HESP Student Researchers

HESP undergraduate and graduate students have many opportunties to be involved in research, both in laboratories of our faculty on campus and at off-campus sites such as the NIH.

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Recent Student Publications:

Choi, B., Madeo, A., King, K. A., Zalewski, C., Pryor, S., Nance, W., et al. (2009). Segregation of enlarged vestibular aqueducts in families with nondiagnostic SLC26A4 genotypes. Journal of Medical Genetics. doi:10.1136/jmg.2009.067892

Choi, B., Stewart, A., Madeo, A., Pryor, S., Lenhard, S., Kittles, R., Eisenman, D., Kim, H. J., Niparko, J., Thomsen, J., Arnos, K., Nance, W., King, K. A., et al. (2009). Hypofunctional SLC26A4 variants associated with nonsyndromic hearing loss and enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct: genotype-phenotype correlation or coincidental polymorphisms? Human Mutation, 30, 599-608.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., & Barrett, J. (2007). Age-related differences in discrimination of an interval separating onsets of successive tone bursts as a function of interval duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122, 458-466.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., & Friedman, S. (2006). Aging and temporal order recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 991-999.

Gordon-Salant, S., & Callahan, J. The benefits of hearing aids and closed captioning for television viewing by older adults with hearing loss. Ear and Hearing (in press).

Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P., & Friedman, S. Recognition of time-expanded speech by young and elderly listeners with normal hearing and mild-to-moderate hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Gordon-Salant, S. Yeni-Komshian, G., Fitzgibbons, P., & Barrett, J. (2006). Age-related differences in identification and discrimination of temporal cues in speech segments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 2455-2466.

King, K. A., Choi, B. Y., Zalewski, C., Madeo, A., Manichaikul, A., Pryor, S., et al. (in press). SLC26A4 genotype, but not cochlear radiologic structure, is correlated with hearing loss in ears with an enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA). Laryngoscope.

King, K., Makishima, T., Zalewski, C., Bakalov, V., Griffith, A., Bondy, C., et al. (2007). Analysis of auditory phenotype and karyotype in 200 women with Turner syndrome. Ear and Hearing, 28, 6, 831-841.

Madeo, A., Pryor, S., Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., King, K., Butman, J., Park, H., et al. (2006) Pendred Syndrome. Seminars in Hearing, 27, 3, 160-170.

Makishima, T., King, K. A., Zalewski, C., Butman, J., Brewer, C., Bondy, C., et al. (in press). Otolaryngologic markers for the early diagnosis of Turner syndrome. Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Morell, R. J., Brewer, C. C., Ge, D., Snieder, H., Zalewski, C. K., King, K. A., Drayna, D., & Friedman, T. B. (2007). A twin study of auditory processing indicates that dichotic listening ability is a strongly heritable trait. Human Genetics, 122, 103-11.

Rose, S. & King, K. (2007). Speech Error Elicitation and Co-occurrence Restrictions in Two Ethiopian Semitic Languages. Language and Speech, 50(4), 451-503.

Schvartz, K. C., Chatterjee, M., & Gordon-Salant, S. (2008). Recognition of spectrally degraded phonemes by younger, middled-aged, and older normal-hearing listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124 (6), 3972-3988.

Yanjanin, N., Velez, J., Gropman, A., King, K. A., Brewer, C., Solomon, B., et al. (2009). Linear clinical progression, independent of age of onset, in Niemann-Pick Disease, type C. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 10.1002/ajmg.b.30969.

Recent Presentations by HESP Students:

Barrett, J., Gordon-Salant, S., & Walden, T. (2009). Developing an evidence-based referral protocol for early diagnosis of vestibular schwannomas. American Academy of Audiology, April.

Bauman, J., Hall, N., Wagovich, S., Weber-Fox, C. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2009, August). Comparing syntax and morphology between CWS and CWNS: new findings. Sixth International Fluency Association World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bauman, J., Hall, N., Wagovich, S., Weber-Fox, C., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2009, November). Irregular past tense use in CWS and CWNS: gender analysis. American Speech, Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans.

Bently, J., Zalewski, C., Morse, R., King, K., Smith, A., Brewer, C. (2007). Hyperacusis in patients with Smith Magenis syndrome. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Denver, CO.

Bienstick, J., Strekas, A., Riffanacht, A., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard. W.D., and Ratner, NB. (2007, November). Non-specific terminology in the narratives of children with epilepsy. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston.

Blodgett, A., Bauman, J., Bowles, A., Charters, L., Rytting, A., Shamoo, J., Winn, M (2008). A comparison of native speaker and American adult learner Vietnamese lexical tones. Proceedings from “Acoustics ‘08” The joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française D’Acoustique. Paris, France.

