2024
- “Visual World Paradigm” Based Assessment of Spatial Release from Masking
Lukas A. Suveg, Smita Agrawal, Z. Ellen Peng, Ruth Y. Litovsky
- Auditory Challenges in Down Syndrome: Insights from Cortical Evoked Potentials
Kumari Anshu, Didulani Dantanarayana, Shelly P. Godar, Ruth Y. Litovsky, Carlos R. Benítez- Barrera
- Cortical Auditory Processing and Speech Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood
Kumari Anshu, Didulani Dantanarayana, Shelly P. Godar, Ruth Y. Litovsky, Carlos R. Benítez- Barrera
- Effects of Contextual Cues on Speech Recognition and Spatial Release from Masking in Children with Typical Hearing using Vocoded Speech
Nimesha Didulani Dantanarayana, Shelly Godar, Sara Misurelli, and Ruth Litovsky. Poster presentation at the 46th MidWinter Meeting - ARO, Anaheim, Los Angeles, CA February 2024.
- Immature Sound Localization Ability of Toddlers in Complex Listening Condition
Roya Abdi, Kumari Anshu, Erica Bennett, Ruth Y. Litovsky
- Using Interaural Time Difference Thresholds to Create Individualized “Mixed-Rate” Processing Strategies for Sound Localization Among Bilateral Cochlear Implant Listeners
Agudemu Borjigin, Stephen R. Dennison, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky. ARO 2024.
2023
- Audiovisual speech, but not talker variability, supports word learning in noise for typically-developing adults
Jasenia Hartman, Jenny Saffran, and Ruth Litovsky. Poster presentation at Symposium of Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI June 2023
- Effects of Inter-implant Delay & Auditory Experience on Spatial Release from Masking in Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Nimesha Didulani Dantanarayana, Shelly Godar, Sara Misurelli, and Ruth Litovsky.
- Investigating Auditory Maturation in Down Syndrome
Kumari Anshu, Shelly P. Godar, Didulani Dantanarayana, Ruth Y. Litovsky, Carlos R. Benitez- Barrera
- Lateralization Performance With “Channel Specific” Mixed Rate Stimulation Strategy Using the CCi-Mobile Research Processor
Agudemu Borjigin, Stephen Dennison, Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, Ruth Litovsky. Poster presentation at the 46th MidWinter Meeting - ARO.
- Predicting the auditory motion tracking abilities of bilateral cochlear implant users and typical hearing listeners using binaural cues
Stephen R. Dennison, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky. Poster presentation at the 46th MidWinter Meeting - ARO.
- The Effect of Peripheral Spectral Asymmetry on Speech Target Understanding in Simulations of SSD CI Listening
Lukas A. Suveg, Tanvi D. Thakkar, Z. Ellen Peng, Ruth Y. Litovsky
2022
- Stationary and Moving Sound Perception Among Cochlear Implant Recipients with Single-Sided Deafness
Lukas Suveg, Michaela Warnecke, Alan Kan, Shelly Godar, Daniel J. Lee, Ruth Litovsky. Poster at Gordon Research Conference.
- The Role of Temporal Fine Structure in Everyday Hearing
Agudemu Borjigin, Hari Bharadwaj. Poster at Gordon Research Conference. BHSL sponsored Agudemu's presentation of this dissertation chapter from Purdue University at this conference.
2021
- A Deeper Understanding of Binaural Sensitivity in Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants Revealed through Eye Gaze
Z. Ellen Peng, Alan Kan, and Ruth Litovsky (2021). Talk presented at the virtual Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses.
- A mixed-rate strategy for real-time delivery of interaural time differences to cochlear implant users
Stephen R. Dennison, Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, Mahan Azadpour, Mario A. Svirsky, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Poster presented at the virtual Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses.
- Bilateral Speech Perception is Disrupted When One or Two Ears Provide Degraded Speech
Sean R. Anderson, Frederick J. Gallun, & Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Poster presented at the virtual Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses.
- Cortical Mechanisms of Across-Ear Integration Investigated Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)
Gabriel Sobczak, Xin Zhou, Liberty Moore, and Ruth Litovsky (2021). Poster presented at the virtual Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses.
- Cortical Mechanisms of Binaural Integration Investigated Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)
Gabriel Sobczak, Xin Zhou, Liberty Moore, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Association for Research in Otolaryngology Virtual Conference.
- Effects of hearing loss on auditory motion perception in adults
Michaela Warnecke and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Virtual Conference.
