Presentations & Lectures

The presentations and lectures found here highlight many of our current research initiatives. If you have questions or would like more information about any of the items listed, please contact us.

Presentations

Binaural Listening: What the audiogram does not reveal

Lecture presentation from AAA, Charlotte, NC 2008 by Nazanin Nooraei & Sridhar Kalluri
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Lectures

October 19-21, 2011 - Nürnberg, Germany

EUHA Congress

Topic: A Novel Self-tuning Approach to Fine-tuning Hearing Aids
Speakers: Brent Edwards, Ph.D.

July 24-29, 2011 - Pacific Grove, CA

Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses 2011

Topic: Electro-acoustic Stimulation and Hearing Aids
Speakers: Brent Edwards, Ph.D.

April 7-9, 2011 - Chicago, Illinois

AudiologyNOW!

Topic: Development of a Patient-focused Fitting System
Speaker: Susie Valentine, Ph.D., and J. Andrew Dundas, Ph.D.

Topic: From Ear to Ear: Concept to Validation
Speakers: Shilpi Banerjee, Ph.D., Elizabeth Galster, Au.D., and Contributor: Matthew Burk, Ph.D.

Topic: Moving from What We Know to What We Do: Implementing Best Practices
Speaker: Harvey Abrams, Ph.D.

Topic - Research Poster: What Can a Noise-tolerance Questionnaire Tell Us about ANLs?
Speakers: Karrie Recker, Au.D., and Contributors: Martin McKinney, Ph.D., Brent Edwards, Ph.D.

Topic - Research Poster: Effect of Extended Bandwidth on Sound Quality and Localization
Speakers: Nazanin Nooraei, Ph.D., and Contributor: Sridhar Kalluri, Ph.D.

March 3-5, 2011 - Scottsdale, Arizona

American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting

Topic: The AMP: Concept and Design of a Non-Custom CIC
Speakers: Michelle Hicks, Ph.D. and Aaron Schroeder, M.A.

Topic: Psychoacoustic Mechanisms Behind Acceptable Noise Level Thresholds
Speakers: Brent Edwards, Ph.D., Harvey Abrams, Ph.D., John Ellison, M.S., Martin McKinney, Ph.D., Karrie Recker, Au.D., and Susie Valentine, Ph.D.

February 16-19, 2011 - Medellin, Colombia

Asoaudio

Topic: From Ear-to-Ear: Concept to Validation and Troubleshooting Tools for Hearing Aid Fittings: New Twist on an Old Problem
Speaker: Shilpi Banerjee

January 6-7, 2011 - Lyon, France

Workshop on Speech in Noise: Intelligibility & Quality

Topic: Laboratory Evaluation of Directional Preference: Effect of Stimulus Type and Location
Speaker: Shilpi Banerjee

August 11-15, 2010 — Lake Tahoe, California

International Hearing Aid Research Conference 2010

Topic: Sound localization with BTE and CIC hearing aids
Speaker: Virginia Best, Susie Valentine, Sridhar Kalluri, Sara McLachlan, Heather Kelly, Virginie Durin, Simon Carlile, Brent Edwards

Topic: A new American-English speech corpus for testing speech understanding in complex scenarios
Speaker: Bill Woods, Sridhar Kalluri

Topic: Older adults, hearing aids, and listening effort
Speaker: Piers Dawes, Kevin Munro, Sridhar Kalluri, Nazanin Nooraei, Brent Edwards

Topic: Laboratory evaluation of directional preference: Effect of Speech & Noise Location, Stimulus Type & Response Criterion
Speaker: Shilpi Banerjee

Topic: Cues Governing Listeners' Acceptable Speech and Noise Levels
Speaker: Karrie Recker, Martin McKiney, Brent Edwards

Topic: Development of a Measure of Response Confidence for Prediction of Performance on a Speech Recognition Task in Competing Noise
Speaker: Drew Dundas

Topic: Impact of Wearer's Physical Characteristics on First-order Hearing Aid Directionality
Speaker: Jay Desloge, Ivo Merks, Tao Zhang, Patrick Zurek

Topic: Sharpness and roughness perception in hearing-impaired listeners
Speaker: Martin F. McKinney, Kelly Fitz, Tao Zhang

Topic: Aided psychoacoustics and binaural perception with hearing instruments
Speaker: Brent Edwards

March 17-19, 2010 – Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish Association for Technical Audiology

Topic: Binaural Psychoacoustic Considerations for Hearing Aid Processing
Speaker: Brent Edwards

March 4-6, 2010 - Scottsdale, Arizona

American Auditory Society Annual Meeting

Topic: The Effect of Hearing Aid Microphone Location on Spatial Perception
Speaker: Brent Edwards

Topic: Effect of Noise Location and Stimulus Type on Directional Preference
Speaker: Shilpi Banerjee

February 26, 2010 - Edinburgh, Scotland

Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals

Topic: Binaural function and its benefits for wearers of hearing aids
Speaker: Sridhar Kalluri

February 17-20, 2010 - Bogotá, Colombia

VII National Convention of Audiology & EXPO 2010 – Colombian Association of Audiology

Topics: Acceptable Noise Level, Hearing aids and Cell Phones, and High-Frequency Real-Ear Measurements
Speaker: Karrie Recker

October 8-9, 2009 - Portland, Oregon

National Center for Rehabilitive Auditory Research (NCRAR) Conference 2009

Topic: Attending to the Auditory Scene: How We put It All Together
Speaker: Sridhar Kalluri

Sept 28, 2009 - Berkeley, California

UC Berkeley Psychology Department

Topic: Consideration of auditory scene analysis in the design of hearing aids
Speaker: Sridhar Kalluri

August 26-28 2009 - Elsinor, Denmark

International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research

Topic: Binaural Psychoacoustic Considerations for Hearing Aid Processing
Speaker: Brent Edwards

August 20-22, 2009 - Queensland, Australia

ACAud09 National Congress

Topic: Sound localization with BTE and CIC hearing aids. Research was done in collaboration with VAST Audio Inc., University of Sydney and Starkey Australia.
Speaker: Sridhar Kalluri

Co-authors: Virginia Best, Sara McLachlan, Susie Valentine, Simon Carlile, and Brent Edwards

June 18-19 2009 - Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Jackson Hole Rendezvous

Topic: Auditory and Cognitive Factors in Hearing Aid Benefit
Speaker: Brent Edwards

June 11-12 2009 - Oldenburg, Germany

International Hearing Aids Developers Forum

Topic: The Application of Auditory Models to Hearing Aid Research
Speaker: Brent Edwards

April 1-4, 2009 - Dallas, Texas

American Academy of Audiology

Topic: Effect of Hearing Aid Features on Cognition
Speaker: Nazanin Nooraei

March 9, 2009 - Berkeley, California

UC Berkeley Psychology Department

Topic: Hot Topics in Hearing Aid Research and Related Auditory Perception Research at Starkey Laboratories
Speaker: Brent Edwards

February 14-19, 2009 - Baltimore, Maryland

The Association for research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting 2009

Topic: Audiovisual Synchrony Detection and Benefits of Lipreading with Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Speaker: Deniz Başkent

November 26 - 28, 2008 - Liverpool, England

British Academy of Audiology Annual Conference 2008

Topic: The Interaction of Cognitive Function with Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids
Speaker: Brent Edwards

June 15-18, 2008 - Göteborg, Sweden

Annual Conference of the Swedish Association of Audiologists

Topic: How Hearing Aids Affect Cognitive Function
Speaker: Brent Edwards