Selected Publications

2010:

Wan, R., Durlach, N. I., and Colburn, H. S. (2010). “Modified EC Model Applied to Speech Intelligibility with Spatially Distributed Maskers,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2355-2371.

Zhou, Y. and Colburn, H. S. (2010). “Effects of membrane afterhyperpolarization on discharge interval statistics: A model study of responses of lateral superior olive neurons to ipsilateral and bilateral acoustic stimuli,” J. Neurophysiol. 103, 2355-2371.

Xia, J., Brughera, A. R., Colburn, H. S., and Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2010). “Physiological and Psychophysical Modeling of the Precedence Effect,” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 11, 495-513.

Jennings, T. R. and Colburn, H. S. (2010). “Models of the Superior Olivary Complex,” Computational Models of the Auditory System (eds., R.\ Meddis and E.\ Lopez-Poveda), Springer: New York.

2009:

Colburn, H. S., Chung, Y., Zhou, Y., and Brughera, A. R. (2009). “Models of Brainstem Responses to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation,” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 10, 91-110.

Poon, B., Eddington, D. K., Noel, V., and Colburn, H. S. (2009). “Bilateral Cochlear Implants: ITD Sensitivity,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 806-815.

Davidson, S. A., Gilkey, R. H., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2009). “Diotic and dichotic detection with reproducible chimeric stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 1889-1905.

Davidson, S. A., Gilkey, R. H., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2009). “An evaluation of models for diotic and dichotic detection in reproducible noises,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 1906-1925.

2008:

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.

Chung, Y. and Colburn, H. S. (2008). “Issues in Modeling of Auditory Brainstem response to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve,” Binaural Bash.

Shub, D. E., Durlach, N. I., and Colburn, H. S. (2008). “Monaural level discrimination under dichotic conditions,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 4421-4433.

Shub, D. E., Kong, Y., Carr, S. P., and Colburn, H. S. (2008). “Discrimination and identification of azimuth using spectral shape,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 3132-3141.

Gallun, F. J., Durlach, N. I., Colburn, H. S., Shinn-Cunningham, B. G., Best, V., Mason, C. R., and Kidd, Jr., G. (2008). “The extent to which a position-based explanation accounts for binaural release from informational masking,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 439-449.

2007:

Chung, Y. and Colburn, H. S. (2007). “A Model for Responses of the Inferior Colliculus Neurons to Bilateral Electrical Stimulations,” Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Tahoe City, CA.

Colburn, H. S., Zhou, Y., Brughera, A. R., and Chung, Y. (2007). “Computational models of brainstem neurons,” Proceedings of 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain.

Colburn, H. S., Chung, Y., Zhou, Y., and Brughera, A. R. (2007). “Models of Neural Responses to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation,” Hearing – from basic research to applications, Springer Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg.

Dasika, V. K., White, J. A., and Colburn, H. S. (2007). “Simple models show the general advantages of dendrites in coincidence detection,” J. Neurophysiol. 97(5), 3449-3459.

Shamir, M., Sen, K., and Colburn, H. S. (2007). “Temporal Coding of Time-Varying Stimuli,” Neural Comput. 19, 3239-3261.

2006:

Chung, Y and Colburn, H S (2006). “Network Model of Auditory Space Map in Barn Owl ICX,” 29, 178.

Scarpaci, J. W. (2006). “Creation of a System for Real-Time Virtual Auditory Space and its Application to Dynamic Sound Localization,” Biomedical Engineering. Boston, Boston University:

Chung, Y and Colburn, H. S. (2006). “A model of the IC with adaptation: enhanced sensitivity to ITD with amplitude modulation for bilateral electrical stimulation,” Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA.

2005:

Aggarwal, P. S., Lowen, S. B., Colburn, H. S., and Dolphin, W. F. (2005). “Intrinsic oscillations in spike trains indicate non-renewal statistics due to convergence of inputs in dorsal cochlear nucleus neurons,” Hear. Res. 200(1-2), 10-28.

Dasika, V. K., White, J. A., Carney, L. H., and Colburn, H. S. (2005). “Effects of inhibitory feedback in a network model of avian brainstem,” J. Neurophysiol. 94, 400-414.

Zhou, Y., Carney, L. H., and Colburn, H. S. (2005). “A model for interaural time difference sensitivity in the medial superior olive: interaction of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs, channel dynamics, and cellular morphology ,” J. Neurosci. 25(12), 3046-58 .

