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Overview

Christopher A. Shera is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience with a specialization in sensory systems, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, biomedical engineering, and otorhinolaryngology.

The main topics covered in Shera's work include:

  • Hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, and genetics
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Acoustic wave phenomena research
  • Ear surgery and otitis media
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Marine animal studies overview

Major publication venues where Shera has contributed include:

  • Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • AIP conference proceedings
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among the notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Shera are:

  • Whistling While it Works: Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions and the Cochlear Amplifier (2022), Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Overturning the mechanisms of cochlear amplification via area deformations of the organ of Corti (2022), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Cochlear outer hair cell electromotility enhances organ of Corti motion on a cycle-by-cycle basis at high frequencies in vivo (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The cochlear ear horn: geometric origin of tonotopic variations in auditory signal processing (2020), Scientific Reports
  • Nonlinear cochlear mechanics without direct vibration-amplification feedback (2020), Physical Review Research

Frequent collaborators in Shera's research include:

  • Alessandro Altoè
  • Carolina Abdala
  • David L. K. Murphy
  • Cynthia King
  • Stephanie N Lovich

Best Publications

  • Evoked otoacoustic emissions arise by two fundamentally different mechanisms: A taxonomy for mammalian OAEs

    Christopher A. Shera;John J. Guinan

  • Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning from otoacoustic and behavioral measurements

    Christopher A. Shera;John J. Guinan;Andrew J. Oxenham

  • The origin of periodicity in the spectrum of evoked otoacoustic emissions.

    George Zweig;Christopher A. Shera

  • Mammalian spontaneous otoacoustic emissions are amplitude-stabilized cochlear standing waves.

    Christopher A. Shera

  • Distortion-product source unmixing: a test of the two-mechanism model for DPOAE generation.

    Radha Kalluri;Christopher A. Shera

  • Stimulus-frequency-emission group delay: A test of coherent reflection filtering and a window on cochlear tuning

    Christopher A. Shera;John J. Guinan

  • Mechanisms of Mammalian Otoacoustic Emission and their Implications for the Clinical Utility of Otoacoustic Emissions

    Christopher A. Shera

  • Frequency selectivity in Old-World monkeys corroborates sharp cochlear tuning in humans

    Philip X. Joris;Christopher Bergevin;Radha Kalluri;Myles Mc Laughlin

  • Near equivalence of human click-evoked and stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions

    Radha Kalluri;Christopher A. Shera

  • Intensity-invariance of fine time structure in basilar-membrane click responses: implications for cochlear mechanics.

    Christopher A. Shera

  • Noninvasive measurement of the cochlear traveling-wave ratio

    Christopher A. Shera;George Zweig

  • Nonlinear time-domain cochlear model for transient stimulation and human otoacoustic emission.

    Sarah Verhulst;Torsten Dau;Christopher A. Shera

  • Coherent reflection in a two-dimensional cochlea: Short-wave versus long-wave scattering in the generation of reflection-source otoacoustic emissions.

    Christopher A. Shera;Arnold Tubis;Carrick L. Talmadge

  • Laser amplification with a twist: traveling-wave propagation and gain functions from throughout the cochlea.

    Christopher A. Shera

  • Measuring stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions using swept tones

    Radha Kalluri;Christopher A. Shera

  • The eardrums move when the eyes move: A multisensory effect on the mechanics of hearing

    Kurtis G. Gruters;David L. Murphy;Cole D. Jenson;David W. Smith

  • Cochlear outer hair cell electromotility enhances organ of Corti motion on a cycle-by-cycle basis at high frequencies in vivo.

    James B. Dewey;Alessandro Altoè;Christopher A. Shera;Brian E. Applegate

  • Increased contralateral suppression of otoacoustic emissions indicates a hyperresponsive medial olivocochlear system in humans with tinnitus and hyperacusis.

    Inge M. Knudson;Inge M. Knudson;Christopher A. Shera;Jennifer R. Melcher

  • Comparing stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions measured by compression, suppression, and spectral smoothing.

    Radha Kalluri;Christopher A. Shera

  • The cochlea as a smart structure

    Stephen J Elliott;Christopher A Shera;Christopher A Shera

  • Cochlear traveling-wave amplification, suppression, and beamforming probed using noninvasive calibration of intracochlear distortion sources.

    Christopher A. Shera;John J. Guinan

  • Otoacoustic-emission-based medial-olivocochlear reflex assays for humans

    Lynne Marshall;Judi A. Lapsley Miller;John J. Guinan;Christopher A. Shera

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Guinan
John J. Guinan Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Andrew J. Oxenham
Andrew J. Oxenham University of Minnesota
Torsten Dau
Torsten Dau Technical University of Denmark
Jont B. Allen
Jont B. Allen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alfred L. Nuttall
Alfred L. Nuttall Oregon Health & Science University
M. Charles Liberman
M. Charles Liberman Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Carnegie Mellon University
James C. Saunders
James C. Saunders University of Pennsylvania

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