Acoustic Stimulation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 3D model of frequency representation in the cochlear nucleus of the CBA/J mouse. 
  • 5-HT2C Agonists Modulate Schizophrenia-Like Behaviors in Mice. 
  • A biological rationale for musical consonance. 
  • A bird's eye view: top down intracellular analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations. 
  • A common neural circuit mechanism for internally guided and externally reinforced forms of motor learning. 
  • A comparison of stapedial reflex fatigue with repetitive stimulation and single-fiber EMG in myasthenia gravis. 
  • A distinctive subpopulation of medial septal slow-firing neurons promote hippocampal activation and theta oscillations. 
  • A framework for using signal, noise, and variation to determine whether the brain controls movement synergies or single muscles. 
  • A monotonic code for sound azimuth in primate inferior colliculus. 
  • A mutual information analysis of neural coding of speech by low-frequency MEG phase information. 
  • A neurophysiological study into the foundations of tonal harmony. 
  • A pilot investigation of audiovisual processing and multisensory integration in patients with inherited retinal dystrophies. 
  • A psychophysical study of auditory and pressure sensitivity in patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls. 
  • A rate code for sound azimuth in monkey auditory cortex: implications for human neuroimaging studies. 
  • A synaptic basis for auditory-vocal integration in the songbird. 
  • Acoustic startle and prepulse inhibition predict smoking lapse in posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Activation of human auditory cortex in retrieval experiments: an fMRI study. 
  • Affective modulation of the startle eyeblink and postauricular reflexes in autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Age-related effects on the neural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval. 
  • An attempt to improve bilateral cochlear implants by increasing the distance between electrodes and providing complementary information to the two ears. 
  • An information theoretic characterisation of auditory encoding. 
  • Analysis of neural interactions explains the activation of occipital cortex by an auditory stimulus. 
  • Are auditory percepts determined by experience? 
  • Assessing the pitch structure associated with multiple rates and places for cochlear implant users. 
  • Attention failures versus misplaced diligence: separating attention lapses from speed-accuracy trade-offs. 
  • Attention sharpens the distinction between expected and unexpected percepts in the visual brain. 
  • Attentional capacity for processing concurrent stimuli is larger across sensory modalities than within a modality. 
  • Attenuation of auditory startle and prepulse inhibition by unexpected changes in ambient illumination through dopaminergic mechanisms. 
  • Auditory plasticity in a basal ganglia-forebrain pathway during decrystallization of adult birdsong. 
  • Auditory saccades from different eye positions in the monkey: implications for coordinate transformations. 
  • Auditory signals evolve from hybrid- to eye-centered coordinates in the primate superior colliculus. 
  • Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches. 
  • Auditory/visual duration bisection in patients with left or right medial-temporal lobe resection. 
  • Bayesian optimization of time perception. 
  • Binaural advantages in using a cochlear implant for adults with profound unilateral hearing loss. 
  • Binaural auditory beats affect vigilance performance and mood. 
  • Brain responses in the processing of lexical pitch-accent by Japanese speakers. 
  • Brainstem auditory evoked potential monitoring: when is change in wave V significant? 
  • Can an old bird change his tune? 
  • Categorical scaling of duration as a function of temporal context in aged rats. 
  • Cochlear implants: a remarkable past and a brilliant future. 
  • Cochlear implants: some likely next steps. 
  • Coherence analysis of scalp responses to amplitude-modulated tones. 
  • Consistency of sustained attention across modalities: comparing visual and auditory versions of the SART. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Convergence of neural systems processing stimulus associations and coordinating motor responses. 
  • Convulsant properties of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX): spontaneous audiogenic, and amygdaloid kindled seizure activity. 
  • Cortical mechanisms for the segregation and representation of acoustic textures. 
  • Criterial range as a frame of reference for stimulus judgment. 
  • Cross-modal generality of the gating deficit. 
  • Cross-modal stimulus conflict: the behavioral effects of stimulus input timing in a visual-auditory Stroop task. 
  • Decrements in auditory responses to a repeated conspecific song are long-lasting and require two periods of protein synthesis in the songbird forebrain. 
  • Design and evaluation of a continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) processing strategy for multichannel cochlear implants. 
  • Development of fricative sound perception in Korean infants: The role of language experience and infants' initial sensitivity. 
  • Development of hemispheric specialization for lexical pitch-accent in Japanese infants. 
  • Development of non-native vowel discrimination: Improvement without exposure. 
  • Development of single/geminate obstruent discrimination by Japanese infants: early integration of durational and nondurational cues. 
  • Developmental increases in effective connectivity to brain regions involved in phonological processing during tasks with orthographic demands. 
