Jerry L. Cranford

jcranf@lsuhsc.edu

Education

Ph.D (1969): Experimental Psychology - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Postdoctoral Fellow (1968-1970) - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

M.C.D. (1984): Clinical Audiology - Louisiana State University, School of Allied Health Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana

Academic Employment

Professor and Head (June 1, 2002-): Department of Communication Disorders, LSU Health Science Center, School Allied Health Sciences, New Orleans, LA.

Departmental Duties

Chief Administrative Officer of departmental speech and hearing graduate education programs. Mentoring junior faculty in fine tuning of their teaching and research skills. Teaching courses in Research Methods, Neuroscience, Hearing Science, and Electrophyiology. Personal research in behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of central auditory dysfunction in children and adults.

Preferred Clinical/Research Activity

Clinical assessment of central auditory neuropathology in children and adults. Research in behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of central auditory dysfunction in children and adults

Recent Publications

Cranford , J.L., Rothermel, A., Walker , L., Stuart, A., & Elangovan, S. (submitted to J. Amer. Acad. Audiol.).Effects of discrimination task difficulty on N1 and P2 components of late auditory evoked potential.

Elangovan, S., Cranford , J.L., Walker , L., & Stuart, A. (In review). Endogenous vs. exogenous origins of the mismatch negativity event-related potential. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. (2001 Amer. Acad. Audiology Student Research Forum Award)

DeChicchis, A., Carpenter, M., Cranford , J.L., & Hymel, M. (2002). Electrophysiologic correlates of attention versus distraction in young and elderly listeners. J. American Academy of Audiology 13:383-391.

Strauss (Hough), M., Downs , R., Cranford , J.L., & Givens, G. (2003). Measures of attention in aphasia: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Analysis. Aphasiology 17(2):159-172.

Walker , M., Shinn, J., Cranford , J.L., Givens, G., & Holbert, D. (2002). Auditory temporal processing performance of young adults with reading disorders. J. Speech Language Hearing Research 45:598-605.

Carpenter, M., Cranford , J.L., Hymel, M., DeChicchis, A., & Holbert, D. (2002). Electrophysiologic signs of attention versus distraction in a binaural listening task. J. Clinical Neurophysiology 19:55-60.

Walker, L.J., Carpenter, M., Downs, C., Cranford, J.L., Stuart, A., & Pravica, D. (2001) Possible neuronal refractory or recovery artifacts associated with recording the mismatch negativity response. J. American Academy of Audiology 12:348-356. (2000 Amer. Acad. Audiology Student Research Forum Award)

Carpenter, M., DeChicchis, A., Cranford , J.L. (2001). Electrophysiologic correlates of attention versus stimulus competition in young male and female listeners. J. American Academy of Audiology 12:141-149.

Downs , C.R., Hymel, M., Cranford , J.L. (2000). Effects of monaural versus binaural stimulation on P300 scalp topography in elderly listeners. J. American Academy of Audiology 12:`1-6.

Hymel, M., Cranford , J.L., Carpenter, M., & Holbert, D. (2000). Electrophysiologic signs of auditory competition in the human brain. Neuroscience Letters 283:105-108.

Allen, R., Schwab, B., Cranford , J.L., Carpenter, M. (2000). Investigation of binaural interference in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired adults. J. American Academyn of Audiology 11:494-500.

Fisher, A., Hymel, M., Cranford , J.L., & DeChicchis, A. (2000). Electrophysiologic signs of auditory distraction in elderly listeners. Journal American Academy Audiology 11:36-45.

Thompson, N., Cranford , J.L., & Hoyer, E. (1999). Brief tone discrimination in children. Journal Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 42:1061-1068.

Hymel, M., Cranford , J.L., & Stuart, A. (1998) The effects of contralateral speech competition on auditory event-related potentials recorded from elderly listeners: A brain map study. Journal American Academy Audiology, 9:385-397. (1998 Amer. Acad. Audiology Student Research Forum Award)

Cranford , J.L., & Hymel, M. (1998) Pros and cons of brain mapping as a tool for investigating central auditory pathology. Seminars in Hearing, 19:345-355.

Morgan, M., Cranford , J.L., & Burk, K. (1997) P300 event-related potentials in stutterers and nonstutterers. Journal Speech and Hearing Research, 40:1334-1340.

Cranford , J.L., Thompson, N., Hoyer, E., & Faires, W. (1997) Brief tone discrimination by children with histories of early otitis media. Journal American Academy Audiology, 8:137-141.

Visto, J., Cranford , J.L., & Scudder, R. (1996) Temporal processing of non-speech acoustic information by children with specific language impairment. J. Speech Hearing Research, 39:510-517. (Oct. 1996, ASHA LEADER “JSHR in Brief”)

Boose, M., & Cranford , J.L. (1996) Cortical event-related potentials in multiple sclerosis. Amer. J. Otology, 17:165-170.

Cranford , J.L., Kennalley, T, Svoboda, W., & Hipp, K. (1996) Changes in central auditory processing following temporal lobectomies in children. J. American Academy of Audiology, 7:289-295.

Allen, R., Cranford , J.L., & Pay, N. (1996) Central auditory processing in a subject with congenital absence of left temporal lobe. J. Amer. Acad. Audiol., 7:282-288.

Philosophy of Education

Undergraduate education is learning from others; graduate education is learning how to teach yourself and others. Learning should be fun; if it is not, something is wrong. In the health related sciences, learning just enough to pass the course is not enough.