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Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
13394
World Ranking
3406
National Ranking
1579

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham is a researcher affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their work spans extensive research in neuroscience, primarily focusing on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional contributions to signal processing, speech and hearing, and biomedical engineering.

Their research addresses multiple main topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Speech and audio processing

Their recent research outputs demonstrate a focus on auditory processing, multisensory integration, and neural mechanisms underlying perception. Notable recent papers include:

  • Extended Frontal Networks for Visual and Auditory Working Memory (2021), published in Cerebral Cortex
  • Audio-visual spatial alignment improves integration in the presence of a competing audio-visual stimulus (2020), published in Neuropsychologia
  • Cutting Through the Noise: Noise-Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy and Individual Differences in Speech Understanding Among Listeners With Normal Audiograms (2021), published in Ear and Hearing
  • Atypical Perception of Sounds in Minimally and Low Verbal Children and Adolescents With Autism as Revealed by Behavioral and Neural Measures (2020), published in Autism Research
  • Neural Evidence for Speech Processing Deficits During a Cocktail Party Scenario in Minimally and Low Verbal Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism (2020), published in Autism Research

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Autism Research
  • Ear and Hearing

Collaborations are a significant part of their research activity, with frequent coauthors including Abigail Noyce, Vibha Viswanathan, Hari Bharadwaj, Michael G. Heinz, and Jana M. Kainerstorfer.

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham's publication record within neuroscience is particularly concentrated in cognitive neuroscience, reflecting 141 publications, alongside contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, signal processing, speech and hearing, and biomedical engineering.

The researcher has been recognized with fellowships from the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Attentional Selection in a Cocktail Party Environment Can Be Decoded from Single-Trial EEG

    James A. O'Sullivan;Alan J. Power;Nima Mesgarani;Siddharth Rajaram

  • Object-based auditory and visual attention

    Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Selective attention in normal and impaired hearing.

    Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham;Virginia Best

  • Cochlear neuropathy and the coding of supra-threshold sound

    Hari M. Bharadwaj;Sarah Verhulst;Luke Shaheen;M. Charles Liberman

  • Note on informational masking (L)

    Nathaniel I. Durlach;Christine R. Mason;Gerald Kidd;Tanya L. Arbogast

  • Task-modulated what and where pathways in human auditory cortex

    Jyrki Ahveninen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Tommi Raij;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Individual Differences Reveal Correlates of Hidden Hearing Deficits

    Hari M. Bharadwaj;Salwa Masud;Golbarg Mehraei;Sarah Verhulst

  • Localizing nearby sound sources in a classroom: binaural room impulse responses.

    Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham;Norbert Kopco;Tara J. Martin

  • Robustness of Cortical Topography across Fields, Laminae, Anesthetic States, and Neurophysiological Signal Types

    Wei Guo;Anna R. Chambers;Anna R. Chambers;Keith N. Darrow;Keith N. Darrow;Kenneth E. Hancock;Kenneth E. Hancock

  • Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication

    Dorea Ruggles;Hari Bharadwaj;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Auditory Brainstem Response Latency in Noise as a Marker of Cochlear Synaptopathy.

    Golbarg Mehraei;Golbarg Mehraei;Ann E. Hickox;Hari M. Bharadwaj;Hannah Goldberg

  • Informational masking: Counteracting the effects of stimulus uncertainty by decreasing target-masker similarity

    Nathaniel I. Durlach;Christine R. Mason;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham;Tanya L. Arbogast

  • Object continuity enhances selective auditory attention

    Virginia Best;Erol J. Ozmeral;Norbert Kopčo;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Why Middle-Aged Listeners Have Trouble Hearing in Everyday Settings

    Dorea Ruggles;Hari Bharadwaj;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Effects of Categorization and Discrimination Training on Auditory Perceptual Space

    Frank H. Guenther;Fatima T. Husain;Michael A. Cohen;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Short-Term Memory for Space and Time Flexibly Recruit Complementary Sensory-Biased Frontal Lobe Attention Networks

    Samantha W. Michalka;Lingqiang Kong;Maya L. Rosen;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Adapting to supernormal auditory localization cues. I. Bias and resolution

    Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham;Nathaniel I. Durlach;Richard M. Held

  • The pupil response reveals increased listening effort when it is difficult to focus attention

    Thomas Koelewijn;Hilde de Kluiver;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham;Adriana A. Zekveld

  • DISTANCE CUES FOR VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE

    B. G. Shinn-Cunningham

  • Meta-analysis and systematic review of the literature characterizing auditory mismatch negativity in individuals with autism

    Sophie Schwartz;Barbara Shinn-Cunningham;Helen Tager-Flusberg

  • An Investigation of the Effects of Categorization and Discrimination Training on Auditory Perceptual Space

    Frank H. Guenther;Fatima T. Husain;Michael A. Cohen;Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Somers
David C. Somers Boston University
Daniel B. Polley
Daniel B. Polley Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Bertrand Delgutte
Bertrand Delgutte Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Robert Sekuler
Robert Sekuler Brandeis University
M. Charles Liberman
M. Charles Liberman Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Giorgio Bonmassar
Giorgio Bonmassar Massachusetts General Hospital
István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Aalto University
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Helen Tager-Flusberg Boston University

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