Indiana University Bloomington












Professor Emeritus of Speech and Hearing Sciences
(812) 855-4156
watson@indiana.edu

Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1963
Professional Experience
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, American Psychological Association, American Psychology Society, Sigma Xi
Research Interests
  • Perception of complex sounds, speech and nonspeech
  • Psychophysical methods
  • Computer-based teaching of speech
  • Individual differences in auditory abilities in adults and children
  • Factors associated with success or failure in grades 1-3
Representative Publications
Surprenant, A. M. and Watson, C.S. (2001) Individual differences in the processing of speech and nonspeech sounds by normal-hearing listeners.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 110, 2085-95.

Drennan, W. and Watson, C. S. (2001) Sources of variation in profile analysis.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 2491-2503.

Drennan, W. and Watson, C. S. (2001) Sources of variation in profile analysis. II. Component spacing, dynamic changes, and roving level.

Watson, C. S., Kidd, G. R., Horner, D. G., Connell, P., Lowther, A., Eddins, D., Krueger, G., Goss, D. A. Rainey, B.B., Gospel, M., Watson, B. U. (2003) Sensory, Cognitive, and Linguistic Factors in the Early Academic Performance of Elementary School Children: The Benton-IU Project.
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 36, 165-197.

Brian Gygi, Gary R. Kidd, and Charles S. Watson (2004) Spectral-temporal factors in the identification of environmental sounds.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1252-1265.

Watson, C.S., Reed, D., Kewley-Port, D., and Maki, D. (1989). The Indiana Speech Training Aid (ISTRA) I: Comparisons between human and computer-based evaluation of speech quality.
J. Spch. Hearing Res., 32, 245-251.

Watson, C.S. and Kewley-Port, D. (1989). Advances in computer-based speech training: Aids for the profoundly hearing impaired.
Volta Review, 9, No. 5, 29-45.

Watson, C.S., Foyle, D.C. and Kidd, G.R. (1990). Limits of auditory pattern discrimination for patterns with various durations and numbers of components.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 88, 2631-2638.

Working Group 95, NAS/NRC Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics, and Biomechanics (CHABA) (C. S. Watson, chair) (1991) Speech-perception aids for hearing-impaired people: Current status and needed research.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 90, 637-685.

Kewley-Port, D., Watson, C.S., Elbert, M., Maki, D. and Reed, D. (1991). The Indiana Speech Training Aid (ISTRA) II: Training curriculum and selected case studies.
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 5, 1, 13-38.

Watson, C.S. (1991). Auditory perceptual learning and the cochlear implant.
Am. J. Otol., 12 (suppl.), 73-79.

Kidd, Gary R. and Watson, C. S. (1992) The "proportion-of-the-total-duration rule for the discrimination of auditory patterns.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 92, 3109-3118.

Watson, B. U. and Watson, C. S. (1993) "Auditory temporal processing in relation to reading and math disabilities."
In P.Tallal, A M. Galaburda, R.R. Llinas, and C. v. Euler (Eds.), Temporal Information Processing in the Nervous System: Special Reference to Dyslexia and Dysphasia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 682, 418-420, NYAS, New York.
Also, "Auditory perception, phonological processing, and reading ability/disability," in that same publication (421-423).

Folkins, J., Gorga, M., Luschei, E., Vetter, D. and Watson ,C.S.(1993) The use of human animals in speech, language, and hearing research.
ASHA, 35, 57-65.

Kewley-Port, D. & Watson, C.S. (1994). Formant-frequency discrimination for isolated English vowels.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95, 485-496.

Espinoza-Varas, B. & Watson, C.S. (1994). Effects of decision criterion on response latencies of binary decisions.
Perception and Psychophysics, 55, 190-203.

Watson, C. S. (1994) Central auditory processing disorders: the view from psychoacoustics.
Proceedings of ASHA Consensus Conference on Central Auditory Processing Disorders, Albuquerque, NM, March 11-13, 1994, (21 pp. incl. bibliography).
American Speech-Laanguage and Hearing Association, Rockville, MD.

Kidd, G. R. and Watson, C. S. (1996) Detection of frequency changes in transposed sequences of tones.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99, 553-566.

Hirsh, I. J. & Watson, C. S. (1996). Auditory psychophysics and perception.
Annual Review of Psychology, Annual Reviews, Inc., Palo Alto, California, pp. 461-484.

Watson, C.S., Qiu, W. W., Chamberlain, M. & Li, Xiaofeng (1996). Auditory and visual speech perception: Confirmation of a modality-independent source of individual differences in speech recognition.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 1153-1162

Dillon, A. and Watson, C. S. (1996) User analysis in HCI--the historical lessons from individual differences research.
Int. J. Human-Computer Studies, 45, 619-637.

Book Chapters

Espinoza-Varas, B. and Watson, C.S. (1989). Perception of complex auditory patterns by humans.
In R.J. Dooling and S.H. Hulse (Eds.) The Comparative Psychology of Audition: Perceiving Complex Sounds, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.

Kewley-Port, D. and Watson, C.S. (1990). Computer assisted speech training: Practical considerations.
In A. Syrdal, R. Bennett and S. Greenspan (Eds.) Behavioral Aspects of Speech Technology: Theory and Application.

Watson, C.S. and Kidd, G.R. (1991). Human engineering uses of acoustic signals.
In J.L. Risset and G. Canevet (Eds.), Recontres Scientifiques Du Cinquantenaire: Genese et Perception Des Sons. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseilles, pp. 189-204.

Watson, C. S. and Kidd, G. R. (1997) Perception of complex waveforms.
In M.J. Crocker (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Acoustics, Wiley, New York, 1521-1534.

Book

W.A. Yost and C.S. Watson (Eds.) (1987). Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds
Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.