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  1. Awan, S.N., Solomon, N.P., Helou, L.B., Stojadinovic, A. (2013). Spectral-cepstral estimation of dysphonia severity: external validation. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 122, 40-48.
  2. Bernstein, J.G.W., Mehraei, G., Shamma, S., Gallun, F., Theodoroff, S.M., and Leek, M. (2013). Spectrotemporal modulation sensitivity as a predictor of speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 24, 293-306.
  3. Bernstein, J.G.W., Summers, V., Grassi, E., and Grant, K.W. (2013). Auditory models of suprathreshold distortion and speech intelligibility in persons with impaired hearing. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 24, 307-328.
  4. Dietrich-Burns, K., Lewis, W.J., Lesley, D.Y., and Solomon, N.P. (2013). Silent aspiration and recovery from dysphagia in a case of bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis. Mil. Med. 178, 121-124.
  5. Gallena, S.J., Tian, W., Johnson, A.T., Vossoughi, J., Sarles, S.A., Solomon, N.P. (2013). Validity of a new respiratory resistance measurement device to detect glottal area change. J. Voice 27, 299-304.
  6. Grant, K.W., Bernstein, J.G.W., and Summers, V. (2013). Predicting speech intelligibility by individual hearing-impaired listeners: The path forward. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 24, 329-336.
  7. Grant, K.W., and Walden, T.C. (2013). Understanding excessive SNR loss in hearing-impaired listeners. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 24, 258-273.
  8. Grant, K.W., Walden, B.E., Summers, V., and Leek, M.R. (2013). Auditory models of suprathreshold distortion in persons with impaired hearing. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 24, 254-257.
  9. Radowsky, J.S., Helou, L.B., Howard, R.S., Solomon, N.P., and Stojadinovic, A. (2013). Racial disparities in voice outcomes after thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Surgery 153, 103-110.
  10. Solomon, N.P., Helou, L.B., Henry, L.R., Howard, R.S., Coppit, G., Shaha, A.R., and Stojadinovic, A. (2013). Utility of the voice handicap index as an indicator of postthyroidectomy voice dysfunction. J. Voice 27, 348-354.
  11. Summers, V., Makashay, M.J., Theodoroff, S., and Leek, M.R. (2013). Suprathreshold auditory processing and speech perception in noise: Hearing-impaired and normal-hearing listeners. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 24, 274-292.
  12. Brungart, D.S., and Iyer, N. (2012). Better-ear glimpsing efficiency with symmetrically-placed interfering talkers. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132, 2545-2556.
  13. Clark, H. M., and Solomon, N. P. (2012). Age and sex differences in orofacial strength. Dysphagia 27, 2-9.
  14. Gallun, F.J., Lewis, M.S., Folmer, R.L., Diedesch, A.C., Kubli, L.R., McDermott, D.J., Walden, T.C., Fausti, S.A., Lew, H.L., and Leek, M.R. (2012). Performance on tests of central auditory processing by individuals exposed to high-intensity blasts. J. Rehab. Res. Dev. 49, 1005-1025.
  15. Gallun, F.J., Lewis, M., Folmer, R., Diedesch, A., Kubli, L., McDermott, D., Walden, T., Fausti, L., Lew, H., and Leek, M. (2012). Implications of blast exposure for central auditory function. J. Rehab. Res. Dev. 49, 1059-1074.
  16. Martin, R.L., McAnally, K.I., Bolia, R.S., Eberle, G., and Brungart, D.S. (2012). Spatial release from speech-on-speech masking in the medial sagittal plane. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 378-385.
  17. Palmer, D., Dietsch, A., and Searl, J. (2012). Endoscopic and stroboscopic presentation of the larynx in male-to-female transsexuals. J. Voice 26, 117-126.
  18. Phatak, S.A., and Grant, K.W. (2012). Phoneme recognition in modulated maskers by normal-hearing and aided hearing-impaired listeners. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132, 1646-1654.
  19. Sheffield, B.M., and Zeng, F.G. (2012). The relative phonetic contributions of a cochlear implant and residual acoustic hearing to bimodal speech perception. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 518-530.
  20. Solomon, N.P., Awan, S.N., Helou, L.B., Stojadinovic, A. (2012). Acoustic analyses of thyroidectomy-related changes in vowel phonation. J. Voice 26, 711-720.
