Publications

 

Healy, E.W., Tan, K., Johnson, E.M., & Wang, D.L. (2021). An effectively causal deep learning algorithm to increase intelligibility in untrained noises for hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 3943-3953.

Fogerty, D., Sevich, V.A., & Healy, E.W. (2020). Spectro-temporal glimpsing of speech in noise: Regularity and coherence of masking patterns reduces uncertainty and increases intelligibility. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, 1552-1566.

Healy, E.W., Johnson, E.M., Delfarah, M., & Wang, D.L. (2020). A talker-independent deep learning algorithm to increase intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in reverberant competing talker conditions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 4106-4118.

Healy, E.W., Vasko, J.L., & Wang, D.L.  (2019).  The optimal threshold for removing noise from speech is similar across normal and impaired hearing – a time-frequency masking studyJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, EL581.

Healy, E.W., Delfarah, M., Johnson, E.M., & Wang, D.L.  (2019).  A deep learning algorithm to increase intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in the presence of a competing talker and reverberationJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 1378-1388.

Apoux, F., Carter, B.L., & Healy, E.W.  (2018).  Effect of dual-carrier processing on the intelligibility of concurrent vocoded sentencesJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 2804-2813.

Zhao, Y., Wang, D.L., Johnson, E.M., & Healy, E.W.  (2018).  A deep learning based segregation algorithm to increase speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in reverberant-noisy conditionsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 1627-1637.

Healy, E.W. & Vasko, J.L.  (2018).  An ideal quantized mask to increase intelligibility and quality of speech in noiseJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 1392-1405.

Fogerty, D., Carter, B.L., & Healy, E.W.  (2018).  Glimpsing speech in temporally and spectro-temporally modulated noiseJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, 3047-3057.

Yoho, S.E., Apoux, F., & Healy, E.W.  (2018).  The noise susceptibility of various speech bandsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, 2527-2534.

Yoho, S.E., Healy, E.W., Youngdahl, C.L., Barrett, T.S., & Apoux, F.  (2018).  Speech-material and talker effects in speech band importanceJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, 1417-1426.

Youngdahl, C.L., Healy, E.W., Yoho, S.E., Apoux, F., & Holt, R.F.  (2018).  The effect of remote masking on the reception of speech by young school-age children.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 420-427.

Healy, E.W. (2017). Can a machine learn to solve our speech-in-noise problem? The Hearing Journal, 70, 32-36.

Healy, E.W., Delfarah, M., Carter, B.L., Vasko, J.L., & Wang, D.L.  (2017).  An algorithm to increase intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in the presence of a competing talkerJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 4230-4239.

Schwen Blackett, D., Harnish, S.M., Lundine, J.P., Zezinka, A., & Healy, E.W.  (2017).  The effect of stimulus valence on lexical retrieval in younger and older adultsJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 2081-2089.

Healy, E.W. & Yoho, S.E.  (2016).  Difficulty understanding speech in noise by the hearing impaired: Underlying causes and technological solutions.  Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – 2016, 89-92.  (Invited)

Mandel, M.I., Yoho, S.E., & Healy, E.W.  (2016).  Measuring time-frequency importance functions of speech with bubble noise.   Measuring time-frequency importance functions of speech with bubble noise.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140, 2542-2553.

Chen, J., Wang, Y., Yoho, S.E., Wang, D.L., & Healy, E.W.  (2016).  Large-scale training to increase speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in novel noisesJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, 2604-2612.

Healy, E.W., Yoho, S.E., Chen, J., Wang, Y., & Wang, D.L.  (2015).  An algorithm to increase speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in novel segments of the same noise typeJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 1660-1669.

Apoux, F., Youngdahl, C.L., Yoho, S.E., & Healy, E.W.  (2015).  Dual-carrier processing to convey temporal fine structure cues:  Implications for cochlear implantsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 1469-1480.

Healy, E.W., Yoho, S.E., Wang, Y., Apoux, F., & Wang, D.L. (2014). Speech-cue transmission by an algorithm to increase consonant recognition in noise for hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136, 3325-3336.

Healy, E.W., Youngdahl, C.L., & Apoux, F. (2014). Evidence for independent time-unit processing of speech using noise promoting or suppressing masking release(L). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, 581-584.

Mandel, M.I., Yoho, S.E., & Healy, E.W. (2014). Generalizing time-frequency importance functions across noises, talkers, and phonemes. INTERSPEECH-2014, 2016-2020.

Healy, E.W., Yoho, S.E., Wang, Y. & Wang, D. (2013). An algorithm to improve speech recognition in noise for hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 3029-3038.

Apoux, F., Yoho, S.E., Youngdahl, C.L. & Healy, E.W. (2013). Role and relative contribution of temporal envelope and fine structure cues in sentence recognition by normal-hearing listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 2205-2212.

Healy, E.W., Yoho, S.E., & Apoux, F. (2013). Band importance for sentences and words reexamined. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, 463-473.

Apoux, F. & Healy, E.W. (2013). A glimpsing account of the role of temporal fine structure information in speech recognition. In Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception, (BCJ Moore, R Patterson, IM Winter, RP Carlyon, HE Gockel, Eds), Springer, New York.

Apoux, F. & Healy, E.W. (2012). Use of a compound approach to derive auditory-filter-wide frequency-importance functions for vowels and consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 1078-1087.

Gaudrain, E., Grimault, N., Healy, E.W., & Béra, J.C. (2012). The relationship between concurrent speech segregation, pitch-based streaming of vowel sequences, and frequency selectivity. Acta Acoustica United with Acoustica, 98, 317-327.

