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Ananthanarayan Krishnan is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily situates within neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, speech and hearing, experimental and cognitive psychology, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep

Krishnan has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with recent papers covering various aspects of auditory and cognitive neuroscience. Notable papers include:

  • "Cortical hemisphere preference and brainstem ear asymmetry reflect experience-dependent functional modulation of pitch," 2021, Brain and Language
  • "Search for Electrophysiological Indices of Hidden Hearing Loss in Humans: Click Auditory Brainstem Response Across Sound Levels and in Background Noise," 2020, Ear and Hearing
  • "Frequency-Following Response to Steady-State Vowel in Quiet and Background Noise Among Marching Band Participants With Normal Hearing," 2022, American Journal of Audiology
  • "Quick Estimation of Minimum Hearing Levels Using a Binaural Multifrequency Stimulus Paradigm: Proof of Concept," 2024, Ear and Hearing

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Chandan H. Suresh
  • Jackson T. Gandour
  • Aditi Gargeshwari
  • Rafael E. Delgado

The venues where Krishnan has most commonly published include:

  • Ear and Hearing
  • American Journal of Audiology
  • Brain and Language

Best Publications

  • Encoding of pitch in the human brainstem is sensitive to language experience

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Yisheng Xu;Jackson Gandour;Peter Cariani

  • Cross-domain effects of music and language experience on the representation of pitch in the human auditory brainstem

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Jackson T. Gandour;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Effects of reverberation on brainstem representation of speech in musicians and non-musicians.

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Neural Correlates of Consonance, Dissonance, and the Hierarchy of Musical Pitch in the Human Brainstem

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Human frequency-following responses: representation of steady-state synthetic vowels.

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Relative influence of musical and linguistic experience on early cortical processing of pitch contours

    Bharath Chandrasekaran;Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • Aging alters the perception and physiological representation of frequency: evidence from human frequency-following response recordings.

    Christopher G. Clinard;Kelly L. Tremblay;Ananthanarayan R. Krishnan

  • Human frequency-following response: representation of pitch contours in Chinese tones.

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Yisheng Xu;Jackson T. Gandour;Peter A. Cariani

  • Musicians and tone-language speakers share enhanced brainstem encoding but not perceptual benefits for musical pitch

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Jackson T. Gandour;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Mismatch negativity to pitch contours is influenced by language experience.

    Bharath Chandrasekaran;Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • The role of the auditory brainstem in processing linguistically-relevant pitch patterns

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • The effects of tone language experience on pitch processing in the brainstem

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour;Gavin M. Bidelman

  • Experience-dependent enhancement of linguistic pitch representation in the brainstem is not specific to a speech context

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jayaganesh Swaminathan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • Brainstem correlates of temporal auditory processing in children with specific language impairment.

    Madhavi Basu;Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Christine Weber-Fox

  • Enhanced brainstem encoding predicts musicians’ perceptual advantages with pitch

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • Experience-dependent neural representation of dynamic pitch in the brainstem.

    Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour;Gavin M. Bidelman;Jayaganesh Swaminathan

  • Specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation in the brainstem.

    Yisheng Xu;Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • A comparative study of avian auditory brainstem responses: correlations with phylogeny and vocal complexity, and seasonal effects

    J R Lucas;T M Freeberg;A Krishnan;G R Long

  • Pitch encoding in speech and nonspeech contexts in the human auditory brainstem.

    Jayaganesh Swaminathan;Ananthanarayan Krishnan;Jackson T. Gandour

  • Neuroplasticity in the processing of pitch dimensions: A multidimensional scaling analysis of the mismatch negativity

    Bharath Chandrasekaran;Jackson T. Gandour;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jackson T. Gandour
Jackson T. Gandour Purdue University West Lafayette
Gavin M. Bidelman
Gavin M. Bidelman Indiana University
Bharath Chandrasekaran
Bharath Chandrasekaran University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey R. Lucas
Jeffrey R. Lucas Purdue University West Lafayette
Carles Escera
Carles Escera University of Barcelona
Robert Patuzzi
Robert Patuzzi University of Western Australia
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Aalto University
Jyrki Ahveninen
Jyrki Ahveninen Harvard University
Jack Gandour
Jack Gandour Purdue University West Lafayette

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