- Evaluating spatial hearing with synchronized cochlear implant processors in the free-field: objective and perceptual measurements
Stephen R. Dennison, Heath Jones, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). 44th Annual Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Virtual Meeting.
- Investigating the effect of interaural asymmetries on binaural unmasking of vocoded speech and binaural integration using EEG
Emily Burg, Viji Easwar, Sean Anderson, Tanvi Thakkar, and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Poster presented at the virtual Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses.
- One bad ear interrupts binaural processing: Brainstem modeling and normal-hearing psychophysics
Sean R. Anderson and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Virtual Conference.
- Optical Imaging with fNIRS: Investigating Cortical Integration of Binaural Stimuli in the Auditory Cortex and Inferior Frontal Gyrus
Gabriel Sobczak (2021). Talk presented at Hearing and Donuts Seminar. Waisman Center, Madison, WI.
- The Relationship Between Spatial Release from Masking and Listening Effort Among Cochlear Implant Users with Single Sided Deafness
Lukas Suveg, Tanvi Thakkar, Emily Burg, Shelly Godar, Ruth Y. Litovsky, Daniel Lee (2021). Poster presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Virtual Conference.
- Validation of online testing for behavioral auditory experiments: Speech intelligibility in quiet and noise
Emily A. Burg, Ellen Peng, Tanvi Thakkar, Shelly Godar, Lukas Suveg, Won Jang, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2021). Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Virtual Conference.
2020
- Auditory Motion Perception in Noise for Listeners with Cochlear Implants and with Normal Hearing
Michaela Warnecke and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA. - Binaural cue competition: How do cochlear implant patients use combinations of interaural cues in the envelope of sounds?
Stephen Dennison (2020).
Talk presented at the Brain and Bagels Seminar, UW Madison, Madison, WI. - Effects of Asymmetric Envelope Compression on Speech Intelligibility and Binaural Unmasking
Emily A. Burg, Tanvi D. Thakkar, Sean Anderson, Matthew B. Winn, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020). Speech in Noise Workshop, Toulouse, France.
- Error-detection in Cochlear Implant and Normal Hearing Listeners
Sarah Bakst, Caroline A. Niziolek, and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA. - Evaluating the impact of a simulated mixed-rate cochlear implant strategy on perception of interaural time differences in noise
Tanvi Thakkar, Thibaud Leclère, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA. - Lateralization of Competing Interaural Envelope Cues Measured with the CCi-Mobile Research Platform
Stephen Dennison, Alan Kan, Tanvi Thakkar, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA. - Perceptual Integration of Speech Information Across Ears With Bilateral Cochlear Implants and Simulations in Normal-Hearing
Sean R. Anderson, Frederick J. Gallun, & Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA. - Robust Spatial Unmasking of Speech in Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants by Harnessing Interaural Time and Level Cues with Large
Z. Ellen Peng & Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA. - The Effect of Asymmetric Dynamic Range on Speech Intelligibility and Binaural Unmasking in Normal Hearing Individuals Listening to Vocoded Speech
Emily A. Burg, Tanvi D. Thakkar, Sean Anderson, Matthew B. Winn, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020). Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA.
- The role of talker variability and audiovisual speech on word learning in cochlear implant listeners
Jasenia Hartman, Jenny Saffran, and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2020).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA.
2019
- A Binaural Advanced Combination Encoder Strategy for Sound Localization with the CCi – Mobile Research Platform
Stephen R. Dennison, Alan Kan, Tanvi Thakkar, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - Assessing Sound Source Localization in Listeners with Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Sean R. Anderson, Rachael Jocewicz, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - Binaural Intelligibility Level Difference with a Simulation of a Mixed-rate Strategy for Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Thibaud Leclère, Seamus Doyle, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Binaural sensitivity in children with bilateral cochlear implants: The course of decision-making revealed by eye gaze
Z. Ellen Peng, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Talk presented at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - Comparisons of pitch-matching methods to predict interaural mismatch in cochlear-implant users
Anderson, S. R., Thakkar, T., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2019).
Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, 362-365. Rostock, Germany. - Does degree of speech asymmetry modulate bilateral speech intelligibility and listening effort in adults with bilateral cochlear implants and adults with normal hearing?
