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March 5-7, 2015Scottsdale, AZ

SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY MEETING

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 2015, VOLUME 40, NO. 1

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The American Auditory Society is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 1.9 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.

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This program is approved by the Arizona Department of Health Services for 19 credit hours.

DISCLOSURE POLICY

It is the policy of the American Auditory Society to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. All faculty participating in this activity are expected to disclose to the audience any significant financial or non-financial interest or other relationship he/she has that could impair his/her judgment and/or influence or bias the content discussed in an educational presentation.

Program Chair 4

Program Agenda 6

Technology Update Abstracts 14

Translational Research Abstracts 17

Special Session Abstracts 18

Carhart Memorial Lecture 19

Life Achievement Award 20

Young Investigator Presentation Abstract 22

Posters – Titles and Authors 23

GENERAL INFORMATION

This program is approved by the International Hearing Society and its educational committee, the International Institute for Hearing Instruments Studies.

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AAS EXECUTIVE BOARDCarmen Brewer, PhD

Rafael Delgado, PhD

Sumitrajit Dhar, PhD

Jill Firszt, PhD

Patricia Jeng, PhD

Charles Limb, MD

Lawrence Lustig, MD

Beth Prieve, PhD

Kelly Tremblay, PhD

Patrick Zurek, PhD

Ex-OfficioBrenda Ryals, PhD

Immediate Past PresidentLinda Hood, PhD

OFFICERSPresidentKonstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD

President-ElectHarvey Abrams, PhD

TreasurerAnil Lalwani, MD

FRIDAY NIGHT EVENT

Members of the American Auditory Society are all about hearing – so our special Friday evening social event on March 6 will be held at the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) in Phoenix: “The Most Extraordinary Museum You’ll Ever Hear.” Buses will pick up under the bridge where the hotel bridges together in the east crosswalk (under the restaurant) at 5:45 pm and take us to the Musical Instrument Museum. Modeled after the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels, Belgium, the MIM collects, preserves, and makes accessible high-quality musical instruments, images, and music from every country in the world. Please join us for an unforgettable evening of refreshments and fun.

Tickets for the Friday night event can be purchased at the AAS Registration Desk, while supplies last.

SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY MEETING

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This year’s meeting again promises to deliver the most current information on technology, developments in science, and useful information for clinical practice. For those attending for the first time, I hope your experience will encourage you to return. For those who are returning for the 2nd or 42nd time, we have done our best to maintain what you’ve said you like best about this conference.

We again thank the NIDCD for continued funding of the Society’s Conference Grant (R13) that allows us to bring outstanding Translational Research Speakers to the meeting. Another very important part of this grant is the support for Student Travel Awards. This year 20 students were selected in the highly competitive Mentored Graduate Student and Resident Research Poster category. In addition 18 AuD students who completed T35 Research Traineeships and 2 New Investigators are receiving travel support. We welcome our NIDCD colleagues who will provide important information about research and funding on Friday afternoon. And we congratulate all of our student award recipients!

The 2015 distinguished Translational Research Speakers include Dr. Brent Edwards who will speak on emerging technologies in amplification and their impact on the future of hearing healthcare, Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano who will present on the evolution of universal newborn hearing screening, and Dr. Steven Rauch who will discuss current and future applications of vestibular function testing. On Saturday afternoon, a group of scientists will convene to present a Special Session on the critical role the military and VA have played in our understanding of hearing and auditory disorders. Presentations will be delivered by Dr. Lucille Beck, Dr. Marjorie Leek, Dr. Douglas Brungart, and Dr. Frederick Gallun.

The Carhart Lecturer this year is Dr. Brenda Lonsbury-Martin of Loma Linda University Medical Center whose ground-breaking research in the area of otoacoustic emissions has shaped our understanding of the peripheral auditory system. Dr. Lonsbury-Martin’s lecture at 5 pm on Thursday will be followed by a reception that will give attendees an opportunity to meet and talk casually with her and all of the 2015 Speakers. The Awards Luncheon on Friday, hosted by our President Dr. Tina Stankovic, will include tribute to Dr. Richard H. Wilson, 2015 recipient of the AAS Life Achievement Award. In addition, Dr. Brenda Ryals, Editor of Ear and Hearing, will present the Editor’s Award for the best manuscript in our journal. The Technology Updates will kick off the meeting on Thursday morning. The Poster Sessions will combine the General Posters, Mentored Posters, and T35 posters into a single venue, and will be organized by topic area. The posters will remain on display for two full days from Thursday through Saturday to allow plenty of time for reading and interacting with the authors. The first formal poster session on Friday morning will be preceded by the Young Investigator presentation, given this year by Dr. Lina Reiss of Oregon Health & Science University.

PROGRAM CHAIR’S LETTER

Welcome to the 2015 American Auditory

On Friday evening, the AAS Social – a longstanding tradition in the Society - will take place at the Musical Instrument Museum (mim.org). This amazing collection of exhibits that features musical instruments and artists throughout history and from around the world could be the “most extraordinary museum you will ever hear.” Allow yourself plenty of time to tour the many floors and rooms of this most impressive collection.

As we gather again at the Chaparral Suites Hotel and Resort in sunny Scottsdale, be sure to enjoy the complimentary breakfast, free internet access, hotel happy hour, and complimentary transportation to and from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. As in past years, the Society will provide lunches on the patio on Thursday and Saturday and an Awards Luncheon in the Ballroom on Friday.

I particularly want to thank the members of the Program and Abstract Review Committee for their hard work in assuring that this year’s program is of the highest quality. Their many hours of work are most appreciated!

Program Committee members are:

The 2015 program of invited speakers, special events, and highly interesting and varied podium and poster presentations promises to be a packed three-days. Above all, we hope to bring to you a gathering filled with science, lively discussion, fun, relaxation, and casual interaction in a beautiful environment. We appreciate the loyalty of our members and annual meeting attendees, look forward to your comments, and hope that you enjoy our 2015 meeting to the fullest!

Harvey B. Abrams, PhDProgram Chair


Carmen Brewer

Bob Burkard

Lauren Calandruccio

Theresa Chisolm

Anil Lalwani

Rachel McArdle

Aparna Rao

Kelly Tremblay

Susie Valentine

Society Scientific and Technology Meeting!


WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015

8:00 am – 12:00 pm Ear and Hearing Editorial Board Meeting

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm AAS Executive Board Meeting

1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Early Registration WEST FOYER

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration WEST FOYER

8:00 am – 11:55 am TECHNOLOGY UPDATES

8:00 AM – 8:55 AM TECHNOLOGY UPDATES, SESSION 1

8:00 AM – 8:25 AM First Round

Session 1A ReSound LiNX TS and Relief App: Flexible Options for Sound Therapy (Tech 1A) Jill Mecklenburger, AuD, ReSound Global Audiology MOHAVE I

Session 1B Alternative Directional Systems for Hearing Aids (Tech 1B) Aart van Halteren, MS, Sonion Nederland B.v. MOHAVE III

Session 1C Enhancing CROS Hearing Aid Use (Tech 1C) Francis Kuk, PhD, Widex PALOMA I

Session 1D DIY Tinnitus Sound Therapy with Whist (Tech 1D) Patrick Zurek, PhD, Sensimetrics Corporation PALOMA III

8:30 AM – 8:55 AM Repeat of Sessions 1A through 1D


9:00 AM – 9:25 AM First Round

Session 2A The Colt- Combining Tactile and Touch to Audiology Instrumentation (Tech 2A) George J. Frye, Frye Electronics, Inc. MOHAVE I

Session 2B Hear Better, Connect Better: A Wireless Solution for Everyone (Tech 2B) Michelle Hicks, PhD, Starkey Hearing Technologies MOHAVE III

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Session 2C Two New Technologies: Forward Pressure Level Calibration, and Measuring the Medial-Olivocochlear Reflex in Humans (Tech 2C) Jont B. Allen, PhD, Mimosa Acoustics, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign; Lynne Marshall, Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory; Judi A. Lapsley Miller, Mimosa Acoustics, Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory; Pat S. Jeng, PhD, Mimosa Acoustics PALOMA I

Session 2D MEMS Microphones in Hearing Health: A Primer (Tech 2D) Daniel Warren, PhD, Knowles Electronics PALOMA III



10:00 AM – 10:25 AM First Round Session 3A The OTONET: A Web Conferencing System for the Hearing Care Industry (Tech 3A) Dave Davis, Otovation MOHAVE I

Session 3B Tinnitus SoundSupport: A Flexible Solution for both Patients and Audiologists (Tech 3B) Annette Mazevski, PhD, Oticon, Inc. MOHAVE III

Session 3C Simultaneous Acquisition of Transient and Steady State Auditory Evoked Potentials (Tech 3C) Rafael E. Delgado, PhD, Intelligent Hearing Systems PALOMA I

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM Repeat of Sessions 3A through 3C


11:00 AM – 11:25 AM First Round Session 4A Speech Recognition Benefit Obtained from Binaural Beamforming Hearing Aids (Tech 4A) Eric Branda, AuD, Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. MOHAVE I

Session 4B New Time Saving Technologies for ABR and the English Newborn ABR Guidance (Tech 4B) Dr. Guy Lightfoot, Interacoustics MOHAVE III

Session 4C Parc’s First Venture: Validation and Efficacy of Adaptive StereoZoom (Tech 4C) Lori Rakita, AuD, Phonak PALOMA I

Session 4D CM4: The Next Generation Companion Mics® Multi-Talker-Multi-Listener Noise-Reduction System (Tech 4D) Mead Killion, PhD, Etymotic Research, Inc. PALOMA III


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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm LUNCH OUTDOORS ON THE WEST PATIO

1:10 pm – 1:30 pm Opening Comments KIVA-HACIENDA Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, AAS President Harvey Abrams, PhD, President-Elect and Program Chair

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH I KIVA-HACIENDA Moderator: Harvey Abrams, PhD

Emerging Technologies in Amplification Brent Edwards, PhD EarLens, Menlo Park, CA

2:45 pm – 4:45 pm Concurrent Podium Presentations (Abstracts at www.amauditorysoc.org)

PODIUM SESSION I: SPEECH PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR MOHAVE I-III Moderator: Robert Margolis, PhD

2:45 PM – 3:05 PM Lost in Noise: A Journey to Find the Speech - A Tribute to Dr. Richard Wilson’s Research on Speech Perception (Pod.I.A.) Rachel McArdle, PhD, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 3:05 PM – 3:25 PM Effects of Developmental Factors on Spectral Resolution and Speech Recognition (Pod.I.B.) Benjamin Kirby, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE 3:25 PM – 3:45 PM Objectively- and Subjectively-Measured Speech Understanding with Increasing Postural Instability (Pod.I.C.) David Downs, PhD, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM Preschool Children with Hearing Loss: Real-Time Processing of Audiovisual Speech (Pod.I.D.) Tina Grieco-Calub, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM Evaluation of Charge Levels on Postoperative Hearing Preservation (Pod.I.E.) Margaret Dillon, AuD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM Normative Data on Audiovisual Speech Integration: Accuracy and Capacity Measures (Pod.I.F.) Nicholas Altieri, PhD, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID

PODIUM SESSION II: COGNITION; TINNITUS KIVA-HACIENDA Moderator: Benjamin Hornsby, PhD

2:45 PM – 3:05 PM Mitigation of Age-related Changes in Cognition with Hearing Aids (Pod.II.A.) Jamie Desjardins, PhD, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 3:05 PM – 3:25 PM Auditory and Working Memory Training in Adults with Hearing Loss (Pod.II.B.) Melanie Ferguson, PhD, NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, UK

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3:25 PM – 3:45 PM How Audibility and Hearing Loss Affect Emotional Experiences (Pod.II.C.) Erin Picou, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM Beta Oscillations and Working Memory Correlate in Adverse Listening Conditions (Pod.II.D.) Ilse Wambacq, PhD, Montclair State University, Bloomfield, NJ 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM Leisure Exposure to Music: Impact on Hearing and Tinnitus (Pod.II.E.) David Moore, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM Test-Retest Reliability and Associations of Dichotic Listening Test Scores (Pod.II.F.) Kairn Kelley, MS, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

