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Overview

Robert P. Carlyon is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, where their research primarily focuses on neuroscience with a particular emphasis on auditory science. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, speech and hearing, signal processing, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics of their research include hearing loss and rehabilitation, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, noise effects and management, neuroscience and music perception, speech and audio processing, neural dynamics and brain function, and neuroscience and neural engineering.

Frequent publication venues for Carlyon's work include the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, where they have published extensively. Other notable venues include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Ear and Hearing, Scientific Reports, and Hearing Research.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Carlyon include:

  • Cochlear Implant Research and Development in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Update, 2021, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Detection of Extracochlear Electrodes in Cochlear Implants with Electric Field Imaging/Transimpedance Measurements:, 2020, Ear and Hearing
  • The Panoramic ECAP Method: Estimating Patient-Specific Patterns of Current Spread and Neural Health in Cochlear Implant Users, 2021, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Evaluating and Comparing Behavioural and Electrophysiological Estimates of Neural Health in Cochlear Implant Users, 2020, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • The effect of increased channel interaction on speech perception with cochlear implants, 2021, Scientific Reports

Carlyon has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including François Guérit, Tobias Goehring, John M. Deeks, Manohar Bance, and Charlotte Garcia. These collaborations highlight ongoing interdisciplinary work within the auditory neuroscience and cochlear implant research communities.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Location, Frequency Region, and Time Course of Selective Attention on Auditory Scene Analysis

    Rhodri Cusack;John Deeks;Genevieve Aikman;Robert P Carlyon

  • The role of resolved and unresolved harmonics in pitch perception and frequency modulation discrimination

    Trevor M. Shackleton;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Swinging at a Cocktail Party: Voice Familiarity Aids Speech Perception in the Presence of a Competing Voice

    Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Allison Mackey;Hélène Hakyemez;Elizabeth Alexander

  • Comparing the fundamental frequencies of resolved and unresolved harmonics: Evidence for two pitch mechanisms?

    Robert P. Carlyon;Trevor M. Shackleton

  • Intensity discrimination: A severe departure from Weber’s law

    Robert P. Carlyon;Brian C. J. Moore

  • Syntax as a reflex: neurophysiological evidence for early automaticity of grammatical processing.

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Yury Shtyrov;Anna S. Hasting;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Improved speech recognition in noise in simulated binaurally combined acoustic and electric stimulation

    Ying-Yee Kong;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Pitch Comparisons between Electrical Stimulation of a Cochlear Implant and Acoustic Stimuli Presented to a Normal-hearing Contralateral Ear

    Robert P. Carlyon;Olivier Macherey;Johan H. M. Frijns;Patrick R. Axon

  • Asymmetric Pulses in Cochlear Implants: Effects of Pulse Shape, Polarity, and Rate

    Olivier Macherey;Astrid van Wieringen;Robert P. Carlyon;John M. Deeks

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  • Higher Sensitivity of Human Auditory Nerve Fibers to Positive Electrical Currents

    Olivier Macherey;Olivier Macherey;Robert P. Carlyon;Astrid van Wieringen;John M. Deeks

  • Continuous versus gated pedestals and the ‘‘severe departure’’ from Weber’s law

    Robert P. Carlyon;Brian C. J. Moore

  • Limits of temporal pitch in cochlear implants.

    Ying-Yee Kong;John M. Deeks;Patrick R. Axon;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Place and temporal cues in pitch perception: are they truly independent?

    Colette M. McKay;Hugh J. McDermott;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Temporal pitch mechanisms in acoustic and electric hearing.

    Robert P. Carlyon;Astrid van Wieringen;Christopher J. Long;John M. Deeks

  • Extending the limits of place and temporal pitch perception in cochlear implant users.

    Olivier Macherey;John M. Deeks;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Generalization of perceptual learning of vocoded speech.

    Alexis G. Hervais-Adelman;Matthew H. Davis;Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Karen J. Taylor

  • Excitation produced by Schroeder-phase complexes: Evidence for fast-acting compression in the auditory system

    Robert P. Carlyon;A. Jaysurya Datta

  • Illusory vowels resulting from perceptual continuity: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Antje Heinrich;Robert P. Carlyon;Matthew H. Davis;Ingrid S. Johnsrude

  • Encoding the fundamental frequency of a complex tone in the presence of a spectrally overlapping masker.

    Robert P. Carlyon

  • Temporal pitch perception at high rates in cochlear implants

    Ying-Yee Kong;Robert P. Carlyon

  • Dual temporal pitch percepts from acoustic and electric amplitude-modulated pulse trains

    Colette M. McKay;Robert P. Carlyon

  • The frequency following response (FFR) may reflect pitch-bearing information but is not a direct representation of pitch

    Hedwig E. Gockel;Robert P. Carlyon;Anahita Mehta;Christopher J. Plack

  • Limitations on rate discrimination

    Robert P. Carlyon;John M. Deeks

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Plack
Christopher J. Plack Lancaster University
Jan Wouters
Jan Wouters KU Leuven
Brian C. J. Moore
Brian C. J. Moore University of Cambridge
Rhodri Cusack
Rhodri Cusack Trinity College Dublin
Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
Ingrid S. Johnsrude
Ingrid S. Johnsrude University of Western Ontario
Colette M. McKay
Colette M. McKay Bionics Institute
Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Lionel Collet
Lionel Collet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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