Emily A. Burg, Tanvi D. Thakkar, Sean Anderson , Shelly P. Godar, Matthew B. Winn , Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - Greater rates of cortical thinning in cognitively normal adults with hearing complaints
Taylor N. Fields,Sterling C. Johnson, Ozioma C. Okonkwo,and Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Influence of Binaural Hearing on Speech Intelligibility and Listening Effort
Joseph Roche, Ellen Snodgrass,Tanvi Thakkar,Ruth Litovsky, (2019).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Lateralization of Competing Interaural Cues in Envelope-Modulated High-Frequency Tones
Stephen R. Dennison, Alan Kan, Tanvi Thakkar, Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Lateralization of Interaural Time Differences Measured with the CCi – Mobile Research Platform
Stephen R. Dennison, Alan Kan, TanviThakkar, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - Listening effort in bilateral cochlear implant users with asymmetric across-ear performance in speech perception
Emily Burg, Tanvi Thakkar, Shelly P. Godar, Matthew B. Winn, Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Monaural Temporal Sensitivity and its Implications for Binaural Hearing in Normal-Hearing and Cochlear-Implant Listeners
Sean R. Anderson, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Speech understanding and listening effort in individuals with single-sided deafness who receive a cochlear implant
Tanvi Thakkar, Emily Burg, Shelly Godar, Sara Misurelli, Daniel Lee, and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Talk presented at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - The Ability to Understand Interaural Alternating Speech is Intact in Some Bilateral Cochlear – Implant Listeners
Z. Ellen Peng, Matthew J. Goupell, Chantal van Ginkel, Danielle Zukerman, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - The impact of dynamic interaural time differences on auditory object formation and sound source lateralization in bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - The influence of talker variability and audiovisual speech on word learning in cochlear implant listeners
Jasenia Hartman, Jenny Saffran, and Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA. - Using fNIRS to investigate effortful listening of normal and degraded speech with noise
Xin Zhou, Gabriel Sobczak, Ruth Y. Litovsky, (2019).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Using objective measures to reveal listening effort in cochlear implant listeners
Xin Zhou, Emily Burg, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky (2019).
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA.
2018
- A functionally relevant measure of spatial release from masking in children with bilateral cochlear implants
Peng, Z., Litovsky, RY. (2018).
Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Victoria, Canada. - Asymmetries in temporal encoding and their role in binaural hearing
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
Talk presented at Weekly campus-wide auditory lab meeting, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO. - Binaural hearing with focused stimulation
Goupell, M.J., Stakhovskaya, O. A., Thakkar, T., Leclère, T., Litovsky, R.Y., and Kan, A. (2018).
Talk presented at CRASH Cochlear Implant Research Mini-Conference, Madison, WI - Binaural speech unmasking: Clinically relevant test paradigm reveals new findings in children with normal-hearing and with bilateral cochlear implants
Peng, Z., White, R., Ralston, B., Godar, S., Moua, K., Misurelli, S., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
Talk presented at Hearing and Donuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. - Cognitive Load in Normal Hearing Individuals Listening to Cochlear Implant Simulations
Emily Burg, Sara M. Misurelli, Tanvi Thakkar, Ruth Y. Litovsky
American Academy of Audiology conference in Nashville, TN, 2018 - Controlling for Speaker Variability within a Speech Stimuli Database
Molly Beier, Z. Ellen Peng, Sara Misurelli, Ruth Litovsky
Undergraduate Research Symposium in Madison, WI, 2018 - Could hearing tests help detect the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s?
Fields, T.N. (2018).
Saturday Science at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, Wisconsin. - Creating salient interaural time differences for bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Thakkar, T., Kan, A. and Litvosky, R.Y. (2018).
Brain and Bagels Seminar, UW Madison, Madison, WI. - Dynamic interaural time differences as a test for sound lateralization and auditory object formation
Thakkar, T., Kan, A., and Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
CRASH Cochlear Implant Research Mini-Conference, Madison, WI. - Exploring the Relationship Between Hearing Loss & Working Memory
Sara M. Misurelli, Erica Bennett & Ruth Y. Litovsky
American Auditory Society in Scottsdale, AZ, 2018 - Eye gaze behavior as a window into binaural measures in cochlear implant recipients
Peng, Z., Litovsky, RY. (2018).