  21. Solomon, N. P., Helou, L. B., Makashay, M. J., and Stojadinovic, A. (2012). Aerodynamic evaluation of voice before and after thyroidectomy. J. Voice 26, 454-461.
  22. Stevens, K., Stojadinovic, A., Helou, L. B., Solomon, N. P., Howard, R. S., Shriver, C. D., Buckenmeier, C. C., and Henry, L. R. (2012). The impact of recurrent laryngeal neuromonitoring on multi-dimensional voice outcomes following thyroid surgery. J. Surg. Oncol. 105, 4-9.
  23. Awan, S. N., Helou, L. B., Stojadinovic, A., and Solomon, N. P. (2011). Tracking voice change after thyroidectomy using spectral/cepstral analyses. Clin. Linguist. Phon. 25, 302-320.
  24. Bernstein, J.G.W., and Brungart, D.S. (2011). Effect of spectral smearing and temporal fine-structure distortion on the fluctuating-masker benefit for speech at a fixed signal-to-noise ratio. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 473-488.
  25. Cord, M.T., Surr, R.K., Walden, B.E., and Dittberner, A.B. (2011). Ear asymmetries and asymmetric directional microphone hearing aid fittings. Am. J. Audiol. 20, 111-122.
  26. Estis, J.M., Parisi, J.A., More, R.E., and Brungart, D.S. (2011). Speech intelligibility differences across sound classes with in-the-ear and free-field microphones in quiet. Percept. Mot. Skills 112, 845-859.
  27. Searl, J., Wilson, K., Haring, K., Dietsch, A., Lyons, K., and Pahwa, R. (2011). Feasibility of group voice therapy for individuals with Parkinson’s disease. J. Commun. Disord. 44, 719-732.
  28. Solomon, N. P., Helou, L. B., Dietrich-Burns, K., and Stojadinovic, A. (2011). Does obesity and weight loss affect vocal function? Semin. Speech Lang. 32, 31-42.
  29. Solomon, N. P., Helou, L. B., and Stojadinovic, A. (2011). Clinical versus laboratory ratings of voice using the CAPE-V. J. Voice, 25, e7-e14.
  30. Cherney, L., Gardner, P., Logemann, J., Newman, L., O’Neil-Pirozzi, T., Roth, C., and Solomon, N. P. (2010). Position of the communication sciences and disorders clinical trials research group (CSDRG): The role of speech-language pathology and audiology in the optimal management of the service member returning from Iraq or Afghanistan with a blast-related head injury. J. Head Trauma Rehabil. 25, 219-224.
  31. Clark, H. M., and Solomon, N. P. (2010). Submental muscle tissue compliance during relaxation, contraction, and after tone-modification interventions. Int. J. Orofacial Myology 36, 7-15.
  32. Gurevich-Uvena, J., Parker, J., Fitzpatrick, T., Makashay, M. J., Perello, M. M., Blair, E. A., and Solomon, N. P. (2010). Medical co-morbidities for paradoxical vocal fold motion (vocal cord dysfunction) in the military population. J. Voice 24, 728-731.
  33. Helou, L. B., Solomon, N. P., Henry, L. R., Coppit, G., Howard, R., and Stojadinovic, A. (2010). The role of listener experience in CAPE-V ratings of post-thyroidectomy voice. Am. J. Speech Lang. Pathol. 19, 248-258.
  34. Henry, L. R., Helou, L. B., Solomon, N. P., Howard, R. S., Gurevich-Uvena, J., Coppit, G. L., and Stojadinovic, A. (2010). Functional voice outcomes after thyroidectomy: An assessment of the dysphonia severity index (DSI) and its utility in predicting post-operative voice dysfunction. Surgery 147, 861-870.
  35. Iyer, N.I., and Brungart, D.S., and Simpson B.D. (2010). Effects of target-masker contextual similarity on the multimasker penalty in a three-talker diotic listening task. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2998-3010.
  36. Solomon, N. P., and Clark, H. M. (2010). Quantifying orofacial muscle stiffness using damped oscillation. J. Med. Speech Lang. Pathol. 18,120-124.
  37. Bernstein, J.G.W., and Grant, K.W. (2009). Auditory and auditory-visual speech intelligibility in fluctuating maskers for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 3358-3372.
