Regular Journal Articles

Selected Articles in Books and Refereed Conference Proceedings

Poster Presentations

Ph.D. Dissertations

Regular Journal Articles

May G., Shamma S., and White R., “A Tantalum-on-Saphire Microelectrode Array”, IEEE Trans. on Electron Dev., ED-26 (12), 1932-1939, 1979.

Shamma S., May G., Cotter N. ,White R. , and Simmons F. , “Thin-film Microelectrode Arrays for a Cochlear Prosthesis”, IEEE Trans. Electron Dev., ED-29 (1), 136-144, 1982.

Cannon S., Robinson D. , and Shamma S. , “A Proposed Neural Network for the Integrator of the Oculomotor System” Biological Cybernetics 49, 127-136, 1983.

Shamma S., “Speech Processing in the Auditory System. Part I: The Representation of Speech Sounds in the Responses of the Auditory-Nerve,”, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78(5), 1612-1621, 1985. 

Shamma S., “Speech Processing in the Auditory System. Part II: Lateral Inhibition and the Central Processing of Speech Evoked Activity in the Auditory-Nerve," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78(5), 1622-1632, 1985.

Shamma S. and Symmes D., “Patterns of Inhibition in the Responses of Auditory Cortical Neurons in the Squirrel Monkey,” Hear. Res. 19(1), 1-13, 1985.

Wilbur J., Lipman D., and Shamma S., “On the Prediction of Local Patterns in Cellular Automata,” Physica 19D, 397-410, 1986.

Shamma S., Chadwick R.,Wilbur J., and Rinzel J., “A Biophysical Model of Cochlear Processing: Intensity Dependence of Pure Tone Responses,”, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 80, 133-144, 1986.

Shamma S. and Morrish K., “Synchrony Suppression in Biophysical Model of Cochlear Function,"J Acoust. Soc. Am., 81(5), 1486-1498, 1987.

Shamma S., “The Acoustic Features of Speech Phonemes in a Model of the Auditory System: Vowels and Unvoiced Fricatives," J. of Phonetics, 16, 77-91, 1988.

Yang X. and Shamma S., “A totally automated scheme for neural spike detection and classification", IEEE trans. on Biomed. Eng., 35(10) 806-816, 1988.

Shamma S., Shen N., and Gopalaswamy P., "Stereausis: Binaural processing without neural delays", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 86, 989-1006, 1989.

Yang X., and Shamma S., “Identification of Synaptic Connectivities in Neural Networks", Biophys. Journal, 57, 987-999, 1990.

Yang X. and Shamma S., “Minimum Mean Square Error Estimation of Connectivity in Biological Neural Networks", Biological Cybernetics, 65, 171-179, 1991.

Yang X., Wang K., and Shamma S., “Auditory Representations of Acoustic Signals”, IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, 38, 824-839, 1992.

Peckerar M., Shamma S., Robbert M., Kosakowski J., and Isaacson P., “Passive Microelectrode Arrays for Recording of Neural Signals", Rev. Sci. Inst., 62(9), 2276-2280, 1992.

Shamma S., Fleshman J., Wiser P., Versnel H., “Response Area Organization in the Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex", J. Neurophys, 69(2), 367-383, 1993.

Wang K. and Shamma S., “Self-Normalization and Noise Robustness in Early auditory processing", IEEE Trans. Aud. and Speech, 2(3), 421-435, 1994.

Wang K. and Shamma S., “Wavelet Representations of Sound in the Primary Auditory Cortex", J. Optical Engineering, 33(7), 2143-2148, 1994.

Lin J., Edwards T., and Shamma S., “Analog VLSI Implementations of Auditory Wavelet Transforms", IEEE Trans Cir. Sys. 41(8), 572-583 1994.

Wang K. and Shamma S., “Time-Frequency Representations in the Auditory System", J. Eng. Med. Biol., 14(2), 186-194, 1995.

Wang K. and Shamma S., “Representation of Acoustic Signals in The Primary Auditory Cortex", IEEE Trans. Audio and Speech Processing, 3(5), 382-395, 1995.

