Ginger S. Stickney, CCC-A, Ph.D.

 

Dept. of Otolaryngology Ð Head and Neck Surgery

Phone: (949) 824-3927

University of California, Irvine

Fax: (949) 824-5907

364 Med Surge II, Room 364

email: stickney@uci.edu

Irvine, CA 92697

 

 

 

EDUCATION:            

 

1995-2001       Ph.D.Cognition & Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas

1996-1998       M.S Audiology, University of Texas at Dallas

1987-1992       B.S. Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

 

3/01-present       Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Otolaryngology, UC Irvine

9/95 Ð 3/01         Research Assistant, School of Human Development, UT Dallas

9/98 - 10/99        Audiologist, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA

9/93 - 8/95          Laboratory Assistant II, Dept. of Psychiatry, UC San Diego

1/92 - 9/93          Research Assistant, Dept. of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

9/92 - 1/93          Intern, Magnetic Source Imaging Division, VA Med. Center, Albuquerque, NM

 

 

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:

 

9/04-present       Sr. Audiologist, UCIMC, Orange, CA

9/98-10/99          Audiologist, House Ear Clinic, Los Angeles, CA

9/97-5/98            Extern, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

9/96-9/97            Intern, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, Dallas, TX

 

 

AWARDS:

 

2002-2004          NIH PA-00-104 F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship ÒAuditory prostheses in realistic listening environmentsÓ

2004                   GCRC Internal Grant, UC Irvine

2003                   RIC Internal Grant, UC Irvine

2002-2003          Irvine Research Unit (IRU) Fellowship, UC Irvine

2001                   Scholarship to attend the Conference on Implants and Auditory Prostheses

1998-1999          Alcatel Graduate Student Research Fellowship

1997                   ÒBest Student Paper Award in Speech CommunicationÓ at the 134th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:       

 

1.     Stickney, G.S., Shannon, R.V., and Opie, J.R. (in preparation). Channel interaction and speech recognition with Clarion perimodiolar cochlear implants.

2.     Stickney, G.S., Chang, J., Assmann, P.F., and Zeng, F-G. (in preparation). Cochlear implant processing and the ability to segregate competing sentences on the basis of pitch.

3.     Stickney, G.S., Weinberger, N.M., and Zeng, F-G. (in preparation). Perceptual learning in frequency discrimination.

4.     Desai, S., Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F-G (in preparation). Contribution of auditory and visual cues to speech perception in normal hearing and cochlear implant listeners.

5.     Stickney, G.S., Nie, K., and Zeng, F-G (in preparation). Speech recognition with a competing talker: the contribution of temporal fine structure using a novel cochlear implant simulation.

6.     Zeng, F-G, Nie, K-B, Stickney, G., Kong, Y-Y, Vongphoe, M, Wei, C, Cao, K (in revision).  Speech recognition with slowly-varying amplitude and frequency modulation cues.

7.     Stickney, G. S., Loizou, P., Mishra, L. N., Assmann, P. F., Shannon, R. V., and Opie, J. M. (revision submitted) Speech recognition with cochlear implants: The influence of channel interaction, speech coding strategies, and electrode configuration.

8.     Kong, Y-Y, Stickney, G, and Zeng, F-G. (revision submitted). Contribution of acoustic low-frequency information in speech and melody recognition in cochlear implants.

9.     Stickney, G.S., Nie, K, Kong, Y-Y, Chen, H, Vongphoe, M, and Zeng, F-G (in press). Temporal fine structure: the missing component in speech processing algorithms. 

10.  Nie, K-B, Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F-G (in press). Encoding frequency modulation to improve cochlear implant performance in noise.

11.  Zeng, F-G, Nie, K-B, Liu, S, Stickney, G, Del Rio, E, Kong, Y-Y, Chen, H. (in press). On the dichotomy in auditory perception between temporal envelope and fine structure cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

12.  Stickney, G.S., Zeng, F-G, Litovsky, R., and Assmann, P.F. (2004).   Cochlear implant speech recognition with speech maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(2), 1081-1091.

