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Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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November 2010
New Laboratory staff members
Shannon Aranjo, BS, joined the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory as a clinical research specialist in August 2010. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a BS in biology and minors in business and psychology. She has since worked in various aspects of research, including her most recent position as coordinator of clinical research in the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. Shannon's valuable skills and experiences have served her well to get a running start as the coordinator of the Babytalk Research projects. We are happy to have Shannon on our team!
Neil A Wright, BA, also joined the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory as a clinical study technician in August 2010. He is a recent graduate of DePauw University with BAs in psychology and biology. As an undergraduate, he worked in research labs not only at DePauw, but also in Louisville, Kentucky, and Edinburgh, Scotland, and, as a senior at DePauw, received the Kenneth S. Wagoner Research Award for showing "the highest research potential and dedication to experimentation as the surest road to an expanding and dependable structure of knowledge." Neil has already made valuable contributions to several projects related to Tonya Bergeson-Dana's (assistant professor) NIH-NIDCD research grant. We are happy to have Neil on our team!
Honors
Shirley Henning, MS, (clinical research associate) was nominated as an Outstanding Woman Staff Leader through Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.
Papers published or in press
Conway CM, Bauernschmidt A, Huang SS, Pisoni DB. (2010). Implicit statistical learning in language processing: word predictability is the key. Cognition 114, 356-371. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.009.
Conway CM, Karpicke J, Anaya EM, Henning SC, Kronenberger WG, Pisoni DB. (in press). Nonverbal cognition in deaf children following cochlear implantation: motor sequencing disturbances mediate language delays. Developmental Neuropsychology.
Conway CM, Pisoni DB, Anaya EM, Karpicke J, Henning SC. (2010). Implicit sequence learning in deaf children with cochlear implants. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00960.
Harris MS, Hay-McCutcheon M. (in press). Adequacy of hearing aid settings in cochlear implant users. Laryngoscope.
Pisoni DB, Conway CM, Kronenberger WG, Henning S, Anaya E. (2010). Executive function, cognitive control, and sequence learning in deaf children with cochlear implants. In M Marschark, PE Spencer (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education (pp. 439-457). New York: Oxford University Press.
Conference Presentations
Kronenberger WG, Pisoni DB, Henning SC, Colson BG, Kirk A, Phillips L. (2010, September). Verbal rehearsal and memory scanning speed in children with cochlear implants following working memory training. Cogmed Conference 2010; Chicago, Illinois.
New Research Projects
Kimberly Peters, PhD (associate professor of communication sciences and disorders, Western Washington University) is spending part of her sabbatical leave in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory. Professor Peters is collaborating with Jessica Beer, PhD (postdoctoral fellow), and Jennifer Phan, MD (NIH postdoctoral fellow), on a new project investigating social competence in children who use hearing aids or cochlear implants, as well as children with typical
May 4, 2010
Honors
Tonya R. Bergeson, PhD (assistant professor and Philip F. Holton Investigator) recently received an Indiana University Trustee Teaching Award. In addition, she is serving as Secretary of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition for 2010-2012 term.
Publications
Recent publications by researchers in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory include the following:
Bergeson TR, Houston DM, Miyamoto RT. (2010). Effects of congenital hearing loss and cochlear implantation on audiovisual speech perception in infants and children. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 28(2), 157-165.
Houston DM, Hay-McCutcheon M, Bergeson TR, Miyamoto RT. (2010). Cochlear Implants: Technology. In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception (pp. 245-249). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Teoh AP, Chin SB. (2009). Transcribing the speech of children with cochlear implants: Clinical application of narrow phonetic transcriptions. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 18, 388-401.
Summer Medical Students
Three second-year medical students are receiving research training in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory this summer under the auspices of a National Institutes of Health training grant (T32DC000012). The three students are Ryan Phillips (medical student at IU Northwest), who is working with Tonya R. Bergeson, PhD (assistant professor); Tania Rahman (medical student at IU Bloomington), who is working with Jessica Beer, PhD (NIH postdoctoral fellow); and Benjamin Rejowski (medical student at IUPUI), who is working with Derek M. Houston, PhD (associate professor). A fourth student, David Miller (medical student at University of Notre Dame), is working in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory under the direction of Eri Hashino, PhD (associate professor). David B. Pisoni PhD (adjunct professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences) is the program director of the sponsoring training grant.
