Papers and Publications
2009

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

Lee, AKC, A Deane-Pratt, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2009). “Localization interference between components in an auditory scene,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126. 2543-2555.

[J54] Kopco, N, I-F Lin, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and J Groh (2009) “The ventriloquism effect: How vision alters sound perception,” Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 13809-13814.

Dent, M, E McClaine, V Best, EJ Ozmeral, R Narayan, K Sen, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (in press). “Spatial unmasking of birdsong in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygiz guttata) and Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus),” Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Devore, S, A Ihlefeld, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and B Delgutte (2009). “Accurate sound localization in reverberant environments is mediated by robust spatial encoding in the auditory midbrain,” Neuron, 62, 123-134 (see Preview by T. Takahashi).

Best, V, NL Marrone, CR Mason, G Kidd, Jr. and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2009). “Effects of sensorineural hearing loss on visually guided attention in a multi-talker environment,” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 10, 142-149.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2009). “I want to party, but my hearing aids won't let me!” The Hearing Journal, 62, 10-13.

Xia, J, HS Colburn, A Brughera, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2009). "Modeling physiological and psychophysical responses to precedence effect stimuli," Proc. of the International Symposium on Hearing, Salamanca, Spain, 1-5 June.

2008

Best, V, E Ozmeral, N Kopco, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Object continuity enhances selective auditory attention,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 13174-13178.

Shinn-Cunningham, B and V Best (2008). “Selective attention in normal and impaired hearing,” Trends in Amplification [invited submission for special issue on Auditory Scene Analysis], 12, 283-299.

Ihlefeld, A and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Disentangling the effects of spatial cues on selection and formation of auditory objects,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 2224-2235.

Kopco, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Influences of modulation and spatial separation on detection of a masked broadband target,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 2236-2250.

Lee, AKC, S Babcock, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Measuring the perceived content of auditory objects using a matching paradigm,” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 9, 388-397.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2008). "Object-based auditory and visual attention," Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 182-186.

Gallun, FJ, NI Durlach, HS Colburn, BG Shinn-Cunningham, V Best, CR Mason, and G Kidd, Jr. (2008). "The extent to which a position-based explanation accounts for binaural release from informational masking," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 439-449.

Lee, AKC and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Effects of frequency disparities on trading of an ambiguous tone between two competing auditory objects,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123, 4340-4351.

Ihlefeld, A and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Spatial release from energetic and informational masking in a selective speech identification task,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 4369-4379.

Ihlefeld, A and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Spatial release from energetic and informational masking in a divided speech identification task,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 4380-4392.

Lee, AKC and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Effects of reverberant spatial cues on attention-dependent object formation,” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 9, 150-160.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG and D Wang (2008). “Influences of auditory object formation on phonemic restoration,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 295-301.

Dent, ML, TE Welch, EM McClaine, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Species differences in the categorization of acoustic stimuli by birds,” Behavioral Processes, 77, 184-190.

Grace, SM, E Quaranta, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and HF Voigt (2008). “Simulation of the head-related transfer function for gerbils using a boundary element method,” Acta Acustica United with Acustica, 94, 310-320.

Choi, IY, BG Shinn-Cunningham, SB Chon, and K-M Sung (2008). “Objective Measurement of Perceived Auditory Quality in Multi-channel Audio Compression Coding Systems,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 56, 3-17.

Hu, K, P Divenyi, D Ellis, Z Jin, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and D Wang (2008). “Preliminary intelligibility tests of a monaural speech segregation system,” Proceedings of Workshop onthe Statistical and Perceptual Audition, Brisbane, Australia, 21 September.

2007

Narayan, R, V Best, EJ Ozmeral, E McClaine, M Dent, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and K Sen (2007). “Cortical interference effects in the cocktail party problem,” Nature Neuroscience, 10(12), 1601-1607 (with supplementary material).

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, AKC Lee, and AJ Oxenham (2007). “Auditory non-allocation of a sound element lost in perceptual competition,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 104, 12223-12227. (supplement)

Best, V, EJ Ozmeral, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Visually guided attention enhances target identification in a complex auditory scene,” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 8(2), 294-304.

Best, V, F Gallun, S Carlile, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Binaural interference and auditory grouping,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.Best, 121, 1070-1076.

Kopco, N, V Best, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Sound localization with a preceding distractor,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 420-432.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2007). “Why hearing impairment may degrade selective attention,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, Helsingør, Denmark, 29-31 August 2007.

Best, V, N Marrone, CR Mason, G Kidd, Jr., and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Do hearing-impaired listeners benefit from spatial and temporal cues in a complex auditory scene?,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, Helsingør, Denmark, 29-31 August 2007.

Best, V, A Ihlefeld, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Divided listening in auditory displays,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 2-7 September 2007

Kopco, N, V Best, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Simulating distance cues in virtual reverberant environments,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 2-7 September 2007.

Naka, Y, A Oberai and Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2007). “Optimal space-time finite difference schemes for experimental booth design,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 5-7 September 2007.

Ihlefeld, A, S Chu and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). “Attending to space or intensity modulates spatial release from informational masking,” Proceedings of the DAGA (German Acoustical Society), Stuttgart, Germany, 19-22 March 2007.

