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Gavin M. Bidelman

Gavin M. Bidelman

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
8218
World Ranking
6449
National Ranking
2804

Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
8003
World Ranking
6217
National Ranking
3367

Overview

Gavin M. Bidelman is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the disciplines of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their scholarly work intersects several subfields, notably Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Signal Processing, Sensory Systems, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research topics encompass Neuroscience and Music Perception, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Neural dynamics and brain function, Multisensory perception and integration, Phonetics and Phonology Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Attention reinforces human corticofugal system to aid speech perception in noise (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Musicians Show Improved Speech Segregation in Competitive, Multi-Talker Cocktail Party Scenarios (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Subcortical rather than cortical sources of the frequency-following response (FFR) relate to speech-in-noise perception in normal-hearing listeners (2021, Neuroscience Letters)
  • Effects of Noise on the Behavioral and Neural Categorization of Speech (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)

They frequently collaborate with several researchers, with notable coauthors including Rose Rizzi, Mohammed Yeasin, Sara Momtaz, Claude Alain, and Jessica MacLean.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in particular publication venues, with multiple papers published in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Brain Sciences
  • NeuroImage
  • Brain Research

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Stefanie Hutka;Sylvain Moreno

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

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Examining neural plasticity and cognitive benefit through the unique lens of musical training

    Sylvain Moreno;Gavin M. Bidelman

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

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Ananthanarayan Krishnan

  • Subcortical sources dominate the neuroelectric auditory frequency-following response to speech.

    Gavin M. Bidelman

  • Musical Training Orchestrates Coordinated Neuroplasticity in Auditory Brainstem and Cortex to Counteract Age-Related Declines in Categorical Vowel Perception

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Claude Alain

  • Age-related changes in the subcortical–cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Joshua W. Villafuerte;Sylvain Moreno;Claude Alain

  • Tracing the emergence of categorical speech perception in the human auditory system.

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Sylvain Moreno;Claude Alain

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

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

  • Turning down the noise: The benefit of musical training on the aging auditory brain

    Claude Alain;Benjamin Rich Zendel;Stefanie Hutka;Gavin M. Bidelman

  • Coordinated plasticity in brainstem and auditory cortex contributes to enhanced categorical speech perception in musicians.

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Michael W. Weiss;Sylvain Moreno;Claude Alain

  • Multichannel recordings of the human brainstem frequency-following response: scalp topography, source generators, and distinctions from the transient ABR.

    Gavin M. Bidelman

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

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

  • Inherent auditory skills rather than formal music training shape the neural encoding of speech.

    Kelsey Mankel;Gavin M. Bidelman

  • Enhanced brainstem encoding predicts musicians’ perceptual advantages with pitch

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

  • Cognitive and Neural Plasticity in Older Adults’ Prospective Memory Following Training with the Virtual Week Computer Game

    Nathan S. Rose;Peter G. Rendell;Alexandra Hering;Matthias Kliegel

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

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

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Characterized by Deficient Brainstem and Cortical Representations of Speech.

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Jill E. Lowther;Sunghee H. Tak;Claude Alain

  • Functional changes in inter- and intra-hemispheric cortical processing underlying degraded speech perception

    Gavin M. Bidelman;Megan Howell

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude Alain
Claude Alain University of Toronto
Ananthanarayan Krishnan
Ananthanarayan Krishnan Purdue University West Lafayette
Jackson T. Gandour
Jackson T. Gandour Purdue University West Lafayette
Sylvain Moreno
Sylvain Moreno Simon Fraser University
Richard L. Doty
Richard L. Doty University of Pennsylvania
Laurel J. Trainor
Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University
D. Kimbrough Oller
D. Kimbrough Oller University of Memphis
Joel S. Snyder
Joel S. Snyder University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nina Kraus
Nina Kraus Northwestern University
Jeffrey R. Lucas
Jeffrey R. Lucas Purdue University West Lafayette

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