Ian Bruce's Preprints and Reprints

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Models of the auditory periphery
Hearing aids
Speech intelligibility predictors
Models of central auditory processing
Cochlear implants
Modeling methods
Digital speech processing
PhD thesis

Preprints

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Reprints

Models of the auditory periphery

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Zilany, M. S. A., Bruce, I. C., Nelson, P. C., and Carney, L. H. (2009). "A phenomenological model of the synapse between the inner hair cell and auditory nerve: Long-term adaptation with power-law dynamics," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126(5):2390–2412.

Bruce, I. C. and Zilany, M. S. A. (2007). "Modelling the effects of cochlear impairment on the neural representation of speech in the auditory nerve and primary auditory cortex," in Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing-Impaired Listeners, Int. Symposium on Audiological and Auditory Research (ISAAR), eds. T. Dau, J. Buchholz, J. M. Harte, and T. U. Christiansen, Danavox Jubilee Foundation, Denmark, pp. 1–10.

Bruce, I. C. and Zilany, M. S. A. (2007). "Computational modelling of the cat auditory periphery: Recent developments and future directions," to appear in Proceedings of 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, September 2007, pp. PPA-07-004-IP: 1–6.

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Zilany, M. S. A. and Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Representation of the vowel /e/ in normal and impaired auditory nerve fibers: Model predictions of responses in cats," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1):402–417.

Zilany, M. S. A. and Bruce, I. C. (2006). "Modeling auditory-nerve responses for high sound pressure levels in the normal and impaired auditory periphery," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120(3):1446–1466.

Bruce, I. C., Sachs, M. B., and Young, E. D. (2003). "An auditory-periphery model of the effects of acoustic trauma on auditory nerve responses," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113(1):369–388.

Heinz, M. G., Zhang, X., Bruce, I. C., Carney, L. H. (2001). "Auditory nerve model for predicting performance limits of normal and impaired listeners," Acoustics Research Letters Online 2(3):91–96.

Zhang, X., Heinz, M. G., Bruce, I. C., Carney, L. H. (2001). "A phenomenological model for the responses of auditory-nerve fibers: I. Nonlinear tuning with compression and suppression," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109(2):648–670.

Hearing aids

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Dinath, F. and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Hearing aid gain prescriptions balance restoration of auditory nerve mean-rate and spike-timing representations of speech," in Proceedings of 30th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1793–1796.

Bruce, I. C., Dinath, F. and Zeyl, T. J. (2007). "Insights into optimal phonemic compression from a computational model of the auditory periphery," in Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing-Impaired Listeners, Int. Symposium on Audiological and Auditory Research (ISAAR), eds. T. Dau, J. Buchholz, J. M. Harte, and T. U. Christiansen, Danavox Jubilee Foundation, Denmark, pp. 73–81.

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Harte, N., Ansari, S. U., and Bruce, I. (2006). "Exploiting voicing cues for contrast enhanced frequency shaping of speech for impaired listeners," in Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), Vol. 5, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. V-137–V-140.

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Bruce, I. C. (2006). "Physiological insights into hearing loss and optimal amplification," Canadian Hearing Report 1(2):20–21.

Bruce, I. C. (2006). "Hearing Aids," in Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, eds. G. Wnek and G. Bowlin, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY.

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Chen, Z., Becker, S., Bondy, J., Bruce, I., and Haykin, S. (2005). "A novel, gradient-free optimization method for model-based hearing compensation," Neural Computation 17(12):2648–2671.

Bruce, I. C. (2004). "Physiological assessment of contrast-enhancing frequency shaping and multiband compression in hearing aids," Physiological Measurement 25:945–956. (Published by IOP Press.)

Bondy, J., Becker, S., Bruce, I. C., Trainor, L. J., and Haykin, S. (2004). "A novel signal-processing strategy for hearing-aid design: Neurocompensation," Signal Processing 84(7):1239–1253.

