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Valeriy_Shafiro@rush.edu
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Shafiro, V. (in press). Development of a large-item environmental sound test and the effects of short-
term training with spectrally-degraded stimuli. Ear and Hearing.
Shafiro, V. (2008). Identification of environmental sounds with varying spectral resolution. Ear and Hearing. 29 (3), 401 - 420.
Shafiro, V, Gygi, B., Cheng, M., Mulvey, M. & Holmes, B. (2008). Perception of speech and environmental sounds in cochlear implant patients. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.123(5), 3303.
Gygi, B. & Shafiro, V. (2007). Environmental sound research as it stands today. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 1, 050002. 1 -18. DOI: 10.1121/1.2917563
Gygi, B. & Shafiro, V. (2007). The effects of auditory context on the identification of environmental
sounds. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain.
Shafiro, V. & Gygi, B. (2007). Perceiving the speech of multiple concurrent talkers: The relationship
between selective and divided attention. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-Express
Letters. 122 (6), EL229 - EL235.
Shafiro, V & Raphael, L., J. (2007). Phonetic interpretation of white noise in stop and fricative
contexts. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 36(6), 457- 467.
Can be viewed and downloaded from the publisher
Strange, W., Weber, A., Levy, E., Shafiro, V., Hisagi, M., Nishi, K. (2007). Acoustic variability of
German, French, and American vowels: Effects of phonetic context. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America. 122(2), 1111-1129
Gygi, B. & Shafiro, V. (2007). General functions and specific applications
of environmental sound research. Frontiers of Bioscience. 12, 3152-3166
Shafiro, V., Gygi, B., & Snapp, H. (2006). Relationships of performance accuracy, target call sign sensitivity, and response bias in the Coordinated Response Measure task. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119 (5 pt. 2), 3334.
Gygi, B. & Shafiro, V. (2006). Effect of context on the identification of environmental sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(5 pt. 2), 3334.
Shafiro, V., Spankovich, C., & Maierle, E. (2005). Effects of training on the perception of spectrally smeared environmental sounds. Presentation at the 2005 conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis, Pacific Grove, California.
Shafiro, V. & Kharkhurin, A. (2005). The influence of native language phonology on auditory and visual word recognition in Russian-English bilinguals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 (3 Pt. 2), 1897.
Shafiro, V. & Gygi, B. (2004). How to select stimuli for environmental sound research and where to find them? Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36 (4),590 - 598.
Shafiro, V. (2004). Perceiving the sources of environmental sounds with a varying number of spectral channels. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.
Shafiro, V. & Gilichinskaya, Y. (2004). The role of spectral asynchrony in the identification of spectrally smeared environmental sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115 (5 Pt. 2), p. 2459.
Shafiro, V. (2004). Acoustic correlates of the variation in the number of channels needed to identify the sources of familiar environmental sounds. Presentation at the 2004 Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
Shafiro, V., Jenkins, J.J. & Strange, W. (2003). Perception of environmental sounds with a variable number of frequency channels. Presentation at the 2003 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis, Pacific Grove, California.
Shafiro, V., Jenkins, J.J. & Strange, W. (2003). Identifying the sources of environmental sounds with a varying number of spectral channels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113 (4 Pt.2), 2326.
Shafiro, V. (Unpublished book review). Rethinking the science of sound: Is anyone listening?. A review of Barry Truax (2001). Acoustic Communication, 2nd edition, Ablex Publishing.