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35
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9151
National Ranking
3862

Overview

Duck O. Kim is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, signal processing, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work covers several main topics, including hearing loss and rehabilitation, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, and genetics, speech and audio processing, face recognition and perception, advanced memory and neural computing, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Kim's recent publications include the following:

  • Amplitude modulation transfer functions reveal opposing populations within both the inferior colliculus and medial geniculate body, 2020, Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Processing Temporal Modulations in Binaural and Monaural Auditory Stimuli by Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus and Auditory Cortex, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Editorial: Response to an object near the head/body: Multisensory coding and motor processing guided by sensory systems, 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Exploring Using a Graphic Novel for Mental Health Awareness With Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Students, 2025, Creative Nursing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kim include Shigeyuki Kuwada, Laurel H. Carney, Douglas C. Fitzpatrick, Jason M. Roberts, and Blagoje Filipovic.

Their work has been published in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Creative Nursing

Best Publications

  • A model for active elements in cochlear biomechanics

    Stephen T Neely;D. O. Kim

  • Efferent neural control of cochlear mechanics? Olivocochlear bundle stimulation affects cochlear biomechanical nonlinearity.

    Jonathan H. Siegel;D.O. Kim

  • Cochlear mechanics: nonlinear behavior in two-tone responses as reflected in cochlear-nerve-fiber responses and in ear-canal sound pressure.

    D. O. Kim;C. E. Molnar;J. W. Matthews

  • An active cochlear model showing sharp tuning and high sensitivity

    Stephen T. Neely;D.O. Kim

  • Cochlear mechanics: Implications of electrophysiological and acoustical observations ☆

    D.O. Kim

  • Active and nonlinear cochlear biomechanics and the role of outer-hair-cell subsystem in the mammalian auditory system.

    D.O. Kim

  • A population study of cochlear nerve fibers: comparison of spatial distributions of average-rate and phase-locking measures of responses to single tones

    D. O. Kim;C. E. Molnar

  • Responses of DCN-PVCN neurons and auditory nerve fibers in unanesthetized decerebrate cats to AM and pure tones: analysis with autocorrelation/power-spectrum.

    D.O. Kim;J.G. Sirianni;S.O. Chang

  • The behavior of acoustic distortion products in the ear canals of chinchillas with normal or damaged ears

    Patrick M. Zurek;William W. Clark;D. O. Kim

  • Distortion-product and click-evoked otoacoustic emissions of normally-hearing adults.

    Jacek Smurzynski;D.O. Kim

  • Responses of neurons to click-pairs as simulated echoes: Auditory nerve to auditory cortex

    Douglas C. Fitzpatrick;Shigeyuki Kuwada;D. O. Kim;Kourosh Parham

  • Cochlear nerve fiber responses: Distribution along the cochlear partition

    Russell R. Pfeiffer;Duck O. Kim

  • Adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emission in humans.

    D. O. Kim;P. A. Dorn;Stephen T Neely;Michael P Gorga

  • Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in chinchilla ear canals: correlation with histopathology and suppression by external tones

    W.W. Clark;D.O. Kim;P.M. Zurek;B.A. Bohne

  • Stimulus and recovery dependence of cat cochlear nerve fiber spike discharge probability.

    R P Gaumond;C E Molnar;D O Kim

  • Distortion product otoacoustic emission test of sensorineural hearing loss: performance regarding sensitivity, specificity and receiver operating characteristics.

    D. O. Kim;J. Paparello;M. D. Jung;J. Smurzynski

  • Effects of altering organ of Corti on cochlear distortion products f2 - f1 and 2f1 - f2.

    J. H. Siegel;D. O. Kim;C. E. Molnar

  • Response patterns of single cochlear nerve fibers to click stimuli: descriptions for cat.

    Russell R. Pfeiffer;Duck On Kim

  • Responses of auditory nerve fibers of the unanesthetized decerebrate cat to click pairs as simulated echoes

    K. Parham;H. B. Zhao;D. O. Kim

  • Spontaneous and sound-evoked discharge characteristics of complex-spiking neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of the unanesthetized decerebrate cat.

    K. Parham;D. O. Kim

  • A population study of auditory-nerve fibers in unanesthetized decerebrate cats: response to pure tones.

    D. O. Kim;S. O. Chang;J. G. Sirianni

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeyuki Kuwada
Shigeyuki Kuwada University of Connecticut Health Center
Douglas L. Oliver
Douglas L. Oliver University of Connecticut Health Center
Andrew J. King
Andrew J. King University of Leicester
Eric D. Young
Eric D. Young Johns Hopkins University
James F. Willott
James F. Willott University of South Florida

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