  38. Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2009). Effects of bandwidth on auditory localization with a noise masker. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 3199-3208.
  39. Brungart, D.S., Simpson B.D. and Wang, D.L. (2009). Multitalker speech perception with ideal time-frequency segregation: Effects of voice characteristics and number of talkers. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 4006-4022.
  40. Walden, T.C., Walden, B.E., Summers, V., and Grant, K.W. (2009). A naturalistic approach to assessing hearing aid candidacy and motivating hearing aid use. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 20, 607-620.
  41. Bernstein, J.G.W. and Oxenham, A.J. (2008). Harmonic segregation through mistuning can improve fundamental frequency discrimination. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 1653-1667.
  42. Grant, K.W., Elhilali, M., Shamma, S.A., Walden, B.E., Surr, R.K., Cord, M.T., and Summers, V. (2008). An objective measure for selecting microphone modes in OMNI/DIR hearing aid circuits. Ear Hear. 29, 199-213.
  43. Henry, L. R., Solomon, N. P., Howard, R., Gurevich-Uvena, J., Horst, L., Coppitt, G., Orlikoff, R. F., Libutti, S. K., Shaha, A. R., and Stojadinovic, A. (2008).
  44. he functional impact on voice of sternothyroid muscle division during thyroidectomy. Ann. Surg. Oncol. 15, 2027-2033.
  45. Leek, M., Molis, M., Kubli, L, Tufts, J., and Cord, M.T. (2008). Enjoyment of music by elderly hearing-impaired listeners. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 19, 519-526.
    Solomon, N.P. (2008). Vocal fatigue and its relation to vocal hyperfunction. Int. J. Speech Lang. Pathol. 10, 254-66.
  46. Solomon, N. P., Clark, H. M., Makashay, M. J., and Newman, L. A. (2008). Assessment of orofacial strength in patients with dysarthria. J. Med. Speech Lang. Pathol. 16, 251-258.
  47. Stojadinovic, A., Henry, L. R., Howard, R. S., Gurevich-Uvena, J., Makashay, M. J., Coppit, G. L., Shriver, C. D., and Solomon, N. P. (2008). Prospective trial of voice outcomes following thyroidectomy: Evaluation of patient reported assessment of severity of voice handicap using the Voice Handicap Index.Surgery, 143, 732-742.
  48. Summers ,V., Grant, K.W., Walden, B.E., Cord, M.T., Surr, R.K., and Elhilali, M. (2008). Evaluation of a direct-comparison approach to automatic switching in omnidirectional/directional hearing aids. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 19, 708-720.
  49. Walden, T. (2008). MRI referral protocols: The fundamentals. Page ten featured article. Hear. J.
  50. Brungart, D. S., and Simpson, B. D. (2007). Effect of target-masker similarity on across-ear interference in a dichotic cocktail-party listening task. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122, 1724-1734.
  51. Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2007). Cocktail party listening in a dynamic multitalker environment. Percept. Psychophys. 69, 79-91.
  52. Cord, M., Baskent, D., Kalluri, S., and Moore, B. (2007). Disparity between clinical and real-world performance of hearing aids. Hearing Review 14, 22-26.
  53. Cord, M.T., Walden, B.E., Surr, R.K., and Dittberner, A.B.. (2007). Field evaluation of an asymmetric directional microphone fitting. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 18, 245-256.
  54. Grant, K.W., Tufts, J.B., and Greenberg, S. (2007). Integration efficiency for speech perception within and across sensory modalities, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 1164-1176.
  55. Iyer, N., Brungart, D. S., and Simpson, B. D. (2007). Effects of periodic masker interruption on the intelligibility of interrupted speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122, 1693-1701.
  56. Solomon, N. P., Ramanathan, P., and Makashay. M. J. (2007). Phonation threshold pressure across the pitch range: Preliminary test of a model. J. Voice, 25, 541-550.
  57. Summers, V., and Cord M. (2007). Intelligibility of speech in noise at high presentation levels: Effects of hearing loss and frequency region. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 1130-1137.
  58. Van Wassenhove, V., Grant, K.W., and Poeppel, D. (2007). Temporal window of integration in auditory-visual speech perception, Neuropsychologia 45, 598-607.
  59. Walden, B.E., Surr, R.K., Cord, M.T., Grant, K.W., Summers, V., and Dittberner, A.B. (2007). The robustness of hearing aid microphone preferences in everyday listening environments. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 18, 358-379.