Choi, IY, BG Shinn-Cunningham, SB Chon, and K-M Song (2007). “Prediction of perceived quality in multi-channel audio compression coding systems,” Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 30th International Conference, Saariselka, Finland, 15-17 March 2007.

Peres, SC, V Best, D Brock, C Frauenberger, T Hermann, JG Neuhof, L Valgerdaeur, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and T Stockman (2008). “Auditory interfaces,” In HCI Beyond the GUI, P Kortum (ed), 147-196.

2006

V Best, FJ Gallun, A Ihlefeld, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2006). "The influence of spatial separation on divided listening," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America," 120, 1506-1516.

Ahveninen, J, IP Jaaskelainen, T Raij, G Bonmassar, S Devore, MHamalainen, S Levanen, FH Lin, M Sams, BG Shinn-Cunningham, T Witzel, JW Belliveau (2006). “Task-modulated 'what' and 'where' pathways in human auditory cortex,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 103, 14608-14613.

Colburn, HS, BG Shinn-Cunningham, G Kidd, and N Durlach (2006). “The perceptual consequences of binaural hearing,” International Journal of Audiology, 45, S34-S44.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, V Best, ML Dent, FJ Gallun, E McClaine, R Narayan, E Ozmeral, and K Sen (2006). “Behavioral and neural identification of birdsong under several qmasking conditions,” Proc. of the International Symposium on Hearing, Cloppenberg, Germany, 164-170.

Devore, S, A Ihlefeld, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and B Delgutte (2006). “Neural and behavioral sensitivies to azimuth degrade with distance in reverberant environments,” Proc. of the International Symposium on Hearing, Cloppenberg, Germany, 382-388.

2005

Best, V, E Ozmeral, F Gallun, K Sen, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2005). “Spatial unmasking of birdsong in human listeners: Energetic and informational factors” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(6), 3766-3773.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, A Ihlefeld, Satyavarta, and E Larson (2005). “Bottom-up and top-down influences on spatial unmasking,” Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 91, 967-979.

Naka, Y, A Oberai, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2005). “Acoustic eigenvalues of rectangular rooms with arbitrary wall impedances using the interval Newton/generalized bisection method,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(6), 3662-3671.

Durlach, NI, CR Mason, FJ Gallun, BG Shinn-Cunningham, HS Colburn, and G Kidd, Jr. (2005). “Informational masking for simultaneous nonspeech stimuli: Psychometric functions for fixed and randomly mixed maskers,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(4), 2482-2497.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG and T Streeter (2005). “Spatial auditory display: Commentary on Shinn-Cunningham et al., ICAD 2001,” ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2(4), 426-429.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, T Streeter, and J-F Gyss (2005). “Perceptual plasticity in spatial auditory displays,” ACM Transactions of Applied Perception, 2(4), 418-425.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, N Kopco, and T Martin (2005). "Localizing nearby sound sources in a classroom: Binaural room impulse responses”, J Acoust Soc Am, 117, 3100-3115.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2005). “Influences of spatial cues on grouping and understanding sound,” Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum, 29 August - 2 September 2005.

Ueno, K, N Kopco, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2005). “Calibration of speech perception to room reverberation,” Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum, 29 August - 2 September 2005.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, Lin, I-F, T Streeter (2005). “Trading directional accuracy for realism,” Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction International 2005 / 1st International Conference on Virtual Reality, 22-27 July 2005.

Best, V, A Ihlefeld, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2005). “The effect of auditory spatial layout in a divided attention task,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, 6-9 July 2005.

2004

Shinn-Cunningham, BG and A Ihlefeld (2004). “Selective and divided attention: Extracting information from simultaneous sound sources,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, 6-9 July 2004.

Lane, CC, N Kopco, B Delgutte, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and HS Colburn (2004). “A cat's cocktail party: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational studies of spatial release from masking,” in Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychoacoustics, and Models, D Pressnitzer, A de Cheveigne, S McAdams, and L Collet (eds.), Springer Verlag, 405-413.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2004). “The perceptual consequences of creating a realistic, reverberant 3-D audio display,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan, 4-9 April 2004.

Naka, Y, A Oberai, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2004). “The finite element method with the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for sound-hard rectangular rooms,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan, 4-9 April 2004.

Kopco, N, M Schoolmaster, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2004). "Learning to judge distance of nearby sounds in reverberant and anechoic environments," Proceedings of the Joint Congress CFA/DAGA '04, Strasbourg, France, 22-25 March 2004.

2003

Kopco, N and Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2003). "Spatial unmasking of nearby pure-tone targets in a simulated anechoic environment," J Acoust Soc Am, 114, 2856-2870.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG and K Kawakyu (2003). “Neural representation of source direction in reverberant space," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Pfaltz, NY, October 2003, 79-82.

Durlach, NI, CR Mason, BG Shinn-Cunningham, TL Arbogast, HS Colburn, and G Kidd, Jr. (2003). "Informational masking: Counteracting the effects of stimulus uncertainty by decreasing target-masker similarity," J Acoust Soc Am, 114, 368-379.

