Hearing and Aging Research Laboratory

1. Xie, Z.*, Brodbeck, C.*, & Chandresekaran, B. (2023). Cortical tracking of continuous speech under bimodal divided attention. Neurobiology of Language, 4(2): 318-343. DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00100 (*contributed equally)

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Xie, Z. (February 2023). Lexical Bias in Phonemic Categorization: Effects of Spectral Degradation, Cognitive Load, and Aging. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 46th MidWinter Meeting, Orlando, FL.
2. Xie, Z. (February 2023). Robust Voice Emotion Recognition Under Cognitive Load. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 46th MidWinter Meeting, Orlando, FL.
3. McHaney, J. R., Zhen, L., Anthony, S., Xie, Z., Parthasarathy, A., & Chandrasekaran, B. (February 2023). Deficits in Sensory Decision-Making Underlie Self-Perceived Hearing Difficulties. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 46th MidWinter Meeting, Orlando, FL.
4. Parker, A., McHaney, J. R., Xie, Z., Chandrasekaran, B., & Hampton Wray, A. (February 2023). Cortical Tracking of Continuous Speech-in-Noise: Children’s Use of Linguistic and Acoustic Information. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 46th MidWinter Meeting, Orlando, FL.

1. Xie, Z., Anderson, S., & Goupell, M. J. (2022) Stimulus context affects the phonemic categorization of temporally based word contrasts in adult cochlear-implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(3), 2149-2158. DOI: 10.1121/10.0009838

Preprints:

1. Xie, Z., Brodbeck, C., Chandresekaran, B.. Cortical tracking of continuous speech under bimodal divided attention. bioRxiv 2022.10.29.514344; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.29.514344

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Goupell, M. J., Xie, Z., Gaskins, C. R., Anderson, S., Gordon-Salant, S. (May 2022). Assessing age-related temporal processing deficits with single word contrasts in cochlear-implant users. 182^nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO.
2. Song, V., Brown, H., Low, M., Xie, Z. (May 2022). Perception of temporal cues in word segments under bimodal divided attention in simulated cochlear implant listening. 182^nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO.  
3. Brown, H., Song, V., Low, M., Xie, Z. (May 2022). Perception of temporal cues in word segments as a function of spectral resolution and stimulus context. 182^nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Dever, CO.
4. Gnanateja, G. N., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (February 2022). Attention Effects on Neural Encoding of Temporal Envelope and Periodicity in Continuous Speech. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 45th MidWinter Meeting. (Virtual)

1. Xie, Z., Stakhovskaya, O. A., Goupell, M. J., & Anderson, S. (2021) Aging Effects on Cortical Responses to Tones and Speech in Adult Cochlear-Implant Users. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 22(6):719-740. DOI: 10.1007/s10162-021-00804-4
2. Johnson, K.C., Xie, Z., Shader, M. J., Mayo, P., & Goupell, M. J. (2021) Effect of chronological age on pulse rate discrimination in adult cochlear-implant users. Trends in Hearing, 25, 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/23312165211007367

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Xie, Z., Johnson, K.C., Shader, M. J., Mayo, P., Gibbs, B.E., & Goupell, M. J. (July 2021). Effect of chronological age on pulse rate discrimination in adult cochlear-implant users. Conference in Implantable Auditory Prostheses. (Virtual; Featured Recorded Talk)

1. Xie, Z., Shader, M. J., Anderson, S., Gordon-Salant, S., & Goupell, M. J. (2020). Letter to the Editor: Possible sex effects on the processing of temporal cues in word segments in adult cochlear-implant users. Trends in Hearing. DOI: 10.1177/2331216520946675

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Lau, J. C., Xie, Z., Chandrasekaran, B., & Wong, P. C. (2020). Chapter 35. Cortical and subcortical processing of linguistic pitch patterns. The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Edited by Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen. Oxford University Press.
2. Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (January 2020). Taking Attention Away from the Auditory Modality: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Effects on Continuous Speech Processing. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 43^rd MidWinter Meeting, San Jose, CA.
3. Xie, Z., Anderson, S., Gordon-Salant, S., & Goupell, M. J. (January 2020). Age-related Temporal Processing Deficits for Word Segments in Adult Cochlear-Implant Users: Perceptual and Electrophysiological Evidence. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 43^rd MidWinter Meeting, San Jose, CA.

1. Xie, Z., Gaskins, C. R., Shader, M. J., Anderson, S., Gordon-Salant, S., & Goupell, M. J. (2019). Age-related temporal processing deficits in word segments in adult cochlear-implant users. Trends in Hearing, 23, 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/2331216519886688
2. Xie, Z., Zinszer, B. D., Riggs, M., Beevers, C. G., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2019). Impact of depression on speech perception in noise. PLoS ONE, 14(8): e0220928. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220928
3. Xie, Z., Reetzke, R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2019). Machine learning approaches to analyze speech-evoked neurophysiological responses. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(3), 587-601. DOI: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-ASTM-18-0244
4. Llanos, F., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2019). Biometric identification of listener identity from frequency following responses to speech. Journal of Neural Engineering, 16(5), 056004. DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ab1e01

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Xie, Z., Anderson, S., Gordon-Salant, S., & Goupell, M. J. (November 2019). Processing temporal cues for word identification in adult cochlear-implant users: Effects of aging and context. 8^th Annual Aging & Speech Communication Conference, Tampa, FL.
2. Xie, Z., Stakhovskaya, O. A., Goupell, M. J., & Anderson, S. (July 2019). Age-related deficits in auditory cortical processing in cochlear-implant users. Conference in Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA.
3. Xie, Z., Stakhovskaya, O. A., Goupell, M. J., & Anderson, S. (February 2019). Aging effects on the auditory evoked cortical potentials in cochlear-implant users: The role of stimulus presentation rate. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 42^nd MidWinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

