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Unless otherwise noted, all Journal Clubs will be held Fridays at 2:00 PM PST, in-person and hybrid. The location is the Conference Room in Medical Sciences E, on the Health Sciences Campus.

For questions and inquiries, please contact the current journal club coordinator, James Jeon.

Special thanks to Daniel Rindner (2020-2023), Jarrett Ebersberger (2023-2025), and Mobina Malekifar (2025-2026) for their previous coordination of the Journal Club.

Current Year

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
05/22/2026	Pei Wang	Development of delivery platforms for in vivo inner ear gene editing
05/15/2026	Special Guest Speaker: Tim Tucker, Founder of TDT Technologies, Neuroscience Research	TDT Technologies: Developments in Neuroscience Tools and Software, and in Research
05/14/2026	Special Guest Speaker: Luoying Jiang; Ph.D. candidate at the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University	"Multicentre gene therapy for OTOF-related deafness followed up to 2.5 years." Jiang, et al. Nature, 2026.
05/08/2026	Special Guest Speaker: Andres Camareno; clinical research scientist, USC	"Did You Get All That? Encoding of Amplitude Modulations at the Auditory Periphery Predicts Hearing Outcomes."
05/01/2026	Rose Farahi and Lou Ong; University of California, Irvine	"Prevention and treatment of noise-induced hearing loss and cochlear synapse degeneration by potassium channel blockers in vivo." Zhao, et al. Hearing Research, 2025.
04/24/2026	Ana Gallegos Anchondo; University of California, Irvine	"Revealing Cochlear Structure and Mechanics Using Optical Coherence Tomography."
04/10/2026	Special Guest Speaker: Mackenzie Lighterink; Cochlear Audiologist, Ph.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University	"Phonological Development and Perception with Cochlear Implants."
04/03/2026	Tracey Dorr	"Personal Experiences with Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant."
03/20/2026	Samuel Vo; University of California, Irvine	"No association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding." Whiteford, et al. Nature Communications, 2025.
03/13/2026	Matthew Richardson; Research Scientist, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Irvine	"Improving Auditory Prostheses (Cochlear Implants)."
02/20/2026	Sebastiaan W.F. Meenderink; Research Scientist, University of California, Irvine	"Frequency Following Responses Reveal Sensory Loss in the Cochlea"
02/18/2026	Special Guest Speaker: Nathan Zemke; Principal Investigator, UC San Diego Center for Epigenomics	"Cellular and Epigenomic Reprogramming in Neurodegeneration and Aging."
02/16/2026	Special Guest Speaker: Sicong Zhang; PostDoc, The Rockefeller University	"Transcriptional Dependencies in Cancer."
02/13/2026	Fan-Gang Zeng and Wei Dong; Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Irvine	Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) 2026 Conference Recap
01/21/2026	Jason Jiaxin Luo; Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Irvine	A comparison of results and experimental parameters between older and newer music perception studies
01/14/2026	Rose Farahi; University of California, Irvine	"Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding." Whiteford, et al. Nature Communications, 2025.

Previous Years

2025

Date	Presenter	Topic
12/17/2025	Kevin Ma, University of California, Irvine	"Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study." Grassi, et al. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2025.
12/10/2025	Fan-Gang Zeng; Chancellor’s Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Director, Center for Hearing Research, University of California, Irvine	"Brain computer interface as the next AI frontier."
12/03/2025	James Jeon, University of California, Irvine	"Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events." Perrenoud, et al. Nature, 2025.
11/26/2025	Samuel Vo, University of California, Irvine	"Music Perception in Older Adults With Hearing Loss: Protective Effect of Musical Experience." Whittom, et al. Ear and Hearing, 2025.
11/19/2025	Mobina Malekifar; Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Irvine	"Bioelectric and Electrophysiological Data Analysis Using Signal Processing and Deep Learning."
11/12/2025	Mobina Malekifar; Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Irvine	"Bioelectric and Electrophysiological Data Analysis Using Signal Processing and Deep Learning."
11/05/2025	Fan-Gang Zeng; Chancellor’s Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Director, Center for Hearing Research, University of California, Irvine	"Disrupted fundamental frequency encoding in sensorineural hearing loss revealed by the frequency-following response." Jacxsens, et al. Hearing Research, 2025.
10/29/2025	Yan Huo; Researcher, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine	"Special Guest Speaker: Data analysis of Frequency Following Response (FFR) characteristics in tinnitus patients."
10/22/2025	Ryan Phua, University of California, Irvine	"A closed loop fully automated wireless vagus nerve stimulation system." Mathews, et al. Scientific Reports, 2025.