Shub, D. E., Pogal- Sussman, T. E., and Colburn, H. S. (2005). “The effects of distractor frequency on monaural intensity discrimination under monotic and dichotic conditions,” 28, 728.

Scarpaci, J. W. and Colburn, H. S. (2005). “Principal Components Analysis Interpolation of HRTF’s Using Locally Chosen Basis Functions,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.117, 2561.

Scarpaci, J. W., Colburn, H. S., and White, J. A. (2005). “A SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE (PREPRINT),” Proceedings of ICAD 05-Eleventh Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.,

Shub, D. E. and Colburn, H. S. (2005). “A biologically inspired binaural approach to monaural modeling,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.117(4), 2563.

Durlach, N. I., Mason, C. R., Gallun, F. J., Shinn-Cunningham, B. G., Colburn, H. S., and Kidd, Jr., G. (2005). “Informational masking for simultaneous nonspeech stimuli: Psychometric functions for fixed and randomly mixed maskers,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118(4), 2482-2497.

Ng, G. (2005). “Elevation Localization of Single- and Multiple-Band Noises,” Biomedical Engineering. Boston, Boston University:

Colburn, H. S. and Kulkarni, A. (2005). “Models of Sound Localization,” Sound Localization, vol. in Springer Handbook on Auditory Research (eds., A. Popper and R. Fay), Springer: New York.

2004:

Kulkarni, A. and Colburn, H. S. (2004). “Infinite-impulse-response models of the head-related transfer function,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115(4), 1714-28.

Scarpaci, J. W. and Colburn, H. S. (2004). “A real-time virtual auditory system for spatially dynamic perception research,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.115, 2599.

Moy, P. L. (2004). “Simulating Bilateral Cochlear Implant Processing in Normal-Hearing Listeners,” Biomedical Engineering. Boston, Boston University:

Shub, D. E. and Colburn, H. S. (2004). “Monaural intensity discrimination under dichotic conditions,” 27, 130.

Pogal- Sussman, T. E., Shub, D. E., and (2004). “Monaural intensity discrimination: Effects of distractor frequency,”

Ng, G. and Colburn, H. S. (2004). “Localization of multiple-band noises in the median plane,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.115(5), 2597-8.

Colburn, H. S., Zhou, Y., and Dasika, V. K. (2004). “Inhibition in models of coincidence detection,” Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychoacoustics, and Models, Springer-Verlag: New York.

2003:

Colburn, H. S., Carney, L. H., and Heinz, M. G. (2003). “Quantifying the information in auditory-nerve responses for level discrimination,” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 4(3), 294-311.

Durlach, N. I., Mason, C. R., Shinn-Cunningham, B. G., Arbogast, T. L., Colburn, H. S., and Kidd, Jr., G. (2003). “Informational masking: counteracting the effects of stimulus uncertainty by decreasing target-masker similarity,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114(1), 368-79.

Durlach, N. I., Mason, C. R., Kidd, Jr., G., Arbogast, T. L., Colburn, H. S., and Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2003). “Note on informational masking,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113(6), 2984-7.

Long, C. J., Eddington, D. K., Colburn, H. S., and Rabinowitz, W. M. (2003). “Binaural sensitivity as a function of interaural electrode position with a bilateral cochlear implant user,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114(3), 1565-74.

Moy, P. L. and Colburn, H. S. (2003). “Simulating Bilateral Cochlear Implant Processing,”

Scarpaci, J. W., Durlach, N. I., and Colburn, H. S. (2003). “Binaural versus better-ear listening,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.113, 2286.

Shub, D. E., Oxenham, A. J., and Colburn, H. S. (2003). “Psychophysical measures and peripherally based models of the role of simultaneous masking in the precedence effect,” 26, 936.

Greenberg, J., Shub, D. E., and Colburn, H. S. (2003). “ILD and ITD discrimination under conditions with unreliable laterality,”

Ng, G. and Colburn, H. S. (2003). “Median plane localization: dependence on spectral content,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.113(4, pt. 2), 2285.

2002:

Colburn, H. S. (2002). “Directional Hearing,” Genetics and Function of the Auditory System, Holmens Trykkeri: Denmark:

Evilsizer, M. E., Gilkey, R. H., Mason, C. R., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2002). “Binaural detection with narrowband and wideband reproducible noise maskers: I. Results for human,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111(1 Pt 1), 336-45.

