Publications & Code

Carney Lab publications can be organized into four categories:

• Auditory Models & Code
• UR_EAR_2020a:  New Release of UR_EAR Matlab tool for visualizing model Auditory-nerve and Midbrain responses. This new version includes more stimulus options, new features, and both the Zilany et al. 2014 and Bruce et al 2018 AN models.
• Other Auditory Papers
• Retinal Patterning
• Spike Sorting Code

Recent Publications

• 1. Lindboom E
  2. Nidiffer A
  3. Carney LH
  4. Lalor E
  Incorporating models of subcortical processing improves the ability to predict EEG responses to natural speech.; bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2023 Jan 02.
• 1. Steenken F
  2. Oetjen H
  3. Beutelmann R
  4. Carney LH
  5. Koeppl C
  6. Klump GM
  Neural processing and perception of Schroeder-phase harmonic tone complexes in the gerbil: Relating single-unit neurophysiology to behavior.; The European journal of neuroscience. 2022 Jun 20.
• 1. Zaar J
  2. Carney LH
  Predicting speech intelligibility in hearing-impaired listeners using a physiologically inspired auditory model.; Hearing research. 2022 Jun 09.
• 1. Osses Vecchi A
  2. Varnet L
  3. Carney LH
  4. Dau T
  5. Bruce IC
  6. Verhulst S
  7. Majdak P
  A comparative study of eight human auditory models of monaural processing.; Acta acustica. European Acoustics Association; Vol 6. 2022 May 04.
• 1. Fan L
  2. Henry KS
  3. Carney LH
  Responses to dichotic tone-in-noise stimuli in the inferior colliculus.; Frontiers in neuroscience; Vol 16, pp. 997656. 2022 Jan 01.
• 1. Fan L
  2. Henry KS
  3. Carney LH
  Responses to diotic tone-in-noise stimuli in the inferior colliculus: stimulus envelope and neural fluctuation cues.; Hearing research; Vol 409. 2021 Aug 02.
• 1. Wang Y
  2. Abrams KS
  3. Carney LH
  4. Henry KS
  Midbrain-level neural correlates of behavioral tone-in-noise detection: dependence on energy and envelope cues.; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2021 Jul 15.
• 1. Kim DO
  2. Carney LH
  3. Kuwada S
  Amplitude modulation transfer functions reveal opposing populations within both the inferior colliculus and medial geniculate body.; Journal of neurophysiology. 2020 Sep 09.
• 1. Maxwell BN
  2. Richards VM
  3. Carney LH
  Neural fluctuation cues for simultaneous notched-noise masking and profile-analysis tasks: Insights from model midbrain responses.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 147(5). 2020 May.
• 1. Henry KS
  2. Amburgey KN
  3. Abrams KS
  4. Carney LH
  Identifying cues for tone-in-noise detection using decision variable correlation in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus).; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 147(2). 2020 Feb.
• 1. Leong UC
  2. Schwarz DM
  3. Henry KS
  4. Carney LH
  Sensorineural Hearing Loss Diminishes Use of Temporal Envelope Cues: Evidence From Roving-Level Tone-in-Noise Detection.; Ear and hearing. 2020 Jan 23.
• 1. Lerud KD
  2. Kim JC
  3. Almonte FV
  4. Carney LH
  5. Large EW
  A canonical oscillator model of cochlear dynamics.; Hearing research; Vol 380. 2019 Sep 01.
• 1. Richards VM
  2. Carney LH
  Potential cues for the "level discrimination" of a noise band in the presence of flanking bands.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 145(5). 2019 May.
• 1. Bianchi F
  2. Carney LH
  3. Dau T
  4. Santurette S
  Effects of Musical Training and Hearing Loss on Fundamental Frequency Discrimination and Temporal Fine Structure Processing: Psychophysics and Modeling.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2019 Jan 28.
• 1. Carney LH
  2. McDonough JM
  Nonlinear auditory models yield new insights into representations of vowels.; Attention, perception & psychophysics. 2018 Dec 18.
• 1. Fan L
  2. Henry KS
  3. Carney LH
  Challenging One Model With Many Stimuli: Simulating Responses in the Inferior Colliculus.; Acta acustica united with acustica : the journal of the European Acoustics Association (EEIG); Vol 104(5). 2018 Sep.