2023

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
08/30/2023	Rui Zhe, John Hopkins University
08/09/2023	Ilina Bhaya-Grossman, UCSF and UC Berkeley
08/02/2023	Alejandra Santoyo, UCM Dept. of Cognitive and Information Sciences
07/19/2023	Fan-Gang Zeng, UCI Dept. Otolaryngology	Hearing as adaptive cascaded envelope interpolation
07/12/2023	Daniel Llano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology	Highly branched and complementary distributions of layer 5 and layer 6 auditory corticofugal axons in mouse.
07/05/2023	Alyssa Brewer, UCI Dept. Cognitive Science	Auditory fields maps in human cortex
06/28/2023	Soo Park, UCI Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior	A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex
06/212023	Xuanyi (Jessica) Chen, Radboud University	The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in ‘Broca’s area’, does not support music perception
06/14/2023	Fangchen Zhu, Johns Hopkins University	The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex
06/07/2023	Wan Du, Harvard Medical School	Rescue of auditory function by a single administration of AAV-TMPRSS3 gene therapy in aged mice of human recessive deafness DFNB8
05/31/2023	Kenneth Morse, West Virginia University	Onset-offset cortical auditory evoked potential amplitude differences indicate auditory cortical hyperactivity and reduced inhibition in people with tinnitus
05/24/2023	Zunaira Iqbal, UC Merced	The McGurk illusion: A default mechanism of the auditory system
05/17/2023	Justin Yao, Rutgers University	The Neural Basis of Auditory Decision-Making: Implications for Cognitive Function
05/10/2023	Ruili Xie, Ohio State University	Neural mechanisms of age-related hearing loss in early auditory pathways