PODIUM SESSION III: AMPLIFICATION; TECHNOLOGY PALOMA I-III Moderator: Jason Galster, PhD

2:45 PM – 3:05 PM Speech Understanding and Hearing Aid Technologies: Are Premium Features Better? (Pod.III.A.) Jani Johnson, PhD, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 3:05 PM – 3:25 PM Hearing Aid Technology Effect on Front/Back Localization in Quiet (Pod.III.B.) Jingjing Xu, PhD, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 3:25 PM – 3:45 PM Comparison of Frequency Modulated (FM) and Wireless Accessory (WA) Remote Microphone Technology (Pod.III.C.) Michelle Sanchez, BA, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM Evaluation of a BICROS with Directional Microphone on the Transmitter (Pod.III.D.) Kristi Oeding, AuD, Washington University in St. Louis – School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM Binaural Directivity Patterns of Binaural Hearing and Implications on Hearing Prosthetic Design (Pod.III.E. Andrew Dittberner, PhD, Gn Resound, Glenview, IL 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM Analysis of 2.4 GHz Antenna Performance in Terms of Speech Quality Using the RSSI Metric (Pod.III.F.) Caslav Pavlovic, PhD, Bat&Cat Inc., Palo Alto, CA

5:00 pm – 6:15 pm CARHART MEMORIAL LECTURE KIVA-HACIENDA Moderator: Brenda Ryals, PhD

Can Understanding the Complex Nature of DPOAE Generation Make the DP-gram More Clinically Useful? Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin, PhD Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Opening Reception PALOMA GARDEN

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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015


8:00 am – 8:30 am YOUNG INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH PRESENTATION HACIENDA-PALOMA Moderator: Victoria Williams-Sanchez, PhD

Brain Plasticity and Adaptability: Factors in Success with Cochlear Implants and Academia Lina Reiss, PhD Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

8:30 am – 10:30 am POSTER SESSION WEST PATIO, NORTH AND SOUTH FOYERS, FIESTA II - GRANADA II ROOMS Mentored Graduate Student and Resident Research Posters, T35 Student Research Trainee Posters & General Posters Abstracts available at www.amauditorysoc.org. Refer to page 22 for poster numbers and categories.

10:30 am – 11:30 am TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH II HACIENDA-PALOMA Moderator: Beth Prieve, PhD

Evolution of a Public Health Revolution: Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhD University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Awards Luncheon MOHAVE-KIVA Membership Update: Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, AAS President Life Achievement Award: Richard H. Wilson, PhD Ear and Hearing Editor’s Award: Melanie A. Ferguson, Helen Henshaw, Daniel P.A. Clark, David R. Moore (2014). Benefits of Phoneme Discrimination Training in a Randomized Controlled Trial of 50-74-Year-Olds with Mild Hearing Loss, Ear and Hear 35, e110-e121

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm NIDCD RESEARCH PRESENTATION HACIENDA-PALOMA Moderator: Carmen Brewer, PhD

NIDCD Funding Opportunities for Students and Young Investigators Amy M. Donahue, PhD NIDCD, NIH

1:30 pm – 4:00 pm POSTER SESSION, CONTINUED WEST PATIO, NORTH AND SOUTH FOYERS , FIESTA II - GRANADA II ROOMS Mentored Graduate Student and Resident Research Posters, T35 Student Research Trainee Posters & General Posters Abstracts available at www.amauditorysoc.org. Refer to page 22 for poster numbers and categories.

6:00 pm – 11:00 pm AAS SOCIAL AT THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM Buses will pick up at 5:45 pm under the bridge (where the hotel bridges together in the east crosswalk, under the restaurant). If you miss the first round of buses, there will be another bus at 7:00 pm. Buses will depart the MIM at depart the MIM at 9:30 and 10:30 pm and return to the Chaparral Suites. Don’t miss a great evening!

PROGRAM AGENDA


SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2015


8:00 am – 9:00 am TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH III HACIENDA-PALOMA Moderator: Robert Burkard, PhD

Translational Vestibular Research: Vestibular Function Testing Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Steven D. Rauch, MD Harvard Medical School, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary and Mass. General Hospital, Boston, MA

9:15 am – 12:15 pm Concurrent Podium Presentations (Abstracts at www.amauditorysoc.org)

PODIUM SESSION IV: PHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS MOHAVE Moderator: Kelly Tremblay, PhD

9:15 AM – 9:35 AM Comparison of Otoacoustic Emissions Measured with Different Devices (Pod.IV.A.) Wiktor Jedrzejczak, PhD, World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Kajetany, Poland 9:35 AM – 9:55 AM ASSR Amplitude to Paired Stimuli that Covary in Modulation Depth (Pod.IV.B.) Robert Burkard, PhD, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM Computational Auditory Model of Level Effects on Spectral Resolution (Pod.IV.C.) Evelyn Davies-Venn, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM Extending Auditory Steady-State Response to Long-Latency Testing (ASSLLR): | Threshold Estimation (Pod.IV.D.) John Durrant, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:55 AM – 11:15 AM Effects of Static Negative Middle-Ear Pressure on Wideband Acoustic Immittance (Pod.IV.E.) Sarah Robinson, MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM Normative Study and Test-Retest Reliability of Wideband Tympanometry in Adults (Pod.IV.F.) Xiao-Ming Sun, PhD, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 11:35 AM – 11:55 AM Chirps Enhance Amplitude of Auditory Late Responses Over Click Stimuli (Pod.IV.G.) Fred Holt, MS, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 11:55 AM – 12:15 PM Signal-in-Noise Electrophysiology and Behavior: Noise Type, Age, and Hearing Effects (Pod.IV.H.) Curtis Billings, PhD, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland VA Medical Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM Equivalency of Deconvolved Variable-Rate Swept-Tone SFOAE (Pod.IV.I.) New Investigator Podium Presentation Christopher Bennett, PhD, University of Miami, Miami, FL


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PODIUM SESSION V: IMPLANTS; PEDIATRICS KIVA Moderator: Linda Hood, PhD

9:15 AM – 9:35 AM Perception of Musical Stimuli in MED-EL Cochlear Implant Users (Pod.V.A.) Sandra Prentiss, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 9:35 AM – 9:55 AM 18-Year Audiologic Follow-up of Children with Symptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection (Pod.V.B.) Winnie Chung, AuD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM 18-year Audiologic Follow-up of Children with Asymptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection (Pod.V.C.) Tatiana Lanzieri, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM Auditory Brainstem Implants for Children: Early Findings (Pod.V.D.) Amy Martinez, MA, Keck School of Medicine of The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:55 AM – 11:15 AM Binaural Benefit in Cochlear Implantees: Does Unilateral Spectral Resolution Matter? (Pod.V.E.) Ward Drennan, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM Clinical Application of Spectral Envelope Perception: Year 1 (Pod.V.F.) Rene Gifford, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 11:35 AM – 11:55 AM The Effect of Hearing Loss on Early Word Processing (Pod.V.G.) Susie Robertson, PhD, Hearing and Speech Foundation, Maryville, TN 11:55 AM – 12:15 PM Dual-Carrier Vocoder Processing: Cost of Preserving the Background (Pod.V.H.) Frédéric Apoux, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

PODIUM SESSION VI: HEARING DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY HACIENDA-PALOMA Moderator: Theresa Chisolm, PhD

9:15 AM – 9:35 AM Wind Turbines and Health: A Critical Review (Pod.VI.A.) Robert Dobie, MD, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 9:35 AM – 9:55 AM Antioxidant Vitamin Intake and Hearing Loss in Women (Pod.VI.B.) Sharon Curhan, MD, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM CHARGE Consortium Age-Related Hearing Loss Phenotypes for Genetic Epidemiology Studies (Pod.VI.C.) Chuan-Ming Li, PhD, NIDCD, NIH, Bethesda, MD 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM Epidemiology of Dizziness in Adolescence: The Add Health Longitudinal Study (Pod.VI.D.) Howard J. Hoffman, MA, NIDCD, NIH, Bethesda, MD 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:55 AM – 11:15 AM TT-Electrocochleography Obtained at High Stimulus Rates in Patients with Meniere Disease (Pod.VI.E.) Krzysztof Morawski, MD, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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11:15 AM – 11:35 AM Community-based Participatory Research on Hearing Loss in a Border/Low-Resource Community (Pod.VI.F.) Nicole Marrone, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 11:35 AM – 11:55 AM Patients with Misophonia: An Introduction (Pod.VI.G.) Michael J. A. Robb, MD, Robb Oto-neurology Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 11:55 AM – 12:15 PM Inpatient and Outpatient Costs of Hearing Loss in the US Military: Preliminary Findings (Pod.VI.H.) Hasanat Alamgir, PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, San Antonio, TX

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm LUNCH OUTDOORS ON THE WEST PATIO

1:30 pm – 4:00 pm SPECIAL SESSION: MILITARY AND VA RESEARCH: ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HEARING HACIENDA-PALOMA Moderator: Harvey Abrams, PhD

The VA Rehabilitation and Prosthetics Portfolio: Optimizing Veteran Health Outcomes Lucille B. Beck, PhD Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC

Research to Practice: Contributions from Military and VA Research Marjorie R. Leek, PhD VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA The Operational Impact of Impaired Hearing on Performance in Military Tasks Douglas S. Brungart, PhD National Military Audiology and Speech Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Current Research on Central Auditory Function at the NCRAR Frederick Gallun, PhD National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland VA Medical Center; Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Summary and Adjournment HACIENDA-PALOMA

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RESOUND LINX TS AND RELIEF APP: FLEXIBLE OPTIONS FOR SOUND THERAPYJill Mecklenburger, AuD, ReSound Global AudiologyReSound LiNX TS, a game changing hearing aid, is Resound’s 3rd generation of wireless technology utilizing 2.4 GHz. The signal processing including Nature Sound™ options will be reviewed. LiNX TS is compatible with ReSound’s full line of accessories and was the first hearing aid introduced with a direct connection to an iPhone. This iPhone connection opens up direct streaming to hearing aids and additional sound therapy options through the Resound Relief™ App.

ALTERNATIVE DIRECTIONAL SYSTEMS FOR HEARING AIDSAart van Halteren, MS, Sonion Nederland B.v.Current Hearing Aids use Matched Pairs of Microphones to get the hearing aid to be directional. Sonion has developed many better alternatives that are more robust in their day to day use. The endgoal is to improve the Signal to Noise ratio, which is in line with the main goal for Hearing Aids to improve Speech Intelligibility, especially in noisy situations. We will compare the different systems with respect to how they work, and what the tradeoffs are with respect to robustness versus other parameters.

ENHANCING CROS HEARING AID USEFrancis Kuk, PhD, WidexAbstract: Despite the advantages offered by a CROS/BiCROS hearing aid, wearers of such a device experience increased difficulty when noise is presented to the unaidable ear (and speech to the aidable ear) and difficulty with left/right discrimination. Recently, Widex introduced a wireless CROS device that offers advanced signal processing and user friendly features. This presentation will provide a description and results of how training on the use of such features can further improve speech intelligibility and localization ability.

DIY TINNITUS SOUND THERAPY WITH WHISTPatrick Zurek, PhD, Sensimetrics CorporationOf all the approaches that have been proposed for the relief of tinnitus, the most widely accepted involves some form of counseling combined with sound therapy. This talk focuses on the latter component and how tinnitus patients can use mobile devices to create and deliver their own custom sound therapies. Several points about sound therapy make it well-suited for self-administration. First, because tinnitus is typically entirely subjective it can be measured only through introspection; only the patient knows what his or her particular tinnitus sounds like, what external sounds match it, and what relieves it. Second, tinnitus measurement and the search for effective therapy sounds are time-consuming activities that are difficult to fit into busy clinic schedules. Finally, there is currently no recommended best practice for providing sound therapy. Given these factors, it is reasonable to give patients the tools and guidance to search for the best sounds and exposure regimens themselves. The technological development that has made self-administered custom therapy possible is the inexpensive sound generation

capability of mobile devices. Sensimetrics’ Whist app provides tone and noise stimuli that can be easily adjusted in frequency, bandwidth, and level, providing sufficient flexibility for custom masking, suppression, and residual inhibition. This talk will consider some of the issues raised by what is likely to be a growing interest in self-administered sound therapy for tinnitus.