Kwon, B.J., Perry, T.T., Wilhelm, C.L., & Healy, E.W. (2012). Sentence recognition in noise promoting or suppressing masking release by normal-hearing and cochlear implant listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 3111-3119.

Apoux, F. & Healy, E.W. (2011). Relative contribution of target and masker temporal fine structure to the unmasking of consonants in noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 4044-4052.

Apoux, F., Millman, R.E., Viemeister, N.F., Brown, C.A. & Bacon, S.P. (2011). On the mechanisms involved in the recovery of envelope information from temporal fine structure. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 273-282.

Devergie, A., Grimault, N., Gaudrain, E. & Healy, E.W. (2011). The effect of lip-reading on primary stream segregation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 283-291.

Apoux, F. & Healy, E.W. (2010). Relative contribution of off- and on-frequency spectral components of background noise to the masking of unprocessed and vocoded speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 2075-2084.

Orr, S.B., Montgomery, A.A., Healy, E.W. & Dubno, J.R. (2010). Effects of consonant-vowel intensity ratio on loudness of monosyllabic words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 3105-3113.

Healy, E.W. & Carson, K.A. (2010). Influence of broad auditory tuning on across-frequency integration of speech patterns. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53, 1087-1095.

Apoux, F. & Healy, E.W.  (2009).  On the number of auditory filter outputs needed to understand speech: Further evidence for auditory channel independence. Hearing Research, 255, 99-108.

Moser, D., Fridriksson, J., Bonilha, L., Healy, E.W., Baylis, G., Baker, J., & Rorden, C. (2009). Neural recruitment for the production of native and novel speech sounds. NeuroImage, 46, 549-557.

Smith, D.V., Davis, B., Niu, K, Healy, E.W., Bonilha, L., Fridriksson, J., Morgan, P.S., & Rorden, C. (2009). Spatial attention evokes similar activation patterns for visual and auditory stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 347-361

Gaudrain, E., Grimault, N., Healy, E.W., & Béra, J.C. (2008). Streaming of vowel sequences based on fundamental frequency in a cochlear-implant simulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 3076-3087.

Davis, M.S., Fridriksson, J., Healy, E.W., & Baylis, G.C. (2007). Effects of MRI scanner noise on language task performance in persons with aphasia. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 15, 119-126.

de Bode, S., Sininger, Y., Healy, E.W., Mathern, G.W. & Zaidel, E. (2007). Dichotic listening after cerebral hemispherectomy: Methodological and theoretical observations. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2461-2466.

Gaudrain, E., Grimault, N., Healy, E.W., & Béra, J.C. (2007). Effect of spectral smearing on the perceptual segregation of vowel sequences. Hearing Research, 231, 32-41.

Healy, E.W. & Bacon, S.P. (2007). Effect of spectral frequency range and separation on the perception of asynchronous speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1691-1700.

Healy, E.W. & Montgomery, A.A. (2007). The consistency of sentence intelligibility across three types of signal distortion. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 270-282.

Healy, E.W., Moser, D.C., Morrow-Odom, K.L., & Fridriksson, J. (2007). Within-session learning of novel auditory tasks by persons with aphasia. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 15, 327-335.

Healy, E.W., Moser, D.C., Morrow-Odom, K.L., Hall, D.A., & Fridriksson, J. (2007). Speech perception in MRI scanner noise by persons with aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 323-334.

Healy, E.W. & Steinbach, H.M. (2007). The effect of smoothing filter slope and spectral frequency on temporal speech information. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1177-1181.

Moser, D.C., Fridriksson, J., & Healy, E.W. (2007). Sentence comprehension and general working memory. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21, 147-156.

Healy, E.W. & Bacon, S.P. (2006). Measuring the critical band for speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1083-1091.

Healy, E.W. & Montgomery, A.A. (2006). Consistency of sentence intelligibility across difficult listening situations. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 823-834.

Li, Y., Healy, E.W., Drane, W.J., & Zhang, J. (2006). Comorbidity between and risk factors for severe hearing and memory impairment in older Americans. Preventive Medicine, 43, 416-421.

Rogers, C.F., Healy, E.W., & Montgomery, A.A. (2006). Sensitivity to isolated and concurrent intensity and fundamental frequency increments by cochlear implant users under natural listening conditions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 2276-2287.

Healy, E.W., Kannabiran, A., & Bacon, S.P. (2005). An across-frequency processing deficit in listeners with hearing impairment is supported by acoustic correlation. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 1236-1242.

Healy, E.W. (2004). Across-frequency processing by listeners with hearing impairment. Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics, 8(2), 9-12, (invited).

Healy, E.W. & Warren, R.M. (2003). The role of contrasting temporal amplitude patterns in the perception of speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 1676-1688.

Healy, E.W. & Bacon, S.P. (2002). Across-frequency comparison of temporal speech information by listeners with normal and impaired hearing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, 1262-1275.

Bacon, S.P. & Healy E.W. (2000). Effects of ipsilateral and contralateral precursors on the temporal effect in simultaneous masking with pure tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, 1589-1597.

Warren, R.M., Hainsworth, K.R., Brubaker, B.S., Bashford, J.A., Jr., & Healy, E.W. (1997). Spectral restoration of speech: Intelligibility is increased by inserting noise in spectral gaps. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 275-283.

Warren, R.M., Healy, E.W., & Chalikia, M.H. (1996). The vowel-sequence illusion: Intrasubject stability and intersubject agreement of syllabic forms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2452-2461.

Warren, R.M., Bashford, J.A., Jr., Healy, E.W., & Brubaker, B.S. (1994). Auditory induction: Reciprocal changes in alternating sounds. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 313-322.