2022

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
12/14/2022	Babak Ahadian, Graduate Student, UCI Dept. Cognitive Sciences	Effects of randomizing phase on the discrimination between amplitude-modulated and quasi-frequency-modulated tones
12/7/2022	Jarrett Ebersberger, Graduate Student, UCI Dept. Cognitive Sciences	Stewart et al. (2020) Auditory cognition and perception of action video game players. Sci. Rep.
11/30/2022	Special guest, Dr. James McGregor, Postdoctoral Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis	Shared mechanisms of auditory and non-auditory vocal learning in the songbird brain
11/16/2022 – TIME 3:00 PM	Special guest, Dr. Brad Buran, Postdoctoral Scholar, Oregon Health and Science University	Predicting synapse counts in living humans by combining computational models with auditory physiology
11/9/2022	Dr. Katie Redford, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCI Dept. Physiology and Biophysics	Modulation of KCNQ4 potassium channel mutations that cause DFNA2
11/2/2022	Special guest, Dr. Jessica Chen, Graduate Student, University of Utah	Temporal envelope coding of the human auditory nerve inferred from electrocochleography: Comparison with envelope following responses
10/26/2022	Soo Park, Graduate Student, UCI Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior	McGill et al. (2022) Neural signatures of auditory hypersensitivity following acoustic trauma. eLife
10/19/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Special guest, Dr. Lloyd Watts, Founder and CEO, Neocortix, Inc.	Commercializing Auditory Neuroscience
10/12/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Daniel Rindner, Graduate Student, UCI Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior	Mafi et al. (2022) Age-related ultrastructural changes in the lateral cortex of the inferior colliculus. Neurobiol. Aging.
10/5/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Special guest, Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng, Director, UCI Center for Hearing Research	Burwood et al. (2022) Best frequencies and temporal delays are similar across the low-frequency regions of the guinea pig cochlea Sci. Adv.
9/28/2022	Special guest, Dr. Hariprakash Haragopal, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northeast Ohio Medical University	Cellular diversity in the lateral superior olive to support multiple binaural sound localization strategies and segregate information in upstream processing centers
9/21/2022	Special guest, Dr. Emily Nairn, Audiologist, University of Michigan	Comparison of Hearing Outcomes Between Bone and Cartilage Conduction Devices
9/14/2022	Special guest, Dr. Satyabrata Parida, Postdoctoral scholar, University of Pittsburgh	Understanding neural mechanisms of degraded speech in noise
9/7/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Dr. Mustafa Nazir Okur, Assistant researcher, Department of Otolaryngology, UC Irvine	Therapeutic and mechanistic approaches to age-related hearing loss based on premature aging genetic disorder
8/31/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Dr. Kyunghee Kim, Associate specialist, Department of Otolaryngology, UC San Francisco	Auditory processing and modulation in the auditory cortex
8/24/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Dr. Wei Dong, Associate Research Professor in Otolaryngology, Loma Linda University	Visualization of ear functions using optical coherence tomography
8/17/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Dr. Hubert Lim, Professor in Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Treating hearing and immune disorders with sound, ultrasound, and electrical stimulation approaches: Basic science to clinical studies
8/10/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING 4 PM	Dr. Jan Schnupp, Professor in Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong	Toward better binaural hearing with cochlear implants
8/10/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING, 11 AM	Drs. Dwight Wynne (CSU Fullerton) and Reza Ramezan (University of Waterloo)	Statistical approaches to the analysis of neurophysiological data
8/3/2022	Special guest, Carlos Vivaldo, Doctoral Student, University of Michigan	Vivaldo et al. (2022) Integration of sound and locomotion information by auditory cortical neuronal ensembles bioRxiv
7/27/2022	Daniel Rindner, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Lur Lab)	Lee et al. (2022). Magnetic stimulation allows focal activation of the mouse cochlea. eLife
7/20/2022	Dr. Sibylla Leon Guerrero, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCI School of Education (Kroll and Washington Labs)	Distinct Contributors to Bidialectal and Bilingual Text Processing and Comprehension
7/13/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Special guest, Dr. Daniel Kleinman, Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories	Kleinman et al. (2022) Lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on language processing PLoS ONE
7/6/2022	Special guest, Patrick Dwyer, PhD Candidate, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain	A Multidimensional Investigation of Sensory Processing in Autism: Parent- and Self-Report Questionnaires, Psychophysical Thresholds, and Event-Related Potentials in the Auditory and Somatosensory Modalities
6/29/2022	Special guest, Dr. Monica Hudnall, Speech-Language Pathologist, Mills College	Hudnall (2022) Self-Reported Perspectives on Cultural Competence Education in Speech-Language Pathology Am. J. Speech. Lang. Pathol.
