Journal Club

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2007

/DATE

PRESENTER

TOPIC

5/7/2008
Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student

de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.

5/30/2008

Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student

de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.

4/23/2008
Dwight Wynne, BME Graduate Student

de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.

4/9/2008

Jennifer Yuan, Undergraduate BME Student

Laback, B. and Majdak, P. (2008). "Binaural jitter improves interaural time-difference sensitivity of cochlear implantees at high pulse rates." PNAS, 105(2):814-817.

4/2/2008
Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc

Bitterman, Y. et al. (2008). "Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex." Nature. 451:197-202.

3/26/2008

Dr. Juan Huang, Post-Doc

de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.

3/19/2008
Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student

Nelson, et al. (2008). "Forward-masked spatial tuning curves in cochlear implant users." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(3):1522-1543.

3/12/2008

Ben Sheffield, Staff Research Associate

Taylor and Creelman (1967). "PEST: Efficient estimates on probability functions." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 41(4):782-787.

3/5/2008
Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student

PhD dissertation "Enhancing and Understanding Pitch in Cochlear Implants"
10:00am in Natural Sciences II, Room #3201

2/27/2008

Payton Lin, Graduate Student

Dormana, et al. (2007). "The Benefits of Combining Acoustic and Electric Stimulation for the Recognition of Speech, Voice and Melodies." Audiol Neurootol, 13(2):105-112.

2/13/2008
Aparajita Bhattacharya, Qing Tang, Dr. Juan Huang, and Dr. Tom Lu

ARO Presentations

1/30/2008

Dr. Dustin Zhang, Post-Doc

Levitt (1970). "Transformed up-down methods in psychophysics." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49(2):467-477.

1/16/2008
Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng and All Students

Research overview; lab procedures; review of all ongoing research projects

1/09/2008

Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student

Cornsweet, T. N. (1962). "The Staircase-Method in Psychophysics."

12/5/2007
Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student

Kewley-Port D, Burkle TZ, Lee JH. (2007). "Contribution of consonant versus vowel information to sentence intelligibility for young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners." J Acoust Soc Am. 122(4):2365-75.

11/28/2007

Ted Lim, Undergraduate Assistant

Soon, KA, et al. (2007). "Design for a simplified cochlear implant system." IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 54(6):973-982.

11/21/2007
Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student

Suesserman, MF and Spelman, FA. (1993). "Lumped-parameter model for in vivo cochlear stimulation." IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 40(3):237-245.

11/14/2007

Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc

John F. Culling (2007). "Evidence specifically favoring the equalization-cancellation theory
of binaural unmasking" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122(5): 2803-2813.

11/7/2007
Stephanie Tiaden, Research Personnel Witman et al. (2007). "Speech intelligibility in cochlear implant simulations: Effects of carrier type, interfering noise, and subject experience." J Acoust Soc Am 122(4):2376-88.

10/31/2007

Dwight Wynne, Graduate Student

Bassett, I.G. and Eastmond, E.J. (1964). "Echolocation: Measurement of
Pitch Versus Distance for Sounds Reflected from a Flat Surface". J Acoust Soc Am, 36(5):pp.911-916.

10/24/2007
Dr. Vanessa Rothholtz, Resident Davis, P. et al. (2007). "Neuromonics tinnitus treatment: Third clinical trial." Ear. Hear., 28 (2): pp. 242-259.

10/16/2007

Dr. Dustin Zhang, Post-Doc

Li Liu, Jialong He, and Gunther Palm. (1997). "Effects of phase of the perception of intervocalic stop consonants." Speech Communications,22:403-417.

10/10/2007
Payton Lin, Graduate Student Ching et al. (2004). "Binaural benefits for adults who use hearing aids and cochlear implants in opposite ears.." Ear. Hear. 25(1):9-21.

10/3/2007

Ben Sheffield, Graduate Student

K Schindler et al (2007). "Increasing synchronization may promote seizure termination: Evidence from status epilepticus." Clin Neurophysiol. 118(9):1955-68.

9/26/2007
Dr. Andrew Dimitrijevic Kauramaki et al. (2007). "Selective Attention Increases Both Gain and Feature Selectivity of the Human Auditory Cortex." PLoS One, 2(9): e909.

9/18/2007

Rola Khedraki, Undergraduate Student

Nimmons et al. (2007). "Clinical assessment of music perception in cochlear implant listeners." Otology & Neurobiology. 00:00-00.

9/11/2007
Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student Hamilton N, Green T, Faulkner A. (2007). "Use of a single channel dedicated to conveying enhanced temporal periodicity cues in cochlear implants: effects on prosodic perception and vowel identification." Int J Audiol, 46(5):244-53.

9/4/2007

Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student
Galvin JJ 3rd, Fu QJ, Nogaki G. (2007). "Melodic contour identification by cochlear implant listeners." Ear Hear, 8(3):302-19.

8/28/2007
Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student Nelson, P.B. and Jin, S.H. (2004). "Factors affecting speech understanding in gated interference: Cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners." J Acoust Soc Am, 115(5):2286-2294.

8/21/2007

Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student
Ferguson, S.H. & Kewley-Port, D. (2007). "Talker differences in clear and conversational speech: Acoustic characteristics of vowels." J Speech Lang Hear Res.(in press).

8/14/2007
Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc Hillenbrand, J., Getty, L.A., Clark, M.J., Wheeler K. (1995). "Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels". J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97:3099 .