11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Devices
Among the presentations at this conference to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June/July 2010, will be the following by researchers in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory:
Beer J, Harris MS, Kronenberger W, Pisoni DB. Auditory skills, language, and adaptive behavior in multiply involved children following cochlear implantation.
Beer J , Kronenberger W, Pisoni DB. Executive function in everyday life: Implications for Young Cochlear Implant Users.
Bergeson TR. Maternal speech to hearing-impaired infants in the first year of hearing aid or cochlear implant use.
Bergeson TR, Chin SB, Anderson LL, Simpson AK, Kuhns MJ. Vocal prosody and song production in children with cochlear implants.
Dilley LC, Bergeson TR. Mothers’ use of exaggerated vowel space in speech to hearing-impaired infants with hearing aids or cochlear implants.
Harris MS, Beer J, Kronenberger W, Pisoni DB. Predicting outcomes in multiply-involved CI recipients: The Pediatric Functional Assessment Scale (PFAS).
Conference Presentations
Also presented so far this year have been the following papers by researchers in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory:
Moberly AC, Vural E, Nahas B, Bergeson TR, Kokoska MS. (2010, February). Ultrasound-guided needle aspiration: impact of immediate cytologic review. The Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting, Orlando, Florida.
Kondaurova MV, Bergeson TR. (2010, March). The effect of infant hearing status on the use of prosodic cues for clause boundaries in infant-directed speech. International Conference on Infant Studies 2010 Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
Kondaurova MV, Bergeson TR, Dilley L, Singh S. (2010, March). Acoustic characteristics of English tense/lax vowels in speech to infants with hearing loss and adults: Preliminary report. International Conference on Infant Studies 2010 Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
Bergeson TR, Crask EM. (2010, March). Mothers’ singing to deaf infants with cochlear implants. International Conference on Infant Studies 2010 Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
New Research Projects
New projects currently underway in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory include development of a new speech-language intervention paradigm using music as a training tool, with Tonya R. Bergeson, PhD (assistant professor), Jessica Beer, PhD (NIH postdoctoral fellow), and Christine Barton, MM, MT-BC (Central Canal Creative Arts Therapies) and an investigation of auditory experience in new and long-time automobile racing fans being conducted by Tonya Bergeson, PhD, Michael S. Harris, MD (NIH postdoctoral fellow), and Jaimie Gilbert, PhD (NIH postdoctoral fellow in psychological and brain sciences).
August 3, 2009
Society for Music Perception and Cognition 2009 Biennial Conference
Tonya R. Bergeson, PhD (assistant professor) is the local committee co-chair for the Society for Music Perception and Cognition 2009 Biennial Conference, held on the campus of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, 3-6 August 2009. In addition, Prof. Bergeson is an author for two presentations at this conference: “The relationship between music perception and self-reported memory in breast cancer survivors” (D Burns, T Bergeson, B Schneider, F Unverzagt, V Champion) and “Production of vocal prosody and song in children with cochlear implants,” the latter written with two summer medical students, Matthew J. Kuhns (2008) and Annabelle K. Simpson (2009), and Steven B. Chin, PhD (associate professor).
June 1, 2009
Summer Medical Students
Three second-year medical students have joined the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory this summer to receive research training under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. An institutional training grant project director: David Pisoni, PhD) supports this 12-week program, with mentorship provided by laboratory faculty and postdoctoral fellows. The five students are: Rohan Sharma (BS, biological sciences, Northwestern University), who is working with Derek Houston; Annabelle Simpson (MS, basic medical sciences, Wayne State University), who is working with Tonya Bergeson and Steven Chin; and Sanjeev Singh (BS, biology, University of Southern Indiana), who is working with Maria Kondaurova and Tonya Bergeson.
Conference Presentations
The following papers by DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory researchers were presented at the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 18-22 May 2009; Portland, Oregon.
