article
      The role of cochlear place coding in the perception of frequency modulation.
      Whiteford KL, Kreft HA, Oxenham AJ. Elife, 2020 Sep 30; 9: DOI:10.7554/eLife.58468
      PMID: 32996463
    • Journal Article
      Corrigendum to "Learning for pitch and melody discrimination in congenital amusia" [Cortex 103 (2018) 167-178].
      Whiteford KL, Oxenham AJ. Cortex, 2019 Jun; 115: 371 DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.001
      PMID: 30803741
    • Journal Article
      Color, Music, and Emotion: Bach to the Blues.
      Whiteford KL, Schloss KB, Helwig NE, Palmer SE. Iperception, 2018 9 (6): 2041669518808535 DOI:10.1177/2041669518808535
      PMID: 30479734
    • Journal Article
      Learning for pitch and melody discrimination in congenital amusia.
      Whiteford KL, Oxenham AJ. Cortex, 2018 Jun; 103: 164 - 178. DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.012
      PMID: 29655041