7/3/2007

Stephanie Tiaden, Student Researcher
Meyer, et al. (2003). "Modeling open-set spoken word recognition in postlingually deafened adults after cochlear implantation: some preliminary results with the neighborhood activation model." Otology & Neurotology, 24:612-620.

6/19/2007
Dr. Juan Huang, Postdoc Kshon-Rabin, L. et al. (1996). "Speechreading enhancement: a comparison of spatial-tactile display of voice fundamental frequency (F0) with auditory F0." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 100(1):593-602.

6/12/2007

Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student
Kong , Y.Y. & Carlyon, R.P. (2007). "Improved speech recognition in noise in simulated binaurally combined acoustic and electric stimulation." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(6):3717-3727.

6/05/2007
Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student Wile, D. & Balaban, E. (2007). "An Auditory Neural Correlate Suggests a Mechanism Underlying Holistic Pitch Perception." PLoS ONE, 2(4):e369.

5/29/2007

John Bai, BME Graduate Student and Marissa Camilon, Undergraduate Student
Plack, C.J. et al. (2007). "Masking by inaudible sounds and the linearity of temporal summation." J. Neurosci., 26(34):8767-8773.

5/15/2007
Janice Chang, MD Student Reiss, L.A.J. et al. (2007). "Changes in pitch with a cochlear implant over time". J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol., 8(2):241-257.

4/27/2007
Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng Rouger, J. et al. (2007). "Evidence that cochlear-implanted deaf patients are better multisensory integrators," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Early Edition, April 2, 2007.

4/13/2007

Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc
van Hossel, R.J.M. (2007). "Sensitivity to binaural timing in bilateral cochlear implant users," J Acous. Soc. Am. 121(4): 2192-2206.

3/30/2007
Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student Stone, M. A., and Moore, B. C. J. (2006)."Quantifying the the effects of fast-acting compression on the envelope of speech," J Acous. Soc. Am. 121(3), 1654-1664.

3/23/2007

Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student
Lentz, J.J. and Marsh, S.L. (2006). "The effect of hearing loss on identification of asynchronous double vowels". J Speech Lang Hear Res, 49(6):1354-1367.

3/16/2007
Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student Parra, L.C. and Pearlmutter, B.A. (2007). "Illusory percepts from auditory adaptation". J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(3):1632-1641.

3/05/2007

Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc
Temporal processing of time-varying sounds in the primate auditory cortex

2/27/2007
Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc Temporal processing of time-varying sounds in the primate auditory cortex

2/20/2007

Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student
Galambos, R., Makeig, S., Talmachoff , P.J. (1981). "A 40-Hz auditory potential recorded from the human scalp". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 78(4):2643-7.

2/6/2007
Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student Qin, M. and Oxenham, A. (2006). Effects of introducing unprocessed low-frequency information on the reception of envelope-vocoder processed speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 119(4):2417-2426.

1/30/2007

John Bai, BME Graduate Student
Dubno, J. R., Horwitz, A. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2007)."Estimates of Basilar-Membrane Nonlinearity Effects on Masking of Tones and Speech". Earing & Hearing, 28(1):2-17.

1/23/2007
Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student Lorenzi, C., Gilbert, G., Carn , H., Garnier, S., and Moore, B. C. J. (2006). "Speech perception problems of the hearing impaired reflect inability to use temporal fine structure". PNAS, 103(49):18866-18869.

1/9/2007

Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng
Morse, R. P., Morse, P. F., Nunn, T. B., Archer, K. A., and Boyle, P. (2006). "The Effect of Gaussian Noise on the Threshold, Dynamic Range, and Loudness of Analogue Cochlear Implant Stimuli". JARO.

1/2/2007

Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc
Long, Christopher J., Carlyon, Robert P., Litovsky Ruth Y., and Downs, Daniel H. (2006). "Binaural Unmasking with Bilateral Cochlear Implants". JARO.