MV Kondaurova, AL Francis: The role of selective attention in the acquisiton of English tense and lax vowels by native Spanish listeners: Comparison of three training methods.
J Phan, DM Houston: Infant dialect discrimination.
May 5, 2008
Summer Medical Students
Five second-year medical students have joined the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory this summer to receive research training under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. An institutional training grant project director: David Pisoni, PhD) supports this 12-week program, with mentorship provided by laboratory faculty and postdoctoral fellows. The five students are: Dustin Carfield (BS, biology, Indiana University), who is working with Mary Fagan; Suzie Field (BA, Spanish, Indiana University), who is working with Derek Houston and Christopher Conway (Speech Research Laboratory, Indiana University Bloomington); Matthew Kuhns (BS, chemistry, Ball State University), who is working with Steven Chin; Swapna Musunuru (BS, human communication science, Northwestern University), who is working with Derek Houston; and Sara Till (BA, media and public communication, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne), who is working with Tonya Bergeson-Dana.
The training grant supports two additional second-year medical students who will receive training outside the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory: Geoffrey Aaron (BS, psychology, Indiana Wesleyan University), who is working with Vanessa Taler (Speech Research Laboratory, Indiana University Bloomington); and Ruchin Patel (BS, microbiology, Purdue University), who will be working with Stacey Halum (Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery).
Conference Presentations
J Beer: Negotiations during social pretend play are serious business for socio-cognitive development in preschool age children. Head Start’s Ninth Annual Research Conference, Washington DC (June, 2008).
J Beer: Preschoolers’ play negotiations: The development of socio-cognitive understanding. American Psychological Association 116th Annual Convention, Boston MA (August, 2008).
SB Chin: Consonant cluster simplification by children with cochlear implants. Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity Workshop, Munich, Germany. (August, 2008).
RF Holt, KI Kirk, MJ Hay-McCutcheon, SL Howell: Audiovisual integration of speech by children with cochlear implants. Newborn Hearing Screening 2008, Cernobbio, Italy (June, 2008).
March 4, 2008: Conference presentations
Faculty and staff of the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory are scheduled to present research findings at scientific conferences in March and April. These include:
At the American Auditory Society Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, from March 6 to 8, 2008:
MJ Hay-McCutcheon, CA Rosado, NR Peterson: Acoustic and electric cues for speech understanding and phonological memory
At the XVIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies in Vancouver, British Columbia, from March 27 to 29, 2008:
TR Bergeson, JW Malenkos: Infants’ perception of harmony and meter
TR Bergeson, A Williams: Visual-only spoken word discrimination in infants
MK Fagan, K Wonders, TR Bergeson: Mothers’ conversations with their deaf and hearing children
DM Houston: Assessing speech discrimination in individual infants
DM Houston, J Stewart, A Moberly, K York, G Hollich, RT Miyamoto: Effects of early auditory experience on word learning skills in deaf toddlers with cochlear implants
W Ma, RM Golinkoff, D Houston, K Hirsh-Pasek: Word-learning in infant- and adult-directed speech
At the 20th Biennial Conference on Human Development in Indianapolis, Indiana, from April 4 to 6, 2008:
W Ma, RM Golinkoff, D Houston, K Hirsh-Pasek, DE Strober: Baby talk works!: Word-learning is better with infant- versus adult-directed speech
At the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies in San Diego, California, from April 10 to 12, 2008:
SB Chin, EA Evers: Acoustic ambiguity effects on transcription responses to the speech of children with cochlear implants
SB Chin, J Kim: Consonantal strengthening and weakening in children with cochlear implants
SB Chin, JY Ting: Word omission in sentence imitation tasks by children with cochlear implants
CM Conway, DB Pisoni, A Geers, WG Kronenberger, EM Anaya: Effects of cochlear implantation on executive function: Some preliminary findings
MK Fagan, K Wonders, TR Bergeson: Mothers’ conversations with their deaf and hearing children.
