Chris Plack was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA (first-class honours) in Natural Sciences in 1987 and a PhD in 1990. He has worked at the Universities of Minnesota, Sussex, Essex, Manchester, and Lancaster. Chris has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, 13 book chapters, an introductory textbook on hearing, and two edited volumes. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Latest Contribution
Assessing extended high-frequency hearing
The frequency range of human hearing spans 20 Hz to 20 kHz. In the UK, standard audiometry usually assesses 0.25–8 kHz; the extended high frequencies (EHFs) are those above 8 kHz. The importance of assessing EHF hearing has been increasingly...
Hidden hearing loss in humans
Awareness of cochlear synaptopathy (‘hidden hearing loss’) is growing. Chris Plack gives us an introduction to the condition, defining it and reviewing recent research in humans and animals with respect to noise exposure. The main cause of hearing loss is...