7th Annual Waisman Center Day with the Experts: Cochlear Implants, Madison, WI. - Greater rates of cortical thinning in AD vulnerable brain regions among clinically unimpaired adults with hearing complaints
Fields, T.N., Johnson, S.C., Okonkwo, O.C., Litovsky, R.Y. (2018). Neuroscience Symposium, Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
- Impact of mixing stimulation rates across electrode channels on speech understanding in cochlear implant users
Thibaud Leclère, Alan Kan and Ruth Litovsky
International Symposium on Hearing, Snekkersten, Denmark, 2018 - Improving Binaural Hearing for Cochlear Implant Users
Alan Kan
University of Texas in Dallas, Dallas, TX, 2018 - Initial findings on the influence of onset cues on auditory object formation and sound lateralization in bilateral cochlear implant users
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter meeting in San Diego, CA, 2018 - Investigating processing delay in interaural time difference discrimination by normal-hearing children
Peng, Z., Fields, T., Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Boston, MA. - Larger than typical spatial release from masking and binaural squelch for normal-hearing children
Peng, Z., Misurelli, S., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting in San Diego, CA. - Phonological fusion in listeners with cochlear implants and simulations
Anderson, S.R. & Litovsky, R. Y. (2018).
Hearing and Donuts meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. - Poor monaural temporal encoding in bilateral cochlear implants: Interactions with place-of-stimulation mismatch in a normal-hearing simulation
Anderson, S. R., Swords, C. M., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2018).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting, San Diego, CA. - Rates of Neural Recovery and Speech Perception in Children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder and Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Jocewicz, R., Misurelli, S., Runge, C., & Litovsky, R. (2018).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting, San Diego, CA. - Relating temporal encoding in monaural and binaural hearing
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
Presented to Research and Development Team, Cochlear Americas, Centennial, CO. - Speech understanding of cochlear implant patients using a mixed-rates strategy
Thibaud Leclère, Alan Kan and Ruth Litovsky
Midwinter Association for Research in Otolaryngoloy Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2018 - Strategies for presenting usable interaural time differences to bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Thakkar, T., Kan, A. and Litvosky, R.Y. (2018).
UW-Madison Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Professional seminar, Madison, WI. - The impact of hearing loss on executive function
Misurelli, S.M., Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery Annual Research Summit, Madison, WI. - The role of onset cues for lateralization of an auditory object in bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Acoustical Society of America Spring Meeting, 2018 - Use of non-individual head-related transfer functions to measure spatial release from masking in children with normal hearing
Peng, Z., White, R., Misurelli, S., Moua, K., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2018).
Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
2017
- A review of temporal aspects of binaural encoding in the brainstem: Implications for cochlear-implant users
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2017).
Hearing and Donuts meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. - Across-Electrode Sensitivity to Differences in the Envelope and its Relation to Electrode-Neuron Interface
Sean R. Anderson, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - Assessing cognitive load in individuals who have single-sided deafness and receive a cochlear implant
Emily Burg, Sara M. Misurelli, Tanvi Thakkar, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Research in the Rotunda, Madison WI, 2017 - Auditory motion perception of individuals with single sided deafness
Keng Moua, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2017 - Binaural sensitivity in bilaterally implanted children: mechanisms involved in discrimination vs. identification tasks
Alan Kan, Rachael M. Jocewicz, Shelly P. Godar, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - Binaural unmasking and executive function in older adults
Sara M. Misurelli, Rachael Jocewicz & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2017 - Cochlear implants and binaural hearing
Alan Kan
40th Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD, 2017 - Cochlear-implant users and the auditory periphery: Implications for listening in complex environments
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2017).
UW-Madison Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Professional seminar, Madison, WI. - Effect of a mixed rate cochlear implant strategy on speech understanding
Thibaud Leclère, Alan Kan, and Ruth Litovksy
Acoustical society of America Meeting, Boston, MA, 2017 - Effect of a mixed rate strategy on speech understanding for cochlear implant listeners
Thibaud Leclère, Alan Kan and Ruth Litovsky
Midwest Conference on Cochlear Implants, Madison, WI, 2017 - Effect of degraded auditory input on memory span using cochlear implant simulations in normal-hearing listeners
Hartman, J., Misurelli, S., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2017).
Cognitive Hearing Science Conference, Linkoping, Sweden. - Evaluating the time course of binaural sensitivity using stimuli that mimic cochlear implant processing
Taylor N. Fields, Z. Ellen Peng, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2017 - Explaining variability in speech and language outcomes for children with bilateral cochlear implants: A longitudinal study
Sara M. Misurelli, Shelly P. Godar, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - Exploring auditory object formation from binaural cues in listeners with electric hearing
Thakkar, T., Kan, A. and Litvosky, R.Y. (2017).