  60. Bernstein, J.G.W., and Oxenham, A.J. (2006). The relationship between frequency selectivity and pitch discrimination: Effects of stimulus level. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3916-3928.
  61. Bernstein, J.G.W., and Oxenham, A.J. (2006). The relationship between frequency selectivity and pitch discrimination: Sensorineural hearing loss. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3929-3945.
  62. Brungart, D.S., Chang, P.S., Simpson, B.D., and Wang, D. (2006). Isolating the energetic component of speech-on-speech masking with ideal time-frequency segregation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 4007-4018.
  63. Brungart, D.S., Iyer, N., and Simpson, B.D. (2006). Monaural speech segregation using synthetic speech signals. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 2327-2333.
  64. Brungart, D.S., Kordik, A.J., and Simpson, B.D. (2006). Effects of headtracker latency in virtual audio displays. J. Audio Eng. Soc. 54, 32-44.
  65. Joffrion, J.M., Raquet, J.F., and Brungart, D.S. (2006). Sonic boon: Head tracking for audio using a GPS-aided MEMS IMU. Inside GNSS 1, 32-41.
  66. Micheyl, C., Bernstein, J.G.W. and Oxenham, A.J. (2006). Detection and F0 discrimination of harmonic complex tones in the presence of competing tones or noise. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 1493-1505.
  67. Solomon, N. P. (2006). What is orofacial fatigue and how does it affect function for swallowing and speech? Semin. Speech Lang. 27, 268-282.
  68. Walden, T. (2006). Clinical benefits and risks of bilateral amplification. Int. J. Audiol. 45, S49-S52.
  69. Walden, T. (2006). Evaluating and treating hearing loss in the older patient: Clinical case studies. Semin. Hear. 27, 311-319.
  70. Wightman, F.L., Kistler, D., and Brungart, D.S.(2006). Informational masking of speech in children: Auditory-visual integration. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3940-3949.
  71. Bernstein, J.G.W. and Oxenham, A.J. (2005). An autocorrelation model with place dependence to account for the effect of harmonic number on fundamental frequency discrimination. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 3816-3831.
  72. Brungart, D.S., Kordik A.J., and Simpson, B.D. (2005). Audio and visual cues in a two-talker divided-attention speech monitoring task. Hum. Factors 47, 562-573.
  73. Kubli, L., Leek, M., and Dreisbach, L.E. (2005). Acoustic reflexes to Schroeder-phase harmonic complexes in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired individuals. Hear. Res. 202, 1-12.
  74. Simpson, B. D., Bolia, R. S., McKinley, R. L., and Brungart, D. S. (2005). The impact of hearing protection on sound localization and orienting behavior. Hum. Factors 47, 188-198.
  75. Solomon, N. P., and Robin, D. A. (2005). Perceptions of effort during handgrip and tongue elevation in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism Relat. Disord. 11, 353-361.
  76. Van Wassenhove, V., Grant, K.W., and Poeppel, D. (2005). Visual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speech. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 102, 1181-1186.
  77. Walden, B.E., Surr, RK, Grant, K.W., Summers W, Cord, M.T., and Dyrlund, O. (2005). Effect of signal-to-noise ratio on directional microphone benefit and preference. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 16, 662-676.
  78. Walden, T., and Walden, B. (2005). Unilateral versus bilateral amplification for adults with impaired hearing. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 16, 574–584.
  79. Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2004). Evidence for a reverse cocktail party effect in a three-talker dichotic listening task. Act. Acust. 91, 564-566.
  80. Brungart, D.S. and Simpson, B.D. (2004). Within-ear and across-ear interference in a cocktail party listening task: effects of masker uncertainty. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 300-310.
  81. Brungart, D.S. Simpson, B.D., and Kordik, A.J. (2004). Localization in the presence of multiple simultaneous sounds. Act. Acust. 91, 471-479.
  82. Cord, M.T., Surr, R.K., Walden, B.E., and Dyrlund, O. (2004). Relationship between laboratory measures of directional advantage and everyday success with directional microphone hearing aids. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 15, 353-364.
  83. Ericson, M.A. and Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2004). Factors that influence intelligibility in multitalker speech displays. Int. J. Aviat. Psychol. 14, 313-333.
