Joseph Bochner, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology
Research Topic: Auditory Experience, Critical Periods, and the Development of Categorical Perception in Cochlear Implant Users: A Preliminary Investigation
Long-Term Goal: To understand the impact of sensorineural (peripheral) hearing loss may extend to central auditory processing when the onset of hearing loss occurs at birth or within the first two to three years of life.
Published Research
Phoneme Categorization in Prelingually Deaf Adult Cochlear Implant Users, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022.
Effects of Sound Quality on the Accuracy of Telephone Captions Produced by Automatic Speech Recognition: A Preliminary Investigation, American Journal of Audiology, 2022.
Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Topic: Toddlers’ and preschoolers’ ability to hear speech in noise: Assessing performance with a two-interval, observer-based procedure
Long-Term Goal To examine toddlers’ and preschoolers’ auditory functioning with stimuli that are believed to be highly related to speech and language abilities.
Published Research
Identifying Reduced Hearing in Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities: Insights for Inclusive Research Practices with Electronic Health Records, Frontiers in Psychology, 2023.
Development of Masked Speech Detection Thresholds in 2- to 15-year-old Children: Speech-Shaped Noise and Two-Talker Speech Maskers, Ear & Hearing, 2021.
Visual reinforcers designed for children with developmental disabilities, Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, 2021.
Interrater Reliability for a Two-Interval, Observer-Based Procedure for Measuring Hearing in Young Children, American Journal of Audiology, 2020.
Measuring open-set, word recognition in school-aged children: Corpus of monosyllabic target words and speech maskers, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019.
Using Visual Supports to Facilitate Audiological Testing for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, American Journal of Audiology, 2019.
Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in 2- to 7-Year-Old Children: Evaluation of a Two-Interval, Observer-Based Procedure Using Conditioned Play-Based Responses, American Journal of Audiology, 2019.
NIH & Other Major Federal Research Funding: $536,398
Measuring hearing in children with developmental differences, NIDCD, $181,343 awarded in 2022.
Measuring Hearing in Children with Developmental Differences, NIDCD, $202,693 awarded in 2021.
Measuring Hearing in Children with Developmental Differences, NIDCD, $152,362 awarded in 2020.
Inyong Choi, Ph.D., University of Iowa
Research Topic: Neural correlates of selective listening deficits in a multiple-speaker environment
Long-Term Goal: To develop clinical tests to identify specific hearing deficits that are currently undiagnosed and raise awareness of such “hidden” hearing loss.
Published Research
Spectral Grouping of Electrically Encoded Sound Predicts Speech-in-Noise Performance in Cochlear Implantees, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2023.
Immediate neural impact and incomplete compensation after semantic hub disconnection, Nature Communications, 2023.
Neural Correlates of Individual Differences in Speech-in-Noise Performance in a Large Cohort of Cochlear Implant Users, Ear & Hearing, 2023.
Differences in Neural Encoding of Speech in Noise Between Cochlear Implant Users with and without Preserved Acoustic Hearing, Hearing Research, 2022.
Strength of Attentional Modulation on Cortical Auditory Evoked Responses Correlates with Speech-in-Noise Performance in Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users, Trends in Hearing, 2022.
Revealing differential importance of word categories in spoken sentence comprehension using phoneme-related representation, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2022.
Effect of Noise Reduction on Cortical Speech-in-Noise Processing and Its Variance due to Individual Noise Tolerance, Ear & Hearing, 2021.
Validation of the Iowa Test of Consonant Perception, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021.
Auditory Working Memory Explains Variance in Speech Recognition in Older Listeners Under Adverse Listening Conditions, Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2020.
A computational study to model the effect of electrode-to-auditory nerve fiber distance on spectral resolution in cochlear implant, PLOS ONE, 2020.
Topographic specificity of alpha power during auditory spatial attention, NeuroImage, 2020.
Semantic-hierarchical model improves classification of spoken-word evoked electrocorticography, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2019.
Causal links between parietal alpha activity and spatial auditory attention, eLife, 2019.
Impoverished auditory cues limit engagement of brain networks controlling spatial selective attention, NeuroImage, 2019.
Non-Invasive Assays of Cochlear Synaptopathy, bioRxiv, 2019.
Electric and acoustic harmonic integration predicts speech-in-noise performance in hybrid cochlear implant users, Hearing Research, 2018.
NIH & Other Major Federal Research Funding: $1,888,532
Project 2: Central Auditory Integration and Plasticity, NIDCD, $525,886 awarded in 2023.
Identifying the Sources of Degraded Speech-in-Noise Understanding and Individualized Therapeutic Options, CDMRP, $1,362,646 awarded in 2018.
Christina Reuterskiöld, Ph.D., New York University
Research Topic: Rhyme Awareness in Children with Cochlear Implants: Investigating the Effect of a Degraded Auditory System on Auditory Processing, Language, and Literacy Development
Long-Term Goal: To better understand the implications of early auditory deprivation on auditory processing, language, and literacy learning in children, which will ultimately lead to improvements in targeted intervention and educational approaches for these children.
Published Research
Longitudinal Social and Communication Outcomes in Children with Autism Raised in Bi/Multilingual Environments, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021.
Rhyme Awareness in Children With Normal Hearing and Children With Cochlear Implants: An Exploratory Study, Frontiers in Psychology, 2019.