  • Different Stimuli, Different Spatial Codes: A Visual Map and an Auditory Rate Code for Oculomotor Space in the Primate Superior Colliculus 
  • Different mechanisms are responsible for dishabituation of electrophysiological auditory responses to a change in acoustic identity than to a change in stimulus location. 
  • Different subthreshold mechanisms underlie song selectivity in identified HVc neurons of the zebra finch. 
  • Differential effects of the antidepressant mirtazapine on amphetamine- and dizocilpine-induced PPI deficits. 
  • Discrimination of phonemic vowel length by Japanese infants. 
  • Distress tolerance to auditory feedback and functional connectivity with the auditory cortex. 
  • Drugs derived from cannabinoids. 2. Basic esters of nitrogen and carbocyclic analogs. 
  • Drugs derived from cannabinoids. 4. Effect of alkyl substitution in sulfur and carbocyclic analogs. 
  • Dynamics of networks of randomly connected excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons. 
  • Effects of Electrical Stimulation in the Inferior Colliculus on Frequency Discrimination by Rhesus Monkeys and Implications for the Auditory Midbrain Implant. 
  • Effects of attention on the neural processing of harmonic syntax in Western music. 
  • Effects of conductive hearing loss on gerbil central auditory system activity in silence. 
  • Effects of reward and behavioral context on neural activity in the primate inferior colliculus. 
  • Effects of smoking and telic/paratelic dominance on the contingent negative variation (CNV). 
  • Effects of unexpected changes in visual scenes on the human acoustic startle response and prepulse inhibition. 
  • Effects of wide band inhibitors in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. II. Model calculations of the responses to complex sounds. 
  • Efferent synapses return to inner hair cells in the aging cochlea. 
  • Electromyography as a recording system for eyeblink conditioning with functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Electrophysiological measures of time processing in infant and adult brains: Weber's Law holds. 
  • Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary. 
  • Encoding of spectral correlation over time in auditory cortex. 
  • Epilepsy and all that jazz. 
  • Excitatory and inhibitory learning with absent stimuli. 
  • Eye position affects activity in primary auditory cortex of primates. 
  • Eye position influences auditory responses in primate inferior colliculus. 
  • Eye-centered, head-centered, and complex coding of visual and auditory targets in the intraparietal sulcus. 
  • Feasibility of a bilateral 4000-6000 Hz notch as a phenotype for genetic association analysis. 
  • Frontal-striatal circuitry activated by human peak-interval timing in the supra-seconds range. 
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging measure of automatic and controlled auditory processing. 
  • Gender-specific effects of prenatal and adolescent exposure to tobacco smoke on auditory and visual attention. 
  • Getting a decent (but sparse) signal to the brain for users of cochlear implants. 
  • Good times for multisensory integration: Effects of the precision of temporal synchrony as revealed by gamma-band oscillations. 
  • Hear it playing low and slow: how pitch level differentially influences time perception. 
  • Hearing rehabilitation using the BAHA bone-anchored hearing aid: results in 40 patients. 
  • Hearing-in-noise benefits after bilateral simultaneous cochlear implantation continue to improve 4 years after implantation. 
  • Hemodynamic correlates of stimulus repetition in the visual and auditory cortices: an fMRI study. 
  • How Movement Modulates Hearing. 
  • Imagery and retrieval of auditory and visual information: neural correlates of successful and unsuccessful performance. 
  • Imaging auditory representations of song and syllables in populations of sensorimotor neurons essential to vocal communication. 
  • Impaired fear response in mice lacking GIT1. 
  • Importance of patient and processor variables in determining outcomes with cochlear implants. 
  • Increased tone-offset response in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala underlies trace fear conditioning. 
  • Increasing cortical activity in auditory areas through neurofeedback functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms underlying auditory responses to learned vocalizations in the songbird nucleus HVC. 
  • Intermodal attention affects the processing of the temporal alignment of audiovisual stimuli. 
  • Interval-timing deficits in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia. 
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to auditory selectivity in a song nucleus critical for vocal plasticity. 
  • Investigating the effects of stimulus duration and context on pitch perception by cochlear implant users. 
  • Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task. 
  • Latent inhibition in the conditioned electrodermal response. 
  • Lateralization of auditory sensory gating and neuropsychological dysfunction in schizophrenia. 
  • Lateralized auditory spatial perception and the contralaterality of cortical processing as studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography. 
  • Links between multisensory processing and autism. 
  • Long lasting attenuation by prior sounds in auditory cortex of awake primates. 
  • Looking at the ventriloquist: visual outcome of eye movements calibrates sound localization. 
