Publications:

Brodbeck, C., & Simon, J. Z. (2020). Continuous speech processing. Current Opinion in Physiology, 18, 25–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2020.07.014

Brodbeck, C., Presacco, A., Anderson, S., & Simon, J. Z. (2018). Over-representation of speech in older adults originates from early response in higher order auditory cortex. Acta acustica united with acustica : the journal of the European Acoustics Association (EEIG)104(5), 774–777. https://doi.org/10.3813/AAA.919221

Johns, M. A., Calloway, R. C., Phillips, I., Karuzis, V. P., Dutta, K., Smith, E., Shamma, S. A., Goupell, M. J., & Kuchinsky, S. E. (2023). Performance on stochastic figure-ground perception varies with individual differences in speech-in-noise recognition and working memory capacity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(1), 286 – 202. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016756.

Kulasingham, J. P., Brodbeck, C., Presacco, A., Kuchinsky, S. E., Anderson, S., & Simon, J. Z. (2020). High gamma cortical processing of continuous speech in younger and older listeners. NeuroImage, 222, 117291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117291

Presacco, A., Miran, S., Babadi, B., & Simon, J. Z. (2019). Real-Time Tracking of Magnetoencephalographic Neuromarkers during a Dynamic Attention-Switching Task. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference2019, 4148–4151. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857953

Presacco, A., Simon, J. Z., & Anderson, S. (2019). Speech-in-noise representation in the aging midbrain and cortex: Effects of hearing loss. PLOS ONE, 14(3), e0213899. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213899

Zan, P., Presacco, A., Anderson, S., & Simon, J. Z. (2020). Exaggerated cortical representation of speech in older listeners: mutual information analysis. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124(4), 1152–1164. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00002.2020

 

Presentations:

Anderson, S., Perera, J., Kuchinsky, S., & Simon, J.Z. (2022, February). Central compensation underlies over-representation of speech signals in the aging auditory cortex [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, San Jose, CA.  

Brodbeck, C., Presacco, A., Kuchinsky, S., Anderson, A., & Simon, J. (2019, February). Increased Speech Representation in Older Adults Originates from Early Response in Higher Order Auditory Cortex [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore. 

Calloway, R. C., Decruy, L., Karunathilake, I. M. D., Dunlap, J. L., Anderson, S. A., Simon, J. Z., & Kuchinsky, S. E. (2021, August). Pupil diameter indexes time-course shifts in older adults’ sustained listening effort [Conference session]. International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR), Virtual conference.  

Decruy, L., Karunathilake, I.M., Dunlap, J., Perera, J., Anderson, S., Kuchinsky, S., & Simon, J.Z. (February 2021). Pupil dilation, as a continuous measure of listening effort, during sustained attention to competing talkers [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, Virtual. 

Dunlap, J., Perera, J., Karunathilake, I.M., Simon, J.Z., Kuchinsky, S., & Anderson, S. (2021, February). Relationships between subjective and objective measures of continuous speech understanding reveal age-related deficits [Conference presentation]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, Virtual.  

Karunathilake, I.M., Dunlap, J., Perera, J., Presacco, A., Decruy, L., Anderson, S., Kuchinsky, S., & Simon, J.Z. (2021, August). Effects of aging on the cortical representation of continuous speech [Conference session]. 8th International Symposium on Auditory Research, Online.  

Karunathilake, I.M., Anderson, S., Kuchinsky, S., & Simon, J.Z. (2022, February). Attention Modulated Neuro-Markers Extracted from Listening to Continuous Speech [Poster]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, Virtual.  

Karunathilake, I.M., Dunlap, J., Perera, J., Presacco, A., Decruy, L., Anderson, S., Kuchinsky, S., & Simon, J.Z. (2021, February). Effects of aging on the cortical representation of continuous speech [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, Virtual.  

Kuchinsky, S. E. (2023, February). Interactions between pre-stimulus and stimulus-evoked pupil dilation indices of listening engagement. Talk presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Orlando, FL

Kuchinsky, S. E. (2021, November). Measuring and modulating effortful listening: Developing interventions to address diverse listening challenges. Talk presented at the ASHA Convention, Washington, DC.

Kulasingham, J., Brodbeck, C., Presacco, A., Kuchinsky, S. Anderson, S., & Simon, J. (2020, February). High frequency cortical processing of continuous speech in younger and older listeners [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, San Jose, CA.  

Zan, P., Presacco, A., Anderson, S., & Simon, J. (2019, February). Mutual Information Analysis of Neural Representations of Speech in Noise in the Aging Midbrain [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore.  
   
Zan, P., Presacco, A., Anderson, S., & Simon, J. (2019, February). Cortical Over-representation of Speech in Older Listeners Correlates with a Reduction in Both Behavioral Inhibition and Speech Intelligibility [Conference session]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore.