Research Interests

Research Interests

(1) Neural plasticity in the human auditory system

(2) The neuroscience of tinnitus

Publications

Recent Publications

Roberts LE, Moffat G, Baumann, M, Ward LM, and Bosnyak DJ. (2008). Residual inhibition functions overlap tinnitus spectra and the region of auditory threshold shift.  Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO). 9:417-435.

Shahin AJ, Roberts LE, Chau W, Trainor LJ, and Miller LM (2008).  Music training leads to the development of timbre-specific gamma band activity.  Neuroimage 41:113-122.

Shahin AJ, Roberts LE, Miller LM, McDonald KL, Alain V. (2007.)  Sensitivity of the radial and tangential sources of the P2 auditory evoked response to increased spectral complexity of sounds  Brain Topography 20:55-61

Shahin AJ, Roberts LE, Pantev C, Aziz M, and Picton TW.  (2007) Enhanced anterior-temporal processing for complex tones in musicians. Clinical Neurophysiology 118:209–220.

Wienbruch C, Paul I, Weisz N, Elbert T, and Roberts LE. (2006)  Frequency organization of the 40-Hz auditory steady-state response in normal hearing and in tinnitus.  NeuroImage 33:180-194.

Shahin A, Roberts LE,  Pantev  C, Trainor LJ, Ross, B  (2005) Modulation of P2 auditory evoked responses by the spectral complexity of musical sounds.  NeuroReport 16:1781-1785.

Eggermont J.J.,  Roberts L.E.  (2004)  The neuroscience of tinnitus.  Trends in Neurosciences, 27:676-682. (CIHR) NSERC

Shahin A, Roberts LE, Trainor LJ (2004). Enhancement of auditory cortical development by musical experience in children.  NeuroReport 15(12):1917-1921.

Bosnyak, D.J., Eaton, R.A, & Roberts, L.E. (2004).  Distributed auditory cortical representations are modified by training at pitch discrimination with 40-Hz amplitude modulated tones.  Cerebral Cortex 14:1088-l099.

Shahin, A., Bosnyak, D., Trainor, L.J. and Roberts, L.E. (2003). Enhancement of neuroplastic P2 and N1c auditory evoked potentials in musicians. Journal of Neuroscience 23, 5545-5552.

Students Supervised

Students Supervised

• Antoine Shahin (PhD 2003), Rob Eaton (MSc 2001)

Courses Taught

Courses Taught