THE COLT- COMBINING TACTILE AND TOUCH TO AUDIOLOGY INSTRUMENTATIONGeorge Frye, MS, Frye Electronics, Inc.The Colt audiometer was introduced two years ago. Using a commercial Android tablet computer with its touch screen as the operator interface, a number of professionals enjoyed operation of the Colt. Many, however, stated that they preferred tactile operational controls so that their visual attention could be kept on the patient rather than the instrumentation. In order to address this preference, the Colt has now been modified with the addition of optional tactile rotary switches and physical push buttons for control over stimulus amplitude, frequency, and presentation. Both tactile and touch interfaces are operational. Other added features now include SISI, DLI, ABLB and MLB tests.

HEAR BETTER, CONNECT BETTER: A WIRELESS SOLUTION FOR EVERYONEMichelle Hicks, PhD, Starkey Hearing TechnologiesWearable technology has surged in popularity in the last several years, with fitness or wellness monitors of all types becoming available for connectivity with our smartphones and tablets. One could easily argue that hearing aids were the first wearable health technology, yet the hearing healthcare industry has struggled to penetrate a very large and unmotivated population that could experience great benefit with these devices. Is it the perceived complexity of the systems that continues to be the barrier? Is it ourselves ‘the hearing healthcare providers’ that are resistant to change? At Starkey Hearing Technologies we recognize that we must exceed the basic demands of the hearing-aid wearer with high-fidelity sound quality and longer battery life, in the smallest hearing aid package possible. Importantly, we also know that hearing aids have progressed beyond correcting for hearing loss. Hearing aids must be professional- and patient-friendly tools that allow hearing-aid wearers to easily interact wirelessly with multimedia devices as part of a life-without-limits lifestyle. This presentation will review the current wireless systems offered by Starkey Hearing Technologies in the Z Series and Halo product families, as well as the available options that allow hearing-aid wearers to connect to wireless electronic devices through accessories and mobile applications.

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE ABSTRACTS


TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES: FORWARD PRESSURE LEVEL CALIBRATION, AND MEASURING THE MEDIAL-OLIVOCOCHLEAR REFLEX IN HUMANSJont B. Allen, PhD, Mimosa Acoustics, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignLynne Marshall, Naval Submarine Medical Research LaboratoryJudi A Lapsley Miller, Mimosa Acoustics, Naval Submarine Medical Research LaboratoryPat S. Jeng, PhD, Mimosa AcousticsIn a closed cavity, forward pressure level (FPL) calibration removes the effects of standing-wave nulls that can lead to ~20dB errors in stimulus level, especially above 3 kHz. Instead of measuring the sound level incident on the probe microphone, FPL estimates the sound level incident on the tympanic membrane. To do this requires a probe with known Thevenin source impedance. The FPL calibration information is obtained as part of a wideband acoustic immittance (WAI) measurement. This leads to a simple test battery where the middle-ear is evaluated with WAI and the inner-ear is evaluated with otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), with stimulus levels calibrated in FPL from the preceding WAI test. Likewise, pure-tone audiometry stimulus levels can be calibrated using FPL. The medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR) is an efferent reflex that affects the way the inner ear attenuates sound. In animals, the MOCR strength relates to susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss. In humans, OAEs can be used to evaluate the MOCR, but there is only weak evidence so far supporting a similar relationship to animals. In part this is because the tests used have not been demonstrated to be statistically able to do the job. A clinically-viable OAE-based assay that measures the reflection-component has shown a good range in the population (allowing weak and strong MOCR to be identified) and a relatively smaller within-subject variation. This assay should allow researchers to do field studies on noise-exposed people with more confidence.

MEMS MICROPHONES IN HEARING HEALTH: A PRIMERDaniel M. Warren, PhD, Knowles ElectronicsMEMS microphones from Knowles are now used in flagship hearing aids from three major hearing aid companies, and are poised to overtake electret microphones as the predominant sensor technology in hearing aids in the coming years. The conversation at the engineering level has turned from MEMS microphones as an exciting and new but unfamiliar technology to MEMS microphones as a known, field-tested quantity with further potential yet to be tapped. However, the conversation at the hearing scientist, clinician, or end-user level is just beginning. This talk seeks to address the question, “What are MEMS microphones, why are they in my aids, and what do they mean to me?”

THE OTONET: A WEB CONFERENCING SYSTEM FOR THE HEARING CARE INDUSTRYDave Davis, OtovationOtovation has been at the forefront of promoting tele-audiology over the past few years, and we’ve presented on RemotEAR at AAS. Now, we’re establishing a hearing care industry-wide web conferencing offering called The OTOnet. The OTOnet is a robust and secure web conferencing service that is specifically for the hearing care industry and offers features and benefits that will improve the efficiency and delivery of hearing care. Come visit our tech session and learn more about the OTONET and how it can help you be more productive in your practice and efficient in delivering hearing care.

TINNITUS SOUNDSUPPORT: A FLEXIBLE SOLUTION FOR BOTH PATIENTS AND AUDIOLOGISTSAnnette Mazevski, Oticon, IncTinnitus remains a challenge to patients and hearing care professionals alike and there are continuously new frontiers to explore in the area of tinnitus treatment. Effective tinnitus management is a reality today and, in particular, the combination of sound therapy and counseling to manage patients with tinnitus has been shown to provide relief for many. Oticon’s Tinnitus SoundSupport provides the professional and the patient with a wide array of options for sound therapy in the form of four broadband sound options, three nature sound options, and the ability to shape sounds to suit individual patient needs. This discussion provides the clinical evidence to show that a wide variety of sound options for tinnitus management is crucial for a patient population where the perception of the tinnitus varies immensely. Furthermore, the importance of a combined sound therapy and counseling approach to tinnitus management is emphasized.

SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION OF TRANSIENT AND STEADY STATE AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALSRafael E. Delgado, PhD, Intelligent Hearing SystemsAuditory evoked potentials are traditionally acquired as either auditory transient responses (ATRs), as in the case of Auditory Brainstem Reponses (ABRs), Middle Latency Reponses (MLRs) or Late Latency Responses (LLRs), or as Auditory Steady State Reponses (ASSRs). Often different instrumentation or software is used to acquire each type of response and a duplication of effort is required if both are to be recorded. Each of these two recording techniques provides important differential diagnostic elements to the evaluation of hearing and each has specific advantages and disadvantages. ASSRs provide objective statistical response analysis that is ideal for frequency specific testing while ATRs response analysis is often subjective. ASSRs also provide the ability to test both ears and multiple frequencies simultaneously, providing valuable saving of time. ASSRs are typically acquired using a limited filter bandwidth (30-300 Hz) and are sampled at relatively low



rates (typically 1000 Hz), resulting in low temporal resolution data that can only be reliably interpreted using frequency domain and statistical analysis techniques. On the other hand, ATRs provide a better indication of neural synchrony, important temporal information such as waveform amplitude and absolute and interpeak latencies, that are required for a complete analysis of neural integrity. This presentation will describe novel techniques that simultaneously combines the acquisition of both ATRs and ASSRs. Research funded by NIH-NIDCD through grant 1R43DC012463-01A1 to Intelligent Hearing System in collaboration with Vanderbilt University.

SPEECH RECOGNITION BENEFIT OBTAINED FROM BINAURAL BEAMFORMING HEARING AIDSEric Branda, AuD, Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc.The constant development in semiconductor technology has led a new wave of hearing instruments with improved directional technology; bilateral behind the ear (BTE) hearing aids with advanced binaural technology. High-end binaural technology makes use of a wireless link capable of transmitting bidirectional audio data from ear-to-ear, which unleashed a series of new signal processing algorithms such as binaural beamforming. As a result, these new types of hearing aids can provide an even more efficient solution to speech understanding in background noise. This Technology Update will review the advantages of binaural processing, including binaural redundancy, binaural squelch, directed binaural listening. These binaural processing skills are used by normal hearing individuals to improve their speech recognition in difficult listening situations. Modern signal processing, such as binaural beamforming may allow these patients to perform at SNR levels better that normal hearing people. Results from clinical testing demonstrating these results will be presented.

NEW TIME SAVING TECHNOLOGIES FOR ABR AND THE ENGLISH NEWBORN ABR GUIDANCEDr. Guy Lightfoot, InteracousticsDr. Guy Lightfoot is invited to present how the English National Health Service Program has evaluated and recommended new technologies for electrophysiological hearing threshold assessment of babies. Dr. Lightfoot will talk about the frequency specific CE-Chirp stimulus family and Bayesian Weighted Averaging and the background for these time efficient technologies’ inclusion and recommendation in the evidence based guidelines for follow up procedures in the English Newborn Hearing Screening Program.

PARC’S FIRST VENTURE: VALIDATION AND EFFICACY OF ADAPTIVE STEREOZOOMLori Rakita, AuD, PhonakSpeech recognition scores were measured for 13 hearing impaired subjects in quiet and in the presence of background noise for four different directional microphone modes (1) Real Ear Sound (2) UltraZoom (3) Fixed StereoZoom and (4) the latest Adaptive StereoZoom on the new Venture platform from Phonak. Results show significantly better speech recognition scores with Adaptive StereoZoom relative to the other directional microphones, which indicates that the new and improved StereoZoom provides maximum signal-to-noise ratio benefit in noisy listening conditions.

CM4: THE NEXT GENERATION COMPANION MICS® MULTI-TALKER-MULTI-LISTENER NOISE-REDUCTION SYSTEMMead Killion, PhD, Etymotic Research, Inc.The original Companion Mics system (3 Talkers: 1 Listener) took 14 years to develop. It went through five development phases: 1) ultra low-power digital transmission; 2) low-cost FM systems; 3) high-cost FM systems; 4) low-power digital security-alarm systems; and 5) a 2.4-GHz spread-spectrum (frequency- hopping) system. None of the first four systems provided adequate bandwidth and/or signal-to-noise ratio, but the Companion Mics introduced in 2006 had both. The new CM4 system, in development for five years, makes it possible for any combination of up to four listeners and four talkers to converse more easily in high-level noise. An optional noise-canceling headset improves SNR an additional 20 dB in extremely noisy conditions.


Brent Edwards, PhD Chief Technology Officer, EarLens Corporation, Menlo Park, CA

MERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN AMPLIFICATIONHearing technology is advancing faster than it has in the history of amplification. Hearing aids are converging with consumer electronics with the integration of made-for-iPhone technology, while audio wearables or “hearables” are taking on features normally only found in hearing aids. Meanwhile, novel hearing devices and fitting methods are being developed that either embrace the hearing healthcare professional as a critical part of distribution or try to eliminate them as the distribution channel. Each of these technological advances has implications for people with hearing impairment and those who treat them. This talk will provide a perspective on how all of these developments will shape the future of hearing technology, hearing healthcare professionals, and the lives of people with hearing impairment.

Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhDProfessor of Audiology, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, faculty of the Institute of Cognitive Science, Center for Neurosciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado, Denver and the Marion Downs Center

EVOLUTION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH REVOLUTION: UNIVERSAL NEWBORN HEARING SCREENINGAuditory research on brain stem auditory evoked potentials and transient evoked otoacoustic emissions was active in the 1970s and 1980s, but it was not until almost the year 2000 that these two technologies became standard of care for infants and toddlers with hearing loss. The first legislation for universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) was passed in 1990 in Hawaii and 1992 in Rhode Island. The Marion Downs Center was established through a grant from Maternal and Child Health (MCH) from 1996-2000. A National Institutes of Health contract had been awarded in 1994-2000 to investigate predictors of successful developmental outcomes of Colorado children with hearing loss. Between 1996-2000, 30 additional states passed legislation. The MCH grant focused on constituent partners required to establish UNHS systems. These partners included: audiologists, hearing scientists, pediatricians, general practice physicians, otolaryngologists, speech/language pathologists,

teachers of the deaf, early intervention providers, deaf /hard of hearing adults, parents of children who are deaf, hard of hearing and hearing, public health officials, metabolic and genetic screening professionals, epidemiologists, nurses in both the well-baby and intensive care unit nurseries, and legislators. Research was differentially explained for the various constituent partner to match specific priorities.

Steven D. Rauch, MDProfessor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Dept. of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, and Chief, Vestibular Division, Otolaryngology Dept., Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary and Mass. General Hospital, Boston, MA

TRANSLATIONAL VESTIBULAR RESEARCH – VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTING TODAY, TOMORROW, AND BEYOND Traditional vestibular function testing is primarily based upon measurement of input/output function of the vestibulo-ocular reflexes (VOR) driven by the horizontal semicircular canals, providing information about only two of ten peripheral vestibular organs. Results of such testing is poorly correlated with patient symptoms. Methods are now available to measure each of the ten vestibular endorgans individually. Some of these methods use commercially available equipment (e.g. video Hit Impulse Test or “vHIT”) and others are still evolving (e.g. cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials or “cVEMP” and “oVEMP”). These new approaches enable precise site-of-lesion mapping in the vestibular periphery. Even more powerful techniques, utilizing psychophysical measures of vestibular detection thresholds, are just emerging. These psychophysical measures are likely to be much better correlated with patient symptoms than are current tests. This presentation will review the methods, uses, strengths, and weaknesses of vHIT and VEMP testing, and introduce vestibular threshold testing and its early results.


TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ABSTRACTS

Lucille B. Beck, PhDDeputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Services; Office of Patient Care Services, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC

Rachel McArdle, PhDAssociate Director, Clinical Care, Rehabilitation and Restoration Directorate, Defense Hearing Center of Excellence, Department of Veterans Affairs; Associate Professor, College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

THE VA REHABILITATION AND PROSTHETICS PORTFOLIO: OPTIMIZING VETERAN HEALTH OUTCOMESThis Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers multiple funding mechanisms for research specifically geared towards rehabilitation through the Rehabilitation Research and Development division of the VA Office of Research and Development. These funding mechanisms along with accomplishments by distinguished VA scientists will be presented. The overall impact of VA research in the areas of audiology, prosthetics, TBI and Polytrauma on optimizing Veteran health outcomes also will be highlighted.

Marjorie R. Leek, PhDVA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA

RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MILITARY AND VA RESEARCHThe roots of clinical audiology are closely tied to military medicine, as the discipline experienced rapid advancements in response to the mid-20th century wars. Some of the founding fathers of clinical audiology got their start serving in the military, and developed audiology as a clinical specialty in response to pressures from military members returning from battle with significant hearing loss. In parallel with military laboratories, the VA research service also began active efforts to improve the communication difficulties experienced by soldiers, airmen, and sailors as they re-entered civilian life. Just as the most common injury in the military continues to be disorders of the auditory

system, tinnitus and hearing loss are the two most frequently compensated disabilities in the VA, with now over a billion dollars spent annually on services and compensation. It is no wonder that financial and moral pressures have driven the active participation in auditory research of these two agencies. In this presentation, I will review some of the most significant contributions to our knowledge of hearing, hearing loss, clinical rehabilitation, and treatment emerging from these military and VA laboratories over decades of discovery.

Douglas S. Brungart, PhDChief Scientist, National Military Audiology and Speech Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

THE OPERATIONAL IMPACT OF IMPAIRED HEARING ON PERFORMANCE IN MILITARY TASKS Hearing plays a critical role in many military tasks, and there is general agreement that impaired hearing can lead to reduced performance in military operations. However, to this point, there has been little data available to relate the severity of a service member’s hearing loss measured in the clinic to the negative impact that hearing loss is likely to have on the probability of mission success. In this talk, we discuss an ongoing program of research that is being conducted to establish a direct link between the degree of hearing impairment and quantitative measures of operational effectiveness in military tasks. This research program is using a variety of techniques to obtain this information, including 1) the use of wearable, real-time hearing loss simulators on normal hearing listeners engaged in simulated combat operations and 2) the use of calibrated binaural recordings captured in realistic combat environments to determine how well hearing impaired service members are able to maintain situational awareness in battlefield operations. The results of these studies will be used to develop improved accession and retention standards for hearing impaired military personnel and to help define better requirements for the acquisition of improved hearing protection and communication systems for the military.


SPECIAL SESSION ABSTRACTS

Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin PhDSenior Research Scientist, Veterans Administration Loma Linda Healthcare System; Research Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Loma Linda University Healthcare Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

CAN UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEX NATURE OF DPOAE GENERATION MAKE THE DP-GRAM MORE CLINICALLY USEFUL? A brief review of the types of otoacoustic emissions will be presented with an emphasis on the ones that are currently used in the clinic. A more detailed examination will follow of why the expectation that distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), in particular, when measured as a DP-gram, have not completely lived up to their promise of being the objective counterpart of the clinical audiogram. In other words, primary-tone levels that have been shown to produce the highest sensitivity/specificity are often difficult to employ in ears with sensorineural hearing loss, because of poor signal-to-noise ratios. However, by raising primary-tone levels, useful information can often be obtained. One problem with this approach is that higher primary-tone levels increase the spread of excitation on the basilar membrane, thus, potentially decreasing the frequency specificity of the DP-gram. Although current thinking attributes the generator sources of DPOAEs to consist of a mixture of distortion and reflection components, such generation theories may need modification, if one considers the distributed nature of DPOAEs. The findings of recent experimental studies using suppression or interference tones, or onset latency measures in the time domain, indicate that DPOAEs under certain conditions are generated considerably more basal along the basilar membrane than previous assumed. These findings help to explain a number of puzzling DPOAE phenomena such as the inverted U-shaped f2/f1-ratio function or enhancement of DPOAEs following noise exposure. The influence of this new knowledge about the generation sites of DPOAEs, however, may eventually lead to a DP-gram that serves as an improved objective complement to the clinical audiogram.

Frederick (Erick) Gallun, PhD Research Investigator, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research Portland VA Medical Center Associate Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience Graduate Program Faculty; Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

CURRENT RESEARCH ON CENTRAL AUDITORY FUNCTION AT THE NCRAR The National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) is the only VA Center of Excellence concerned with the auditory and vestibular systems. One of the NCRAR’s areas of focus is gaining a better understanding of the causes and mechanisms of central auditory function impairment among Veterans. Two studies will be described, the first examining those exposed to high-intensity explosions in the line of duty, and the other studying those experiencing normal age-related changes in auditory sensitivity. Recent findings will be presented suggesting that both groups are at increased risk for central auditory dysfunction. Furthermore, it will be shown that age, hearing loss and brain injury are each factors which can act independently or interact in ways that have substantial impacts on the ability of listeners to make sense of the auditory scene. In order to better understand the difficulties listeners face, it is essential that rapid and efficient tests are developed that probe the abilities underlying auditory scene analysis. Recent work on developing a new headphone-based test of spatial hearing that simulates listening in a multitalker spatial environment will be highlighted.


CARHART MEMORIAL LECTURE


LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Richard H. Wilson, PhDSenior Research Career Scientist (Ret.)Department of Veterans Affairs

As one of my mentors pointed out to me, the Lifetime Achievement Award is about the scope of your career that includes for an audiologist clinic, education, and research, which coincidentally are also the “three legs” on the proverbial VA stool. The following highlights my involvements in the three legs.

Clinic and EducationIn 1972 I became the Chief of the Audiology Section at the VA Medical Center, Long Beach, which was my first acquaintance with the VA. At that time the Long Beach VA was the largest inpatient (2000 beds) and outpatient facility in the VA System with an academic affiliation with UCI, seven ENT residents, and minimal audiology (1 sound booth, 1 desk, 2 trainees, 1 staff, and no office). Ten years later we had a large clinic program with five audiologists, trainees from across the country, an emerging research program, and almost ample space. During this period we developed the Audiology Primer, which is booklet to teach non-audiology students and residents about audiology. The Primer has had several revisions and is made available free, online; just Google Audiology Primer.

In the mid-1980s, audio CDs were just being introduced to the national marketplace. At the time the digital CD format was perfect for recorded speech audiometry materials, especially for the VA, replacing the analog vinyl records and the various tape recording devices. I approached a recording company about the concept but their feeling was it was too expensive for such a small market. With the technical help of a small company in Orange County that was producing the CD devices, we produced a CD that included a variety of speech audiometry materials. The CDs were distributed nationally to the many VA audiology clinics and eventually were made available to the private sector through the Long Beach Research Foundation. Over the years the materials have been revised with two CDs now available.

I left Long Beach in 1992 (20 years at one place is long enough) and relocated to the VA Medical Center at Mountain Home, Tennessee, which was a much smaller VA facility but again with minimal audiology. So with a few revisions I implemented “the old playbook” and proceeded to develop my second program, again based on the three legged stool. I had research funding so research was quickly off the ground. The clinic required some cultural changes and took a bit longer. The education component, however, presented with an interesting opportunity. The AuD was starting to become the terminal degree in clinical audiology. Our affiliate institution, East Tennessee State University, did not have the staff or the clinics to support an ideal AuD program. The VA had what the University needed, faculty,

clinic, and a research base. The VA and the University combined forces to produce a hybrid program that was, and continues to be, to the benefit of both institutions.

Three other aspects of the Mountain Home program are noteworthy, at least to me. First was the establishment in 1993 of the Appalachian Spring Conference, which is an annual, two-day conference held in conjunction with the summer solstice. The aim of the conference was to expose the area audiologists and graduate students to national and international speakers. Gradually over the years this relatively small conference (150 attendees) has attracted a national following. Second, Mountain Home through the competitive process was designated a Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service in the VA. The REAP is a small program project grant that facilitated the development and growth of the auditory and vestibular research programs at Mountain Home. Currently the REAP is in its third five-year cycle. Third, in the late 90s with electronic libraries still over the horizon I started having my old journals scanned as space was at a premium. Eventually with the help of many national and international hearing-related societies, we scanned most audiology journals and made them available on CD-ROM for the cost of postage. Interestingly, many of the journals we scanned eventually made their way back to the respective societies’ websites where they are archived.

ResearchMy first research projects involved dichotic listening and speech interrupted with bursts of noise. As I’m closing my career, I’m back to my beginnings, interrupted speech, this time interrupted with silence. My first instructor in audiology was Dick Cornell who peaked my interest in the field and provided me with 18 or so hours of undergraduate study at East Tennessee State University. Interestingly a few years later, Dick would become a fellow doctoral student at Northwestern. Had it not been for Dick, I would not have become an audiologist. Over the years I have had the good fortune to work with a number hearing folks who have contributed in one way or another to my career. There are five of these individuals in particular that I would like to mention.

Following my master’s program at Vanderbilt, I went to work in 1965 as a research assistant for Don Dirks when he was just getting the auditory research laboratory started at UCLA where I shared time in Knudsen Hall and in the sub-basement of Kinsey Hall that housed the old anechoic and reverberation chambers. From Don I learned the mechanics of designing and implementing research projects. Most importantly, Don impressed upon me the importance of knowing what you were doing on a project and why. On a project you needed to have all of your bases covered, meaning you needed to know the topic as well as, if not better than, anyone else. Don also demonstrated on every project we did the importance of finishing the project in a timely manner, i.e., data collection and analyses were immediately followed by manuscript writing that


more often than not was linked to a presentation at a scientific meeting. This was the time of typewriters (some electric), computer punch cards, and hand-drawn figures. Working for Don, which was like a PhD program but without the distractions of classes, well prepared me for my doctoral program.

Ed Carterette, who was in the psychology department at UCLA, was my first introduction to someone who worked in audition but was not an audiologist. Ed showed me that a sense of humor (although dry) and hard work were in fact compatible. Ed’s philosophy was to take your work seriously but not yourself and certainly not others. It was Ed who introduced me to the Porsche world.

In my doctoral program, my main mentor was Raymond Carhart who re-emphasized many of the research characteristics I had observed/learned from Don Dirks, after all, Don was also a student of Carhart. From my first day at Northwestern in 1967, I had daily contact with Dr. Carhart as I worked in his lab. I quickly learned from Carhart that his leadership success was founded on his unique ability to interact genuinely with all the faculty and students crammed into the little Speech Annex Building. Carhart was a great teacher, but the two most important things I learned from Carhart were outside the classroom. The first thing was the effort that one needed to make in manuscript writing. Carhart spend countless hours marking up my papers followed by interactive reviews of his suggestions and my thoughts about his suggestions. My goal, though never met, was to give him a paper he couldn’t mark up. Through these manuscript experiences I formulated the thought that in writing, “what makes it easy for the writer makes it difficult for the reader, but what makes it easy for the reader makes it difficult for the writer.” I’m sure my students are tired of hearing this little saying. Second was the interaction of independent and dependent, not as variables but rather as human characteristics. Carhart was extremely independent in his leadership and research efforts and at the same time he realized the benefits of dependence on others for their input regarding matters that impacted the audiology program and matters that had an impact on his research.

At Long Beach my research program started by interfacing a Nicolet 812 ABR unit to a Grason-Stadler 1720 acoustic immittance instrument and quantifying the acoustic reflex. This interest in the middle ear would lead to some lasting friendships, the most notable of which started in 1975 when Don Dirks called and said he had a post-doc that he thought I should meet, it was Bob Margolis. Though outwardly, Bob and I come from different planets (Iowa and Northwestern on one level), we formed a lasting friendship through our shared interests in many facets of auditory research that initially focused on middle-ear measurements and currently has returned to the basics of audiology, i.e., pure-tone audiometry/audiograms and speech recognition/identification. From Bob I learned research techniques and refined the ones I already had, but his main contribution to me was the constant urging, encouragement,

and support he provided as I went about the process of developing the audiology research programs at Long Beach and later Mountain Home especially in the difficult task of hiring clinicians who could also make research contributions.

I first met Karel Van Camp in 1976 on a side trip while attending the audiology congress in Florence. After a series of correspondences with Karel in the early ‘80s, Bob and I received funding from the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO to work with Karel in Antwerp. Karel and many in his colleagues were educated as a nuclear physicists but when the nuclear programs were de-emphasized in Belgium they changed their focus to bio-medical issues, one being the mechanics of the middle-ear mechanism. Karel provided us with a broader prospective of science and scientific endeavors than we had experienced in our somewhat narrow scope of audiology. Meticulous attention to details with everything recorded by hand/computer. I think Bob would agree that these were the most enjoyable professional experiences one could have. Outside the lab we learned the leisurely Belgian way to stroll the Grote Markt and Groenplaats sections of the old city center enjoying a bolleke or two, mussels and frits, and on Monday nights the carillon concert. Living and working in Belgium is an experience that every American should enjoy in that you gain a totally different perspective on our US way of life.

I would be amiss if I didn’t mention my wife and daughter. In 1989 Nancy Scherer and I had our lone child, Ashley Abigail, and we decided that we wanted to raise her someplace other than Orange County that was more conducive to childrearing. Just so happened that in 1992 the VA Medical Center at Mountain Home was looking for a new service chief. Hence the move from California to Tennessee. Fast forward to 2013 and how did we end up in Phoenix. The responsibility for that move rests solely with Nancy. With our move to Tennessee 21 years earlier, she picked-up her career in California and landed a faculty position at East Tennessee State University, where in a few years she became chair of the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Several years later Nancy became the founding Dean of the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. After six years in that position she wanted to return to her roots, viz., working with graduate students in speech-language pathology. The Chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Arizona State University opened, Nancy applied, was offered the position and took it in 2013. From then until my retirement this past September, I became a virtual VA employee, meaning that I worked from home in Ahwatukee tying up many of the loose ends left over from the past several years. Today, I’m still tying.

To the mentors, collaborators, and students who have been a part of my professional career, I say thank you for your participation. It is with these individuals that I share the Life Achievement Award from the American Auditory Society.


ALL POSTER ABSTRACTS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE AAS WEBSITE: WWW.AMAUDITORYSOC.ORGTOPIC AREAS, POSTER NUMBERS, AND ABSTRACT CODES:

Topic Area Poster Numbers Abstract Code

Electrophysiologic Responses / Auditory Neuroscience Poster #1-16 (ELECT01-16)

Amplification / Hearing Technology / Rehabilitation Poster #17-50 (AMP01-AMP34)

Psychoacoustics/ Hearing Science Poster #51-67 (PSY01-PSY17)

Speech Perception Poster #68-84 (SP01-SP17)

Vestibular Poster #85-91 (VEST01-VEST07)

Physiology: Middle Ear and Cochlea Poster #92-95 (PHYS01-PHYS04)

Noise-Induced Auditory Damage Poster #96-97 (NIHL01-NIHL02)

Epidemiology Poster #98-108 (EPI01-EPI11)

Diagnostic Audiology / Otology Poster #109-128 (DX01-DX20)

Auditory Processing Poster #129-140 (AP01-AP12)

Diseases / Syndromes / DNA Repair Poster #141-145 (DIS01-DIS05)

Cochlear Implants Poster #146-156 (CI01-CI11)

POSTERS – TITLES AND AUTHORS

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

Lina A.J. Reiss, PhDAssistant Professor, Otolaryngology-HNS and Biomedical Engineering; Oregon Hearing Research CenterOregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

BRAIN PLASTICITY AND ADAPTABILITY: FACTORS IN SUCCESS WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS AND ACADEMIA Our recent studies have shown that the adult brain is more plastic than previously thought, especially after experience with cochlear implants. In the first half of the talk, I will describe how pitch perception and binaural spectral integration of sounds changes after experience with hearing loss and cochlear implants, and how these changes may be related to speech perception outcomes. As an interesting parallel, the ability to adapt to new or unexpected setbacks is also important for career success, especially in the research/academia pathway. In the second half of the talk, I will discuss “setbacks” encountered in various research projects along the trajectory from graduate school to my current job as an assistant professor, in the framework of adaptability – taking advantage of setbacks to re-examine assumptions and hypotheses, and possibly discover something new and exciting along the way.



Poster # 11 - ELECT11Can ECAP Polarity Sensitivity be used to Estimate Neural Health?Michelle Hughes, PhD; Rachel Scheperle, PhD; Jacquelyn Baudhuin, AuD; Jenny Goehring, AuD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 12 - ELECT12Behavioral and Electrophysiological Responses to Mandarin Acoustic ChimerasJohn Sabol, BS; Fuh-cherng Jeng, PhD; Grant Hollister; Jessica Kenny, Ohio University, Athens, OH; Meng-shih Chou, MD; Chia-der Lin, MD; Ching-Hua Chen, Yung-An Tsou, China Medical University Hospital

Poster # 13 - ELECT13Electrophysiologic Evidence of Gap DetectionCynthia Chow, BS; Allison Heller; Cynthia Fowler, PhD, UW-Madison, Madison, WI; Elizabeth Leigh-Paffenroth, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI

Poster # 14 - ELECT14 T35 Research Trainee PosterCortical Auditory-Evoked Potentials and Speech-in-Noise Performance in Older AdultsBrandon Madsen, BA, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Tina Penman, AuD; Paul Pendergraft, AuD; Curtis Billings, PhD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR

Poster # 15 - ELECT15Effects of Background Babble on Foreign and Native Accent PerceptionKelsey Gleason, Montclair State University, Morris Plains, NJ

Poster # 16 – ELECT16Electrophysiological Responses to Gaps in Noise at Different Stimulation RatesKhalid Alhussaini, MS; Jorge Bohorquez, PhD; Ozcan Ozdamar, PhD, University Of Miami, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, King Saud University, Dept. Biomedical Technology, Coral Gables, FL

AMPLIFICATION / HEARING TECHNOLOGY / REHABILITATION

Poster # 17 - AMP01Comparing Two Listening Effort Measures for Hearing Aid Outcome TestingJani Johnson, PhD; Jingjing Xu, PhD; Robyn Cox, PhD, University Of Memphis, Memphis, TN; Paul Pendergraft, AuD, Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, OR

Poster # 18 - AMP02Laboratory Comparison of PSAPs and Hearing AidsJingjing Xu, PhD; Jani Johnson, PhD; Robyn Cox, PhD; Danielle Breitbart, School Of Communication Sciences And Disorders, University Of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Poster # 19 - AMP03Approaches to Improving Hearing Aid Orientation Gabrielle Saunders, PhD; M. Samantha Lewis, PhD; Sara Sell, AuD; Jay Vachhanni, AuD; Katherine Groon, MS; Charlotte Morse-Fortier, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), Portland, OR

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC RESPONSES / AUDITORY NEUROSCIENCE

Poster # 1 - ELECT01 The Effect of EphA4 Signaling Mutations on Auditory FunctionMichelle Gerringer, BS; Lincoln Gray, PhD, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Poster # 2 - ELECT02 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardSubcortical Plasticity in First-Time Hearing Aid UsersKimberly Jenkins, BS; Samira Anderson, PhD, University Of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD

Poster # 3 - ELECT03 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardCochlear Delays in Ears with Normal Hearing and Hearing LossJames Lewis, PhD; Judy Kopun, MA; Stephen Neely; Michael Gorga, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 4 - ELECT04Auditory Steady-State Responses to Simultaneous Air- and Bone-Conducted StimuliLinda Hood, PhD; Lindsey Rentmeester, AuD, Vanderbilt University, Franklin, TN; Rafael Delgado, PhD; Guillermo Savio, PhD, Intelligent Hearing Systems, Miami, FL; Susan Stangl, AuD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 5 - ELECT05Electrocochleography and Auditory Brainstem Response Using Continuous Loop Averaging DeconvolutionKelly Bextermueller, BS; Wafaa Kaf, PhD; Abdullah Jamos, AuD; Samantha Dixon, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO; Erdem Yavuz, PhD; Rafael Delgado, PhD, Intelligent Hearing Systems, Miami, FL

Poster # 6 - ELECT06Objective Estimate of the Masker Phase EffectNiall Klyn, MA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Poster # 7 - ELECT07Differential Pitch Processing at the Brainstem Level in Chinese NewbornsGrant R. Hollister, BS; Fuh-cherng Jeng, PhD; Kristen A. Mitchell; John T. Sabol, Ohio University, Athens, OH; Meng-shin Chou, MD; Chia-der Lin, PhD, China Medical University Hospital

Poster # 8 - ELECT08Interactions Between Speech Stimuli and Masker Types Measured by AERPsKatharine Fitzharris, AuD; Jeffrey Martin, PhD; Ross Roeser, PhD, The University Of Texas At Dallas/ Callier Center For Communication Disorders, Dallas, TX

Poster # 9 - ELECT09Background Noise Reduces Trial-by-Trial Phase Locking of Auditory Evoked Potentials Tess Koerner, BA, Yang Zhang, PhD, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Poster # 10 - ELECT10Electrophysiological Evidence for Binaural Processing in Auditory Brainstem and CortexAllison Heller, BS; Cynthia Fowler, PhD, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; Elizabeth Leigh, PhD, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI



Poster # 20 - AMP04Inter-Rater Reliability of a New Hearing Aid Outcome MeasureCharlotte Morse-Fortier, BA; M. Samantha Lewis, PhD; Sara Sell, AuD; Jay Vachhani, AuD; Katherine Groon, MS; Gabrielle Saunders, PhD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR

