Daniel Guest

Postdoc working in Laurel Carney's lab at the University of Rochester. My current research focuses on building computational models of the auditory periphery and subcortex and applying them to better understand human auditory behavior, such as detection of complex sounds in noise. My interests intersect auditory psychophysics, physiology, and computational modeling. I am an advocate for high-quality and open scientific code; I program in MATLAB, Python, Julia, and C. Contact me here. Full CV

Code

AuditorySignalUtils.jl Simple utilities for auditory signal processing in Julia

Klatt.jl Subset of Klatt (1980) vowel synthesis in Julia

Funding

NIDCD F32 (DC022143) | 2024–2027

Modeling the effects of binaural midbrain coding and efferent gain control on the perception of complex sounds

NIDCD F31 (DC019247) | 2020–2022

Processing of complex sounds at high frequencies

Papers

Graves, Guest, and Mehta (preprint, in prep) Multiple pitch perception with rate-place metamers

Guest and Carney (preprint, in review) A fast and flexible approximation of power-law adaptation for auditory computational models

Guest, Cameron, Schwarz, Leong, Richards, and Carney (preprint, in review) Profile analysis in listeners with sensorineural hearing loss

Guest, Rajappa, and Oxenham (2024) Limitations in human auditory spectral analysis at high frequencies

Rajappa, Guest, and Oxenham (2023) Benefits of harmonicity for hearing in noise are limited to detection and pitch-related discrimination tasks

Guest and Oxenham (2022) Human discrimination and modeling of high-frequency complex tones shed light on the neural codes for pitch

Kapolowicz, Guest, Montazeri, Baese-Berk, and Assmann (2021) Effects of spectral envelope and fundamental frequency shifts on the perception of foreign-accented speech

Guest and Oxenham (2019) The role of pitch and harmonic cancellation when listening to speech in harmonic background sounds

Teaching

Intro to Neuroengineering (BME 218, Rochester), guest lecture on "Signal detection theory"

Intro to Biological Psychology (PSY 3061, Minnesota), guest lecture on "Audition"

Normal and Abnormal Perception: How Senses Shape Experience (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), guest lecture on "The science of hearing loss"

Posters

Guest, Farhadi, and Carney (2024) Simulating the effects of contralateral acoustic stimulation using an auditory efferent model