1. Xie, Z., Reetzke, R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2018). Taking attention away from the auditory modality: Context-dependent effects on early sensory encoding of speech. Neuroscience, 384, 64-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.05.023
2. Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., Llanos, F., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2018). Tracing the trajectory of experience-dependent auditory plasticity: From novice to native-like mastery of novel speech categories in adults. Current Biology, 28, 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.026

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Tessmer, R., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (November 2018). Pupil dilation as an index of non-native speech category learning. 59^th Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2. Llanos, F., Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., Hamilton, L., & Chandrasekaran, B. (August 2018). Using machine learning to model effects of attention and language-experience on neural phonemic constancy. 10^th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
3. Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (June 2018). Dividing attention to the visual modality impairs the processing of continuous speech. 24^th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore.

1. Xie, Z., Reetzke, R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2017). Stability and plasticity in neural encoding of linguistically-relevant pitch patterns. Journal of Neurophysiology, 117(3), 1407-1422. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00445.2016
2. Yi, H., Xie, Z., Reetzke, R., Dimakis, A. G., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2017). Vowel decoding from single-trial speech-evoked electrophysiological responses: A feature-based machine learning approach. Brain and Behavior, 7: e00665. DOI: 10.1002/brb3.665
3. Llanos, F., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2017). Hidden Markov modeling of frequency-following responses to Mandarin lexical tones. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 291, 101-112. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2017.08.010
4. Lam, B., Xie, Z., Tessmer, R., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2017). The downside of greater lexical influences: Selectively poorer speech perception in noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 1662-1673. DOI: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-16-0133

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2017). Chapter 11. Neurobiology of literacy and its disorders. The Frequency-following Response: A Window into Human Communication. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research.
2. Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (September 2017). Effects of selective attention and language experience on cortical entrainment to continuous speech. 6^th International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
3. Llanos, F., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (June 2017). Decoding linguistically-relevant pitch patterns from frequency-following responses using hidden Markov models. 173^rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA.
4. Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (February 2017). Taking attention away from the auditory modality: Subcortical representation of speech signals during inattentional deafness. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 40^th MidWinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
5. Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (February 2017). Effects of language experience and long-term training on the neural weighting and categorical perception of pitch dimensions. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 40^th MidWinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

1. Van Engen, K.J., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B (2016). Audiovisual sentence recognition not predicted by susceptibility to the McGurk effect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(2), 396-403. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1238-9
2. Reetzke, R., Lam, B., Xie, Z., Sheng, L., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2016). Effect of simultaneous bilingualism on speech intelligibility across different masker types, modalities, and signal-to-noise ratios in children. PLoS ONE, 11(12): e0168048. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168048

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Chandrasekaran, B., Xie, Z., & Reetzke, R. (2016). Chapter 6. Music training and the neural processing of speech: A critical review of the literature. Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception. Edited by Augustine Agwuele and Andrew Lotto. Equinox Publishing.
2. Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (November 2016). Subcortical encoding of sound: Interaction between attentional demand and stimulus regularity. 15^th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting, Boston, MA.
3. Chandrasekaran, B., Reetzke, R., Yi, H. G., Roeder, J., Xie, Z., & Maddox, W. T. (May 2016). Experience-dependent plasticity in the neural weighting of pitch dimensions: A machine learning approach. 171^st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
4. Chen, J., Yang, H., Xie, Z., Li, L., & Wu, X. (May 2016). Difference between Mandarin Chinese and English speech masking caused by signal-driven processes. 171^st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
5. Xie, Z., Reetzke, R., Yi, H., Maddox, W. T., Dimakis, A. G., & Chandrasekaran, B. (February 2016). Subcortical decoding of stimulus, group experience, and individuality. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 39^th MidWinter Meeting, San Diego, CA.
6. Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., Yi, H., Maddox, W. T., Dimakis, A. G., & Chandrasekaran, B. (February 2016). Dynamics of short-term experience-dependent plasticity in human subcortical auditory function. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 39^th MidWinter Meeting, San Diego, CA.
7. Chandrasekaran, B., Xie, Z., Yi, H., & Reetzke, R. (February 2016). Midbrain-based decoding of vowel and speaker information in humans. Association for Research in Otolaryngology 39^th MidWinter Meeting, San Diego, CA.

1. Xie, Z., Maddox, W. T., Knopik, V. S., McGeary, J. E., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2015). Dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) gene modulates the influence of informational masking on speech recognition. Neuropsychologia, 67, 121-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.013
2. Xie, Z., Maddox, W. T., McGeary, J. E., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2015). The C957T polymorphism in the dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) gene modulates domain-general category learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113(9), 3281-3290. DOI: 10.1152/jn.01005.2014
3. Kong, L., Xie, Z., Lu, L., Qu, T., Wu, X., Yan, J., & Li, L. (2015). Similar impacts of the interaural delay and interaural correlation on binaural gap detection. PLoS ONE, 10(6): e0126342. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126342
4. Chandrasekaran, B., Van Engen, K., Xie, Z., Beevers, C. G., & Maddox, W. T. (2015). Influence of depressive symptoms on speech perception in adverse listening conditions. Cognition & Emotion, 29(5), 900-909. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.944106

Conference presentations and book chapters:

1. Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (May 2015). Intra-subject variability in frequency-following responses and cortical event-related responses to Mandarin tones. 169^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.
2. Xie, Z., Maddox, W. T., & Chandrasekaran, B. (May 2015). Elevated depressive symptoms associate with an emotion-general deficit in speech perception at a cocktail party. 169^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.