Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D.

photo of Dr. Shinn-Cunningham

Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory
CompNet
Hearing Research Center
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sc.B. Electrical Engineering, Brown University

Phone: (617) 353-5764; Fax: (617) 353-7755
Email: shinn@bu.edu

Research Interests

Auditory attention, spatial hearing, neuro-electric imaging, neural coding, plasticity and learning in auditory tasks.

Selected Recent Publications

Ihlefeld A, BG Shinn-Cunningham and RJ Carlyon. “Comodulation masking release in speech identification with real and simulated cochlear-implant hearing” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. (in press)

Varghese L and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Effects of knowing when to listen in complex auditory scenes” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. (in press)

Maddox R and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Influence of task-relevant and task-irrelevant feature continuity on selective auditory attention” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. (2011)

Ruggles D, H Bharadwaj, and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108, 15516-15521. (2011)

Allen K, D Alais, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and S Carlile. “Masker location uncertainty reveals evidence for suppression of maskers in two-talker contexts” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130, 2043-2053. (2011)

Kopco N and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Effects of stimulus spectrum on distance perception” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130, 1530-1541. (2011)

Xia J and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Isolating mechanisms that influence measures of the precedence effect: Theoretical predictions and behavioral tests” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130, 866-882. (2011)

Ihlefeld A and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Effects of source spectrum on sound localization in an everyday reverberant room” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130, 324-333. (2011)

Ruggles, D and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Spatial selective auditory attention in the presence of reverberant energy: Individual differences in normal-hearing listeners” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. 12, 395-405. (2011)

Lim Y, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and T Gardner. “Contour representations of sound” Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Pfaltz, NY. 16-19 October. (2011)

Schwartz, E and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Dissociation of perception judgments of ‘what’ and ‘where’ in ambiguous auditory scenes” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. (2010)

Mandel, M, S Bressler, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and D Ellis. “Evaluating source separation algorithms in reverberant speech” IEEE Transactions in Speech and Language Processing. 18, 1872-1883. (2010)

Best, V, E Ozmeral, and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Exploring the benefit of auditory spatial continuity” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 127: 258-264. (2010)

Xia, J, A Brughera, HS Colburn, and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “Physiological and psychophysical modeling of the precedence effect” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. 11, 495-513. (2010)

Best, V, FJ Gallun, CR Masson, G Kidd, and BG Shinn-Cunningham. “The impact of noise and hearing loss on the processing of simultaneous sentences” Ear and Hearing. 31, 213-220. (2010)