Trainor, L. J., Sonnadara, R., Wiklund, K., Bondy, J., Gupta, S., Becker, S., Bruce, I. C., and Haykin, S. (2004). "Development of a flexible, realistic, hearing in noise test environment (R-HINT-E)," Signal Processing 84(2):299–309.

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Bondy, J., Bruce, I. C., Dong, R., Becker, S., and Haykin, S. (2003). "Modeling intelligibility of hearing-aid compression circuits," in Conference Records of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol. 1, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 720–724.

Sachs, M. B., Bruce, I. C., Miller, R. L., and Young, E. D. (2002). "Biological Basis of Hearing-Aid Design," Annals of Biomedical Engineering 30:157–168.

Speech intelligibility predictors

Ibrahim, R. A., and Bruce, I. C. (2010). "Effects of peripheral tuning on the auditory nerve's representation of speech envelope and temporal fine structure cues," in The Neurophysiological Bases of Auditory Perception, eds. E. A. Lopez-Poveda and A. R. Palmer and R. Meddis, Springer, NY, pp. 429–438.

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Zilany, M. S. A., and Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Predictions of Speech Intelligibility with a Model of the Normal and Impaired Auditory-periphery," in Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, IEEE, Piscatway, NJ, pp. 481–485.

Bondy, J., Bruce, I. C., Becker, S., and Haykin, S. (2004) "Predicting speech intelligibility from a population of neurons," in NIPS 2003 Conference Proceedings: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, eds. S. Thrun, L. Saul and B. Sch�lkopf, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 1409–1416.

Models of central auditory processing

Chrostowski, M., Yang, L., Wilson, H. R., Bruce, I. C., and Becker, S. (2011). "Can homeostatic plasticity in deafferented primary auditory cortex lead to travelling waves of excitation?"Journal of Computational Neuroscience 30(2):279–299.

Vetsis, S., Zheng, X., Voigt, H. F. and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Effects of an improved auditory-periphery model on the response properties of modeled neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus," in Proceedings of 30th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 2477–2480.

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Dominguez, M., Becker, S., Bruce, I., and Read, H. (2006) "A spiking neuron model of cortical correlates of sensorineural hearing loss: Spontaneous ring, synchrony and tinnitus," Neural Computation 18(12):2942–2958.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., Clark, G. M. (1998). "A mathematical analysis of spatiotemporal summation of auditory nerve firings," Information Sciences, 111:303–334.

Irlicht, L. S., Bruce, I. C., Clark, G. M. (1996). "A Multi-Threshold Neural Network for Frequency Estimation," in Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 195–200.

Cochlear implants

Negm, M. H. and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Effects of Ih and IKLT on the response of the auditory nerve to electrical stimulation in a stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley model," in Proceedings of 30th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference,IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 5539–5542.

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Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, and Clark, G. M. (2001). "Advances in computational modeling of cochlear implant physiology and perception," in Computational Models of Auditory Function, eds. S. greenberg and M. Slaney, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 65–76.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O'Leary, S. J., Clark, G. M. (2000). "Renewal-process approximation of a stochastic threshold model for electrical neural stimulation," Journal of Computational Neuroscience 9(2):119�132.

The following three articles are © 1999 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, S. J., Clark, G. M. (1999). "The effects of stochastic neural activity in a model predicting intensity perception with cochlear implants: Low-rate stimulation," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 46(12):1393–1404.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, S. J., Dynes, S., Javel, E., Clark, G. M. (1999). "A stochastic model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve: Single-pulse response," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 46(6):617–629.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O'Leary, S. J., Dynes, S., Javel, E., Clark, G. M. (1999). "A stochastic model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve: Pulse-train response," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 46(6):630–637.

Au, D., Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., Clark, G. M. (1995). "Cross-Fibre Interspike Interval Probability Distribution in Acoustic Stimulation � A Computer Modelling Study," Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, 104(Suppl. 166):346–349.

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