2006

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
1/9/2007	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Morse, R. P., Morse, P. F., Nunn, T. B., Archer, K. A., and Boyle, P. (2006). "The Effect of Gaussian Noise on the Threshold, Dynamic Range, and Loudness of Analogue Cochlear Implant Stimuli". JARO.
1/2/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Long, Christopher J., Carlyon, Robert P., Litovsky Ruth Y., and Downs, Daniel H. (2006). "Binaural Unmasking with Bilateral Cochlear Implants". JARO.
12/12/2006	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Improving cochlear implant speech perception in noise
12/5/2006	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Pitch perception in individuals with auditory neuropathy
11/28/2006	Janice Chang, MD, PH.D. Student	McDermott, Hugh J., Sucher Catherine M. (2006). "Perceptual dissimilarities among acoustic stimuli and ipsilateral electric stimuli". Hearing Research. 281:81-88.
11/14/2006	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Shi, Lu-Feng, Carney, Laurel H., Doherty Karen A. (2006). "Correction of the peripheral spatiotemporal response pattern: A potential new signal processing strategy". Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 48:848-855.
10/24/2006	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Is Two Always Better Than One? Comparing Bilateral Implants With One Implant Plus Contralateral Hearing Aid.
10/03/2006	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	A review of virtual channels for cochlear implants
9/19/2006	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Ardic, F.N., Aktan, S., Kara, C.O., Sanli B. (1998). "High-frequency hearing and reflex latency in patients with pigment disorder". American Journal of Otolaryngology. 19(6):365-9.
9/12/2006	Dr. Andrew Dimitrijevic	Weisz, N., Moratti, S., Meinzer, M., Dohrmann, K., Elbert, T.(2005). "Tinnitus Perception and Distress Is Related to Abnormal Spontaneous Brain Activity as Measured by Magnetoencephalography". PLoS Medicine. 2(6):546-553.
8/15/2006	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Purcell, D.W., Munhall, K.G. (2006). "Adaptive control of vowel formant frequency: Evidence from real-time formant manipulation". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 120(2): 966-977.
8/8/2006	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Companding to improve hearing aids' speech recognition in noise
8/1/2006	Dr. Arnold Starr	Neural and receptor cochlear activities in Auditory Neuropathy and Controls
8/8/2006	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Companding to improve hearing aids' speech recognition in noise
8/1/2006	Dr. Arnold Starr	Neural and receptor cochlear activities in Auditory Neuropathy and Controls
7/26/2006	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Nelson, D.A., Donaldson, G.S. (2002). "Phychophysical recovery from single-pulse forward masking." Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 112 (6): 2932-2947. Nelson, D.A., Donaldson, G.S. (2001). "Pulse-train forward masking in electric hearing". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 109 (6): 2921-2933.
7/18/2006	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Throckmorton, C.S., Kucukoglu, M.S., Remus, J.J., Collins, L.M. (2006). "Acoustic model investigation of a multiple carrier frequency algorithm for encoding fine frequency structure: Implications for cochlear implants". Hearing Research.
7/11/2006	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Behne, M., Wendt, B., Scheich, H., Brechmann, A. (2006). "Contralateral White Noise Selectively Changes Left Human Auditory Cortex Activity in a Lexical Decision Task". Journal of Neurophysiology. 95: 2630-2637.
6/27/2006	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Mok, M., Grayden, D., Dowell, R., Lawrence, L. (2006). "Speech perception for adults who use hearing aids in conjunction with cochlear implants in opposite ears". Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 49: 338-359.
6/20/2006	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Macherey, O., Van Wieringen, A., Carlyon, R.P., Deeks, J.M., Wouters, J. (2006). "Asymmetric Pulses in Cochlear Implants: Effects of Pulse Shape, Polarity, and Rate". Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
5/23/2006	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Imai, A., Takagi, T., Takeishi, H. (2005). "Development of Radio and Television Receiver with Functions to Assist Hearing of Elderly People". 51 (1): 268-272.
5/16/2006	Dr. Hongbin Chen	Introduction to a real-time processing platform for cochlear implants and hearing aids (SPEAR3)
5/9/2006	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Feng, A.S., Narins, P.M., Xu, Q.H., Lin,Lin, W-L., Yu, Z.L., Qiu, Q., Xu, Z.M., Shen, Z.X. (2006). "Ultrasonic communication in frogs". Nature. 440: 333-336.
4/25/2006	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Nourski, K.V., Abbas, P.J., Miller,C.A., Robinson, B.K., Jeng, F-C. (2005). "Effects of acoustic noise on the auditory nerve compound action potentials evoked by electric pulse trains". Hearing Research 202: 141–153.
4/11/2006	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Oohashi, T., Nishina, E., Honda, B., Yonekura, Y., Fuwamoto, Y., Kawai, N., Maekawa, T., Nakamura, S., Fukuyama, H., Shibasaki, H. (2006). "Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Affect Brain Activity: Hypersonic Effect." The Journal of Neurophysiology 83(6): 3548-3558.
3/28/2006	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Hypothesis testing and sample size calculation- A brief overview of the statistical planning required before any study begins, including establishing the null and alternative hypotheses, choosing whether the alternative hypothesis is one or two sided, choosing acceptable error rates for your study, and calculating how many subjects you will need in order to obtain the power you want.
3/14/2006	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Loebach, J.L., Wickesberg, R.E. (2006). "The representation of noise vocoded speech in the auditory nerve of the chinchilla: Physiological correlates of the perception of spectrally reduced speech." Hearing Research.
3/7/2006	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Green, T., Faulkner, A., Rosen, S., and Macherey, O. (2005). "Enhancement of temporal periodicity cues in cochlear implants: Effects on prosodic perception and vowel identification." Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 118(1): 375-385.
2/28/2006	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Van den Bogaerta, T., Klasen, T.J., Moonen, M., Van Deun, L., Wouters, J. (2006). "Horizontal localization with bilateral hearing aids: Without is better than with". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 119(1): 515-526.
2/21/2006	Dr. Hongbin Chen	Cohen, L.T., Saunders, E., Knight, M.R., Cowan, R.S.C. (2006). "Psychophysical measures in patients fitted with Contour and straight Nucleus electrode arrays". Hearing Research. 212 (1-2): 160-175.
2/14/2006	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Boex, C., Baud, L., Cosendai, G., Sigrist, A., Kos, M-I., Pelizzone, M. (2006). "Acoustic to Electric Pitch Comparisons in Cochlear Implant Subjects with Residual Hearing". Journal of the Association of Research in Otolaryngology.
2/7/2006	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Roberts, B. (2005). "Spectral pattern, grouping, and the pitches of complex tones and their components". Acta Acustica United with Acustica. 91: 945-957.
1/31/2006	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Levitt, and L.R. Rabiner (1967). "Use of a sequential strategy in intelligibility testing". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 42 (3): 609-612.
1/24/2006	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Moore, B.C.J. and Glasberg, B.R. (1989). "Difference limens for phase in normal and hearing-impaired subjects". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 86 (4): 1351-1365.
1/17/2006	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Laneau, J., Moonen, M., Wouters, J. (2006). "Factors affecting the use of noise-band vocoders as acoustic models for pitch perception in cochlear implants". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 119 (1): 491-506.
1/10/2006	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Fulop, S. and Fitz, K. (2006). "Algorithms for computing the time-corrected instantaneous frequency (reassigned) spectrogram, with applications". Journal of Acoustic Society of America.119 (1): 360-371.