Kowalski N., Versnel H., and Shamma S., “Comparison of Responses in the Anterior and Primary Auditory Fields of the Ferret Cortex", J. Neurophys., 73, 1513-1523, 1995.

Owens, Denison T., Versnel H., Rebbert M., Peckerar M., and Shamma S., “Multielectrode Array for Measuring Evoked Potentials from Surface of Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex”, J. Neuroscience Methods, V58, 209-220, 1995.

Shamma S., Versnel H., and Kowalski N., “Ripple Analysis in the Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex. I. Response Characteristics of Single Units to Sinusoidally Rippled Spectra,"J. Auditory Neuroscience, 233-254, 1995.

Shamma S., Versnel H., “Ripple Analysis in the Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex. II. Prediction of Unit Responses to Arbitrary Spectral Profiles," J. Auditory Neuroscience, 255-270, 1995.

Versnel H., Shamma S., and Kowalski N., “Ripple Analysis in the Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex. III. Topographic and Columnar Distribution of Ripple Response Parameters," J. Auditory Neuroscience, 271-285, 1995.

Kowalski, N. Depireux D., and Shamma S., ”Analysis of dynamic spectra in ferret primary auditory cortex: Characteristics of single unit responses to moving ripple spectra," J. Neurophysiology, 76(5) 3503-3523, 1996.

Kowalski N., Depireux D., Shamma S., “Analysis of dynamic spectra in ferret primary auditory cortex: Prediction of single-unit responses to arbitrary dynamic spectra,", J. Neurophysiology, 76(5) 3524-3534, 1996.

Shamma S., “Auditory cortical representation of complex acoustic spectra as inferred from the ripple analysis method", Network: Computation in Neural Systems 7, 439-476, 1997.

Ru P. and  Shamma S., “Representation of Musical Timbre in the Auditory Cortex", J. New. Music Research, 26(2), 154-169, 1997.

Depireux D., Simon J.Z. and Shamma S.A., “Measuring the dynamics of neural responses in primary auditory cortex”, Comments in Theoretical Biology, 5(2), 89-118, 1998.

Versnel H., and Shamma S., “Representation of natural and synthetic vowels in the primary auditory cortex", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 103(5), 2502-2514, 1998.

Amagia S., Dooling R., and Shamma S., Kidd T., Lohr B., “Perception of rippled spectra in the parakeet and zebra finches", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 105(3), 2029-2035, 1999.

Simon J., Carr C., and Shamma S., “A dendritic model of coincidence detection in the avian brainstem",Neurocomputing 26, 263-269, 1999.

Chi, T, Gao Y., Guyton M., Ru P., and Shamma S., “Spectrotemporal Modulations and Speech Intelligibility",J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106(5), 2719-2732,1999.

Klein D. J., Simon J., Depireux D. and Shamma S., “Robust Spectro-temporal Reverse-Correlation for the Auditory System: Optimal Stimulus Design", J. Comp. Neurosci., 9, 85-111, 2000.

Shamma S. and Klein D. J., “The case of the missing pitch templates: How harmonic templates may form in the early auditory system", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107(5), 2631-2644, 2000.

Depireux D., Simon J., Klein D. J. and Shamma S., “Spectro-Temporal Response Field Characterization with Dynamic Ripples in Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex", J. Neurophysiol., 85(3): 1220-1234, 2001.

Shamma S., “On the Role of Space and Time in Auditory Processing", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(8): 340-348, 2001.

Selected Articles in Books and Refereed Conference Proceedings

Morrish K., Chadwick R., Shamma S., and Rinzel J., "Parameter Sensitivity in a Mathematical Model of Basilar Membrane Mechanics," in Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms, Edited by J. Allen, J. Hall, A. Hubbard, S. Neely, and A. Tubis. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 129-134, 1986.

Shamma S., "Encoding the Acoustic Spectrum in the Spatiotemporal Responses of the Auditory-Nerve," in Auditory Frequency Selectivity, Edited by B. Moore and R. Patterson. Plenum Press: London, 289-298, 1986.

Shamma S., Shen N., and Gopalaswamy P., "Binaural Processing without Neural Delays", in Basic Issues in Hearing, Edited by H. Duifhuis, W. Horst, and H. Wit, Academic Press: London, 135-142, 1988.