Brain and Bagels Seminar, UW Madison, Madison, WI. - Hearing in noisy environments
Thakkar, T., Kan, A. and Litvosky, R.Y. (2017).
HLAA-Madison Chapter March 22nd Meeting. Madison, WI. - Implications of poor encoding in the auditory periphery
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2017).
Hearing and Donuts meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. - Improving speech intelligibility for bilateral cochlear implant users using Weiner filters and its impact on cognitive load
Alan Kan
9th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017 - Investigating binaural sensitivity with clinical processors by analyzing eye gaze behavior
Z. Ellen Peng, Alan Kan, Ruth Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - Investigating processing delay in interaural time difference discrimination by normal-hearing children
Z. Ellen Peng, Taylor Fields, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Acoustical Society of America, 2017 - Lateralization of interaural time differences using multi-electrode, mixed-rates of stimulation in bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Thakkar, T., Kan, A., Jones, H.G., and Litovsky R.Y. (2017).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology 40th MidWinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD. - Measuring the ability of clinical processors to encode binaural cues in the signal envelope
Alan Kan*, Jake Bergal, Z. Ellen Peng, Keng Moua and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - Predicting Sensitivity to differences in concurrent, across-channel amplitude modulation rates from single-channel sensitivity
Anderson, S. R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2017).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD. - Relationship between subjective hearing and memory complaints in late middle-aged adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease
Fields, T.N., Johnson, S.C., Okonkwo, O.C., Litovsky, R.Y. (2017). Neuroscience Poster Fair, Madison, Wisconsin.
- Self-Reported Hearing Loss is Associated with Prospective Cognitive Performance: Findings from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention
Fields, T.N., Okonkwo, O.C., Johnson, S.C., Mueller, K.D., Litovsky, R.Y. (2017).
4th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linköping, Sweden. - Self-reported hearing loss, cognitive performance, and risk of MCI: findings from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention
Taylor N. Fields, Rebecca L. Koscik, PhD, Kimberly D. Mueller, PhD, Sterling C. Johnson, PhD, Ozioma C. Okonkwo, PhD, and Ruth Y. Litovsky, PhD
Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication in Linkoping, Sweden, 2017 - Self-Reported Hearing Loss, Cognitive Performance, and Risk of MCI: Findings from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention
Fields, T.N., Okonkwo, O.C., Johnson, S.C., Mueller, K.D., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2017).
Presented at a press conference for the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, London, England. - Sensitivity to interaural timing differences using the advanced combinational encoder strategy
Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky, Zachary M. Smith
Acoustical Society of America, 2017 - Simultaneous presentation of visual information with auditory input simulating cochlear processors reduces memory in normal-hearing listeners
Jasenia Hartman, Sara Misurelli, Alan Kan, Jake Bergal, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2017 - Speech intelligibility in noise for listeners with single-sided deafness with and without a cochlear implant in the contralateral ear
Shelly P. Godar, Sara M. Misurelli, Tanvi D. Thakkar, Erin Nelson, Daniel J. Lee,
Douglas P. Sladen, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - Temporal sensitivity in the auditory periphery: Amplitude modulation sensitivity to stimuli presented to the same ear or across ears
Anderson, S. R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2017).
Gordon Research Conference Auditory System Meeting, Bates College, Lewiston, ME. - The effect of a cochlear implant processing strategy on auditory motion tracking in normal hearing listeners
Keng Moua, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017 - The impact of asymmetric rates on interaural time difference lateralization and auditory object formation in bilateral cochlear implant and normal hearing listeners
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Acoustical Society of America, 2017 - The role of spectral cues for spatial release from masking
Ihlefeld A., Litovsky R.Y. (2017).
Midwinter Meeting Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Understanding the impact of auditory object formation on lateralization in bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2017
2016
- Auditory attention and source segregation in children with cochlear implants or normal hearing
Sara M. Misurelli, Alan Kan, Matthew J. Goupell & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2016 - Auditory motion perception of adults with bilateral cochlear implants
Moua, K., Kan, A., Jones, H., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2016).
Hearing and Donuts meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. - Auditory motion perception of adults with bilateral cochlear implants
Moua, K., Kan, A., Jones, H., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2016).
UW-Madison Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Professional seminar, Madison, WI. - Binaural sensitivity in children
Ehlers, E. and Litovksy, R.Y. (2016).
