 | H. Steven Colburn Lab Director Hometown: Portsmouth, Ohio Other Affiliations: Director, BU HRC Professor, BU BME Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-MIT SHBT |
Education:
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, 1969
S.M. Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, 1964
S.B. Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, 1963
Research:
Dr. Colburn is particularly interested in the measurement and modeling of binaural hearing performance. Specific current topics include modeling the activity of auditory brainstem neurons and measurement and modeling of spatial attributes of sound perception, speech intelligibility in complex sound environments, and the effects of hearing impairments on binaural abilities.
Dr. Colburn's research involves the application of signal processing, statistical communication theory, and computational modeling to the study of hearing and hearing impairments.
Virtual Acoustic Environments, Performance with Complex Stimuli, Signal Processing Models, Basic Binaural Sensitivity, Studies of Hearing Impairment, Models of Brainstem and Midbrain Neurons, Performance of Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Recent Publications:
Colburn, H. S., Chung, Y., Zhou, Y., and Brughera, A. R. (2009). "Models of Brainstem Responses to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation," J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol., in press.
Chung, Y. and Colburn, H. S. (2008). "A Model for Responses of Neurons in the Auditory Brainstem to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation of the Cochlear Nerve," Mid-winter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, USA.
Colburn, H. S., Chung, Y., Zhou, Y., and Brughera, A. R. (2008). "Modeling responses of brainstem neurons to electrical stimuli," Joint Meeting of Acoustical Society of America and European Acoustics Association, Paris, France.