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Robert V. Shannon, PhD

Robert V. Shannon, Ph.D.

Head, Department of Auditory Implants and Perception
Director, Auditory Implants Research Lab

bshannon@hei.org

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellowships:

Institute for Perception TNO, Soesterberg, Netherlands; Department of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine

Selected Publications:

Chatterjee, M., Fu, Q.-J., and Shannon, R.V. (2000). Effects of phase duration on loudness growth functions in multielectrode cochlear implant listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107(3), 1637-1644.

Eisenberg, L., Shannon, R.V., Martinez, A.S., Wygonski, J., and Boothroyd, A. (2000). Speech recognition with reduced spectral cues as a function of age, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107(5), 2704-2710.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (2000). Effect of stimulation rate on phoneme recognition in cochlear implants, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107(1), 589-597.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (2000). Effects of dynamic range and amplitude mapping on phoneme recognition in Nucleus-22 cochlear implant users, Ear & Hearing, 21(3), 227-235.

Shannon, R.V., Jensvold, A., Padilla, M., Robert, M., and Wang, X. (1999). Consonant recordings for speech testing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ARLO), 106(6), L71-L74.

Friesen, L.M., Shannon, R.V., and Slattery, W.H. (1999). Effects of frequency allocation on phoneme recognition with the Nucleus 22 cochlear implant, Amer. J. Otol., 20(6), 729-734.

Zeng, F.-G. and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Psychophysical laws revealed by electric hearing, NeuroReport, 10(9), 1-5.

Fu, Q.-J., and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Recognition of spectrally degraded speech in noise with nonlinear amplitude mapping, Proc. of the 1999 IEEE Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 369-372.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Recognition of spectrally degraded and frequency-shifted vowels in acoustic and electric hearing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105(3) 1889-1900.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Effects of electrode location and spacing on speech recognition with the Nucleus-22 cochlear implant, Ear & Hearing, 20(4), 321-331.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Effects of electrode configuration and frequency allocation on vowel recognition with the Nucleus-22 cochlear implant, Ear & Hearing, 20(4), 332-344.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Phoneme recognition as a function of signal-to-noise ratio under nonlinear amplitude mapping by cochlear implant users, J. Acoustical Society of America (ARLO), 106(2), L18-L23.

Fu, Q.-J. and Shannon, R.V. (1999). Effect of acoustic dynamic range on phoneme recognition in cochlear implant listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ARLO), 106(6), L65-L70.

 

Current Projects:

  • Time-Intensity Patterns in Electrical Stimulation
  • Speech Processors for Auditory Prostheses
  • A Cochlear Nucleus Auditory Prosthesis Based on Microstimulation
  • Speech Pattern Recognition in Electric Hearing
  • Auditory implant perception in ongoing backgrounds