Brown Bag seminar, Wayne State Audiology, Detroit, MI. - Binaural sensitivity in children with bilateral cochlear implants and in normal hearing children
Ruth Y Litovsky, Erica Ehlers, Alan Kan & Matthew J Goupell
Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, 2016 - Cochlear implants and the auditory periphery: Implications for understanding the auditory environment
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR. - Cochlear Implants in Pediatric Patients: Current Expectations and Future Directions
Misurelli, S.M., Godar, S.P., Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
Wisconsin Speech Language Hearing Association. Wisconsin Dells, WI. - Contribution of interaural cues to spatial release from masking
Jones, H.G., Kan, A., and Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
Assoc. Res. Otol., San Diego, CA. - Coordinating Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Implications for Spatial Hearing in Bilaterally Implanted Patients
Jones, H.G., Kan, A., and Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
Gordon Research Conference: Auditory System. Lewiston, MA. - Discrimination of across-channel amplitude modulation rate: Effects of different modulation depths
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
Binaural Bash, Boston University, Boston, MA. - Does rate or place affect interaural timing difference sensitivity in children who use bilateral cochlear implants?
Erica Ehlers, Alan Kan, & Ruth Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2016 - Effects of elevated amplitude modulation discrimination threshold on simultaneous amplitude modulation rate discrimination
Sean R. Anderson, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Presented at the 171st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America - Exploring the Relationship between Memory, Attention and Hearing
Misurelli, S.M., Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
Waisman Center Day with the Experts: Cochlear Implants. Madison, WI. - Factors that impact successful listening for children with normal hearing and with cochlear implants in multi-source auditory environments
Misurelli, S.M., Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
UW-Madison Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Professional seminar, Madison, WI. - From sound to ‘electric hearing’ – towards improving outcomes with cochlear implants
Alan Kan
5th Annual Waisman Center Day with the Experts: Cochlear Implants, Madison, WI, 2016 - Impact of asymmetric rates on interaural time difference sensitivity and auditory object formation
Thakkar, T., Kan, A. and Litvosky, R.Y. (2016).
CRASH Cochlear Implant Research Mini-Conference, Madison, WI. - Interaural time difference sensitivity with high-rate electrical pulse trains in bilateral cochlear implant users
Alan Kan
Presented at the 171st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America - Listening effort and speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise in normal hearing adults
Molly Beier, Sara M. Misurelli, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Mentored Research Poster Session, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016 - Pupillary responses signify more than just effort: windows into processing, prediction, reflection, and uncertainty
Winn, M.B. (2016).
Acoustical Society of America Fall meeting, Honolulu, HI. - Rapid reduction of listening effort resulting from predicting speech processing, and delays associated with cochlear implantation
Winn, M.B. (2016).
Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT. - Re-engineering the cochlear implant for binaural hearing
Alan Kan
Seminars in Hearing and Communication Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2016 - Restoring sensitivity to interaural timing differences in bilateral cochlear implant listeners using multi-electrode stimulation
Thakkar, T., Kan, A., Jones, H.G., and Litovsky, R.Y., (2016).
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. - Shared monaural and binaural processing limits in cochlear implant listeners
Ihlefeld A., Carlyon R.P., Kan A., Churchill T.H., Litovsky R.Y. (2016).
171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah. - Sound quality impacts the speech and effort of sentence perception
Winn, M.B. (2016).
American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ. - Temporal sensitivity in the auditory periphery: Across-channel comparisons of concurrent amplitude modulation rates
Anderson, S.R., Kan, A., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2016).
CRASH Cochlear Implant Research Mini-Conference, Madison, WI. - Temporal sensitivity in the auditory periphery: amplitude modulation sensitivity to stimuli presented to the same ear or across ears
Sean R. Anderson, Alan Kan, & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Gordon Research Conference, 2016 - The effect of degraded auditory input on memory
Deborah Blank, Jasenia Hartman, Sara Misurelli, Alan Kan, Jake Bergal, Ruth Litovsky
MMSD SRI Poster Session, 2016 - The impact of asymmetric stimulation rates on auditory grouping and binaural sensitivity in bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2016 - The importance of onsets
Thakkar, T., Kan, A. and Litvosky, R.Y. (2016).