Block, K., Formby, C., Gordon-Salant, S., & Hawley, M. (2006). Processing of speech in complex listening environments by individuals with obscure auditory dysfunction. American Academy of Audiology, April.

Block, K., Gordon-Salant, S., Hawley, M., & Formby, C. (2006). Processing of speech in complex listening environments by individuals with obscure auditory dysfunction. Acoustical Society of America, May.

Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., Kim, J., Segar, A., King, K. & Goldbach-Mansky, R. (2005). Auditory phenotype of neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Washington, DC.

Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., King, K., Schultz, J., Meltzer, M., Madeo, A., et al (2008). Dynamic platform posturography findings in Usher syndrome. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Charlotte, NC.

Buethe, P., Marin, R., Zalewski, C., King, K., Tamura, D., DiGiovanna, J., et al. (2007). Auditory phenotype of Xeroderma Pigmentosum. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Denver, CO.

Chatterjee, M., Nelson, D., Peredo, F., Baskent, D. (2009) Perceptual restoration of interrupted speech: effects of spectral degradation. Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol Abs., 711.

Chatterjee, M., Peng, S.C., Hoffard, K., Zion, D., Carls, S., Holke, J. and Nagler, B. (2009) Masking release from modulated noise: spectral degradation and cochlear implants. 2009 American Auditory Society Meeting

Chatterjee, M. and Schvartz, K.C. (2008) Multi-electrode spatial pattern discrimination with cochlear implants. Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol Abs., 292.

Chatterjee, M., & Schvartz, K. C. “Multi-electrode spatial pattern discrimination with cochlear implants”. Poster: 2008 Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, AZ.

Chatterjee, M. and Schvartz, K.C. (2009) Subjective estmates of multi-channel loudness growth in cochlear-implant listeners. Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol Abs., 706.

Eiserike, L., Zalewski, C., Carr, W., Picchioni, D., King, K., Brewer, C. (2007). Effects of prolonged and repeated fMRI exposure on auditory function. Poster session presented at the National Institutes of Health Summer Poster Series, Bethesda, MD.

Ferruggiaro, A., King, K., Madeo, A., Zalewski, C., Butman, J., Griffith, A., et al. (2007). Auditory characteristics and SLC26A4 genotype in EVA. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Denver, CO.
 

Ferruggiaro, A., King, K., Zalewski, C., Butman, J., Griffith, A., Brewer, C. (2006) Progression of hearing loss in individuals with enlarged vestibular aqueducts. Poster session presented at the National Institutes of Health Summer Poster Series, Bethesda, MD.

Fitzgerald, T., Burke, S., & Merkison, M. (2008).  Wideband reflectance and age in adults.  The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 33, 44.

Fitzgerald, T., & Merkison, M. (2007). DPOAE Mechanisms and the estimation of hearing thresholds. Abstracts of the Thirtieth Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, p. 177.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S. & Barrett, J. (2007). Discrimination of temporal intervals by young and elderly listeners. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., & Friedman, S. (2005). Aging and temporal order recognition. ARO, Midwinter Meeting, New Orleans, February.

Fitzgibbons, P., Gordon-Salant, S., Hwang, H., & James, K. (2009). Temporal discrimination in accented tone sequences by young and elderly listeners. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February.

Freedman, H., Newman, R., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2009, November). Maternal speech to 7-month old infants. American Speech, Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans.

Friedman, S., & Gordon-Salant, S. (2009). Recognition of rapid speech by blind and sighted older adults. American Auditory Society, March.

Gordon-Salant, S., & Callahan, J. (2008). Benefits of hearing aids and closed captioning for television viewing. American Auditory Society, March.

Gordon-Salant, S., Yeni-Komshian, G., Fitzgibbons, P., & Barrett, J. (2006). Age-related differences in identification and discrimination of temporal cues in speech segments. ARO, Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, February.

Gordon-Salant, S., Yeni-Komshian, G., Fitzgibbons, P., & Barrett, J. (2007). Age effects on identification of temporal cues in speech segments. American Auditory Society, March.

Gutowski, L., Hill, M., Ratner, N. B. & Newman, R.S. (2004). Relationships between early infant speech segmentation skills and later narrative ability. Annual Convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA. click here to view PowerPoint presentation

Haszko, S. (2006). Emotion & prosody: Examining infants' ability to match prosodic variation with the facial expressions of surprise and happiness. Presentation at the University of Maryland Undergraduate Research Day.

Hawley, M. Sherlock, L., Gold, S., Segar, A., Gmitter, C., Cannavo, J. & Formby, C. (2007). Intervention for restricted dynamic range and reduced sound tolerance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 3120.

Heinlen, K., Hernandez, M., German, D. & Newman, R.S. (2004). 'What do you call that?' Effects of menopause on word-finding ability. Poster presented at the Showcasing Generontology Scholarship at the University of Maryland Conference, April 23, 2003.