Poster # 21 - AMP05The Effects of Noise on Acceptable Noise Level MeasuresMegan Lane, BA; Carol Mackersie, PhD, SDSU/UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Poster # 22 - AMP06Clinical Relevance of the Constructs Underlying the HHIA Kathryn Shaughnessy Schwartz, PhD, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Samantha Kleindienst, PhD; Greta Stamper, PhD; David Zapala, PhD, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL; Jamie Bogle, PhD, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ

Poster # 23 - AMP07 T35 Research Trainee PosterAudibility and Spectral Resolution Influence Performance and Preference for Frequency CompositionJenna Browning, BS, The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Marc Brennan, PhD; Meredith Spratford, AuD; Ryan Mccreery, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 24 - AMP08Speech Perception and Electrophysiological Outcomes with ReadMyQuips Auditory Training ProgramAparna Rao, PhD; Luodi Yu, MA; Yang Zhang, PhD, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Dania Rishiq, PhD; Harvey Abrams, PhD, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MN

Poster # 25 - AMP09Bilateral Hearing Aid Benefits in Complex Environments: Hearing Loss EffectsTodd Ricketts, PhD; Erin Picou, PhD, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Poster # 26 - AMP10 T35 Research Trainee PosterPilot Study of Acoustic Therapies for Tinnitus SuppressionMaggie Schad, BS, University Of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Jennifer Martin, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC; Katherine Groon; Charlotte Morse-Fortier; Emily Thielman, MS; Paul Pendergraft; Samuel Gordon; James Henry, PhD, VA RR&D National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR

Poster # 27 - AMP11Is Repeating Audio Helpful in Real-World Environments?Karrie Recker, AuD; Buye Xu, PhD; Dan Ritter, MS, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MN; Arthur Salvetti, MS, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Colorado Springs, CO

Poster # 28 - AMP12Effects Of Telecoil Programming On Speech Understanding In Induction LoopsChelsea Gavin; Joan Besing, PhD; Ilse Wambacq, PhD; Maris Appelbaum, AuD, Montclair State University, Bloomfield, NJ

Poster # 29 - AMP13Hearing Health Behavior Change in Adults Melissa Frederick, AuD; Gabrielle Saunders, PhD; Shienpei Silverman, MS, NCRAR, Portland, OR; Ariane Laplante-Levesque, PhD; Lisbeth Dons Jensen, MS; Claus Nielsen, Eriksholm Research Centre

Poster # 30 - AMP14Comparison of Simulation Models for Cartilage Conduction SoundRyota Shimokura, PhD; Hiroshi Hosoi, MD; Tadashi Nishimura, MD; Tadashi Kitahara, MD, Nara Medical University, Kashihara; Harry Levitt, MD, Advanced Hearing Concepts Inc., Bodega Bay, CA

Poster # 31 - AMP15Benefit of Cartilage Conduction Hearing Aids to Aural AtresiaTadashi Nishimura, MD; Hiroshi Hosoi, MD; Ryota Shimokura, MD; Osamu Saito; Tadashi Kitahara, MD, Otolaryngology-head And Neck Surgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara; Harry Levitt, PhD, The City University of New York, CA

Poster # 32 - AMP16 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardUse of LENA to Quantify Hearing Aid OutcomesKelsey Klein, BA; Ruth Bentler, PhD; Yu-hsiang Wu, PhD, Department Of Communication Sciences And Disorders, University Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Poster # 33 - AMP17Fricative Production After Fitting Frequency Compression Hearing Aids: Listener EvaluationKanae Nishi, PhD; Judy Kopun, MA; Evan Cordrey; Patricia Stelmachowicz, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 34 - AMP18Can Cognitive Screening Tests Explain Recognition of Distorted Speech?Jing Shen, PhD; Pamela Souza, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Melinda Anderson, PhD; Kathryn Arehart, PhD; James Kates, PhD; Ramesh Muralimanohar, MS, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

Poster # 35 - AMP19Validity of Ecological Momentary Assessment in AudiologyYu-Hsiang Wu, PhD; Elizabeth Stangl, AuD, University Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Poster # 36 - AMP20 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardMotivation For Change During Early Stages of Age-Related Hearing LossCarly Maldonado, BS; Karen Doherty, PhD, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Poster # 37 - AMP21Acoustic Modeling of Reverberant Speech Processed by Hearing AidsPaul Reinhart, BS; Pamela Souza, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Nirmal Srinivasan, PhD; Frederick Gallun, PhD, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR

Poster # 38 - AMP22Effects of WDRC on Perception of High-Frequency Speech CuesVarsha Hariram, AuD; Andrea Plotkowski; Joshua Alexander, PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Poster # 39 - AMP23Examining Relationships between Cognitive Status and Hearing Aid FactorsElizabeth Galster, AuD; Amanda Wolfe, AuD; Alyson Gruhlke, AuD; Jason Galster, PhD, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MN

Poster # 40 - AMP24Real-World Communication Strategies with AmplificationJulie Cohen, AuD; Douglas Brungart, PhD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Sandra Gordon-Salant, PhD; Mary Barrett; Kerrianne Costantino, University of Maryland, College Park, MD



PSYCHOACOUSTICS / HEARING SCIENCE

Poster # 51 - PSY01Masking Release for Peak-Clipped Versus Temporal Fine-Structure SpeechCharlotte Reed, PhD; Joseph Desloge, PhD; Louis Braida, PhD; Agnes Leger, PhD; Zachary Perez, MS, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Poster # 52 - PSY02 T35 Research Trainee PosterUsing Dual-Task Paradigms to Assess Listening Effort in School-Aged ChildrenLauren Charles, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Erin Picou, PhD; Todd Ricketts, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 53 - PSY03Restoration of Spectral Loudness Summation in Listeners with Hearing LossDaniel Rasetshwane, PhD; Stephen Neely; Michael Gorga, PhD; Judy Kopun, MS; Emily Clark, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 54 - PSY04 T35 Research Trainee PosterAuditory Perceptual Filters in Macaque MonkeysJane Burton; Corey Mondul; Margit Dylla; Ramnarayan Ramachandran, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 55 - PSY05Psychoacoustic Measures of Cochlear Gain Reduction at Speech-Relevant FrequenciesKristina Milvae, AuD; Elizabeth Strickland, PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Poster # 56 - PSY06 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardQuantifying the Contribution of Specific Frequency Bands to LoudnessSara Walker, BS, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; Brenda Ohlrich, MS; Walt Jesteadt, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 57 - PSY07 T35 Research Trainee PosterThe Importance of Distance and Direction Cues for Acceleration DiscriminationSarah Fisher, BA; Robert Elrod, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Daniel Ashmead, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 58 - PSY08Contributions by Specific Frequency Bands to Loudness of Broadband Noise Walt Jesteadt, PhD; Oluwaseye Ogun, MD; Brenda Ohlrich, MS; Katyarina Brunette, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 59 - PSY09Effect of Informational and Energetic Maskers on Binaural Listening AdvantagesCassandra Bosworth, BA; Janet Koehnke, PhD; Joan Besing, PhD, Montclair State University, Bloomfield, NJ; Jaclyn Spitzer, PhD, Montclair State University and Columbia University Medical Center

Poster # 60 - PSY10Increased Sensation Level and Bandwidth on Spatial Release from MaskingKasey Jakien, BS; Frederick Gallun, PhD, OHSU And The National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), Portland, OR; Sean Kampel, AuD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), Portland, OR

Poster # 41 - AMP25Comparison of Frequency Lowering Techniques on Speech Perception in NoiseEmily Bates, BS; Christi Miller, PhD, University Of Washington, Seattle, WA Marc Brennan, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 42 - AMP26 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardGeriatric Clinic-Based Hearing Intervention for Persons with DementiaSara Mamo, PhD; Carrie Nieman, MD; Olivia Nirmalasari, MD; Esther Oh, MD; Frank Lin, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Poster # 43 - AMP27Individual Differences in Self-Adjusted Gain for Noisy Rooms: Effects on AudibilityPeggy Nelson, PhD; Dianne Vantasell, PhD; Melanie Gregan, PhD; Adam Svec, AuD; Joseph Hinz, MA, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Poster # 44 - AMP28Maximum Acceptable Delay in Hearing Aids Under Noisy ConditionsMartin McKinney, PhD; Justin Burwinkel, AuD; Tao Zhang, PhD, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MN

Poster # 45 - AMP29Speech Production Reflects Speech Perception in Listeners with Hearing LossElizabeth Stewart, AuD, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ Alan Wisler, MS; Andrea Pittman, PhD; Visar Berisha, PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Poster # 46 - AMP30Detecting Changes in Hearing Disability Following Unilateral Hearing Aid FittingRyan Irey, MA; Jason Galster, PhD, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MN; Charles Bishop, AuD, The University Of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

Poster # 47 - AMP31Evaluating the Communication Participation Item Bank with Hearing Impaired AdultsKristen Birch, BS; Christi Miller, PhD; Carolyn Baylor, PhD, University Of Washington, Seattle, WA

Poster # 48 - AMP32Temporal Envelope Cues in Frequency-Lowered and Un-Lowered FricativesAndrea Plotkowski, BA; Varsha Hariram, AuD; Joshua Alexander, PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Poster # 49 - AMP33C2Hear: Interactive Multimedia Self-management Programme Benefits First-time Hearing Aid UsersMelanie Ferguson; Marian Brandreth, NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, UK; Will Brassington, Nottingham Audiology Services, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK; Heather Wharrad, University of Nottingham, UK

Poster # 50 - AMP34Individuals, Not Ears: A Person-Centred ApproachEithne Heffernan; Helen Henshaw; Melanie Ferguson, NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, UK



Poster # 61 - PSY11 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardSpatial Release from Masking: Effects of Simulated Unilateral Hearing LossNicole Corbin, AuD; Emily Buss, PhD; Angela Bonino, PhD; Lori Leibold, PhD, The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Poster # 62 - PSY12Using Cognitive Tasks to Evaluate Listening Effort in Background NoiseJeffrey DiGiovanni, PhD; Travis Riffle, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Poster # 63 - PSY13 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardRelease from Masking: Behavioral and Physiological Masking Level DifferencesSarah McClements, BS; Mary Ellen Scherer; Christopher Clinard, PhD, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Poster # 64 - PSY14The SSQ as a Predictor of Spatial Release from MaskingMeghan M. Stansell, BS; Melissa A. Papesh, PhD; Nirmal Kumar Srinivasan, PhD; Sean D. Kampel, AuD; Heather M. Belding, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), Portland, OR; Kasey M. Jakien, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR; Frederick J. Gallun, PhD, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) & Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR

Poster # 65 - PSY15 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardPhonemic Restoration with Competing Talkers: Age Effects and Envelope CuesWilliam J. Bologna, AuD, Department Of Hearing And Speech Sciences, University Of Maryland, College Park, MD; Jayne Ahlstrom, MS; Judy R. Dubno, PhD, Department Of Otolaryngology-head And Neck Surgery, Medical Unviersity Of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Poster # 66 - PSY16Perception of Own Voice Relative Loudness at Different Speaking LevelsDragana Barac-Cikoja, PhD; Kasheen Schultz; Jillian Barney; Rebecca Kingman, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC

Poster # 67 - PSY17Inter-pixel Correlation of Decision Weights Estimated Using Several TechniquesDai Huanping, PhD; Samuel Hess, MS, Auditory Perception And Amplification Lab, Dept Of Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences, U Of A, Tucson, AZ

SPEECH PERCEPTION

Poster # 68 - SP01 New Investigator Poster AwardPerceived Listener Effort for Disordered Speech: Effect of Stimulus LengthKathy Nagle, PhD, Mass. General Hospital Dept. Of Surgery, Boston, MA Tanya Eadie, PhD, University Of Washington Department Of Speech And Hearing Sciences, Seattle, WA

