Dewey T Lawson, Adjunct Professor  

Dewey T Lawson

Office Location: Room 184
Office Phone: (919) 688-3249, (919) 660-2518
Email Address: dtl@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~dtl/

Education:
Ph.D., Duke University, 1972

Research Categories: Acoustics

Research Description: Acoustics has been the common thread connecting Prof. Lawson's various research interests, which have included phonon scattering in solid helium-4, zero sound propagation in normal and superfluid phases of liquid helium-3, restoration of human hearing through direct electrical stimulation of the inner ear and brainstem, the psychophysics of music perception, and musical acoustics.

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • physics 49s.01, First-year seminar (top)
    Perkins 2-070, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. E Buss, HC Pillsbury, CA Buchman, CH Pillsbury, MS Clark, DS Haynes, RF Labadie, S Amberg, PS Roland, P Kruger, MA Novak, JA Wirth, JM Black, R Peters, J Lake, PA Wackym, JB Firszt, BS Wilson, DT Lawson, R Schatzer, PS D'Haese, AL Barco, Multicenter U.S. Bilateral MED-EL Cochlear Implantation Study: Speech Perception over the First Year of Use., Ear Hear (December, 2007)  [abs].
  2. BS Wilson, R Schatzer, EA Lopez-Poveda, X Sun, DT Lawson, RD Wolford, Two new directions in speech processor design for cochlear implants., Ear and hearing, United States, vol. 26 no. 4 Suppl (August, 2005), pp. 73S-81S  [abs].
  3. BS Wilson, DT Lawson, JM Muller, RS Tyler, J Kiefer, Cochlear implants: some likely next steps., Annual review of biomedical engineering, United States, vol. 5 (2003), pp. 207-49  [abs].
  4. DT Lawson, BS Wilson, M Zerbi, C van den Honert, CC Finley, JC Farmer, JT McElveen, PA Roush, Bilateral cochlear implants controlled by a single speech processor., The American journal of otology, UNITED STATES, vol. 19 no. 6 (November, 1998), pp. 758-61  [abs].
  5. BS Wilson, S Rebscher, FG Zeng, RV Shannon, GE Loeb, DT Lawson, M Zerbi, Design for an inexpensive but effective cochlear implant., Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, UNITED STATES, vol. 118 no. 2 (February, 1998), pp. 235-41  [abs].
  6. BS Wilson, CC Finley, DT Lawson, M Zerbi, Temporal representations with cochlear implants., The American journal of otology, UNITED STATES, vol. 18 no. 6 Suppl (November, 1997), pp. S30-4  [abs].
  7. DT Lawson, BS Wilson, CC Finley, M Zerbi, LA Cartee, PA Roush, JC Farmer, DL Tucci, Cochlear implant studies at Research Triangle Institute and Duke University Medical Center., Scandinavian audiology. Supplementum, DENMARK, vol. 46 (1997), pp. 50-64  [abs].