6/22/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Special guest, Dr. Shannon Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Chapman University	Recognizing Emotion in Speech: Neural Correlates and Characteristics of Emotional Aprosodia in Right Hemisphere Stroke and Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
6/15/2022 IN-PERSON MEETING	Special guest, Dr. Mathias Milczynski, Lead Software Engineer, Advanced Bionics	Working in a Medical Device Engineering Team: First Steps, Guidance, Reflections, and Knowledge Sharing
6/8/2022	Special guest, Dr. Judith Borghouts, Postdoctoral scholar, UCI Department of Medicine	Borghouts et al. (2022). Understanding the potential of mental health apps to address mental health needs of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. JMIR. Hum. Factors.
6/1/2022	Kenta Watanabe, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Richards Lab)	Otcenasek et al. (2022). The subjective relevance of perceived sound aspects in remote singing education. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
5/25/2022 @ 11 AM	Special Guest, Dr. Alessandro Urciuoli, Postdoctoral scholar, Autonomous University of Barcelona	Urciuoli et al. (2022). Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran. J. Hum. Evol.
5/18/2022	Daniel Rindner, Doctoral student, Neurobiology & Behavior (Lur Lab)	Keppeler et al. (2020). Multichannel optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway using microfabricated LED cochlear implants in rodents. Sci. Transl. Med.
5/11/2022	Special Guest, Dr. Maria Cristina Perez Flores, Research scientist, University of Nevada, Reno (Yamoah Lab)	Flores et al. (2022). Intrinsic mechanical sensitivity of mammalian auditory neurons as a contributor to sound-driven neural activity eLife
5/4/2022	Special Guest, Dr. Baher Ibrahim, Postdoctoral scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Llano Lab)	Ibrahim et al. (2021). Corticothalamic gating of population auditory thalamocortical transmission in mouse eLife
4/27/2022	Special Guest, Seeon Kim, Doctoral student, Arizona State University (Luo Lab)	Kim et al. (2021). Mandarin tone recognition training with cochlear implant simulation: Amplitude evelope enhancement and cue weighting. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
4/20/2022	Special Guest, Drew McLaughlin, Doctoral student, Washington University in St. Louis (Van Engen Lab)	McLaughlin et al. (2022). Revisiting the relationship between implicit racial bias and audiovisual benefit for nonnative-accented speech Atten. Percept. Psychophys.
4/13/2022 @ 11 AM	Special Guest, Dr. Müge Özker, Postdoctoral scholar, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Hagoort Lab)	Özker et al. (2022). A cortical network processes auditory error signals during human speech production to maintain fluency PLoS Biology
4/6/2022 @ 11 AM	Special Guest, Dr. Roozbeh Behroozmand, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina	Neural correlates of impaired vocal feedback control in post-stroke aphasia
3/30/2022	Dr. Akshat Arneja, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Middlebrooks Lab)	Jeschke et al. (2022). Effects of cortical cooling on sound processing in auditory cortex and thalamus of awake marmosets Frontiers in Neural Circuits
3/23/2022	n/a	No journal club meeting today
3/16/2022 @ 9:30 AM	Special Guest, Dr. Nick Lesica, Professor, University College London	Baby et al. (2021). A convolutional neural-network model of human cochlear mechanics and filter tuning for real-time applications Nature Machine Intelligence
3/9/2022	Special Guests, Shoutik Mukherjee & Yashish Siriwardena, Doctoral students, University of Maryland College Park (Shamma Lab)	The MirrorNet: Learning speech production and perception through sensorimotor interactions
3/2/2022	Special Guests, Andres Camarena, Doctoral student & Grace Manchala, Medical student, University of Southern California (Goldsworthy Lab)	Camarena et al. (2022). Pleasantness ratings of musical dyads in cochlear implant users Brain Sciences
2/23/2022	Sima Chokr, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Cramer Lab)	Long-term inhibition of CSF1R signaling impairs auditory brainstem function
2/16/2022	Kenta Watanabe, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Richards and Srinivasan Labs)	Suppakitjanusant et al. (2021). Identifying individuals with recent COVID-19 through voice classification using deep learning Scientific Reports.
2/9/2022	Daniel Rindner, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Lur Lab)	Resnik & Polley (2021). Cochlear neural degeneration disrupts hearing in background noise by increasing auditory cortex internal noise Neuron.
2/2/2022	Dr. Yasmeen Hamza, Postdoctoral Scholar (Zeng Lab)	Hamza & Zeng (2021). Tinnitus is associated with improved cognitive performance in non-hispanic elderly with hearing loss Frontiers in Neuroscience.
1/26/2022	Special Guest Dana Chan, Doctoral student, Northwestern University (Waxman Lab)	Sign language promotes object categorization in young, hearing infants
1/19/2022	Special Guest Dr. Christian Herrera, Postdoctoral researcher, VA Loma Linda Healthcare System (Venezia Lab)	Cortical networks for recognition of speech with simultaneous talkers
1/12/2022	Special Guest Liesbeth Gijbels, Doctoral student, University of Washington (Lee Lab)	Remote audiovisual speech perception tasks in children

