Texas Auditory Neuroscience Lab: Publications

2026

Aryal, S., Flores, S., Smith, S. B., Boothalingam, S., & Mishra, S. K. (2026). Associations Between Extended High-Frequency Thresholds and Middle Ear Muscle Reflex Growth Functions in Adults With Normal Audiograms. Ear & Hearing.

Aryal, S., Cheng, F. Y., Mishra, S. K., & Smith, S. (2026). Brainstem encoding of speech in the extended high frequencies and its behavioral correlates. In Journal of neurophysiology, 135(1), 190-201.

2025

Cheng, F. Y., Medina, S., Obinna, O., & Smith, S. (2025). Dominant mid-to-high-frequency harmonics predict neural encoding and perception of concurrent vowels with large f0 differences. In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(2), 1296-1307.

2023

Xu, C., Cheng, F. Y., Medina, S., Eng, E., Gifford, R., & Smith, S. (2023). Objective discrimination of bimodal speech using frequency following responses.  Hearing research, 437, 108853.

Xu, C., Cheng, F. Y., Eng, E., Medina, S., & Smith, S.B. (2023). Frequency following responses to simulated bimodal speech: Acoustic bandwidth effects. Proceedings of the Meeting on Acoustics. 45, 050007.

2022

Eng, E., Xu, C., Medina, S., Cheng, F. Y., Gifford, R., & Smith, S.B. (2022). Objective discrimination of bimodal speech using the frequency following response: A machine learning approach. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), A91-A91.

Smith, S.B. (2022). Translational applications of Machine Learning in Auditory Electrophysiology. In Seminars in Hearing 43(03), 240-250. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.

Cone, B. K., Smith, S.B., & Smith, D. E. C. (2022). Acoustic Change Complex and Visually Reinforced Infant Speech Discrimination Measures of Vowel Contrast Detection. Ear and hearing, 43(2), 531-544.

Cheng, F. Y. & Smith, S.B. (2022). Objective detection of the speech frequency following response (sFFR). Audiology Research, 12(1), 89-94.

2021

Cheng, F. Y., Xu, C., Gold, L., & Smith, S.B. (2021). Rapid Enhancement of Subcortical Neural Responses to Sine-Wave Speech. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15.

Xu, C., Cheng, F. Y., Medina, S., & Smith, S.B. (2021). Acoustic bandwidth effects on envelope following responses to simulated bimodal hearing. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A64-A64.

Cheng, F. Y., Xu, C., Goodall, H., Ornelas, M. E., Gold, L., & Smith, S.B. (2021). Attention effects on cortical neural processing in spatial listening. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A143-A143.

Thompson, E.C., Estabrook, R., Krizman, J., Smith, S.B., Huang, S., White-Schwoch, T., Nicol, T., & Kraus, N. (2021). Auditory neurophysiological development of children ages 3-8: a growth curve modeling approach.  Clinical Neurophysiology.

Madrid, A. M., Walker, K. A., Smith, S. B., Hood, L. J., & Prieve, B. A. (2021). Relationships between click auditory brainstem response and speech frequency following response with development in infants born preterm. Hearing Research, 407, 108277.

Smith, S. B., & Cone, B. (2021). Efferent unmasking of speech-in-noise encoding? International Journal of Audiology, 1-10.

Kornguth, S., Rylander, H. G., Smith, S., Campbell, J., Steffensen, S., Arnold, D., ... & Rutledge, J. N. (2021). Approaches for monitoring warfighter blast-related exposures in training to develop effective safety standards. Military medicine, 186, 515-522.

2020

So, W., & Smith, S. B. (2020). Comparison of two cortical measures of binaural hearing acuity. International Journal of Audiology, 1-10.

Kessler, D. M., Ananthakrishnan, S., Smith, S. B., D’Onofrio, K., & Gifford, R. H. (2020). Frequency Following Response and Speech Recognition Benefit for Combining a Cochlear Implant and Contralateral Hearing Aid. Trends in Hearing, 24, 2331216520902001.

D’Onofrio, K.L., Limb, C., Caldwell, M., Smith, S.B., Kessler, D.M., Gifford, R.H. (2020) Musical Emotion Perception in Bimodal Patients. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 114-114.

2019

Smith, S., & So, W. (2019). Multilevel objective measures of interaural phase difference detection. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4), 2831-2832.

D'Onofrio, K., Smith, S.B., Kessler, D., Williams, G., & Gifford, R. (2019). Musical emotion perception in bimodal patients: Relationship between bimodal benefit and neural representation of temporal fine structure using Rhodes piano stimuli. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1877-1877.

Burrick, H., Suneel, D., Chole, R., Buchman, C., Smith, S.B., Lee, C., Hancock, K.E., Long, G.R., Dhar, S., Ortmann, A.J., Ward, B.K., Lichtenhan, J.T. (2019). On the origins of physiologic modulation of a low-noise microphone in a human ear canal. In Valente, M. & Valente, M. (2nd Ed.) Adult Audiology Casebook. Thieme Medical Publishers (New York).

Smith, S.B., Krizman, J., Liu, C., White-Schwoch, T., Nicol, T., & Kraus, N. (2019). Investigating peripheral sources of speech-in-noise variability in listeners with normal audiograms.  Hearing Research, 371, 66-74.

2018 and Earlier

Kraus, N. & Smith, S.B.  (2018) Thinking Outside the Sound Booth: Assessing and Managing Auditory Processing Disorder in an Auditory-Cognitive Neuroscience Framework.  In Geffner, D. & Ross-Swain, D. (3rd Ed.) Auditory Processing Disorders: Assessment, Management, and Treatment. Plural Publishing. 

Smith, S. B., Ichiba, K., Velenovsky, D. S., & Cone, B. (2017). Efferent modulation of pre-neural and neural distortion products. Hearing Research, 356, 25-34.

Smith, S.B., Lichtenhan, J. T., & Cone, B. K. (2017). Contralateral inhibition of click-and chirp-evoked human compound action potentials. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 189.

Filippini, R., Smith, S.B., & Musiek, F. E. (2017). Temporal masking at the brainstem level: A pilot study. Journal of Hearing Science, 7(2).

Cone, B., Smith, S.B., & Cheek, D. (2017). Using Cortical Evoked Potentials to Predict Speech Feature Perception in Infants. Journal of Hearing Science, 7(2).

Smith, S.B., Lichtenhan, J., & Cone, B. (2016). Behavioral pure-tone threshold shifts caused by tympanic membrane electrodes. Ear and Hearing, 37(4), e273-e275.

Smith, S.B. & Cone, B.K.  (2015). The medial olivocochlear reflex in children during active listening.  International Journal of Audiology, 54(8): 518-523. 

Smith, S.B. & Musiek, F. (2016) Assays of the Caudal Efferent Auditory System: Part I.  Hearing Health Matters Pathways Series.

Smith, S.B. & Musiek, F. (2016) Assays of the Caudal Efferent Auditory System: Part II. Hearing Health Matters Pathways Series.