• 1. Scheidiger C
  2. Carney LH
  3. Dau T
  4. Zaar J
  Predicting Speech Intelligibility Based on Across-Frequency Contrast in Simulated Auditory-Nerve Fluctuations.; Acta acustica united with acustica : the journal of the European Acoustics Association (EEIG); Vol 104(5). 2018 Sep.
• 1. Carney LH
  Supra-Threshold Hearing and Fluctuation Profiles: Implications for Sensorineural and Hidden Hearing Loss.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2018 May 09.
• 1. Carney LH
  Special issue on computational models of hearing.; Hearing research; Vol 360. 2018 Mar.
• 1. Zuk NJ
  2. Carney LH
  3. Lalor EC
  Preferred Tempo and Low-Audio-Frequency Bias Emerge From Simulated Sub-cortical Processing of Sounds With a Musical Beat.; Frontiers in neuroscience; Vol 12. 2018.
• 1. Newlands SD
  2. Abbatematteo B
  3. Wei M
  4. Carney LH
  5. Luan H
  Convergence of Linear Acceleration and Yaw Rotation Signals on non-Eye Movement Neurons in the Vestibular Nucleus of Macaques.; Journal of neurophysiology. 2017 Oct 04.
• 1. Henry KS
  2. Amburgey KN
  3. Abrams KS
  4. Idrobo F
  5. Carney LH
  Formant-frequency discrimination of synthesized vowels in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and humans.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 142(4). 2017 Oct.
• 1. Salimi N
  2. Zilany MS
  3. Carney LH
  Modeling Responses in the Superior Paraolivary Nucleus: Implications for Forward Masking in the Inferior Colliculus.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2017 Jan 17.
• 1. Henry KS
  2. Abrams KS
  3. Forst J
  4. Mender MJ
  5. Neilans EG
  6. Idrobo F
  7. Carney LH
  Midbrain Synchrony to Envelope Structure Supports Behavioral Sensitivity to Single-Formant Vowel-Like Sounds in Noise.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2016 Oct 20.
• 1. Henry KS
  2. Neilans EG
  3. Abrams KS
  4. Idrobo F
  5. Carney LH
  Neural correlates of behavioral amplitude modulation sensitivity in the budgerigar midbrain.; Journal of neurophysiology. 2016 Feb 3.
• 1. Carney LH
  2. Li T
  3. McDonough JM
  Speech Coding in the Brain: Representation of Vowel Formants by Midbrain Neurons Tuned to Sound Fluctuations(1,2,3).; eNeuro; Vol 2(4). 2015 Jul.
• 1. Carney LH
  2. Kim DO
  3. Kuwada S
  Speech Coding in the Midbrain: Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss.; Advances in experimental medicine and biology; Vol 894. 2016.
• 1. Mao J
  2. Koch KJ
  3. Doherty KA
  4. Carney LH
  Cues for Diotic and Dichotic Detection of a 500-Hz Tone in Noise Vary with Hearing Loss.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2015 May 15.
• 1. Kim DO
  2. Zahorik P
  3. Carney LH
  4. Bishop BB
  5. Kuwada S
  Auditory Distance Coding in Rabbit Midbrain Neurons and Human Perception: Monaural Amplitude Modulation Depth as a Cue.; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience; Vol 35(13). 2015 Apr 1.
• 1. Kuwada S
  2. Kim DO
  3. Koch KJ
  4. Abrams KS
  5. Idrobo F
  6. Zahorik P
  7. Carney LH
  Near-Field Discrimination of Sound Source Distance in the Rabbit.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2015 Jan 17.
• 1. Mao J
  2. Carney LH
  Tone-in-Noise Detection Using Envelope Cues: Comparison of Signal-Processing-Based and Physiological Models.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2014 Sep 30.
• 1. Rao A
  2. Carney LH
  Speech Enhancement for Listeners With Hearing Loss Based on a Model for Vowel Coding in the Auditory Midbrain.; IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering; Vol 61(7). 2014 Jul.