Shamma S.  "Spatial and Temporal Processing in Central Auditory Networks," in Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Synapses to Networks, Edited by C. Koch and I. Segev. MIT Press, 247-290, 1989.

Byrne W., Robinson J., and Shamma S., "The Auditory Processing and Recognition of Speech", Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech Recognition, Cape Cod, MA, 325-331, 1989.

Shamma S. A., "Hearing as Seeing: The Role of Space and Time in Auditory Processing", The Analysis and Modelling of Neural Systems, Edited by F. Eeckman, Kluwer Acad. Press, 1992.

Shamma S. A., Vranic S., and Wiser P., “Spectral Gradient Columns in Primary Auditory Cortex: Physiological and Psychophysical Correlates", in Auditory Physiology and Perception, Edited by Y. Cazals, K. Horner, and L. Demany, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 397-406, 1992.

Shamma S. A., “Common Principles in Auditory and Visual Processing", in Neuroscience: From Neural Networks to Artificial Intelligence, Edited by P. Rudomin, M. Arbib, F. Cervantes, and R. Romo. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 189-205, 1994.

Lyon R. and Shamma S., “Computational Strategies for Pitch and Timbre", in Auditory Computations, Edited by H. Hawkins, T. McMullen, A. Popper, and R. Fay, Springer Verlag 1997.

Byrne W. and Shamma S., “Neurocontrol in Sequence Recognition", in Neural Systems for Control. Edited by Omid Omidvar and David Elliott. Academic Press, Boston, 1997.

Shamma S., “Neural and Functional Models of the Auditory Cortex", in Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Edited by M. Arbib, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1995.

Shamma S., Vranic S., and Versnel H., “Representation of Spectral Profiles in the Auditory System: Theory, Physiology, and Psychoacoustics", in Advances in Hearing Research, Edited by G. Manley, G. Klump, C. Koppl, H. Fastl, and H. Oeckinghaus, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 534-544, 1995.

Simon J.Z., Depireux D. A. and Shamma S.A., “Representation of complex spectra in auditory cortex” in Psychophysical and Physiological advances in hearing. Edited by A. Palmer, A. Reiss, Summerfield A and R.Meddis, Whurr Publishers (London), 513--520, 1998.

Shamma S., “Spatial and Temporal Processing in Central Auditory Networks," in Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Synapses to Networks (II Edition), Edited by C. Koch and I. Segev. MIT Press, 1998.

S. Shamma, “Physiological bases of timbre perception" in The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Edited by Michael Gazzaniga, MIT Press, MA, 1999.

Kanlis N., Simon J., Shamma S., “Complete Training Analysis of Feedback Architecture Networks that Perform Blind Source Separation and Deconvolution," in Proc. Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation Workshop, ICA2000, 139-144, 2000.

Yuan Qi, Krishnaprasad P.S., Shamma S., “The Subband-based Independent Component Analysis," in Proc. Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation Workshop ICA2000, 2000.

Shamma S, Klein D., Sunarraman C., “On the role of coincidence in pitch perception and the formation of harmonic templates in the early auditory system”, Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function, Shaker Publishing BV, Maastricht, 2002.

Palmer A. and Shamma S., “Physiological Basis of Timbre Perception", in Physiological Basis of Speech. Edited by. S. Greenberg, A. Ainsworth, A. Popper, and R. Fay, Springer Verlag, 2003.

Shamma S., “Neural and Functional Models of the Auditory Cortex", in Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (II Edition), Edited by M. Arbib, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 2003.

Shamma S, "Neural Basis of Audition", in Encyclopedia of Neurosciences, 2003.

Zotkin D., Shamma S., Ru P., Duraiswami R. and Davis L., “Pitch and timbre manipulations using cortical representation of sound", Proc. ICASSP 2003, Hong Kong, April 2003, vol. 5, pp. 517-520.

Mesgarani N., Grant K., Shamma S. and Duraswami R., “Augmented intelligibility in simultaneous multi-talker environments”, Proceedings ICAD, Boston 2003.