King, K. (2008). Effects of sedation on the auditory system in the rhesus monkey. Presentation at the University of Maryland Winter Research Symposium, College Park, MD.

King, K., Fitzgerald, T., Zalewski, C., Malloy, M., Tanji, K., & Brewer, C. (2008).  The effect of anesthesia on hearing in the rhesus monkey.  Abstracts of the American Academy of Audiology.

King, K., Makishima, T., Zalewski, C., Bakalov, V., Griffith, A., Bondy, C., & Brewer, C. (2006). Auditory phenotype and karyotype of Turner syndrome. Poster session presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Minneapolis, MN. (Recipient of the James Jerger Award for Excellence in Student Research in Audiology)

King, L., Strekas, A., Newman, R.S. & Ratner, N.B (2006, November). Developmental effects of lexical factors on confrontational-naming accuracy and speed. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

King, L., Strekas, A., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard, W. & Ratner, N.B. (2006, November). Expressive language skills of children with recent-onset epilepsy. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

King, K., Zalewski, C., Schvartz, K., Yanjanin, N., Porter, F., & Brewer, C. (2007). Auditory phenotype in Niemann-Pick Type C. The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 32, 48.

King, K., Zalewski, C., Schvartz, K., Yanjanin, N., Porter, F., & Brewer, C. “ Auditory Phenotype in Niemann-Pick Type C”. Poster: 2007 American Auditory Society Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ.

McAlister, E., Gordon-Salant, S., & Fitzgerald, T. (2007). DPOAE suppression using ipsilateral forward maskers of varying bandwidth. The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 32, 46.

McColgan, K., Newman, R., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2009, November). Vowel clarification in infant-directed maternal speech. American Speech, Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans.

Morell, R., Brewer, C., Zalewski, C., Mastroianni, M, Drayna, D., Laws, K., Segar, A. & Friedman, T. (2004). An estimate of heritibility of auditory processing skills. Midwinter Research Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Abstract 1058, 141.

Rager, J., Hu, N., King, K., Zalewski, C., Kim, J., Alter, B., et al. (2006). Auditory Phenotype of Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. Poster session presented at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Summer Poster Series, Lewisburg, WV.

Roberts, C. M., Fitzgerald, T., Wilson, M., Zalewski, C., Goldbach-Mansky, R., & Brewer, C. (2007). The impact of rheumatoid arthritis on middle ear function. The Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 32, 38.

Schvartz, KC and Chatterjee, M (2009) Amplitude modulation rate discrimination by younger and older listeners. Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol Abs., 142.

Schvartz, K.C. and Chatterjee, M.(2009) Effects of aging on spectro-temporal coding of voice-pitch information. 2009 American Auditory Society Meeting.

Schvartz, KC and Chatterjee, M (2009) Processing of spectrally degraded voice pitch by older listeners. 2009 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA

Schvartz, K.C. and Chatterjee, M. (2005) The Relative Loudness of One, Two and Three Channel Stimuli in Cochlear Implant Listeners. 2005 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, July 30 - August 4, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA .

Schvartz, K. C., Chatterjee, M. & Dade, M. “Multi-channel Loudness Perception in Cochlear Implant Listeners”. Poster: 2006 Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD.

Schvartz, K.C., Chatterjee, M. and Gordon-Salant, S. (2007) Effects of aging on the recognition of spectrally degraded speech. 2007 Conference on Aging and Speech Communication, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Schvartz, K.C., Chatterjee, M. and Gordon-Salant, S. (2007) Effects of aging on the recognition of spectrally degraded speech. 2007 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA.

Schvartz, K., Chatterjee, M. & Gordon-Salant, S. “Effects of Aging on the Recognition of Spectrally Degraded Speech”. Poster: 2007 Aging and Speech Communication: An International and Interdisciplinary Research Conference. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Segar, A., Kim, H.J., Zalewski, C., Goldbach-Mansky, R., Jones, D.N., Gelabert, J.J. & Brewer, C. (2004). Audiology findings in neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease. NIH Summer Research Program, Poster 433, 44.

Smith, E., Gordon-Salant, S., McAlister, E., & Dooling, R. (2005). OpenDP: A DPOAE
System with specifiable stimulus parameters. ARO, Midwinter Meeting, New Orleans, February.

Strekas, A., Bienstock, J.A., Riffanacht, A., Weber,D., Berl, M.,Gaillard, W.D., and Ratner, N.B. (2007, November). The narrative abilities of children with localization-related epilepsy. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston.

Strekas, A., King, L., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard, W. & Ratner, N.B. (2006, November). An investigation of chronic epilepsy in children: language profiles. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.

Strekas, A., King, L., Weber, D., Berl, M., Gaillard, W. & Ratner, N.B. (2006, November). Language function in epilepsy: effects of hemispheric focus and chronicity. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Miami.