Poster # 69 - SP02Aging and Error Patterns in Competing Speech PerceptionKaren Helfer; Alexandra Jesse, PhD, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Poster # 70 - SP03 T35 Research Trainee PosterEffects of Noise and Reverberation on Speech Perception in a Simulated ClassroomKatlyn Bostic, BS, University Of Maryland - College Park, Laurel, MD Dawna Lewis, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 71 - SP04Effects of Hearing and Cognitive Skills on Priming in Older and Younger AdultsAngela Costanzi, BS; Karen Helfer, PhD; Richard Freyman, PhD, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Poster # 72 - SP05Measuring Effects of Sentence Context on Word RecognitionCharles Ruby, BA, San Diego State University & University Of California, San Diego, Cardiff by the Sea, CA; Arthur Boothroyd, PhD, San Diego State University

Poster # 73 - SP06Performance on SPIN Sentences with Reverberation and Reverberation Plus NoiseYana Shklyar, BA, St. John’s University, New York, NY; Jessica King, University Of Washington; Cassandra Bosworth, Montclair State University; Craig Newman, PhD; Sharon Sandridge, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Anil Lalwani, MD; Jaclyn Spitzer, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center

Poster # 74 - SP07Spectral Resolution and Inherent Temporal Noise Fluctuations in Speech PerceptionHeather Kreft, MA; Andrew Oxenham, PhD, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Poster # 75 - SP08Children’s Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech: The Role of Temperament Sarah Mabie; Rachael Frush Holt, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Tessa Bent, PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Poster # 76 - SP09Executive Function’s Role in Children’s Perception of Nonnative SpeechAngela Hill; Rachael Frush Holt, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Tessa Bent, PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Poster # 77 - SP10 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardRecognition of Interrupted Words: Effects of the Interruption LocationsHeather Hamm, BS, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN Richard Wilson, PhD, East Tennessee State University, Phoenix, AZ

Poster # 78 - SP11Predictors of Gating Performance in Children with Hearing LossElizabeth Walker, PhD; Jacob Oleson, PhD, University Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Meredith Spratford, AuD; Ryan Mccreery, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 79 - SP12Context Effect on Speech Perception of Hearing Impaired ListenersSuHyun Jin, PhD; Jingjing Guan, MA; Won So, AuD, University Of Texas, Austin, TX; Bomjun Kwon, PhD, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC



Poster # 88 - VEST04MRI Correlates of Blast and Trauma-Induced Dizziness in Military PersonnelRamtilak Gattu, MS; Anthony Cacace, PhD; Mark Haacke, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Faith Akin, PhD; Owen Murnane, PhD, VA Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN

Poster # 89 - VEST05 T35 Research Trainee PosterVestibulo-ocular Reflex Responses in Anxious and Non-anxious PatientsJohn Lee, BA; Gary Jacobson, PhD; Devin Mccaslin, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 90 - VEST06The Effect of Cochlear Implantation on Postural StabilityErin Nelson; Timothy Hullar, MD, Washington University In Saint Louis School Of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Poster # 91 - VEST07Ocular Motility Evaluation of Athletes Post-ConcussionJohn King, PhD; Jorge Gonzalez, PhD; Christopher Kocher; Joseph Hazzard, PhD, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA Alex Kiderman, PhD, Neuro-Kinetics, Pittsburgh, PA

PHYSIOLOGY: MIDDLE EAR AND COCHLEA

Poster # 92 - PHYS01Individual Variability in Cochlear ReflectanceStephen Neely; Daniel Rasetshwane, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 93 - PHYS02Middle Ear Power Absorbance in Rheumatoid ArthritisBruna Cibin, BS; Ieda Laurindo, MD; Sanches Seisse, PhD; Renata Carvallo, PhD, Universidade De Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Shahnaz Navid, AuD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

Poster # 94 - PHYS03Signal Detection in Noise in Rats following TTSChristopher Spankovich, PhD; Edward Lobarinas, PhD; Colleen Le Prell, PhD, University Of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Poster # 95 - PHYS04Inhibition of Human CAPS and OAEs with Contralateral Acoustic StimulationSpencer Smith, BS; Barbara Cone, PhD, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

NOISE-INDUCED AUDITORY DAMAGE

Poster # 96 - NIHL01 T35 Research Trainee PosterKnowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors and Noise Exposure of BaristasAlyssa Pursley, BS, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, St. Louis, MO; Gabrielle Saunders, PhD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR

Poster # 97 - NIHL02 T35 Research Trainee PosterEffects of Kanamycin on Temporary and Permanent Threshold ShiftArnold Munoz, BS, Audiology Department, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ; Kevin Ohlemiller, Central Institute For The Deaf At Washington University, Department Of Otolaryngology, Washington University School Of Medicine, St Louis, MO

Poster # 80 - SP13Age-Related Differences in Listening Effort During Degraded Speech RecognitionKristi Ward, BS; Jing Shen, PhD, Roxelyn And Richard Pepper Department Of Communication Sciences And Disorders At Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Pamela Souza, PhD; Tina Grieco-calub, PhD, Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University; Knowles Hearing Center at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Poster # 81 - SP14 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardUnderstanding the Consonant Confusions of Spanish-English Bilingual ChildrenAndrea Trevino, PhD; Paula Garcia, PhD; Stephen Neely, PhD; Kanae Nishi, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE; Lydia Rogers, University Of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Poster # 82 - SP15 T35 Research Trainee PosterEffects of Noise and Hearing-Loss on Bilingual Children’s Consonant RecognitionLydia Rogers, BA, Boys Town National Research Hospital & Communication Sciences And Disorders, University Of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Andrea Trevino, PhD; Paula Garcia, PhD; Stephen Neely; Kanae Nishi, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 83 - SP16 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardUsing CASPA to Test Speech Recognition in Spanish-English Bilingual ChildrenPaula Garcia, PhD; Andrea Trevino, PhD; Stephen Neely; Kanae Nishi, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE; Lydia Rosado Rogers, Communication Sciences And Disorders, University Of Utah

Poster # 84 - SP17Recognition and Comprehension of Speech in Noise in School-aged ChildrenAmanda Griffin, AuD, University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Gardner, MA Sarah Poissant, PhD; Freyman Richard, PhD, University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

VESTIBULAR

Poster # 85 - VEST01 T35 Research Trainee PosterVestibular Function and Cognitive Outcomes in Children with Cochlear ImplantsMargaret Dallapiazza, BA, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Megan Thomas, AuD; Kristen Janky, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 86 - VEST02Effect of Additional Visual Stimuli on Subjective Visual Vertical testingCourtney Eisenhart, AuD, Audio Professional Hearing Center, York, PA Jorge Gonzalez, PhD; Qing Yue, PhD; Stephen Kokoska, PhD, Bloomsburg University Of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA

Poster # 87 - VEST03Intra- and Inter-Examiner Reliability of the Video Head Impulse TestOwen Murnane, PhD; Kristal Riska, PhD; Stephanie Rouse, AuD; Faith Akin, PhD, Vestibular/Balance Research Laboratory, Mountain Home Va Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN



EPIDEMIOLOGY

Poster # 98 - EPI01Withdrawn

Poster # 99 - EPI02A Community-based Hearing Intervention for Older Korean Americans with Hearing Loss: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study Janet Choi, MS; Carrie Nieman, MD; Sara Mamo, PhD; Hae-ra Han, PhD; Frank Lin, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Poster # 100 - EPI03Provider Perspectives on the Accessibility of Hearing Healthcare in ArizonaGiau Le, BS; Nicole Marrone, PhD; Aileen Wong, AuD; Tom Muller, AuD; Stephanie Adamovich, PhD; Linda Norrix, PhD; Lauren Hopwood; Vivian Rubiano, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster # 101 - EPI04Preparing Community Health Workers to Address Hearing LossDaisey Sanchez, BA; Maia Ingram; Frances Harris, PhD; Jill De Zapien; Stephanie Adamovich, PhD; Adriana Sanchez; Sonia Colina, PhD; Nicole Marrone, PhD, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster # 102 - EPI05Hearing Loss within Families Facing Health Disparities: Applying the ICFNicole Marrone, PhD; Maia Ingram, MS; Daisey Sanchez; Adriana Sanchez, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster # 103 - EPI06Effects of Hearing Loss on Relationships in Mexican American FamiliesNicole Marrone, PhD; Maia Ingram, MS; Daisey Sanchez; Adriana Sanchez, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster # 104 - EPI07Communicating in a Medical Visit with Hearing Loss: Patient-Provider PerspectivesNicole Marrone, PhD; Maia Ingram, Mph; Frances P. Harris, PhD; Stephanie L. Adamovich, PhD; Daisey Sanchez; Adriana Sanchez; Jill de Zapien; Scott Carvajal, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster # 105 - EPI08Who Reports Hearing Difficulty in the United States (NHANES), 2005-2010Kathleen Bainbridge, PhD; Katalin Losonczy, MS; Howard Hoffman, MA, National Institute On Deafness And Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD

Poster # 106 - EPI09Hearing Impairment and Incident Frailty and Falls in Older AdultsRebecca Kamil, BS, Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Joshua Betz, MS; Frank Lin, MD, Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, Baltimore, MD; Hilsa Ayonayon, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Suzanne Satterfield, MD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; Becky Brott Powers, MD, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA; Eleanor Simonsick, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Poster # 107 - EPI10 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardFactors Associated with the Accuracy of Subjective Assessments of HearingRebecca Kamil, BS, Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Dane Genther, MD, Department Of Otolaryngology-HNS; Johns Hopkins Center Of Aging And Health, Baltimore, MD; Frank Lin, MD, Johns Hopkins Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Geriatric Medicine, Mental Health, and Epidemiology; Johns Hopkins Center of Aging and Health, Baltimore, MD

Poster # 108 - EPI11Baltimore HEARS: Development of a Novel Community-Delivered Hearing Care InterventionCarrie Nieman, MD, Department Of Otolaryngology-HNS, Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine; The Johns Hopkins Center On Aging And Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; Nicole Marrone, PhD, Department Of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Sarah Szanton, PhD; Elizabeth Tanner, PhD, Department of Community-Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD; Roland Thorpe, PhD, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Frank Lin, MD, Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; The Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

DIAGNOSTIC AUDIOLOGY / OTOLOGY

Poster # 109 - DX01Development of a Disease Surveillance Outcome Measure for Hearing Healthcare David Zapala, PhD; Larry Lundy, MD; Samantha Kleindienst, PhD; Greta Stamper, PhD, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL; Sumitrajit Dhar, PhD; Donald Nielsen, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Brian Neff, MD; Colin Driscoll, MD; Charles Beatty, MD, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN; David Barrs, MD, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

Poster # 110 - DX02Development of a Database for Wideband Acoustic Immitance (WAI) MeasuresMelinda A. Pontes; Susan E. Voss, PhD, Smith College, Northampton, MA Nicholas J. Horton, PhD, Amherst College

Poster # 111 - DX03Pure Tone-spondee Threshold Relationships in Functional Hearing Loss: A TestHeekyung Han, MS; Robert S. Schlauch, PhD; Tzu-ling J. Yu, MS; Aparna Rao, PhD, Department Of Speech-language-hearing Sciences, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Poster # 112 - DX04Empirical Validation of Binomial Model Estimates for Speech Discrimination VariabilitySamantha Kleindienst, PhD; David Zapala, PhD; Greta Stamper, PhD; David Walker, AuD; Terri Pratt, AuD; Millicent Garry, MS; Janet Shelfer, AuD, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL; Kathryn Shaughnessy Schwartz, PhD, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA



Poster # 121 - DX13TEOAE-based Measurement of Middle Ear and Olivocochlear Efferent Reflexes Shawn Goodman, PhD; Kelsey Dumanch; Weston Adkins, University Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Poster # 122 - DX14Evaluating Otoacoustic Emission Shifts due to Middle-ear Pressure with Tympanometry and Wideband Acoustic ImmittanceLynne Marshall, PhD; Judi Lapsley Miller, PhD, Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, CT; Charlotte Reed, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Poster # 123 - DX15Contralateral Wideband Acoustic Reflex Thresholds: Normative Study and Test-Retest ReliabilityMitchell Frye, BS; Xiao-ming Sun, PhD, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