• 1. Mao J
  2. Carney LH
  Binaural detection with narrowband and wideband reproducible noise maskers. IV. Models using interaural time, level, and envelope differences.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 135(2). 2014 Feb.
• 1. Carney LH
  2. Zilany MS
  3. Huang NJ
  4. Abrams KS
  5. Idrobo F
  Suboptimal use of neural information in a mammalian auditory system.; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience; Vol 34(4). 2014 Jan 22.
• 1. Zilany MS
  2. Bruce IC
  3. Carney LH
  Updated parameters and expanded simulation options for a model of the auditory periphery.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 135(1). 2014 Jan.
• 1. Schiavenato M
  2. Antos SA
  3. Bell FA
  4. Freedman BR
  5. Kozak AJ
  6. Kroot TB
  7. Lam EH
  8. Ross KE
  9. Sternfield BA
  10. Carney LH
  Development of a scale for estimating procedural distress in the newborn intensive care unit: the Procedural Load Index.; Early human development; Vol 89(9). 2013 Sep.
• 1. Mao J
  2. Vosoughi A
  3. Carney LH
  Predictions of diotic tone-in-noise detection based on a nonlinear optimal combination of energy, envelope, and fine-structure cues.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 134(1). 2013 Jul.
• 1. Carney LH
  2. Ketterer AD
  3. Abrams KS
  4. Schwarz DM
  5. Idrobo F
  Detection thresholds for amplitude modulations of tones in budgerigar, rabbit, and human.; Advances in experimental medicine and biology; Vol 787. 2013.
• 1. Schwarz DM
  2. Zilany MS
  3. Skevington M
  4. Huang NJ
  5. Flynn BC
  6. Carney LH
  Semi-supervised spike sorting using pattern matching and a scaled Mahalanobis distance metric.; Journal of neuroscience methods; Vol 206(2). 2012.
• 1. Wojtczak M
  2. Nelson PC
  3. Viemeister NF
  4. Carney LH
  Forward masking in the amplitude-modulation domain for tone carriers: psychophysical results and physiological correlates.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO; Vol 12(3). 2011 Jun.
• 1. Carney LH
  2. Sarkar S
  3. Abrams KS
  4. Idrobo F
  Sound-localization ability of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) in a task with a simplified response map.; Hearing research; Vol 275(1-2). 2011 May.
• 1. Zilany MS
  2. Carney LH
  Power-law dynamics in an auditory-nerve model can account for neural adaptation to sound-level statistics.; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience; Vol 30(31). 2010 Aug 4.
• 1. Zilany MS
  2. Bruce IC
  3. Nelson PC
  4. Carney LH
  A phenomenological model of the synapse between the inner hair cell and auditory nerve: long-term adaptation with power-law dynamics.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 126(5). 2009 Nov.
• 1. Davidson SA
  2. Gilkey RH
  3. Colburn HS
  4. Carney LH
  An evaluation of models for diotic and dichotic detection in reproducible noises.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 126(4). 2009 Oct.
• 1. Davidson SA
  2. Gilkey RH
  3. Colburn HS
  4. Carney LH
  Diotic and dichotic detection with reproducible chimeric stimuli.; The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Vol 126(4). 2009 Oct.
• 1. Gai Y
  2. Carney LH
  Statistical analyses of temporal information in auditory brainstem responses to tones in noise: correlation index and spike-distance metric.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO; Vol 9(3). 2008 Sep.
• 1. Gai Y
  2. Carney LH
  Influence of inhibitory inputs on rate and timing of responses in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus.; Journal of neurophysiology; Vol 99(3). 2008 Mar.
• 1. Nichols AJ
  2. Carney LH
  3. Olson EC
  Comparison of slow and fast neocortical neuron migration using a new in vitro model.; BMC neuroscience; Vol 9. 2008.
• 1. Nichols AJ
  2. Carney LH
  Comparison of slow and fast neocortical neuron migration using a new in vitro model.; BMC Neuroscience; Vol 9. 2008 Jan 01.
• 1. Gai Y
  2. Carney LH
  3. Abrams KS
  4. Idrobo F
  5. Harrison JM
  6. Gilkey RH
  Detection of tones in reproducible noise maskers by rabbits and comparison to detection by humans.; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO; Vol 8(4). 2007 Dec.