Current Appointments
Research Investigator, NCRAR

Research Interests
focus on auditory perception of complex sounds and speech by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired individuals; speech recognition in noise; modeling of the auditory system; auditory attentional mechanisms; comparative auditory processes across species

Dr. Leek received her Ph.D. in 1980 in hearing science from the University of Kansas. Following graduation, she completed a Clinical Fellowship Year in Audiology, and subsequently, a postdoctoral research fellowship at Boys Town National Research Hospital (1980-1982). Before joining the NCRAR, she held academic appointments at Arizona State University (1982-1986) and the University of Minnesota (1986-1988), and served as Senior Researcher at the Army Audiology & Speech Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1989-2005). She has received continuous extramural funding of her laboratory through the National Institutes of Health (NIH RO1, "Hearing Loss and the Perception of Complex Sounds," 1989-2008).