  84. Grant, K.W., Greenberg, S., Poeppel, D., van Wassenhove, V. (2004). Effects of spectro-temporal asynchrony in auditory and auditory-visual speech processing. Semin. Hear. 25, 241-255.
  85. Grant, K.W., van Wassenhove, V., and Poeppel, D. (2004). Detection of auditory (cross-spectral) and auditory-visual (cross-modal) synchrony. Speech Comm. 44, 43-53.
  86. Jiang, J., Stern, J., Chen, H.-J., and Solomon, N. P. (2004). Vocal efficiency measurements in subjects with vocal polyps and nodules: A preliminary report. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 113, 277-282.
  87. Munson, B., and Solomon, N. P. (2004). The effects of phonological neighborhood density on vowel articulation. J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 47, 1048-1058.
    Neelon, M.F. and Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2004). The isoazimuthal perception of sounds across distance: A preliminary investigation into the location of the audio egocenter. J. Neurosci. 24, 7640-7647.
  88. Oxenham, A.J., Bernstein, J.G.W. and Penagos, H. (2004). Correct tonotopic representation is necessary for complex pitch perception. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 101, 1421-1425.
  89. Solomon, N. P. (2004). Assessment of weakness and fatigue of the tongue. Int. J. Orofacial Myology, 30, 8-19.
  90. Solomon, N. P., Makashay, M. J., Kessler, L. S., and Sullivan, K. W. (2004). Speech-breathing treatment and LSVT for a patient with hypokinetic-spastic dysarthria after TBI. J. Med. Speech Lang. Pathol. 12, 213-220.
  91. Solomon, N. P., and Munson, B. (2004). The effect of jaw position on measures of tongue strength and endurance. J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 47, 584-594.
  92. Summers, V. (2004). Do tests for cochlear dead regions provide important information for fitting hearing aids? J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1420-1423.
  93. Summers, V., and Molis, M.R. (2004). Speech recognition in fluctuating and continuous maskers: Effects of hearing loss and presentation level? J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 47, 245-256.
  94. Walden, B.E., Surr, R.K., Cord, M.T., and Dyrlund, O. (2004). Predicting hearing aid microphone preference in everyday listening. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 15, 365-396.
  95. Walden T., and Walden, B. (2004). Predicting success with hearing aids in everyday living. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 15, 342–352.
  96. Zahorik, P. and Brungart, D.S., and Bronkhorst, A.W. (2004). Auditory distance perception in humans: a review of past and present research. Act. Acust. 91, 409-420.
  97. Bernstein, J.G. and Oxenham, A.J. (2003). Pitch discrimination of diotic and dichotic tone complexes: Harmonic resolvability or harmonic number? J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 3323-3334.
  98. Brungart, D.S., Kordik, A.J., Simpson, B.D. and McKinley, R.L. (2003). Auditory localization in the horizontal plane with single and double hearing protection. Aviat. Space Environ. Med. 74, 937-946.
  99. Darwin, C.J., Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2003). Effects of fundamental frequency and vocal-tract length changes on attention to one of two simultaneous talkers. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 2913-2922.
  100. Kidd, G, Mason, C.R., Arbogast, T.L., Brungart, D.S., and Simpson, B.D. (2003). Informational masking caused by contralateral stimulation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 1594-1603.
  101. Milbrath, R. L., and Solomon, N. P. (2003). Do vocal warm-up exercises alleviate vocal fatigue? J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 46, 422-436.
  102. Molis, M.R., and Summers, V. (2003). Effects of high presentation levels on recognition of low- and high-frequency speech. Acoust. Res. Lett. Online 4, 124-128.
  103. Solomon, N. P., Glaze, L. E., Arnold, R. R., and van Mersbergen, M. (2003). Effects of a vocally fatiguing task and systemic hydration on men's voices. J. Voice 17, 31-46.
  104. Summers, V., de Boer, E., and Nuttall, A.L. (2003). Basilar membrane responses to multicomponent (Schroeder-phase) signals: Understanding intensity effects. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 294-306.
  105. Summers, V., Molis, M. R., Müsch, H., Walden, B. E., Surr, R, K., and Cord, M.T. (2003). Identifying dead regions in the cochlea: Psychophysical tuning curves and tone detection in threshold-equalizing noise. Ear Hear. 24, 133-142.

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