Durlach, NI, CR Mason, G Kidd, Jr., TL Arbogast, HS Colburn, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2003). "Note on informational masking," J Acoust Soc Am, 113, 2984-2987.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG and S Ram (2003). “Identifying where you are in room: Sensitivity to room acoustics,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Boston, MA, 6-9 July, 21-24.

Devore, S and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2003). “Perceptual consequences of including reverberation in spatial auditory displays,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Boston, MA, 6-9 July, 2003, 75-78.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2003). “Spatial hearing advantages in everyday environments,” in Proceedings of the ONR workshop on Attention, Perception, and Modeling for Complex Displays, Troy, New York, June 2003.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2003). “Acoustics and perception of sound in everyday environments,” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Spatial Media, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 2003, 31-40.

2002 and earlier

Kopco, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2002). “Auditory localization in rooms: Acoustic analysis and behavior,” in Proceedings of the 32nd International Acoustical Conference - EAA Symposium, Zvolen, Slovakia, 10-12 September 2002, 109-112.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2002). “Speech intelligibility, spatial unmasking, and realism in reverberant spatial auditory displays,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, 2-5 July 2002, 183-186.

Kopco, N and B Shinn-Cunningham (2002). "Effects of cuing on perceived location of auditory sources," In: Intelligent Technologies: Theory and Applications (Eds. P Sincak, J Vascak, V Kvasnicka, and J Pospichal (eds), IOS Press, 201-206.

Shilling, RD and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2002). “Virtual auditory displays,” in Handbook of Virtual Environments Technology, K. Stanney (ed.), 65-92.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2001). "Models of plasticity in spatial auditory processing," Audiology and Neuro-otology, 6(4), 187-191.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG J Schickler, N Kopco, and RY Litovsky (2001). "Spatial unmasking of nearby speech sources in a simulated anechoic environment", J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 110(2), 1118-1129.

DiZio, P, RM Held, JR Lackner, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and NI Durlach (2001). “Gravitoinertial force magnitude and direction influence head-centric auditory localization,” J Neurophys 85, 2455-2460.

Litovsky, RY and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2001). “Investigation of the relationship between three common measures of precedence: Fusion, localization dominance, and discrimination suppression,” J Acoust Soc Am, 109, 346-358.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, JG Desloge, and N Kopco (2001). “Empirical and modeled acoustic transfer functions in a simple room: Effects of distance and direction,” in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Pfaltz, NY, 19-24 October 2001, 419-423.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, T Streeter, and J-F Gyss (2001). “Perceptual plasticity in spatial auditory displays,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Helsinki, Finland, 29 July-1 Aug 2001, 181-184.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2001). “Localizing sound in rooms,” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics Campfire: Acoustic Rendering for Virtual Environments, Snowbird, Utah, 26-29 May 2001, 17-22.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2001). “Creating three dimensions in virtual auditory displays,” in Usability Evaluation and Interface Design: Cognitive Engineering, Intelligent Agents and Virtual Reality, MJ Smith, G Salvendy, D Harris, and RJ Koubek (eds.), New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaurm, 604-608.

Yuan, H, WL Sachtler, NI Durlach, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2000). “Effects of time delay on depth perception via head-motion parallax in virtual environment systems,” Presence, 9(6), 638-647.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, SG Santarelli,, and N Kopco (2000). “Tori of confusion: Binaural cues for sources within reach of a listener,” J Acoust Soc Am, 107(3), 1627-1636.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2000). “Adapting to remapped auditory localization cues: A decision-theory model.” Perception and Psychophysics, 62(1), 33-47.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2000). “Distance cues for virtual auditory space,” Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing, Sydney, Australia, 13-15 December, 2000, 227-230.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2000). “Learning reverberation: Considerations for spatial auditory displays,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Atlanta, GA, 2-5 April 2000, 126-134.

Koh, G, T von Wiegand, BG Shinn-Cunningham, RL Garnett, and NI Durlach (1999). “Use of virtual environments for acquiring configurational knowledge about specific real-world spaces: I. Preliminary Experiment,” Presence, 8(6), 632-656.

Guenther, FG, F Husain, M Cohen, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (1999). “Effect of categorization and discrimination training on auditory perceptual space,” J Acoust Soc Am, 106, 2900-2912.

G Kramer, B Walker, T Bonebright, P Cook, J Flowers, N Miner, J Neuhoff, R Bargar, S Barrass, J Berger, G Evreinov, WT Fitch, M Gröhn, S Handel, H Kaper, H Levkowitz, L Suresh BG Shinn-Cunningham, M Simoni, and S Tipei (1999). Sonification Report: Status of the Field and Research Agenda. Palo Alto, CA.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, NI Durlach, and RM Held (1998). “Adapting to supernormal auditory localization cues II: Constraints on adaptation of mean response,” J Acoust Soc Am, 103, 3667-3676.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, NI Durlach, and RM Held (1998). “Adapting to supernormal auditory localization cues I: Bias and resolution,” J Acoust Soc Am, 103, 3656-3666.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG (1998). “Applications of virtual auditory displays,” 20th Ann Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, Hong Kong, China, 29 October – 1 November, 20, 1105-1108.