13.  Zeng, F-G, Nie, K., Stickney, G., and Kong, Y-Y (2004).  Auditory perception with slowly-varying amplitude and frequency modulations.  nitzer, D., de Cheveign, McAdams, S., and Collet, L. (Eds.) Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychoacoustics, and Models New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 283-291.

14.  Loizou, P.C., Stickney, G.S., Mishra, L.N., Assmann, P.F. (2003). Comparison of speech processing strategies used in the Clarion implant processor. Ear and Hearing. 24(1), 12-19.

15.  Stickney, G.S. (2001). Analyses of speech processing strategies for cochlear implants and the effects of electrode interaction.  Dissertation Thesis.

16.  Stickney, G.S. and Assmann, P.F. (2001). Acoustic and linguistic factors in the perception of bandpass-filtered speech, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109(3), 1157-1165.

17.  Roeser, R.J., Buckley, K.A., and Stickney, G.S. (2000). Pure Tone Tests.  In Roeser, R, Valente, M, and Hosford-Dunn, H (Eds.)  Audiology Diagnosis  New York: Thieme, pp. 227-251.

 

 

CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

 

1.     Stickney, G. S., Chang, J., Assmann, P. F., Zeng, F-G (2004). Fundamental frequency and the intelligibility of competing sentences with cochlear implant processing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116.

2.     Stickney, G.S., Weinberger, N.M., Zeng, F-G (2004). Perceptual learning in frequency discrimination. Presented at the27th mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Daytona, FL.

3.     Stickney, G.S., Nie, K, Zeng, F-G (2003). On the contribution of frequency modulation to speech recognition in noise.  Presented at the 2003 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA

4.     Desai, S, Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F-G (2003). Contributions of auditory and visual cues to speech perception in normal hearing and cochlear implant listeners. Presented at the 2003 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA

5.     Kong, Y-Y, Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F-G (2003). Combined acoustic and electric hearing for speech in noise and melody recognition. Presented at the 2003 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA

6.     Nie, K, Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F-G. (2003). Independent contributions of amplitude and frequency modulations to auditory perception. I. Consonant, vowel, and sentence recognition. Presented at the 10th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. UC Irvine, CA.

7.     Desai, S, Zeng, F-G, and Stickney, G.S. (2003). Contributions of auditory and visual cues to lipreading in normal hearing and cochlear implant listeners.  Presented at the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium. UC Irvine, CA.

8.     Nie, K, Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F-G. (2003).  Independent contributions of amplitude and frequency modulations to auditory perception. I. Consonant, vowel, and sentence recognition. Presented at the26th mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Daytona, FL.

9.     Stickney, G.S., Nie, K, and Zeng, F-G (2002).  Realistic listening improved by adding fine structure.  Presented at the First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics (ASA), Cancun, Mexico.

10.  Stickney, G.S., Nie, K, Kong, Y-Y, Liu, S., Chen, H-B, Vongphoe, M, Desai, S, DelRio, E, and Zeng, F-G (2002). Improving the performance of auditory prostheses.  Presented at the UCI Neuroscience Symposium.  UC Irvine, CA.

11.  Stickney, G.S., Zeng, F-G, Litovsky, R.Y., Assmann, P.F. (2002). Cochlear implant speech recognition with speech maskers. Presented at the 25th mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.

12.  Zeng, F-G, Nie, K-B, Stickney, G.S. (2001). New digital signal processing techniques to benefit listeners with profound deafness.  Presented at the Tech Coast Life Science Innovation Conference, UC Irvine, CA.

13.  Stickney, G.S., Loizou, P.C., Assmann, P.F., Shannon, R.V., and Opie, J.M. (2001). Electrode interaction and speech intelligibility in multichannel cochlear implants. Presented at the 2001 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA

14.  Stickney, G. S., Loizou, P., Mishra, L. N., Assmann, P. F., Shannon, R. V., and Opie, J. M. (2000). Channel interaction and speech processing strategies for cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 108 (5, Part 2), pg.2601.

15.  Stickney, G.S., Shannon, R., Opie, J., Assmann, P. F. (2000). Electrode interaction in multichannel cochlear implants with different electrode designs and positions. Presented at the 23rd mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL. 

