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Recent publications on auditory segregation, grouping, neuro-imaging, and perceptual learning



Papers

[1] Hall D.A., Haggard M.P., Summerfield A.Q., Akeroyd M.A., Palmer A.R., Bowtell R.W. (2001). fMRI measurements of sound-level encoding in the absence of background scanner noise.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109, 1559-1570.
[2] Chambers J., Akeroyd M.A., Summerfield A.Q., Palmer A.R. (2001). Active control of the volume acquisition noise in functional magnetic resonance imaging: method and psychoacoustical evaluation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 3041-3054.
[3] Hall D.A., Johnsrude I.S., Haggard M.P., Palmer A.R., Akeroyd M.A., Summerfield A.Q. (2002). Spectral and temporal processing in human auditory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 12, 140-9.
[4] Palmer A.R., Summerfield A.Q. (2002). Microelectrode and neuroimaging studies of central auditory function. British Medical Bulletin 63: 95-105.
[5] Budd TW, Hall DH, Goncalves MS, Akeroyd MA, Foster JR, Palmer AR, Head K, Summerfield AQ. (2003). Sensitivity to interaural correlation in the human ascending auditory system: An fMRI investigation. NeuroImage, 20: 1783-94.
[6] Hall D.A., Fussell C., Summerfield A.Q. (2005). Reading fluent speech from talking faces: Typical brain networks and individual differences. To be published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
[7] Roberts, K.L, Summerfield, A.Q., Hall, D.A. (2006). Presentation modality influences behavioural measures of alerting, orienting, and executive control. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 485-492.

[8] Akeroyd MA, Chambers J, Bullock D, Palmer AR, Summerfield AQ, Nelson PA, Gatehouse S. (2007) The binaural performance of a cross-talk cancellation system with matched or mismatched setup and playback acoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1056-69.
[9] Stacey PC, Summerfield AQ. (2007) Effectiveness of high-variability computer-based auditory training in improveing the ability of normaly-hearing listeners to understadn spectrally-distorted speech.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 2923-35.
[10] Stacey PC, Summerfield AQ. (in press)
Comparison of word-, sentence-, and phonetic-based training strategies in improving the perception of spectrally-distorted speech. To be published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Other publications
[11] Assmann P.F., Summerfield A.Q. (2004). The perception of speech under adverse conditions. In S. Greenberg, W.A. Ainsworth, A.N. Popper and R. Fay (Eds.) Speech Processing in the Auditory System.  Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 231-308.
[12] Summerfield A.Q., Culling J.F., Assmann P.F. (2005). The perception of speech under adverse conditions: Contributions of spectro-temporal peaks, periodicity, and inter-aural timing to perceptual robustness. In S. Greenberg and
W. Ainsworth (Eds.) Listening to Speech.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 223-235.

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