2021

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
12/15/2021	Shade Avery Kirjava, AuD, Doctoral student, Public Health	Parallels in the medicalization of people Who are intersex and people who are deaf
12/8/2021	Special Guest Sandeep Kothinti, Doctoral student, Johns Hopkins University (Elhilali Lab)	Auditory salience in natural soundscapes
12/1/2021	Special Guest Kaye Wang, Doctoral student, Ohio University (Xu Lab)	The effects of spatial separation and voice difference on the release from masking in English and Mandarin Chinese speakers
11/24/2021	n/a	No journal club meeting today
11/17/2021 @ 11:00 AM	Special Guest Dr. Andrei Lukashkin, Reader, University of Brighton	S.M. Flaherty, I.J. Russell, & A.N. Lukashkin (2021). Drug distribution along the cochlea is strongly enhanced by low-frequency round window micro vibrationsDrug Delivery.
11/10/2021	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng, Professor & CHR Director	M. Desai et al. (2021). Generalizable EEG encoding models with naturalistic audiovisual stimuli Journal of Neuroscience.
11/3/2021	Daniel Rindner, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Lur Lab)	A. Lasfargues-Delannoy, K. Strelnikov, O. Deguine, M. Marx, & P. Barone. (2021). Supra-normal skills in processing of visuo-auditory prosodic information by cochlear-implanted deaf patients Hearing Research.
10/27/2021	Dr. Mustafa Nazir (Naz) Okur, Assistant Researcher, Department of Otolaryngology	Therapeutic and mechanistic approaches to age-related hearing loss based on a premature aging genetic disorder
10/20/2021	Special Guest Katrina Deane, Doctoral student, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (Happel Lab)	K.E. Deane et al. (2020). Ketamine anaesthesia induces gain enhancement via recurrent excitation in granular input layers of the auditory cortex Journal of Physiology.
10/6/2021	Special Guest Dr. Arkarup Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory (Banerjee Lab PI)	Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication
10/13/2021	Dr. Sibylla Leon Guerrero, Postdoctoral Fellow (Kroll & Peña Labs)	E. Skoe, E. Burakiewicz, E. Figueiredo, & M. Hardin (2017). Basic neural processing of sound in adults is influenced by bilingual experience Journal of Neuroscience.
9/29/2021	Akshat Arneja, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Middlebrooks Lab)	K.L. Whiteford & A.J. Oxenham (2018). Learning for Pitch and Melody Discrimination in Congenital Amusia Cortex.
9/22/2021	Kenta Watanabe, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Richards Lab)	S. Vanneste, J.-J. Song, & D. De Ridder (2013). Tinnitus and musical hallucinosis: The same but more Neuroimage.
7/28/2021	Sima Chokr, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Cramer Lab)	C.-J. Hsiao and A.V. Galazyuk (2021). Effect of Unilateral Acoustic Trauma on Neuronal Firing Activity in the Inferior Colliculus of Mice Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience.
7/21/2021	Jiaxin (Jason) Luo, Doctoral student in Biomedical Engineering (Zeng Lab)	S.K. Hong et al. (2016). Top-down and bottom-up neurodynamic evidence in patients with tinnitus Hearing Research.
7/14/2021	Ye Yang, Doctoral student, Biomedical Engineering (Zeng Lab)	C. Han et al. (2019). Speaker-independent auditory attention decoding without access to clean speech sources Science Advances.
7/7/2021	Dr. Amanda Nguyen, Postdoctoral Fellow (Xu Lab)	Article 1: Kaylegian et al. (2019) 5XFAD mice show early onset gap detection deficits Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
7/7/2021 (cont.)	Dr. Amanda Nguyen, Postdoctoral Fellow (Xu Lab)	Article 2: Weible et al. (2020) 5XFAD mice show early-onset gap encoding deficits in the auditory cortex Neurobiology of Aging.
6/30/2021	Dr. Yasmeen Hamza, Postdoctoral Scholar (Zeng Lab)	J.G. Zhang et al. (2021). Effect of unilateral cochlear implant use on contralateral electrically evoked auditory brainstem responses to round window membrane electrical stimulation Acta Oto-Laryngologica.
6/23/2021	Dr. Raju Metherate, Professor & Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education	T.S. Grover, J.A. Nguyen, V. Viswanathan, & R.M.G. Reinhart (2021). High-frequency neuromodulation improves obsessive-compulsive behaviors Nature Medicine.
6/16/2021	Dr. Michelle Kapolowicz, Postdoctoral Fellow (Zeng Lab)	T. Kurioka, S. Mogi, and T. Yamashita (2021). Decreasing auditory input induces neurogenesis impairment in the hippocampus Scientific Reports.