16.  Stickney, G.S. and Shannon, R, (2000). Simultaneous masking as a measure of electrode interaction in cochlear implant listeners.  Presented at the 6th International Cochlear Implant Conference, Miami Beach, FL.

17.  Stickney, G.S., Shannon, R., Opie, J (1999). Psychophysical electrode interaction and speech perception in adult cochlear implant listeners with and without the electrode positioning system.  Presented at the 1999 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA.

18.  Stickney, G.S. and Assmann, P. F. (1998).  Masking of filtered speech by a single competing voice.  Presented at the 21st mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.

19.  Stickney, G. S. and Assmann, P. F. (1997). Intelligibility of bandpass-filtered speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102(5, Part 2), pg. 3134.

20.  Nava, C., Pineda, J. A. & Stickney, G. (1993).  Human and monkey N400-like responses to faces in a priming paradigm, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 19(2), 1607.

 

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

 

1.     Stickney, G.S., Nie, K, Kong, Y-Y, Chen, H, Vongphoe, M, and Zeng, F-G (2004). Temporal fine structure: the missing component in speech processing algorithms.  Presented at the VIII International Cochlear Implant Conference.  Indianapolis, Indiana.

2.     Zeng, F-G, Stickney, GS, Nie, K, Kong, Y-Y (2003).  Auditory perception with slowly-varying amplitude and frequency variations. Presented at the13th International Symposium on Hearing, France.

3.     Stickney, GS, Nie, K, Zeng, F-G, Kong, Y-Y (2003).  Progressive improvements in speech intelligibility with auditory prostheses.   Presented at the 1st International Conference on Medical Implants, Bethesda, MD.

4.     K Nie, Stickney, G, Kong, Y-Y, Vongphoe, M, and Zeng, F-G (2003). Signal processing in cochlear implants: past, present, and future.  Presented at the 1st International Conference on Medical Implants, Bethesda, MD.

5.     Stickney, GS, Nie, K, and  Zeng, F-G (2003) Improved cochlear implant performance in noise.  Presented at the Department of Otolaryngology 4th Annual Research Symposium, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

6.     Kong, Y-Y, Stickney, GS, and Zeng, F-G (2003). Combined acoustic and electric hearing for melody recognition and speech perception in noise.  Presented at the California CI Research Retreat, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA

7.     Stickney, GS (2002). Speech recognition performance by cochlear implant users in noisy backgrounds.  Presented to the Retirement Community of Laguna Woods, Laguna Niguel, CA

8.     Stickney, GS and Zeng, F-G (2002). Cochlear implant performance with competing speech Presented at the Cochlear Implant Study Group, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA

9.     Stickney, GS, Nie, K, and  Zeng, F-G (2002). Improved implant performance in realistic listening situations.  Presented at the Department of Otolaryngology 3rd Annual Research Symposium, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

10.  Loizou, P, Stickney, GS, Mishra, L, and Assmann, P (2002). Comparison of speech processing strategies used in the Clarion implant processor.  Presented at the American Auditory Society.

11.  Stickney, GS (2002). Current issues in cochlear implant research. Presented to the Cochlear Implant Association, Inc., Childrens Hospital, San Diego, CA

12.  Stickney, GS, Loizou, P, and Assmann, P (2001).  Channel interaction in cochlear implants.  Presented at the Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired, Los Angeles, CA

13.  Stickney, GS, Shannon, R, and Opie, J (1999) Channel interactions experienced by patients with the Clarion electrode array with and without and electrode positionser. Presented at Advanced Bionics Corp., Sylmar, CA

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

 

Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Acoustical Society of America

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

 

 

PEER REVIEW:

 

2004 Editorial Consultant for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

2003 Editorial Consultant for Ear and Hearing

2003 Editorial Consultant for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2002 ASHA video ÒChildren with Cochlear Implants: Candidacy and HabilitationÓ

2000 Editorial Consultant for Ear and Hearing

 

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

 

University of Texas Student Advisory Council (1997-1998)

University of Texas at Dallas, Multicultural Association (1996-1998)