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2005

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
1/10/2006	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Fulop, S. and Fitz, K. (2006). "Algorithms for computing the time-corrected instantaneous frequency (reassigned) spectrogram, with applications". Journal of Acoustic Society of America.119 (1): 360-371.
12/20/2005	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Füllgrabe, C. and Lorenzi, C. (2005). "Perception of the envelope-beat frequency of inharmonic complex temporal envelopes". Journal of Acoustic Society of America.
12/13/2005	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Ryugo, D.K., Kretzmer, E.A., Niparko, J.K. (2005). "Restoration of Auditory Nerve Synapses in Cats by Cochlear Implants". Science. Volume 310.
12/06/2005	Dr. Hongbin Chen	Blamey, P.J., Dooley, G.J., Parisi, I.S. , Clark, G.M. (1996). "Pitch comparisons of acoustically and electrically evoked auditory sensations". Hearing Research. 99: 139-150.
11/29/2005	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	review on Pitch Perception in Electric Hearing
11/22/2005	Raul Benitez, visitng Post-Doc	Cohen, L.T., Richardson, L.M., Saunders, E., Cowan, R.S.C. (2003). "Spatial spread of neural excitation in CI recipients". Hearing Reearch. 179:72-87.
11/15/2005	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	"Two's company, three's a crowd? Speech recognition as a function of number and gender of competing talkers by normally-hearing and cochlear implant listeners"
11/08/2005	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Dajani, H.R., Wong, W., Kunov, H.. (2005). "Fine structure spectrography and its application in speech". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 117(6):3902-18.
11/01/2005	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Rutschmann J., Rubinstein L. (1965). "Binaural beats and binaural amplitude-modulated tones: successive comparison of loudness fluctuations". Journal of Acoustic Society of America. 38(5):759-68.
10/18/2005 and 11/25/2005	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	1) Hearing tactics and communicating with hearing-impaired people 2) Hearing screening (link to power point presentation)
10/11/2005	Dr. Hongbin Chen	Chi, T., Ru, P., Shamma, S.A. (2005). "Multiresolution spectrotemporal analysis of complex sounds." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.118(2):887-906.
9/22/2005	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Bendor, D. and Wang, X. (2005). "The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex." Nature. 436: 1161-1165.
9/14/2005	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	SINFA (Sequential Information Analysis) software for speech feature analysis (implementation of Bilger and Wang paper)
9/7/2005	Michelle Aucoin McGuire, Linguistics Postdoc	Bilger and Wang (1976). "Consonant confusions in patients with sensorineural hearing loss". Journal of Speech Hear Research. Dec 19(4):718-48.
8/31/2005	Dr. Ginger Stickney and Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Miller, G.A., Nicely, P.E. (1955). "An Analysis of Perceptual Confusions among some English Consonants". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 27 (2): 338-352.
8/24/2005	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Dorman, M.F., Spahr, A.J., Loizou, P.C., Dana, C.J., Schmidt, J.S. (2005). "Acoustic Simulations of Combined Electric and Acoustic Hearing (EAS)". Ear and Hearing. 126: 371-380.
8/17/2005	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	van Hoesel, R., Bohm, M., Battmer, R.D., Beckschebe, J., Lenarz, T. (2005). "Amplitude-Mapping Effects on Speech Intelligibility With Unilateral and Bilateral Cochlear Implants". Ear & Hearing. 26: 381-388.
7/13/2005	Michelle Aucoin McGuire, Linguistics Postdoc	Bradlow, A.R., Bent, T. (2002). " The clear speech effect for non-native listeners". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112 (1).
7/6/2005	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Cleary, M., Pisoni, D., Kirk, K.I. (2005). "Influence of Voice Similarity of Talker Discrimination in Children With Normal Hearing and Children with Cochlear Implants". Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol 48, pp 204-223.
6/29/2005	Sara Ghazi, Undergraduate Student	Calvert, G.A., Campbell R., Brammer, M.J. (2000). " Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging of crossmodal binding in the human heteromodal cortex". 10:649–657.
6/15/2005	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Kemp, D.T.(1978). "Stimulated acoustic emissions from within the human auditory system". Journal of Acoustic Society of America, Nov 64(5):1386-91.
6/8/2005	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student	Rhode, W.S.(1971). "Observations of the vibration of the basilar membrane in squirrel monkeys using the Mossbauer technique". Journal of Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 49 (2), pp. 1218+
6/1/2005	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Young, E.D. and Brownell, W.D. (1976). "Responses to tones and noise of single cells in dorsal cochlear nucleus of unanesthetized cats". Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 39, No 2, pp 282-300.
5/18/2005	Jay Shah, BME Graduate Student	Rose, J. et al (1959). "Microelectrode Studies of the Cochlear Nuclei of the Cat". Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. 104, no 5, pp 211-251.
4/13/2005	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Turicchia, L. and Sarpeshkar, R (2005). "A Bio-Inspired Companding Strategy for Spectral Enhancement". IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , Vol. 13, No. 2, 243-253.
4/6/2005	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student	Davis, H. (1958). "A mechano-electrical theory of cochlear action" Transactions of the American Otological Society; 46: 180-196.
3/30/2005	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Bruce IC, et al (1999). "A Stochastic Model of the Electrically Stimulated Auditory Nerve: Single-Pulse Response." IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering vol 46, No 6 617-629.
3/23/05	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Friesen LM, et al (2005). "Effects of Stimulation Rate on Speech Recognition with Cochlear Implants" Audiology and Neurotology, 10: 169-184.
3/09/05	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	"Research and Development of Technology for the Next Generation Cochlear Implant"
3/02/05	Dr. Ginger Stickney	Understanding speech with an auditory prosthesis (abstract)
2/16/05	Jian Wu Graduate Student	Micromachined Auditory Prostheses: Design, Fabrication and System Integration (abstract)
1/26/05	Sheng Liu, BME Graduate Student	Dissertation: Clear speech acoustics and perception: Implications for hearing aid design
1/05/05	Sheng Liu, BME Graduate Student	Ronan, Diane, et al. (2004). "Integration across frequency bands for consonant identification" Acoust Soc Am.Vol. 116, No. 3, 1749–1762.