6/9/2021	Special Guest Dr. Payton Lin, General Engineer Reviewer, FDA	An Overview of FDA Medical Device Reviews
6/2/2021	n/a	No Journal Club Meeting Today
5/26/2021 @ 10:30 AM	Special Guest Dr. Elouise Koops, Postdoctoral Scholar (Harvard, Polley Lab)	Central adaptation to hearing loss in the presence of tinnitus and hyperacusis
5/19/2021	Special Guest Dr. Harinath Garudadri, Research Scientist, UCSD	Open-Source Platform for Hearing Healthcare Research
5/12/2021	Special Guest Brendaly Rodríguez, MA CPH	Patient Centered Outcomes Research, Stakeholder Mobilization and Engagement (including Patients!): Building Research Capacity & Re$$ources Available
5/5/2021	Special Guest Assistant Professor Michelle Arnold (Univ. of South Florida, Auditory Rehabilitation and Clinical Trials Lab Director)	Characterizing hearing handicap and hearing aid use in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
4/28/2021	Kenta Watanabe, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Richards Lab)	C. Porschmann, T. Lubeck, and J.M. Arend (2020). Impact of face masks on voice radiation JASA.
4/14/2021	Dr. Giedre Milinkeviciute, Postdoctoral Scholar (Cramer Lab)	New roles for microglia in the development of auditory brainstem pathways
4/7/2021	Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng, Professor & CHR Director	A. Armstrong, C.C. Lam, S Sabesan, and N.A. Lesica (Preprint). The hearing aid dilemma: amplification, compression, and distortion of the neural code
3/31/2021	Joselyn Ho, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Chubb and Hickok Labs)	M. Arjmandi et al. (2021). Estimating the reduced benefit of infant-directed speech in cochlear implant-related speech processing Neurosci. Res.
3/24/2021	Spring Break	No Journal Club Meeting Today
3/17/2021	Adwight Risbud, Medical student and visiting researcher (Djalilian Lab)	M. Abouzari et al. (2020). Adapting Personal Therapies Using a Mobile Application for Tinnitus Rehabilitation: A Preliminary Study Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 1-7.
3/10/2021	Mehrnaz Mehrabi, Doctoral student, Biomedical Engineering (Djalilian Lab)	B.J. Gantz, R. Perkins, M. Murray, S. Carr Levy, and S. Puria (2017). Light-Driven Contact Hearing Aid for Broad-Spectrum Amplification: Safety and Effectiveness Pivotal Study Otol Neurotol, 38:352–359.
3/3/2021	Special Guest Yi Yuan (Univ. of Florida, Oh Lab)	Lip-reading or lip-aiding? – Visually-presented acoustic temporal envelope enhances speech perception in noise
2/24/2021	Dr. Mehdi Abouzari, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurotology, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery	B. Conlon et al. (2020). Bimodal neuromodulation combining sound and tongue stimulation reduces tinnitus symptoms in a large randomized clinical study Sci. Transl. Med. 12, eabb2830
2/17/2021	Jiaxin Luo, Doctoral student, Biomedical Engineering (Zeng Lab)	M. Mielczarek, M., Michalska, J., Polatynska, K., & Olzewski, J. (2016). An increase in alpha band frequency in resting state EEG after electrical stimulation of the ear in tinnitus patients – A pilot study Front. Neurosci, 10:453.
2/10/2021	Ye Yang, Doctoral student, Biomedical Engineering (Zeng Lab)	M. Shoushtarian, R., Alizadehsani, R., Khosravi, a., Acevedo, N., McKay, C.M., Nahavandi, S., & Fallon, J.B. (2020). Objective measurement of tinnitus using functional near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning Plos One, 15(11).
2/3/2021	Katie Turner, Doctoral student, Cognitive Sciences (Zeng Lab)	AlShebli, B., Makovi, K., & Rahwan, T. (2020). The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance Nat Comm, 11(5855).
1/27/2021	Special Guest Tracey Dorr	My Journey: Finding the Light from Inside the Sound of Darkness
1/20/2021	Daniel Rindner, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Lur Lab)	Cell type-synaptic integration of top-down and auditory afferents in the posterior parietal cortex
1/13/2021	Sima Chokr, Doctoral student, Neurobiology and Behavior (Cramer Lab)	Dunn, C.C., Stangl E., Oleson, J., Smith, M., Chipara, O., & Wu, Y.H. (2020). The Influence of Forced Social Isolation on the Auditory Ecology and Psychosocial Functions of Listeners with Cochlear Implants During COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts Ear Hear, 42(1), 202-28.

