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H. Steven Colburn

H. Steven Colburn

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
8014
World Ranking
5783
National Ranking
1615

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

H. Steven Colburn is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and health professions. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, speech and hearing, signal processing, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sensory systems. The primary topics of Colburn's research cover hearing loss and rehabilitation, noise effects and management, speech and audio processing, multisensory perception and integration, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, advanced adaptive filtering techniques, and neural dynamics related to brain function.

Colburn has authored papers published in several notable venues. These include:

  • Binaural Recordings in Natural Acoustic Environments: Estimates of Speech-Likeness and Interaural Parameters, 2020, Trends in Hearing
  • The Technology of Binaural Understanding, 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • A biologically oriented algorithm for spatial sound segregation, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Intracranial lateralization bias observed in the presence of symmetrical hearing thresholds, 2021, JASA Express Letters
  • A biologically oriented algorithm for spatial sound segregation, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent publication venues where Colburn's work appears include:

  • Trends in Hearing
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • JASA Express Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Colburn collaborates regularly with a set of coauthors, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Virginia Best
  • S. Theo Goverts
  • Matthew J. Goupell
  • Kenny Chou
  • Kamal Sen

Their research includes exploration of both theoretical and applied aspects of auditory science, such as binaural understanding and spatial sound segregation, contributing to knowledge related to hearing mechanisms and rehabilitation techniques.

In recognition of professional contributions, Colburn was named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Best Publications

  • The precedence effect.

    Ruth Y. Litovsky;H. Steven Colburn;William A. Yost;Sandra J. Guzman

  • Note on informational masking (L)

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

  • Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory‐nerve data. I. General strategy and preliminary results on interaural discrimination

    H. Steven Colburn

  • Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory‐nerve data. II. Detection of tones in noise

    H. Steven Colburn

  • Role of spectral detail in sound-source localization

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  • Reducing informational masking by sound segregation

    Gerald Kidd;Christine R. Mason;Phalguni S. Deliwala;William S. Woods

  • 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

  • Evaluating Auditory Performance Limits: I. One-Parameter Discrimination Using a Computational Model for the Auditory Nerve

    Michael G. Heinz;H. Steven Colburn;Laurel H. Carney

  • Theory of binaural interaction based on auditory‐nerve data. IV. A model for subjective lateral position

    Richard M. Stern;H. Steven Colburn

  • Sensitivity of human subjects to head-related transfer-function phase spectra.

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  • Binaural sensitivity as a function of interaural electrode position with a bilateral cochlear implant user.

    Christopher J. Long;Donald K. Eddington;H. Steven Colburn;William M. Rabinowitz

  • Binaural interaction of impaired listeners. A review of past research.

    N. I. Durlach;C. L. Thompson;H. S. Colburn

  • Interaural correlation discrimination: i. bandwidth and level dependence

    Kaigham J. Gabriel;H. Steven Colburn

  • Computational Models of Binaural Processing

    H. Steven Colburn

  • A model for interaural time difference sensitivity in the medial superior olive: interaction of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs, channel dynamics, and cellular morphology.

    Yi Zhou;Laurel H. Carney;H. Steven Colburn

  • Sensitivity to interaural time difference with bilateral cochlear implants: Development over time and effect of interaural electrode spacing

    Becky B. Poon;Donald K. Eddington;Victor Noel;H. Steven Colburn

  • Infinite-impulse-response models of the head-related transfer function.

    Abhijit Kulkarni;H. Steven Colburn

  • Coincidence model of MSO responses.

    H Steven Colburn;Han Yan-an;Carrin Passaro Culotta

  • Interaural correlation sensitivity

    John Francis Culling;H. Steven Colburn;Matthew Spurchise

  • Interaural correlation discrimination: II. Relation to binaural unmasking.

    N. I. Durlach;K. J. Gabriel;H. S. Colburn;C. Trahiotis

  • The perceptual consequences of binaural hearing

    H. Steven Colburn;Barbara Shinn-Cunningham;Gerald Kidd;Nat Durlach

  • Test of a model of auditory object formation using intensity and interaural time difference discrimination.

    William S. Woods;H. Steven Colburn

  • Frequency dependence of binaural performance in listeners with impaired binaural hearing

    Kaigham J. Gabriel;Janet Koehnke;H. Steven Colburn

  • Performance in several binaural‐interaction experiments

    Janet Koehnke;H. Steven Colburn;Nathaniel I. Durlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Carnegie Mellon University
Gerald Kidd
Gerald Kidd Boston University
Christine R. Mason
Christine R. Mason Boston University
Bertrand Delgutte
Bertrand Delgutte Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
John A. White
John A. White Boston University
Richard M. Stern
Richard M. Stern Carnegie Mellon University
William M. Hartmann
William M. Hartmann Michigan State University
Ronald A. Siegel
Ronald A. Siegel University of Minnesota
Constantine Trahiotis
Constantine Trahiotis University of Connecticut Health Center
Kwabena Boahen
Kwabena Boahen Stanford University

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