  • MK-801 potently inhibits alcohol withdrawal seizures in rats. 
  • Magnetoencephalographic recordings demonstrate attentional modulation of mismatch-related neural activity in human auditory cortex. 
  • Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech. 
  • Meclizine enhancement of sensorimotor gating in healthy male subjects with high startle responses and low prepulse inhibition. 
  • Microglia and memory: modulation by early-life infection. 
  • Modality differences in timing and temporal memory throughout the lifespan. 
  • Model calculations of steady state responses to binaural stimuli in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus. 
  • Model calculations of the effects of wide-band inhibitors in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. 
  • Model calculations of time dependent responses to binaural stimuli in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus. 
  • Modulation of early auditory processing during selective listening to rapidly presented tones. 
  • Modulation of early sensory processing in human auditory cortex during auditory selective attention. 
  • Momentary reductions of attention permit greater processing of irrelevant stimuli. 
  • Monkeys match the number of voices they hear to the number of faces they see. 
  • Motor-related signals in the intraparietal cortex encode locations in a hybrid, rather than eye-centered reference frame. 
  • Multisensory guidance of orienting behavior. 
  • Multisensory processing and oscillatory gamma responses: effects of spatial selective attention. 
  • Mutation of the Angelman ubiquitin ligase in mice causes increased cytoplasmic p53 and deficits of contextual learning and long-term potentiation. 
  • Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. 
  • Neural correlates of automatic and controlled auditory processing in schizophrenia. 
  • Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. 
  • Neural network model of prepulse inhibition. 
  • Neuromonics™ Tinnitus Treatment: preliminary experience in a private practice setting. 
  • Neuronal ensemble bursting in the basal forebrain encodes salience irrespective of valence. 
  • Optical brain imaging reveals general auditory and language-specific processing in early infant development. 
  • PPI deficit induced by amphetamine is attenuated by the histamine H1 antagonist pyrilamine, but is exacerbated by the serotonin 5-HT2 antagonist ketanserin. 
  • Partial deafness cochlear implantation (PDCI) and electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS). 
  • Pathology: whales, sonar and decompression sickness. 
  • Persistent cognitive alterations in rats after early postnatal exposure to low doses of the organophosphate pesticide, diazinon. 
  • Persistent representation of juvenile experience in the adult songbird brain. 
  • Physiological determinants of hyperreactivity to stress in borderline hypertension. 
  • Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. 
  • Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. 
  • Predicting auditory tone-in-noise detection performance: the effects of neural variability. 
  • Predicting dynamic range and intensity discrimination for electrical pulse-train stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of stimulus noise. 
  • Prenatal-choline supplementation differentially modulates timing of auditory and visual stimuli in aged rats. 
  • Processing of infant-directed speech by adults. 
  • Processing two dimensions of nonspeech stimuli: the auditory-phonetic distinction reconsidered. 
  • Profiling of experience-regulated proteins in the songbird auditory forebrain using quantitative proteomics. 
  • Protein kinase C mediates potentiation of synaptic transmission by phorbol ester at parallel fibers in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. 
  • Psychophysical correlates of contralateral efferent suppression. I. The role of the medial olivocochlear system in "central masking" in nonhuman primates. 
  • Range and sequence effects in judgment. 
  • Rapid Context-based Identification of Target Sounds in an Auditory Scene. 
  • Reduction of single-neuron firing uncertainty by cortical ensembles during motor skill learning. 
  • Reference frame of the ventriloquism aftereffect. 
  • Regional cerebral blood flow correlates of a dichotic listening task. 
  • Reinstatement of conditioned fear in humans is context dependent and impaired in amnesia. 
  • Representation of eye position in primate inferior colliculus. 
  • Reproducibility of trial-based functional MRI on motor imagery. 
  • Respiratory and telencephalic modulation of vocal motor neurons in the zebra finch. 
  • Responses of ventral cochlear nucleus neurons to contralateral sound after conductive hearing loss. 
  • Role of nicotinic receptors in the lateral habenula in the attenuation of amphetamine-induced prepulse inhibition deficits of the acoustic startle response in rats. 
  • Selective attention and audiovisual integration: is attending to both modalities a prerequisite for early integration? 
  • Selective listening at fast stimulus rates: so much to hear, so little time. 
  • Sensitivity to temporal modulation rate and spectral bandwidth in the human auditory system: fMRI evidence. 
  • Sensory modality and time perception in children and adults. 
  • Similar prevalence and magnitude of auditory-evoked and visually evoked activity in the frontal eye fields: implications for multisensory motor control. 
  • Simple versus complex feedback displays in the training of digital temperature. 