2020

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
10/28/2020	Dr. Bonnielin Swenor, Associate Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center	A decade of decline: Grant funding for researchers with disabilities 2008-2018, BK Swenor, B Munoz, LM Meeks. PLOS ONE, 2020

2019

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
1/15/2019	Adrián Rodríguez-Contreras, CCNY
2/5/2019	Raymond Goldsworthy, USC
2/26/2019	Li Zhang, USC
3/5/2019	Nace Golding, UT
4/2/2019	Assal Habibi, USC
5/7/2019	Sven Vanneste, UTD
11/5/2019	Peter Narins, UCLA
11/19/2019	Maoli Duan, Karolinska University Hospital

2018

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
2/6/2018	Ivan Milenkovic, University of Leipzig
2/15/2018	Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland
3/6/2018	Josh Bernstein, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
4/3/2018	Yuan Wang, Florida State University
5/1/2018	Sarah Creel, UCSD
6/19/2018	Anu Sharma, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

2017

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
4/25/2017	Alex Presacco (Middlebrooks Lab)	Martin, B.A., Boothroyd, A., Ali, D., & Leach-Berth, T. (2010). Stimulus Presentation Strategies for Eliciting the Acoustic Change Complex: Increasing Efficiency Ear Hear, 31(3), 356-366.
3/28/2017	Katie Turner	Gilles, A., Schlee, W., Rabau, S., Wouters, K., Fransen, E., & Van de Heyning, P. (2016). Decreased Speech-In-Noise Understanding in Young Adults with Tinnitus Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 288.
1/24/2017	Solena Mednicoff	Chubb, C., Dickson, C.A., Dean, T., Fagan, C., Mann, D.S., Wright, C., … Kowalsky, E. (2013). Bimodal distribution of performance in discriminating major/minor modes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(4), 3067-3078.