Electrical Auditory Research Lab (EAR Lab) at the NYU School of Medicine. - Towards improving binaural hearing abilities in bilateral cochlear implant users
Alan Kan
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 2016 - Using pupillometry to investigate the better ear advantage
Alan Kan and Matthew Winn
Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, 2016
2015
- Auditory motion perception in normal hearing listeners and bilateral cochlear implant users
Keng Moua, Heath G. Jones, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Auditory motion perception of children with bilateral cochlear implants
Moua, K., Kan, A., Jones, H., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2015).
CRASH Cochlear Implant Research Mini-Conference, Madison, WI. - Binaural sensitivity in normal hearing children and children who use bilateral cochlear implants
Ehlers, E., Kan, A., Stoelb, C., & Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
Wisconsin Speech-language Pathology and Audiology Association Convention, Appleton, WI. - Binaural unmasking for bilateral cochlear implantees
Goupell, M.J., Bernstein, J.G.W., Brungart, D., Eisenberg, D., Kan, A., and Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology 38th MidWinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD. - Echo suppression and sound localization in 2-to 3-year old children
William Keener*, Erica Ehlers, Shelly Godar and Ruth Litovsky
Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2015 - Factors contributing to variable sound localization performance in bilateral cochlear implant users
Rachael M. Jocewicz, Alan Kan, Heath Jones, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Improving sensitivity to interaural timing differences for bilateral cochlear implant users with frequency modulations in high rate electrical pulse trains
Alan Kan and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Investigating how factors such as patients’ hearing history and pitch matching between the ears may affect binaural sensitivity in bilateral cochlear implant listeners
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, Matthew Winn, Matthew J. Goupell, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Investigating the Ear Advantage using Pupillometry
Alan Kan, Matthew B. Winn, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - Neurophysiological responses and their relation to binaural psychophysics in bilateral cochlear implant users
Heath Jones* and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Optimizing interaural cues for bilateral cochlear implant users
Todd, A.E., Goupell, M.J., and Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
Association for Research in Otolaryngology 38th Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD. - Preserving sensitivity to interaural timing differences in bilateral cochlear implant listeners: effects of rate and place of stimulation with multi-electrode stimulation
Tanvi Thakkar, Alan Kan, Heath G. Jones, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - Sensitivity to interaural level differences is more prevalent than interaural timing differences in children who use bilateral cochlear implants
Erica Ehlers*, Shelly Godar, Alan Kan, Ann Todd, & Ruth Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - Sensitivity to interaural timing differences in children with bilateral cochlear implants
Erica Ehlers, Alan Kan, Shelly Godar, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Source segregation and the effects of executive function
Sara M. Misurelli* & Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - Spatial attention (contralateral unmasking) in children with bilateral cochlear implants and in normal hearing children
Sara Misurelli, Alan Kan, Rachael Jocewicz, Shelly Godar, Matthew J. Goupell & Ruth Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Spectral degradation affects the efficiency of sentence processing: evidence from measures of pupil dilation
Matthew Winn and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 2015 - Synchronizing bilateral cochlear implants: Preliminary findings using the UT-Dallas Cochlear Implant Personal Digital Assistant research platform
Heath Jones*, Alan Kan, and Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - Synchronizing bilateral cochlear implants: Preliminary findings with novel research platform
Jones, H.G. (2015).
Brain and Bagels Weekly Seminar. Madison, WI. - The effect of stationary and moving sounds in localization for normal hearing listeners and bilateral cochlear implant users
Keng Moua, Heath G. Jones, Alan Kan, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - The impact of spectral resolution on the efficiency of sentence processing
Matthew Winn*, Sara Misurelli, Ruth Y. Litovsky
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2015 - The performance gap: Investigating executive function in individuals with cochlear implants
Misurelli, S.M., Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
UW-Madison Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Professional seminar, Madison, WI. - The performance gap: Investigating executive function in individuals with cochlear implants and with normal hearing
Misurelli, S.M., Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
Interdepartmental Auditory Neuroscience Seminar Series, Madison, WI. - The precedence effect in sound localization: Insights from electric hearing
Thakkar, T., Kan, A., and Litvosky, R.Y. (2015).
Brain and Bagels Seminar, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. - The relationship between phonetic cue weighting and listening effort in listeners with cochlear implants
Winn, M.B., Edwards, J.R., Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
169th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA. - The roles of harmonicity and temporal pitch in the perception of speech in noise: a study of intelligibility and listening effort
Winn, M.B., Litovsky, R.Y. (2015).
38th Annual midwinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. - Towards improving sensitivity to interaural time differences in bilateral cochlear implant users
Alan Kan, Ruth Litovsky
Hearing and Donuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2015