Heinz, M. G., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2002). “Quantifying the implications of nonlinear cochlear tuning for auditory-filter estimates,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111(2), 996-1011.

2001:

Culling, J. F., Colburn, H. S., and M. Spurchise, (2001). “Interaural correlation sensitivity,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110(2), 1020-9.

Heinz, M. G., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2001). “Rate and timing cues associated with the cochlear amplifier: level discrimination based on monaural cross-frequency coincidence detection,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110(4), 2065-84.

Heinz, M. G., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2001). “Evaluating auditory performance limits: II. One-parameter discrimination with random-level variation,” Neural Comput. 13(10), 2317-38.

Heinz, M. G., Colburn, H. S., and Carney, L. H. (2001). “Evaluating auditory performance limits: I. one-parameter discrimination using a computational model for the auditory nerve,” Neural Comput. 13(10), 2273-316.

Shub, D. E., Gilkey, R. H., and Colburn, H. S. (2001). “The role of the precedence effect in sound source lateralization,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.109(5), 2376.

Shub, D. E. (2001). “The role of the precedence effect in sound source lateralization,” Department of Electrical Engineering. Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

2000:

Culling, J. F. and Colburn, H. S. (2000). “Binaural sluggishness in the perception of tone sequences and speech in noise,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(1), 517-27.

Kulkarni, A. and Colburn, H. S. (2000). “Variability in the characterization of the headphone transfer-function,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(2), 1071-4.

Ng, G., Dizon, R., Litovsky, R. Y., and Colburn, H. S. (2000). “Free-field and virtual studies of the precedence effect in the median–sagittal plane: Duration effects,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(5), 2849.

1999:

Hawley, M. L., Litovsky, R. Y., and Colburn, H. S. (1999). “Speech intelligibility and localization in a multi-source environment,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(6), 3436-48.

Kulkarni, A., Isabelle, S. K., and Colburn, H. S. (1999). “Sensitivity of human subjects to head-related transfer-function phase spectra,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(5), 2821-40.

Litovsky, R. Y., Colburn, H. S., Yost, W. A., and Guzman, S. J. (1999). “The precedence effect,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106(4 Pt 1), 1633-54.

1998:

Cai, H., Carney, L. H., and Colburn, H. S. (1998). “A model for binaural response properties of inferior colliculus neurons. II. A model with interaural time difference-sensitive excitatory and inhibitory inputs and an adaptation mechanism,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103(1), 494-506.

Cai, H., Carney, L. H., and Colburn, H. S. (1998). “A model for binaural response properties of inferior colliculus neurons. I. A model with interaural time difference-sensitive excitatory and inhibitory inputs,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103(1), 475-93.

Kulkarni, A. and Colburn, H. S. (1998). “Role of spectral detail in sound-source localization,” Nature 396(6713), 747-9.

1997:

Hawley, M. L. and Colburn, H. S. (1997). “Application of Interaural Difference Models to Binaural Performance by Listeners with Hearing Impairments,” Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Erlbaum: New Jersey.

Colburn, H. S., Isabelle, S. K., and Tollin, D. J. (1997). “Modeling binaural detection performance for individual masker waveforms,” Binaural and Spatial Hearing, Erlbaum: NJ.

1996:

Colburn, H. S. (1996). “Computational models of binaural processing,” Auditory Computation Volume in Springer Handbook on Auditory, Springer: New York.

Brughera, A. R., Stutman, E., Carney, L. H., and Colburn, H. S. (1996). “A model with excitation and inhibition for cells in the medial superior olive,” Auditory Neuroscience 2, 219-233.

1995:

Koehnke, J., Culotta, C. P., Hawley, M. L., and Colburn, H. S. (1995). “Effects of reference interaural time and intensity differences on binaural performance in listeners with normal and impaired hearing,” Ear Hear. 16(4), 331-53.

1994:

G. Kidd, Jr., , Mason, C. R., Deliwala, P. S., Woods, W. S., and Colburn, H. S. (1994). “Reducing informational masking by sound segregation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95(6), 3475-80.

1993:

Y. Han, and Colburn, H. S. (1993). “Point-neuron model for binaural interaction in MSO,” Hear. Res. 68(1), 115-30.

1992:

Gabriel, K. J., J. Koehnke, , and Colburn, H. S. (1992). “Frequency dependence of binaural performance in listeners with impaired binaural hearing,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91(1), 336-47.