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2004

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
12/15/04	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Kubovy M, Cutting JE, McGuire RM. (1974). "Hearing with the third ear: dichotic perception of a melody without monaural familiarity cues" Science. 18;186(4160):272-274.
12/10/04	Georgina To'a Salazar, BME Graduate Student	"Abnormal cortical voice processing in autism". Nat Neurosci. 2004 Aug;7(8):801-802.
11/24/04	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Gantz, B.J., Turner, C. (2004). "Combining Acoustic and Electrical Speech Processing: Iowa/Nucleus Hybrid" Implant Acta. Otolaryngol. (124): 344-347.
11/10/04	Professor Raju Metherate	"Nicotine receptors regulate synaptic transmission in auditory cortex"
11/03/04	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Huss M, Moore BC. (2003). "Tone decay for hearing-impaired listeners with and without dead regions in the cochlea" J Acoust Soc Am. 114 (6 Pt 1, 3283-94.
10/27/04	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Tianying Ren. (2002). "Longitudinal pattern of basilar membrane vibration in the sensitive cochlea". PNAS v. 99, no. 26, pp-17104-17105.
10/20/04	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Chatterjee M, Robert ME. (2001). "Noise enhances modulation sensitivity in cochlear implant listeners: stochastic resonance in a prosthetic sensory system?", J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. Jun;2(2):159-71.
10/13/04	Sheetal Desai and Sara Ghazi	Fingelkurts, A.A., et al. (2003). "Cortical operation synchrony during audio-visual speech integration", Brain and Language 85, 297-312.
10/06/04	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student	E. Szelag, I. Kolodziejczyk, M. Kanabus, J. Szuchnik and A. Senderski (2004). "Deficits of non-verbal auditory perception in postlingually deaf humans using cochlear implants", Neuroscience Letter 355, 49-52.
9/29/04	Jian Wu, EEE Graduate Student	Summer Project: "A Curvature-controlled 3D Micro-electrode Array for Cochlear Implants"
9/15/04	Michelle Aucoin McGuire, Linguistics Postdoc	UK Cochlear Implant Study Group (2004). "Criteria of Candidacy for Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Postlingually Deafened Adults I: Theory and Measures of Effectiveness", Ear & Hearing 25, 310–335. UK Cochlear Implant Study Group (2004). "Criteria of Candidacy for Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Postlingually Deafened Adults II: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis", Ear & Hearing 25, 336–360. UK Cochlear Implant Study Group (2004). "Criteria of Candidacy for Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Postlingually Deafened Adults III: Prospective Evaluation of an Actuarial Approach to Defining a Criterion", Ear & Hearing 25, 361–374.
9/08/04	Georgina To'a Salazar, BME Graduate Student	Huawei Li, Graham Roblin, Hong Liu, and Stefan Heller (2004). "Generation of hair cells by stepwise differentiation of embryonic stem cells".
9/01/04	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Shaum P. Bhagat, Craig A. Champlin (2004). "Evaluation of distortion products produced by human auditory system", Hearing Research 193, 51-67.
8/25/04	Darren Kwong, BME	Detection of Frequency Sweeps, Research Data Presentation
08/18/04	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Rubinstein JT, Tyler RS, Johnson A, Brown CJ (2003). "Electrical suppression of tinnitus with high-rate pulse trains", Otol Neurotol, May;24(3), 478-85.
08/11/04	Dr. Kaibao Nie	Zatorre RJ, Belin P. (2001). "Spectral and temporal processing in human auditory cortex", Cereb Cortex, Oct. 11(10):946-53.
07/28/04	Sheng Liu, BME Graduate Student	S. Musallam, B. D. Corneil,* B. Greger, H. Scherberger, R. A. Andersen, (2004). "Cognitive Control Signals for Neural Prosthetics", Science, Vol. 305, Issue 5681, 258-262.
07/21/04	Dr. King Chung	The Application and Practical Concerns of Advanced Hearing Aid Signal Processing Technologies to Enhance Cochlear Implants
07/14/04	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student
07/07/04	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Anna Mari Mäkelä, Paavo Alku, Ville Mäkinen, , Jussi Valtonen, Patrick May and Hannu Tiitinen (2002). "Human Cortical Dynamics Determined by Speech Fundamental Frequency". NeuroImage, Vol.17, Issue 3 , November 2002, Pages 1300-1305.
06/30/04	Dr. Ginger Stickney	Peggy B. Nelson and Su-Hyun Jin (2004), "Factors affecting speech understanding in gated interference: Cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners". JASA, Vol. 115, No. 5, pp. 2286–2294.
06/23/04	Dr. Fan-gang Zeng	Schleich, P.; Nopp, P.; D'Haese, P (2004), "Head Shadow, Squelch, and Summation Effects in Bilateral Users of the MED-EL COMBI 40/40+ Cochlear Implant" Ear & Hearing. 25(3):197-204.