Poster # 124 - DX16Examining Relationships between Cognitive Status and Demographic and Audiologic FactorsAlyson Gruhlke, AuD; Amanda Wolfe, AuD; Elizabeth Galster, AuD; Jason Galster, PhD, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MN

Poster # 125 - DX17 T35 Research Trainee PosterAmino Acids Do Not Inhibit Bacterial Biofilm FormationMitchell Frye, BS; Katherine Kao, MD; Richard Chole, PhD, Washington University School Of Medicine In St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Poster # 126 - DX18Cross-validation of Wideband Reflectance in Newborn Hearing Screen ReferralsLisa Hunter, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hosp & Med Ctr, Cincinnati, OH; Douglas Keefe, PhD; Denis Fitzpatrick, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE; Patrick Feeney, PhD, NCRAR, Portland, OR

Poster # 127 - DX19Influence of Platinum Chemotherapy Treatments on Several High-Frequency Auditory MeasuresMelissa Ho, BA; Laura Dreisbach, PhD, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; Jonathan Siegel, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, ILErin Reid, MD, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Poster # 128 - DX20Use of Wideband Acoustic Immittance to Identify Ears with OtosclerosisPatrick Feeney, PhD; Daniel Putterman, AuD; Garnett Mcmillan, PhD, Va; National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR; Angela Garinis, PhD, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Portland, OR;Douglas Keefe, PhD; Denis Fitzpatrick, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE; Lisa Hunter, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

AUDITORY PROCESSING

Poster # 129 - AP01Hearing Loss, Mental Effort and Fatigue: Not a Simple RelationshipBenjamin Hornsby, PhD; Travis Moore, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 113 - DX05Protocols of DPOAE Measurements Aimed at Reducing Test TimeJacek Smurzynski, PhD, Department Of Audiology And Speech-language Pathology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; Thomas Janssen, PhD, Ent Department, Technical Univeristy Munich, Munich, Germany

Poster # 114 - DX06Relations between Domain-specific Sound Tolerance and Executive FunctionStephanie Baxter, BA; Carol Mackersie, PhD, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Poster # 115 - DX07Tracking Changes in Bone Conduction Thresholds using Definitions of Progression John Lee, BA; Linda Hood, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 116 - DX08 T35 Research Trainee PosterOptimizing Sampling for Audiogram EstimationBrittany Wallace, BS; Xinyu Song, MS; Mitchell Sommers, PhD; Dennis Barbour MD, PhD; Noah Ledbetter, PhD, Washington University In St. Louis School Of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Poster # 117 - DX09Effects of Lateral Temporal Bone Resection on Bone Conduction Hearing Rajarshi Pratihar, AuD; Paul W. Gidley, MD; Denise Barringer, MS; Jan S. Lewin, PhD, The University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Shirin Jivani, AuD, Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, TX

Poster # 118 - DX10Frequency and Time Domain High-Frequency Ear-Canal Power Reflectance: Middle-Ear PathologyGabrielle Merchant, PhD, Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA; Jonathan Siegel, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL;Stephen Neely, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE; John Rosowski, PhD; Hideko Heidi Nakajima, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA

Poster # 119 - DX11 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardLong-Term Stability and Accuracy of Otoacoustic Emissions in Pediatric Ototoxicity MonitoringOlga Stakhovskaya, PhD; Kelly King, PhD; Christopher Zalewski, PhD; Carmen Brewer, PhD, Audiology Unit, NIDCD, NIH, Bethesda, MD; David Adams, MD, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, MD; Katherine Warren, MD, Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, Bethesda, MD

Poster # 120 - DX12Superior Canal Dehiscence Repair: Power Reflectance, Umbo Velocity, cVEMP, HearingMaryanna Owoc, BS; Gabrielle Merchant, PhD; Daniel Lee, MD; John Rosowski, PhD; Hideko Nakajima, MD, Department Of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA; Cagatay Ulku, MD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Meram School of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya



Poster # 130 - AP02Interacting Effects of Aging and Context on Neural Temporal Processing Alessandro Presacco, MS; Jonathan Z Simon, PhD; Sandra Gordon-Salant, PhD; Samira Anderson, PhD, University Of Maryland, College Park, MD

Poster # 131 - AP03 T35 Research Trainee PosterCognitive Complexity, Cognitive Effort, and Mental FatigueSadie Schwarz, BA, The University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Benjamin Hornsby, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Poster # 132 - AP04Using the SCAN-A to Identify CAP Deficits in Blast-Exposed VeteransHeather M. Belding, BS; M. Samantha Lewis, PhD; Michele M. Hutter, MS; Melissa A. Papesh; Robert L. Folmer, PhD; Frederick J. Gallun, PhD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR; Marjorie R. Leek, PhD, VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA

Poster # 133 - AP05 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardAudio-visual Asynchronous Speech Recognition by Older and Younger ListenersHannah Willison, BA, University Of Maryland, College Park, West Hollywood, CA; Maya Freund, University Of Maryland, College Park, Silver Spring, MD;Sandra Gordon-Salant, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

Poster # 134 - AP06Influence of Auditory Processing Disorder on the Severity of Speech-sound-disordersNadia Vilela, MS; Seisse Sanches, PhD; Tatiane Barrozo, MS; Luciana Pagan-Neves, PhD; Haydee Wertzner, PhD; Renata Carvallo, PhD, Department Of Physical Therapy, Speech-language Pathology And Audiology And Occupational Therapy Of The Medical School At The University Of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Poster # 135 - AP07Investigation of Auditory Processing Deficits in Patients with Diabetes MellitusErin Dula, BS; Brady Workman; Saravanan Elangovan, PhD; Jacek Smurzynski, PhD, East Tennessee State University, JohnsonCity, TN

Poster # 136 - AP08 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardEffects of Sports-Related Concussion on Auditory Processing in University Athletes Abstract: A Holistic Description of Auditory Processing Abilities in University AthletesJulianne Ceruti, BA; Stephanie Waryasz; Pradeep Ramanathan, University Of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Frank Musiek, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster # 137 – AP09The Influence of Musical Training and Maturation on Pitch Perception and Memory Aurora Weaver, AuD; Jeffrey Digiovanni, PhD; Dennis Ries, PhD, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Poster # 138 - AP10Roles of Reading and Auditory-Word Memory Span in Linguistically-Varied Speech Sherri Smith, PhD, Auditory And Vestibular Dysfunction Research Enhancement Award Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN; M. Kathleen Pichora-fuller, PhD, Department Of Psychology, University Of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario

Poster # 139 - AP11Evaluation of a Binaural Processing Test Battery for AdultsAmy Stewart, BA; Christina Roup, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Poster # 140 - AP12Effects of High-intensity Blast Exposure on Speech PerceptionMelissa A. Papesh, PhD; Frederick J. Gallun, PhD; Heather Belding; M. Samantha Lewis, PhD; Robert Folmer, PhD; Marjorie Leek, PhD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR

DISEASES / SYNDROMES / DNA REPAIR

Poster # 141 - DIS01Audiologic Profile of Individuals with Friedreich’s AtaxiaVictoria Williams-Sanchez, AuD, PhD; Brendan McAteer, BA; Kasey Craig-Ashley, BA; Amanda Brandino, BA; Michelle Arnold, AuD, University of South Florida, FL

Poster # 142 - DIS02Audiologists’ Knowledge of, Experiences with, and Attitudes toward LVASJ. Connor Sullivan, BA; Anna Marie Jilla, MA; Kristin Winkler; Carole Johnson, PhD, University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Jeffrey Danhauer, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA

Poster # 143 - DIS03Wideband Chirp-Evoked OAEs for Monitoring Ototoxicity in Cystic Fibrosis PatientsPatrick Feeney, PhD; Daniel Putterman, AuD; Garnett Mcmillan, PhD, National Center For Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland, OR Angela Garinis, PhD, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Portland, ORDouglas Keefe, PhD; Denis Fitzpatrick, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE; Lisa Hunter, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Poster # 144 - DIS04 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardBone Morphogenetic Protein Antagonizes Mature Avian Hair Cell RegenerationRebecca Lewis, BS; Jesse Keller, MD; Jennifer Stone, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Poster # 145 - DIS05Parents of Children with LVAS: Learning from their JourneysJ. Connor Sullivan, BA; Anna Marie Jilla, MA; Kristin Winkler; Carole Johnson, PhD, University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Jeffrey Danhauer, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

Poster # 146 - CI01Production of Word-initial Fricatives in Prelingually-deafened Children with Cochlear Implants: A Preliminary StudyJing Yang, PhD, University Of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR; Jessica Vadlamudi, AuD; Chao-yang Lee, PhD; Li Xu, PhD, Ohio University, Athens, OH; Zhigang Yin, PhD, Linguistic institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China



Poster # 152 - CI07Cognitive Factors and Adaptation to a Novel Cochlear-implant Coding StrategyNaomi Croghan, PhD; Zachary Smith, PhD, Cochlear Ltd., Centennial, CO

Poster # 153 - CI08Age-Related Changes in Temporal Resolution Revisited: Findings from CI Users Bruna Mussoi, AuD; Carolyn Brown, PhD, University Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Poster # 154 - CI09 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardExploring Peripheral Contributions to Loudness: Cochlear ImplantsRachel Scheperle, PhD; Michelle Hughes, PhD; Jacquelyn Baudhuin, AuD; Jenny Goehring, AuD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 155 - CI10Speech Performance in Pediatric Users of Nurotron® Venus’ Cochlear ImplantsYuling Li, MA; Beier Qi, MA; Ruijuan Dong, MA; Tianqiu Xu; Chao Meng; Qianqian Guo; Xueqing Chen, MD, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Poster # 156 - CI11 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardSingle-Sided Deafness Cochlear-Implant Perception and Simulation: Localization and Spatial-Masking ReleaseCoral Dirks, BA; Andrew Oxenham, PhD; Peggy Nelson, PhD, University Of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Poster # 147 - CI02 T35 Research Trainee PosterVoice Emotion Recognition: Developmental Age and Spectral ResolutionAnna Tinnemore, MA, University Of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Monita Chatterjee, PhD, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE

Poster # 148 - CI03 T35 Research Trainee PosterThe Role of Cognition in Cochlear Implant OutcomesNada Hanna, BA; Jill B. Firszt, PhD; Ruth Reeder, MA; Laura Holden, AuD; Noel Dwyer, AuD, Washington University In St. Louis, School Of Medicine, Program In Audiology And Communication Sciences, St. Louis, MO

Poster # 149 - CI04 T35 Research Trainee PosterAuditory Training in Noise with Cochlear Implant RecipientsAlison Kiolbasa, BS, Program In Audiology And Communication Sciences At Washington University School Of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Lisa G. Potts, PhD, Washington University In St. Louis School Of Medicine, Department Of Otolaryngology, St. Louis, MO

Poster # 150 - CI05 Mentored Student Research Poster AwardSpeech-on-Speech Recognition for Children with Cochlear ImplantsMolly Drescher, BS; Lori Leibold, PhD; Angela Bonino, PhD; Emily Buss, PhD, The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Holly Teagle, AuD; Laura Greaver, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Durham, NC

Poster # 151 - CI06Evaluation of Music Perception in Two Signal Processing StrategiesMeredith Anderson, AuD; Margaret Dillon, AuD, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Department Of Otolaryngology/head & Neck Surgery, Chapel Hill, NC; Ellen Pearce, AuD; English King, AuD, UNC HealthCare, Department of Audiology, Chapel Hill, NC; Sarah Obarowski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC

THANK YOUThe American Auditory Society and Publisher of Ear and Hearing wish to thank these

companies for their support of complimentary memberships for 2015 AuD Students,

PhD Students, and Neurotology Fellows. We are grateful for their generous educational

support for these future audiologists, otolaryngologists and hearing researchers.

Cochlear Americas

Etymotic Research

Intelligent Hearing Systems

Knowles Electronics

MED-EL Corporation

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