Woods, W. S. and Colburn, H. S. (1992). “Test of a model of auditory object formation using intensity and interaural time difference discrimination,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91(5), 2894-902.

1991:

Isabelle, S. K. and Colburn, H. S. (1991). “Detection of tones in reproducible narrow-band noise,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89(1), 352-9.

M. Jain, , Gallagher, D. T., J. Koehnke, , and Colburn, H. S. (1991). “Fringed correlation discrimination and binaural detection,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90(4 Pt 1), 1918-26.

Colburn, H. S. and Trahiotis, C. (1991). “Effects of noise on binaural hearing,” Chapter 26 in Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, Mosby-Year Book:

1990:

Colburn, H. S., Han, Y. A., and Culotta, C. P. (1990). “Coincidence model of MSO responses,” Hear. Res. 49(1-3), 335-46.

1989:

Siegel, R. A. and Colburn, H. S. (1989). “Binaural processing of noisy stimuli: internal/external noise ratios for diotic and dichotic stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86(6), 2122-8.

1987:

Colburn, H. S., Zurek, P. M., and Durlach, N. I. (1987). “Directional hearing in relation to hearing impairments and aids,” Directional Hearing, Springer-Verlag: New York.

1986:

Durlach, N. I., Gabriel, K. J., Colburn, H. S., and C. Trahiotis, (1986). “Interaural correlation discrimination: II. Relation to binaural unmasking,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 79(5), 1548-57.

J. Koehnke, , Colburn, H. S., and Durlach, N. I. (1986). “Performance in several binaural-interaction experiments,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 79(5), 1558-62.

1985:

Stern, Jr., R. M. and Colburn, H. S. (1985). “Lateral-position-based models of interaural discrimination,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77(2), 753-5.

1983:

Siegel, R. A. and Colburn, H. S. (1983). “Internal and external noise in binaural detection,” Hear. Res. 11(2), 117-23.

1982:

Colburn, H. S. (1982). “Binaural interaction and localization with various hearing impairments,” Scand. Audiol. Suppl. 15, 27-45.

Colburn, H. S., Barker, M. A., and P. Milner, (1982). “Free-field tests of hearing-impaired listeners: early results,” Scand. Audiol. Suppl. 15, 123-33.

Y. Ito, , Colburn, H. S., and Thompson, C. L. (1982). “Masked discrimination of interaural time delays with narrow-band signal,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72(6), 1821-6.

1981:

Durlach, N. I., Thompson, C. L., and Colburn, H. S. (1981). “Binaural interaction of impaired listeners. A review of past research,” Audiology 20(3), 181-211.

Gabriel, K. J. and Colburn, H. S. (1981). “Interaural correlation discrimination: i. bandwidth and level dependence,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69(5), 1394-401.

1979:

Ruotolo, B. R., Stern, Jr., R. M., and Colburn, H. S. (1979). “Discrimination of symmetric time-intensity traded binaural stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66(6), 1733-7.

1978:

Colburn, H. S. and Latimer, J. S. (1978). “Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory-nerve data. III. Joint dependence on interaural time and amplitude differences in discrimination and detection,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64(1), 95-106.

Durlach, N. I. and Colburn, H. S. (1978). “Binaural phenomena,” Handbook of Perception, Academic Press: New York:

Colburn, H. S. and Durlach, N. I. (1978). “Models of binaural interaction,” Handbook of Perception, Academic Press: New York:

Stern, Jr., R. M. and Colburn, H. S. (1978). “Theory of binaural interaction based in auditory-nerve data. IV. A model for subjective lateral position,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64(1), 127-40.

1977:

Colburn, H. S. (1977). “Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory-nerve data. II. Detection of tones in noise,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61(2), 525-33.

Domnitz, R. H. and Colburn, H. S. (1977). “Lateral position and interaural discrimination,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61(6), 1586-98.

1976:

Domnitz, R. H. and Colburn, H. S. (1976). “Analysis of binaural detection models for dependence on interaural target parameters,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59(3), 598-601.

Searle, C. L., Braida, L. D., Davis, M. F., and Colburn, H. S. (1976). “Model for auditory localization,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 60(5), 1164-75.

1973:

Colburn, H. S. (1973). “Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory-nerve data. I. General strategy and preliminary results on interaural discrimination,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54(6), 1458-70.

1965:

Colburn, H. S. and Durlach, N. I. (1965). “Time-Intensity Relations in Binaural Unmasking,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 38, 93-103.