Vinay Swarnalatha Nagaraj

Email: vinay.nagaraj@iet.ntnu.no

Research Interests: 

Auditory perception of speech and other sounds by both normal and hearing-impaired individuals.

 

 

• Vinay and Moore, BCJ (2010). Effects of the use of personal music players on amplitude modulation detection and frequency discrimination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(6), 3634-3641.

• Vinay and Moore, BCJ (2010). Psychophysical tuning curves and recognition of highpass and lowpass filtered speech for a person with an inverted V-shaped audiogram. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,127(2), 660-663.

• Moore, BCJ, Vinay and Sandhya (2010). The relationship between tinnitus pitch and the edge frequency of the audiogram in individuals with hearing impairment and tonal tinnitus. Hearing Research, 261, 51-56 .

• Vinay (2010). Effect of smoking on transient evoked otoacoustic emissions and contralateral suppression. Auris Nasus Larynx, 37(3), 299-302.

• Moore, BCJ and Vinay (2009).  Amplitude-modulation detection by listeners with unilateral dead regions. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 20(10), 597-606.

• Moore, BCJ and Vinay (2009). Enhanced discrimination of low-frequency sounds for subjects with high-frequency dead regions. Brain, 132, 524-536.

• Vinay and Moore, BCJ (2008). Effects of activation of the efferent system on psychophysical tuning curves as a function of signal frequency. Hearing Research, 240, 93-101.

• Vinay, Baer, T and Moore, BCJ (2008). Speech recognition in noise as a function of highpass-filter cutoff frequency for people with and without low-frequency cochlear dead regions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(2),606-609.

• Vinay and Moore, BCJ (2007). Speech recognition as a function of highpass filter cutoff frequency for people with and without low-frequency cochlear dead regions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(1), 542-553.

• Vinay and Moore, BCJ (2007). Prevalence of dead regions in subjects with sensorineural hearing loss. Ear and Hearing, 28(2),231-241.

• Vinay and Moore, BCJ (2007). TEN(HL)-test results and psychophysical tuning curves for subjects with auditory neuropathy. International Journal of Audiology, 46(1),39-46.

• Vinay and Rajalakshmi (1999). Influence of gain control rotation on acoustic gain and frequency response range in Indian behind-the-ear hearing aids. Journal of Madras India Regional Chapter of Acoustical Society of America, August issue.

 

Selected Presentations:

• Vinay and Moore, B.C.J. (2010). Inverted V-shaped audiogram. Proceedings at the 159^th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held at Baltimore, MD, USA from 19^th to 23^rd April 2010.

• Vickers, D., Baer, T., Füllgrabe, C., Vinay and Moore, B.C.J. (2006). Band-importance functions for normal-hearing & hearing-impaired listeners. Presentation at the International Hearing Aid Conference held during August 16-20, 2006, at Lake Tahoe, California, USA.

• Research paper entitled "Speech perception in subjects with auditory dys-synchrony" at Ahmedabad, India in February 2006 at the 38thIndian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

• Research paper entitled "Effect of cellular phone use on hearing" at Mysore, India in January 2004 at the 36th Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

• Designed a protocol entitled "Development of a computerized protocol for noise induced hearing loss patients" and presentation at Mumbai, India in January 2001 at the 33rd Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

• Research paper entitled "Acoustical aspects in professional classical singers" at Hyderabad, India in January 2000 at the 32nd Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

• Research paper entitled "Origin and nature of 3 msec latency evoked neural response" at Chandigarh, India in February 1999 at the 31st Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

• Research paper entitled "Volume control taper characteristics in Indian behind-the-ear hearing aids" at Chandigarh, India in February 1999 at 31^st Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

• Research paper entitled "Effect of transducers on speech discrimination" at Bhubaneshwar, India in January 1998 at the 30th Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference.

 

Funding / Scholarships:

• Official visit to India from NTNU delegation to India as part of the India-Norway Research collaboration in February 2011. Funding sanctioned for conducting India 2011 seminar in Audiology.
• Funding from Research Council of Norway, Statoil Hydro and Nacre for research project at NTNU/SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway.
• Doctoral Fellowship from 2004-2007 at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore.
• Secured Cambridge Commonwealth trust scholarship for the academic year 2001-2002 for research studies at University of Cambridge, U.K.
• Secured Jawaharlal Nehru scholarship for overseas research studies at University of Cambridge, U.K.
• Secured Government of India merit scholarships for academic years 1996-2001.

 

Awards/Membership:

• Supervisor for the clinical conference that was rated as the best for the academic year 2008-09 at the All India Institute of Speech and hearing, Mysore, India. 
• Best paper in Audiology in the national conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Pune, 2009.
• Best paper in Audiology in the national conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Ahmedabad, 2006.
• Young scientist award in Audiology in the national conference of Indian Speech & Hearing Association, Mysore, 2004.
• Best research paper in Audiology in the national conference of Indian Speech & Hearing Association, Mysore, 2004.
• Best poster paper presentation in Audiology in the national conference of Indian Speech & Hearing Association, Mysore, 2004.
• Best research paper in national conference of Indian Speech & Hearing Association, 2000.
• Member of Indian Speech & Hearing Association.
• Member of committee for syllabus modification for Master's program in Audiology at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore.

 

 

Selected invited talk:

• ‘Auditory Dyssynchrony and Cochlear Dead Regions'at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore in August 2009.

• ‘Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials'at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore in February 2009.

• ‘Hearing Problems in Senior Citizens' at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore in August 2008.

• ‘Issues in Assessment and Management of Cochlear Dead Regions' at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore in March 2008.

• ‘Cochlear Dead Regions: Its Diagnosis and Management'at the International Symposium on Audiological Medicine, held at Bhubaneshwar, India in January 2008.