Meet Our Providers

Melinda C. Anderson, PhD

Melinda C. Anderson, PhD is a clinical audiologist with the Marion Downs Hearing Center at the University of Colorado Hospital.  Dr. Anderson has been providing clinical, audiological and hearing aid services at the University of Colorado Hospital since February 2010.  She has been conducting hearing aid and speech perception research at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2004.

Education and Field Involvement

Dr. Anderson received her B.A. from University of Florida in 1999, her M.S. from Vanderbilt University in 2002, and her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 2010.  She is a member of the American Academy of Audiology, the American Speech Language Hearing Association, and the Colorado Academy of Audiology.

Publications

Dr. Anderson has published and presented in the areas of hearing aid signal processing, sound quality perception, and the effects of aging on speech perception. Published manuscripts appear in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Ear and Hearing, European Journal of Applied Signal Processing (EURASIP), and the International Journal of Audiology.

Arehart, K.H., Kates, J.M., and Anderson, M.C., and Moats, P. (2011), Determining perceived sound quality in a simulated hearing aid using the International Speech Test Signal, Ear and Hearing.32, 533-535.

Arehart, K., Kates, J., & Anderson, M. (2011) The effects of noise, nonlinear and linear processing on music quality. International Journal of Audiology, 50, 177-190.

Arehart, K., Kates, J., & Anderson, M. C. (2010) The effects of noise, nonlinear and linear processing on speech quality. Ear and Hearing, 31, 420-436.

Anderson, M. C., Arehart, K. H., & Kates, J. M. (2009). The Acoustic and Perceptual Effects of Series and Parallel Processing. Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. doi: 619805, 10.1155/2009/619805

Arehart, K. H., Kates, J. M., Anderson, M. C., & Harvey, L. O. (2007). Effects of noise and distortion on speech quality judgments in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(2), 1150-1164.

Personal

Dr. Anderson loves the outdoors and spends her free time in the summer hiking and in the winter skiing.  Originally from Florida, she misses the beach, but feels the mountains help make up for Colorado’s landlocked status.