2016

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
11/29/2016	Maria Montchal	Zatorre, R.J, Halpern, A.R., Perry, D.W., Meyer, E., & Evans, A.C. (1996). Hearing in the Mind’s Ear: A PET Investigation of Musical Imagery and Perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8(1), 29-46.
10/25/2016	Gabriel Elias	Zhou, X., de Villers-Sidani, E., Panizzutti, R., & Merzenich, M. (2010). Successive-signal biasing for a learned sound sequence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(33), 14839-14844.
5/31/2016	Katie Turner (Zeng Lab)	Shaheen, L. A., Valero, M. D., & Liberman, M. C. (2015). Towards a Diagnosis of Cochlear Neuropathy with Envelope Following Responses. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 16(6), 727–45.
4/26/2016	Maria Montchal (Yassa Lab)	Oh, J., Kwon, J.H., Yang, P.S., & Jeong, J. (2013). Auditory imagery modulates frequency-specific areas in the human auditory Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(2), 175-187.
3/29/2016	Luke Baltzell (Richards Lab)	Ding, N., Melloni, L., Zhang, H., Tian, X., & Poeppel, D. (2015). Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech. Nature Neuroscience
2/27/2016	Special Guest Alessandro Pressaco (Univ. of Maryland)	“Effects of aging on midbrain and cortical speech-in-noise processing”.
1/26/2016	Sierra Broussard (Saberi Lab)	Doelling, K.B., & Poeppel, D. (2015). Cortical entrainment to music and its modulation by expertise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(45), E6233-E6242.

2015

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
11/24/2015	Sarah Rotschafer (Cramer Lab)	Ruby, K., Falvey, K., & Kulesza, R.J. (2015). Abnormal neuronal morphology and neurochemistry in the auditory brainstem of FMR1 knockout rats. Neuroscience, 303, 285-298.
10/27/2015	Jon Venezia (Richards Lab)	Bernstein, J. G., Mehraei, G., Shamma, S., Gallun, F. J., Theodoroff, S. M., & Leek, M. R. (2013). Spectrotemporal modulation sensitivity as a predictor of speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 24(4), 293.
8/25/2015	Luke Baltzell	Doelling, K. B., Arnal, L. H., Ghitza, O., & Poeppel, D. (2014) Acoustic landmarks drive delta-theta oscillations to enable speech comprehension by facilitating perceptual parsing. NeuroImage, 85(2), 761-768.
7/28/2015	Fan-Gang Zeng	Bramhall, N., Ong, B., Ko, J., Parker, M. (2015). Speech Perception Ability in Noise is Correlated with Auditory Brainstem Response Wave I Amplitude. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 26(5), 509-517.
6/23/2015	Jon Venezia (Hickok Lab)	Santoro, R., Moerel, M., De Martino, F., Goebel, R., Ugurbil, K., Yacoub, E. & Formisano, E. (2014). Encoding of Natural Sounds at Multiple Spectral and Temporal Resolutions in the Human Auditory Cortex. PLOS Computational Biology, 10(1), 1-14
5/26/2015	Cait Askew (Metherate Lab)	D’amour, J.A., & Froemke R.C., (2015). Inhibitory and Excitatory Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity in the Auditory Cortex. Neuron, 86, 514-528.
4/28/2015	Carolyn McClaskey (Saberi Lab)	Verschooten, E., Robles, L., & Joris, P.X. (2015). Assessment of the Limits of Neural Phase-Locking Using Mass Potentials. J. Neurosci,35(5), 2255-2268.
3/24/2015	Sarah Rotschafer (Cramer Lab)	Hoofpauir, B. K., Kolson, D. R., Mathers, P. H., & Spirou, G. A. (2010). Maturation of synaptic partners: functional phenotype and synaptic organization tuned in synchrony. Journal of Physiology, 588(22), 4365-4385.
2/24/2015	CANCELED	ARO MIDWINTER MEETING
1/27/2015	John Middlebrooks	Belliveau, Lucile A.C., Lyamzin, Dmitry R., & Lesica, Nicholas A. (2014). The Neural Representation of Interaural Time Differences in Gerbils Is Transformed from Midbrain to Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(50), 16796 –16808.