MJ Hay-McCutcheon, KI Kirk, SC Henning, BL Gehrlein: The effects of competing noise on the speech understanding abilities of children implanted below 3 years of age
DM Houston, J Stewart, A Moberly, K York, G Hollich, RT Miyamoto: Effects of early auditory experience on word learning skills in deaf toddlers with cochlear implants
NR Peterson, MJ Hay-McCutcheon, KI Kirk, CA Rosado: Contribution of hearing aids to speech understanding in cochlear implant users
DB Pisoni, CM Conway, WG Kronenberger: Some observations on efficacy and effectiveness of cochlear implants in deaf children
NC Sanders, SB Chin: Cluster analysis of phonological distance measure of cochlear implant users
JY Ting, DM Houston, RT Miyamoto: Early infant speech discrimination and later language ability
JY Ting, TR Bergeson, RT Miyamoto: Audiovisual attention in hearing-impaired children following intervention
September 7, 2007
Karen Iler Kirk (adjunct professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery; professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences, Purdue University) is the recipient of a research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop multimodal (auditory and visual) tests of sentence recognition and to collect normative data from adults and children. These new measures will assist in the selection of auditory aids and in the development of individual intervention programs. To view a story about the research project from the Purdue University News Service, please click here.
July 9, 2007: New grant from the National Institutes of Health
Tonya R. Bergeson-Dana, PhD (assistant professor and Philip F. Holton Investigator) is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health research grant for a project entitled “Development of attention to maternal speech in infants with hearing loss.” The project, which commenced July 1, 2007, investigates the development of auditory attention to speech by infants and children with hearing loss, as well as the effects of infants’ hearing status on the segmental and prosodic characteristics of maternal speech. Further research examines how these two factors are related to later clinical assessments of speech and language in children with hearing loss. Findings from this research will assist clinicians in formulating intervention programs directed toward the maximization of successful verbal communication in infants and children with hearing loss. To view the full abstract of this project, please click here. [link broken] To view a full list of funding support in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, please click here.
May 7, 2007: Summer Medical Students
Five students from the Indiana University School of Medicine Class of 2010 will spend 12 weeks this summer in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory receiving research training under the auspices of NIH Insititutional Research Training Grant T32DC000012, “Training in Speech, Hearing, and Sensory Communication” (program director: David Pisoni). Derek Houston coordinates the summer medical student program, and faculty and postdoctoral fellows serve as research mentors.
Elisa A. Evers received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Purdue University and will be working with Steven Chin. Hilary D. Hinshaw received a B.S. in chemistry from Emory University and will be working with Mary Fagan. Ashley P. Lindsay received a B.S. in biology from Fort Valley State University and will be working with Tonya Bergeson-Dana. Christian A. Rosado received a B.S. in computer science from the University of Florida and will be working with Marcia Hay-McCutcheon. Finally, Kourtney J. Wonders received a B.S. in biology and chemistry from Butler University and will be working with Tonya Bergeson-Dana.
An additional four medical students will receive training in Eri Hashino’s Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (Daniel Fisher, Jordan LeGout), the IUSM Department of Radiology (Kashif Shaikh), and the Speech Research Laboratory at Indiana University Bloomington (Sean Huang).
April 17, 2007
Derek M. Houston, assistant professor and Philip F. Holton Scholar, was nominated for the 2007 Student Supervisor of the Year Award from the IUPUI Career Center and Office of Student Employment. Prof. Houston was nominated by Jennifer Phan, a member of the Indiana University School of Medicine class of 2009, who began working in Prof. Houston’s Infant Language Laboratory as an undergraduate psychology major in 2002. In her letter of nomination, Ms. Phan praised Prof. Houston for both his employment supervision and research mentorship, noting that under his guidance, she was able to present her work on the ability of infants to discriminate dialect differences at several conferences, including the Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning (2006) and the 2006 International Conference on Infant Studies. Ms. Phan went on to say that “Dr. Houston’s enthusiasm for his research in infant language development and cochlear implants has encouraged me to further explore the field of otolaryngology and consider pursuing a career in otolaryngology.”