Julian P., Andreas A., Riddle L., Shamma S., Cawenberghs G., “A comparison of algorithms for sound localization”, Proceedings of COMISCAS, 2003.

Fritz J., Elhilali M., Shamma S., “Rapid task-dependent plasticity in primary auditory cortex”, in Auditory Cortex - Towards a Synthesis of Human and Animal Research Edited by Peter Heil, Reinhard König, Eike Budinger, and Henning Scheich, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ, USA, 2004 (in press).

Elhilali M., Klein D., Fritz J., Simon J. and Shamma S., “The enigma of cortical responses: Slow yet precise”, in Auditory signal processing: physiology, psychoacoustics, and models Editors: Daniel Pressnitzer, Alain de Cheveign´e, Stephen McAdams,and Lionel Collet, Springer Verlag, New York, Spring 2004 (in press)

Shamma S. “Analysis of speech dynamics in the auditory system” in Dynamics of speech production and perception Edited by G. Meyer and P. Divenyi, IOP Press, Amsterdam 2004 (in press)

Poster Presentations

Ripples in the Anterior Auditory Field and Inferior Colliculus of the Ferret, Depireux et al, ARO 1996

Representation of Complex Dynamic Spectra in Auditory Cortex, Simon et al, ISH 11

Neuronal correlates of Pitch in the Inferior Colliculus, Depireux et al, ARO 1997

Response-Field Dynamics in the Auditory Pathway, Depireux et al, CNS 1997

Representation of Complex Spectra in Auditory Cortex, Shamma et al, SFN 1997

Spectro-Temporal Methods in Primary Auditory Cortex, Klein et al, ARO 1998

A Dendritic Model of Coincidence Detection in the Avian Brainstem, Simon et al, CNS 1998

Representation of Dynamic Broadband Spectra in Auditory Cortex, Shamma et al, SFN 1998

Spectro-temporal Modulation Transfer Functions and Speech Intelligibility, Shamma et al, ARO 1999

Biophysical Model of Coincidence Detection in single Nucleus Laminaris, Simon et al, ARO 1999

Linear and Nonlinear Responses to Dynamic Broadband Spectra in Primary Auditory Cortex, Klein et al, ARO 1999

Spectro-Temporal Processing of Dynamic Broadband Sounds in Auditory Cortex, Shamma et al, IMA 1999

Neural Signal and Neural Noise in Primary Auditory Cortex, Klein et al, SFN 1999

Functional and Structural Implications of Non-Separability of Spectral and Temporal Responses in AI, Simon e al, ARO 2000

Neural Reponses Characteristics in Auditory Cortex of the awake Ferret, ARO 2001

ARO-ICA 01

Comparison of Response Characteristics in Auditory Cortex of the Awake and Anesthetized Ferret, Elhilali et al, ARO 2002

What does precise spiking in AI tell us about the structure of its Receptive Fields, Elhilali et al, ARO 2003

Fusion of Harmonic Partials by Ferrets, Kalluri et al, ARO 2003

Ph.D. Dissertations

X. Yang (Aug. 1989), “Detection and Classification of Neural Signals and Identification of Neural Networks"

A. Teolis, (June 1993) (Co-Advisor with J. Benedetto), “Discrete Representation of Signals from Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces with Applications to Noise Suppression and Compression"

D. Lin, (June 1993), “VLSI Implementation of the Early Auditory Processing"

W. Byrne, (Dec. 1993), ”The Analysis of Nonlinear Networks for Continuous Word Generation and Recognition"

S. Vranic, (Dec. 1993), “Modelling Perception of Spectral Profile Changes"

K. Wang, (June 1994), “Mathematical Models of Sound Representation in the Auditory System"

N. Kowalski, (June 1996), "Encoding of Sound in the Anterior Auditory Field of the Auditory Cortex"

T. Owens, (June 1997), "Evoked Potential Maps in the Primary Auditory Cortex"

P. Ru, (Dec 1999), "Cortical Representations and Speech Recognition"

N. Kanlis (Dec 2002), “ICA of Evoked Potential Maps in Auditory Cortex"

T. Chi (May 2003), “Computational spectrotemporal auditory model with applications to acoustical information processing''