06/16/04	Dr. Kaibao Nie	Krishnan A, Xu Y, Gandour JT, Cariani PA (2004), "Human frequency-following response: representation of pitch contours in Chinese tones." Hear Res. 2004 Mar;189(1-2):1-12.
06/09/04	Sheng Liu, BME Graduate Student	Kates JM, Weiss MR (1996). A comparison of hearing-aid array processing techniques".J. Acoust Soc Am. 1996 May;99(5):3138-48.
06/02/04	Jeremy Liu, BME Graduate Student	Enhancement of Pitch Perception with Virtual Channels in Cochlear Implants (2004), Master thesis.
5/26/04	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student	Qiang Xu, Ewa Jacewicz, Lawrence L. Feth and Ashok K. Krishnamurthy (2004), "Bandwidth of spectral resolution for two-formant synthetic vowels and two-tone complex signals" J. Acoust. Soc. Am.(2004), 115, pp. 1653-1664.
5/19/04	Dr. Michelle Aucoin McGuire	Xu L, Tsai Y, Pfingst BE (2002), "Features of stimulation affecting tonal-speech perception: implications for cochlear prostheses." J Acoust Soc Am. 2002 Jul;112(1):247-258.
05/12/04	Anna	presentation: "Time-varying characterization of the cardiovascular response to arousal from sleep"
05/05/04	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Marcel van der Heijden and Philip X. Joris (2003), Cochlear Phase and Amplitude Retrieved from the Auditory Nerve at Arbitrary Frequencies, The Journal of Neuroscience, October 8, 2003, 23(27):9194 –9198.
4/28/04	Dr Kaibao Nie	Presentation: "Encoding temporal and spectral cues for better speech perception with cochlear implants"
4/21/04	Georgina To'a Salazar, BME Graduate Student	Alan Y. Chow, MD; Vincent Y. Chow, BS; Kirk H. Packo, MD; John S. Pollack, MD; Gholam A. Peyman, MD; Ronald Schuchard, PhD (2004), "The Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip for the Treatment of Vision Loss From Retinitis Pigmentosa." Arch Ophtamol 2004; 122: 460-469.
4/14/04	Tiffany Chua, E.E. Graduate Student	John M. Deeks and Robert P. Carlyon (2004), "Simulations of cochlear implant hearing using filtered harmonic complexes: Implications for concurrent sound segregation", J. Acoust. Soc., 115, 1736-1746.
04/07/04	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Tianying Ren (2004), "Reverse propagation of sound in the gerbil cochlea," Nature Neuronscience, Published online: 21 March 2004, doi:10.1038/nn1216.
3/31/04	Dr. Ginger Stickney	C. de Balthasar, C. Boëx, G. Cosendai, G. Valentini, A. Sigrist and M. Pelizzone (2003), "Channel interactions with high-rate biphasic electrical stimulation in cochlear implant subjects," Hear. Res. 182, 77-87.
3/24/04	Ying-Yee Kong, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Oxenham, A. J., Bernstein, J. G. W. & Penagos, H. (2004),"Correct tonotopic representation is necessary for complex pitch perception", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 1421–1425.
3/17/04	Dr. Kaibao Nie	Luc Geurts and Jan Wouters (2004), "Better place-coding of the fundamental frequency in cochlear implants," J. Acoust. Soc., 115, 844-852.
3/10/04	Sheng Liu, BME Graduate Student	Thomas Baer, Brian C. J. Moore, and Karolina Kluk (2002), "Effects of low pass filtering on the intelligibility of speech in noise for people with and without dead regions at high frequencies," J Acoust Soc Am. 112, 1133-1144.
3/03/04	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Rubinstein JT, Wilson BS, Finley CC, Abbas PJ.(1999),"Pseudospontaneous activity: stochastic independence of auditory nerve fibers with electrical stimulation,"Hear Res. 1999 Jan;127(1-2):108-118.
2/25/04	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student	Litvak LM, Delgutte B, Eddington DK.(2003), "Improved temporal coding of sinusoids in electric stimulation of the auditory nerve using desynchronizing pulse trains," J Acoust Soc Am. 2003 Oct;114(4 Pt 1):2079-2098.
2/18/04	Jeremy Liu, BME Graduate Student	Massaro DW, Kallman HJ, Kelly JL.(1980), "The role of tone height, melodic contour, and tone chroma in melody recognition," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, Vol 6., No. 1, 77-90.
2/11/04	Dr. Ginger Stickney	Elia Formisano et al. (2003). "Mirror-Symmetric Tonotopic Maps in Human Primary Auditory Cortex," Neuron, Vol 40, 859-869, 13 November 2003.
2/04/04	Hongbin Chen, BME Graduate Student	Tan Q, Carney LH (2003), "A phenomenological model for the responses of auditory-nerve fibers. II. Nonlinear tuning with a frequency glide" J Acoust Soc Am. 114(4 Pt 1):2007-2020.
1/28/04	Sheng Liu, BME Graduate Student	Heinz M.G., Colburn H.S., Carney L H. (2001). "Evaluating auditory performance limits: i. one-parameter discrimination using a computational model for the auditory nerve," Neural Comput. 2001 Oct; 13(10): 2273-2316.
1/14/04	Dr. Kaibo Nie	Ian C. Bruce, Murray B. Sachs, and Eric D. Young (2003). "An auditory-periphery model of the effects of acoustic trauma on auditory nerve responses," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 369-388.

/DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
5/7/2008	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.
5/30/2008	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.
4/23/2008	Dwight Wynne, BME Graduate Student	de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.
4/9/2008	Jennifer Yuan, Undergraduate BME Student	Laback, B. and Majdak, P. (2008). "Binaural jitter improves interaural time-difference sensitivity of cochlear implantees at high pulse rates." PNAS, 105(2):814-817.
4/2/2008	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Bitterman, Y. et al. (2008). "Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex." Nature. 451:197-202.
3/26/2008	Dr. Juan Huang, Post-Doc	de Boer, E. & Dreschler, W.A. (1987). "Auditory psychophysics: Spatiotemporal representation of signals." Ann Rev Psychol. 38:181-202.
3/19/2008	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Nelson, et al. (2008). "Forward-masked spatial tuning curves in cochlear implant users." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(3):1522-1543.
3/12/2008	Ben Sheffield, Staff Research Associate	Taylor and Creelman (1967). "PEST: Efficient estimates on probability functions." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 41(4):782-787.
3/5/2008	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	PhD dissertation "Enhancing and Understanding Pitch in Cochlear Implants" 10:00am in Natural Sciences II, Room #3201
2/27/2008	Payton Lin, Graduate Student	Dormana, et al. (2007). "The Benefits of Combining Acoustic and Electric Stimulation for the Recognition of Speech, Voice and Melodies." Audiol Neurootol, 13(2):105-112.
2/13/2008	Aparajita Bhattacharya, Qing Tang, Dr. Juan Huang, and Dr. Tom Lu	ARO Presentations
1/30/2008	Dr. Dustin Zhang, Post-Doc	Levitt (1970). "Transformed up-down methods in psychophysics." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49(2):467-477.
1/16/2008	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng and All Students	Research overview; lab procedures; review of all ongoing research projects
1/09/2008	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Cornsweet, T. N. (1962). "The Staircase-Method in Psychophysics."
12/5/2007	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Kewley-Port D, Burkle TZ, Lee JH. (2007). "Contribution of consonant versus vowel information to sentence intelligibility for young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners." J Acoust Soc Am. 122(4):2365-75.
11/28/2007	Ted Lim, Undergraduate Assistant	Soon, KA, et al. (2007). "Design for a simplified cochlear implant system." IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 54(6):973-982.
11/21/2007	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Suesserman, MF and Spelman, FA. (1993). "Lumped-parameter model for in vivo cochlear stimulation." IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 40(3):237-245.
11/14/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	John F. Culling (2007). "Evidence specifically favoring the equalization-cancellation theory of binaural unmasking" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122(5): 2803-2813.
11/7/2007	Stephanie Tiaden, Research Personnel	Witman et al. (2007). "Speech intelligibility in cochlear implant simulations: Effects of carrier type, interfering noise, and subject experience." J Acoust Soc Am 122(4):2376-88.
10/31/2007	Dwight Wynne, Graduate Student	Bassett, I.G. and Eastmond, E.J. (1964). "Echolocation: Measurement of Pitch Versus Distance for Sounds Reflected from a Flat Surface". J Acoust Soc Am, 36(5):pp.911-916.
10/24/2007	Dr. Vanessa Rothholtz, Resident	Davis, P. et al. (2007). "Neuromonics tinnitus treatment: Third clinical trial." Ear. Hear., 28 (2): pp. 242-259.
10/16/2007	Dr. Dustin Zhang, Post-Doc	Li Liu, Jialong He, and Gunther Palm. (1997). "Effects of phase of the perception of intervocalic stop consonants." Speech Communications,22:403-417.
10/10/2007	Payton Lin, Graduate Student	Ching et al. (2004). "Binaural benefits for adults who use hearing aids and cochlear implants in opposite ears.." Ear. Hear. 25(1):9-21.
10/3/2007	Ben Sheffield, Graduate Student	K Schindler et al (2007). "Increasing synchronization may promote seizure termination: Evidence from status epilepticus." Clin Neurophysiol. 118(9):1955-68.
9/26/2007	Dr. Andrew Dimitrijevic	Kauramaki et al. (2007). "Selective Attention Increases Both Gain and Feature Selectivity of the Human Auditory Cortex." PLoS One, 2(9): e909.
9/18/2007	Rola Khedraki, Undergraduate Student	Nimmons et al. (2007). "Clinical assessment of music perception in cochlear implant listeners." Otology & Neurobiology. 00:00-00.
9/11/2007	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Hamilton N, Green T, Faulkner A. (2007). "Use of a single channel dedicated to conveying enhanced temporal periodicity cues in cochlear implants: effects on prosodic perception and vowel identification." Int J Audiol, 46(5):244-53.