February 20, 2007
The following presentations with DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory staff as authors are on the schedule for the 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants in Children, which will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 11—14, 2007:Tonya Bergeson, Rachel Manley, Mary Fagan: Longitudinal changes in mothers’ speech to hearing-impaired infants with cochlear implants; Steven B. Chin, Andrew K. Kirk, Jason K. An, Amy P. Teoh: Affricates and affrication in children with cochlear implants; Caitlin Dillon, Kenneth de Jong, David Pisoni: Reading, vocabulary, and phonological processing skills in deaf children with cochlear implants; Mary Fagan, David Horn, Caitlin Dillon, David Pisoni: Neuropsychological predictors of vocabulary and reading in children with cochlear implants; Marcia Hay-McCutcheon, Karen Kirk, Shirley Henning, Bethany Gehrlein, Richard Miyamoto: Cochlear implantation during the first, second, or third year of life: Implications for spoken word recognition and language skills at six years of age; Rachael Holt, Karen Kirk, Stacy Howell: The Audiovisual Lexical Neighborhood Sentence Test: Test development and preliminary results from pediatric cochlear implant recipients; David Horn, Derek Houston, Richard Miyamoto: Nonword discrimination skills in hearing-impaired infants with hearing aids or cochlear implants; Derek Houston, Jessica Stewart, Aaron Moberly, George Hollich, Richard Miyamoto: Very early cochlear implantation facilitates word learning; Andrew K. Kirk, Steven B. Chin: Postalveolar variation in children who use cochlear implants; Karen I. Kirk, Marcia J. Hay-McCutcheon, Shirley C. Henning, Bethany L. Gehrlein, Richard T. Miyamoto: Cochlear implant outcomes in young children with multiple disabilities; Amy P. Teoh, Steven B. Chin: Phonetic transcriptions of children with cochlear implants; Jonathan Ting, Tonya Bergeson: Development of audiovisual integration in pediatric cochlear implant users; Jonathan Ting, Rachael Holt, Joseph Smith, Maggie Benson, Derek Houston, Richard Miyamoto: Assessing speech discrimination in individual infants: Effects of hearing loss and contrast difficulty
January 22, 2007
The Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties, Uday Sukhatme, announced January 18, 2007, the funding of 19 proposals submitted under the campus's Signature Center Initiative, including one submitted from the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory proposing the establishment of the "Center for Advanced Studies in Hearing, Perception, and Language." Center staffing consists of five full-time faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Tonya R. Bergeson-Dana, Steven B. Chin, Marcia J. Hay-McCutcheon, Derek M. Houston, Richard T. Miyamoto), one full-time faculty from the School of Music (Debra S. Burns), and two adjunct faculty from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Karen Iler Kirk, David B. Pisoni).
The Center for Advanced Studies in Hearing, Perception, and Language will follow an interdisciplinary approach to study the effects of hearing loss on perception abilities, communication skills, and neural auditory processing across the lifespan. This center is comprised of four distinct research laboratories (i.e., the Infant Language Laboratory, the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, the Phonological Systems Laboratory (Steven Chin), and the Electrophysiology Laboratory (Marcia Hay-McCutcheon)), thereby allowing for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of hearing, perception and language. These laboratories integrate knowledge and methodologies from different disciplines to study communication in hearing-impaired individuals across a lifespan of development from infancy to adulthood and aging. Two initial projects, one overseen by Prof. Hay-McCutcheon and the other by Prof. Bergeson-Dana and Prof. Burns, will be underway shortly.
October 12, 2006
Karen Iler Kirk (adjunct professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery) and Steven B. Chin (associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery) are faculty members for the upcoming 2006 Chinese University of Hong Kong ENT Conference November 10-12, 2006. Professor Kirk will also deliver a keynote lecture entitled "Considerations in cochlear implant candidacy," and Professor Chin will present an invited talk entitled "Speech production outcomes of pediatric cochlear implantation."
August 16, 2006
Marcia Hay-McCutcheon, assistant professor and coordinator of the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, was recently awarded an NIH/NIDCD R03 grant entitled "Speech perception and phonological memory with combined electric acoustic hearing." For further information on funding support in the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, please see our Funding page.
