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New Grants

Deborah Moncrieff was awarded CSD’s Faculty Research Grant for her project entitled Will ARIA training improve speech perception and satisfaction with bilateral hearing aids?

Jani Johnson was awarded CSD’s Faculty Research Grant for her project entitled Motivating diverse adults to take action for better hearing health: An exploration of barriers and facilitators from the patient’s perspective.

Lisa Lucks Mendel and Monique Pousson were awarded a Micro Grant entitled Intraoperative Noise Levels and the Effect on Team Communication During Pediatric Spine Deformity Surgery from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. This project will record noise levels in the operating room during spinal surgery and is in collaboration with Dr. Jeffrey Sawyer at the Campbell Clinic.

Publications

Berardi, M.., van Mersbergen, M.., & Hunter, E. J. (early online). Relationship between Tasked Vocal Effort Levels and Measures of Vocal Intensity. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Bidelman, G. M., & Momtaz, S. (2021). Subcortical rather than cortical sources of the frequency-following response (FFR) relate to speech-in-noise perception in normal-hearing listeners. Neuroscience Letters, 746, 135664.

Bidelman, G. M., Pearson, C., & Harrison, A. (2021). Lexical influences on categorical speech perception are driven by a temporoparietal circuit. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(5), 840–852. 

Carter, J. & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Auditory cortex is susceptible to lexical influence as revealed by informational vs. energetic masking of speech categorization. Brain Research, 1759, 147385. [special issue on "The Brain at the Cocktail Party"]

Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Cross-linguistic contributions of acoustic cues and prosodic awareness to first and second language vocabulary knowledge. Journal of Research in Reading, 44(2), 434–452.

Chung, W.-L. & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Mandarin-speaking preschoolers' pitch discrimination, prosodic and phonological awareness, and their relation to receptive vocabulary and reading abilities. Reading and Writing, 34(2), 337–353.

Eichorn N, Pirutinsky S. Cognitive Flexibility and Effortful Control in School-Age Children With and Without Stuttering Disorders. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2021 Mar 17;64(3):823-838. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00440. Epub 2021 Feb 25. PMID: 33630654.

Eichorn N, Mullins CM, Borja-Hart N, Minor T, Williams SA. Development of a State-Wide IPE Faculty Toolkit. J Allied Health. 2021 Spring;50(1):e37-e44. PMID: 33646259.

Feenaughty, L., Basilakos, A., Bonilha, L., & Fridriksson, J. (2021). Speech timing changes accompany speech entrainment in aphasia. Journal of Communication Disorders, 90, 106090.

Kolker Rychel, A., & van Mersbergen, M. (early online). The Voice Range Profile: A Shortened Protocol Pilot Study. Journal of Voice.

Mahmud, S., Yeasin, M., & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Speech categorization is better described by induced rather than evoked neural activity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(3), 1644-1656. [special issue on Machine Learning in Acoustics]

Mahmud, S., Yeasin, M., & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Data-driven machine learning models for decoding speech categorization from evoked brain responses. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(4), 046012.

Momtaz, S., Moncrieff, D., Bidelman, G.M. Dichotic listening deficits in amblyaudia are characterized by aberrant neural oscillations in auditory cortex. Clinical Neurophysiology in press.  

Price, C.N., Moncrieff, D. (2021) Defining the role of attention in hierarchical auditory processing. Audiology Research, 11:12-128. 

Price, C. N. & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Attention reinforces human corticofugal system to aid speech perception in noise. NeuroImage, 235 (118014), 1-9. 

Rauterkus, G., Moncrieff, D., Stewart, G., Skoe, E. (2021) Baseline, retest, and post-injury profiles of auditory neural function in collegiate football players. Int J Audiol.  

Presentations

Adams, M., Smith, S. & Jarmulowicz, L. (2021, March 26) Language Disorders and Juvenile Justice. Poster presented at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.  

Banks, C., Warren, S.E. (moderator), Barron, A., Bell, K., Davis, L., Kim, J., Moore, A., & Reynolds, K. (2021, March 26). Lift Every Voice and Sing: Promoting Diversity in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology in the Memphis Community. Presentation and panel discussion at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.

Franklin, A., Mendez, K., Moncrieff, D., Zarn, M. (2021, April 6) Breaking Barriers to Literacy across the Lifespan: Perspectives from Audiology, Education, Optometry, and Speech/Language Pathology. FIT-School of Public Health Telehealth Webinar Series.  

Haddix, V. with contributions from Williams, K. (2021, May 5-17) Improving AAC Implementation with Effective Collaboration. Presentation for the ASHA online conference, Expanding AAC: Accessible Strategies for Functional Communication. 

Hoyt, A., Donnan, S. & Eichorn, N. (2021, March 26) Valence ratings of general threat and stuttering-related words in school-age children with and without stuttering disorders. Poster presented at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.

Huber, R. & Johnson, J. (2021). Exploring the relationships between sound acceptability, emotional reactivity, and personality. Refereed poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Auditory Society.

Lucks Mendel, L. (2021, March 25) Incorporating Speech Perception Assessments with your Patients: Are You Doing Enough? Presentation at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.

Merrill, J., Haddix, V., Nabors, A. & Steele, J. (2021, March 25) Clinical Supervision in a Global Pandemic: The Good, The Bad, and Avoiding the Ugly. Presentation at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.

Moncrieff, D., Taylor, J.P. (2021, April 8) Amblyaudia: How to Diagnose and Treat it with a Short-term Intervention. FIT-School of Public Health Telehealth Webinar Series.

Morgan, A., Kim, J., & Johnson, J. Give them what they want: Evaluating perceptions of hearing devices. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Mid-South Conference on Communication Disorders. April, 2021.

Rehling, D. & Mendez, K. (2021, March 25) Compassionate Listening and Clinical Practice. Presentation at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.  

Oliphant, A., Hunter, S. & Eichorn, N. (2021, March 26) Interprofessional Education: What Students Want. Poster presented at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.  

Sarangi, L. & Johnson, J. (2021). Do patient traits predict post-amplification changes in Quality of Life? Refereed poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Auditory Society.

      **This work also received the 2nd Place Award for Research in Social and Behavioral Sciences, 33rd Annual Student Research Forum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

Wark, M. (2021, March 26). The Clinical Education Process: Expectations, Challenges and Rewards. Presentation at the Mid-South Conference for Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Memphis, TN.

[Invited] Warren, S.E., Sander, K.L., Strope, L.M., Vollmer, A.E., Yawn, R.J., MacDonald, C.B., Bidelman, J., Smith, S.H., & Wood, J.W. (2021, April 30). Social Determinants of Cochlear Implant Compliance in Pediatric Recipients: Preliminary Analysis of Data. Selected poster highlight presentation at the American Cochlear Implant Alliance Conference, Online.

Warren, S.E., Sander, K.L., Strope, L.M., Vollmer, A.E., Yawn, R.J., MacDonald, C.B., Bidelman, J., Smith, S.H., & Wood, J.W. (2021, April 30). Social Determinants of Cochlear Implant Compliance in Pediatric Recipients: Preliminary Analysis of Data. Poster presentation at the American Cochlear Implant Alliance Conference, Online.

Warren, S.E., Yawn, R.J., MacDonald, C.B., Bidelman, J., & Wood, J.W. (2021, April 29). Building a Multi-site Interdisciplinary Cochlear Implant Team: The Memphis Cochlear Implant Collaborative. Presentation at the American Cochlear Implant Alliance Conference, Online.

Service

Dr. Jennifer P. Taylor was selected as the President-Elect for the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.