9/4/2007	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Galvin JJ 3rd, Fu QJ, Nogaki G. (2007). "Melodic contour identification by cochlear implant listeners." Ear Hear, 8(3):302-19.
8/28/2007	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Nelson, P.B. and Jin, S.H. (2004). "Factors affecting speech understanding in gated interference: Cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners." J Acoust Soc Am, 115(5):2286-2294.
8/21/2007	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Ferguson, S.H. & Kewley-Port, D. (2007). "Talker differences in clear and conversational speech: Acoustic characteristics of vowels." J Speech Lang Hear Res.(in press).
8/14/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Hillenbrand, J., Getty, L.A., Clark, M.J., Wheeler K. (1995). "Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels". J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97:3099 .
7/3/2007	Stephanie Tiaden, Student Researcher	Meyer, et al. (2003). "Modeling open-set spoken word recognition in postlingually deafened adults after cochlear implantation: some preliminary results with the neighborhood activation model." Otology & Neurotology, 24:612-620.
6/19/2007	Dr. Juan Huang, Postdoc	Kshon-Rabin, L. et al. (1996). "Speechreading enhancement: a comparison of spatial-tactile display of voice fundamental frequency (F0) with auditory F0." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 100(1):593-602.
6/12/2007	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Kong , Y.Y. & Carlyon, R.P. (2007). "Improved speech recognition in noise in simulated binaurally combined acoustic and electric stimulation." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(6):3717-3727.
6/05/2007	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Wile, D. & Balaban, E. (2007). "An Auditory Neural Correlate Suggests a Mechanism Underlying Holistic Pitch Perception." PLoS ONE, 2(4):e369.
5/29/2007	John Bai, BME Graduate Student and Marissa Camilon, Undergraduate Student	Plack, C.J. et al. (2007). "Masking by inaudible sounds and the linearity of temporal summation." J. Neurosci., 26(34):8767-8773.
5/15/2007	Janice Chang, MD Student	Reiss, L.A.J. et al. (2007). "Changes in pitch with a cochlear implant over time". J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol., 8(2):241-257.
4/27/2007	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Rouger, J. et al. (2007). "Evidence that cochlear-implanted deaf patients are better multisensory integrators," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Early Edition, April 2, 2007.
4/13/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	van Hossel, R.J.M. (2007). "Sensitivity to binaural timing in bilateral cochlear implant users," J Acous. Soc. Am. 121(4): 2192-2206.
3/30/2007	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Stone, M. A., and Moore, B. C. J. (2006)."Quantifying the the effects of fast-acting compression on the envelope of speech," J Acous. Soc. Am. 121(3), 1654-1664.
3/23/2007	Tiffany Chua, BME Graduate Student	Lentz, J.J. and Marsh, S.L. (2006). "The effect of hearing loss on identification of asynchronous double vowels". J Speech Lang Hear Res, 49(6):1354-1367.
3/16/2007	Qing Tang, BME Graduate Student	Parra, L.C. and Pearlmutter, B.A. (2007). "Illusory percepts from auditory adaptation". J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(3):1632-1641.
3/05/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Temporal processing of time-varying sounds in the primate auditory cortex
2/27/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Temporal processing of time-varying sounds in the primate auditory cortex
2/20/2007	Jeff Carroll, BME Graduate Student	Galambos, R., Makeig, S., Talmachoff , P.J. (1981). "A 40-Hz auditory potential recorded from the human scalp". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 78(4):2643-7.
2/6/2007	Aparajita Bhattacharya, BME Graduate Student	Qin, M. and Oxenham, A. (2006). Effects of introducing unprocessed low-frequency information on the reception of envelope-vocoder processed speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 119(4):2417-2426.
1/30/2007	John Bai, BME Graduate Student	Dubno, J. R., Horwitz, A. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2007)."Estimates of Basilar-Membrane Nonlinearity Effects on Masking of Tones and Speech". Earing & Hearing, 28(1):2-17.
1/23/2007	Helen Cullington, Cognitive Science Graduate Student	Lorenzi, C., Gilbert, G., Carn , H., Garnier, S., and Moore, B. C. J. (2006). "Speech perception problems of the hearing impaired reflect inability to use temporal fine structure". PNAS, 103(49):18866-18869.
1/9/2007	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng	Morse, R. P., Morse, P. F., Nunn, T. B., Archer, K. A., and Boyle, P. (2006). "The Effect of Gaussian Noise on the Threshold, Dynamic Range, and Loudness of Analogue Cochlear Implant Stimuli". JARO.
1/2/2007	Dr. Tom Lu, Postdoc	Long, Christopher J., Carlyon, Robert P., Litovsky Ruth Y., and Downs, Daniel H. (2006). "Binaural Unmasking with Bilateral Cochlear Implants". JARO.