  • Simultaneous temporal processing is sensitive to prenatal choline availability in mature and aged rats. 
  • Single neurons may encode simultaneous stimuli by switching between activity patterns. 
  • Slow NMDA-EPSCs at synapses critical for song development are not required for song learning in zebra finches. 
  • Social Mimicry Enhances Mu-Suppression During Action Observation. 
  • Somatosensory Representations Link the Perception of Emotional Expressions and Sensory Experience. 
  • Spatiotemporal memory is an intrinsic property of networks of dissociated cortical neurons. 
  • Startle and prepulse inhibition as a function of background noise: a computational and experimental analysis. 
  • Stream segregation on a single electrode as a function of pulse rate in cochlear implant listeners. 
  • Synaptic interactions underlying song-selectivity in the avian nucleus HVC revealed by dual intracellular recordings. 
  • Systematic mapping of the monkey inferior colliculus reveals enhanced low frequency sound representation. 
  • Task difficulty modulates brain activation in the emotional oddball task. 
  • Thalamic gating of auditory responses in telencephalic song control nuclei. 
  • The ERP omitted stimulus response to "no-stim" events and its implications for fast-rate event-related fMRI designs. 
  • The Temporal Cascade of Neural Processes Underlying Target Detection and Attentional Processing During Auditory Search. 
  • The cortical analysis of speech-specific temporal structure revealed by responses to sound quilts. 
  • The cross-modal spread of attention reveals differential constraints for the temporal and spatial linking of visual and auditory stimulus events. 
  • The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants. 
  • The development of frequency weighting for speech in children with a history of otitis media with effusion. 
  • The dopamine D2, but not D3 or D4, receptor subtype is essential for the disruption of prepulse inhibition produced by amphetamine in mice. 
  • The effect of channel interactions on speech recognition in cochlear implant subjects: predictions from an acoustic model. 
  • The effect of divided attention on encoding and retrieval in episodic memory revealed by positron emission tomography. 
  • The effect of fetal heart rate on the peak systolic velocity of the fetal middle cerebral artery. 
  • The effect of frequency estimation on speech recognition using an acoustic model of a cochlear implant. 
  • The effect of nicotine and trauma context on acoustic startle in smokers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • The effects of channel-selective attention on the mismatch negativity wave elicited by deviant tones. 
  • The effects of ongoing distraction on the neural processes underlying signal detection. 
  • The effects of reverberant self- and overlap-masking on speech recognition in cochlear implant listeners. 
  • The electrophysiological time course of the interaction of stimulus conflict and the multisensory spread of attention. 
  • The functions of nonsuicidal self-injury: support for cognitive-affective regulation and opponent processes from a novel psychophysiological paradigm. 
  • The gene encoding proline dehydrogenase modulates sensorimotor gating in mice. 
  • The multisensory representation of number in infancy. 
  • The neural basis of involuntary episodic memories. 
  • The neural circuitry underlying the executive control of auditory spatial attention. 
  • The neural mechanisms for minimizing cross-modal distraction. 
  • The organization of frequency and binaural cues in the gerbil inferior colliculus. 
  • The rapid distraction of attentional resources toward the source of incongruent stimulus input during multisensory conflict. 
  • The selective serotonin-2A receptor antagonist M100907 reverses behavioral deficits in dopamine transporter knockout mice. 
  • The spread of attention across modalities and space in a multisensory object. 
  • The α₂-adrenergic antagonist idazoxan counteracts prepulse inhibition deficits caused by amphetamine or dizocilpine in rats. 
  • Three-month results with bilateral cochlear implants. 
  • Timing in the baby brain. 
  • Timing is everything: neural response dynamics during syllable processing and its relation to higher-order cognition in schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects. 
  • Transformation of vestibular signals into motor commands in the vestibuloocular reflex pathways of monkeys. 
  • Two new directions in speech processor design for cochlear implants. 
  • Using channel-specific statistical models to detect reverberation in cochlear implant stimuli. 
  • Variability in emotional responsiveness and coping style during active avoidance as a window onto psychological vulnerability to stress. 
  • Ventral cochlear nucleus responses to contralateral sound are mediated by commissural and olivocochlear pathways. 
  • Video game players show more precise multisensory temporal processing abilities. 
  • Visual recognition memory and auditory brainstem response in infant rhesus monkeys exposed perinatally to environmental tobacco smoke. 
  • Wandering minds and wavering rhythms: linking mind wandering and behavioral variability. 
  • When top-down meets bottom-up: auditory training enhances verbal memory in schizophrenia. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Huettel, Lisa Gresham, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering