Publications

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• Leibold LJ, Buss E, Miller MK, Cowan T, McCreery RW, Oleson J, Rodriguez B, Calandruccio L. Development of the Children's English and Spanish Speech Recognition Test: Psychometric Properties, Feasibility, Reliability, and Normative Data. Ear Hear. 2024 Jul-Aug 01;45(4):860-877. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001480. Epub 2024 Feb 9. PMID: 38334698; PMCID: PMC11178473.
• Wasiuk PA, Calandruccio L, Oleson JJ, Buss E. Predicting speech-in-speech recognition: Short-term audibility and spatial separation. J Acoust Soc Am. 2023 Sep 1;154(3):1827-1837. doi: 10.1121/10.0021069. PMID: 37728286.
• Leibold LJ, Calandruccio L, Buss E. Building on the Academic Legacy of Pat Stelmachowicz and other Pioneers in Developmental Psychoacoustics and Pediatric Audiology: The Children's English/Spanish Speech Recognition Test (ChEgSS). Semin Hear. 2023 Mar 1;44(Suppl 1):S29-S35. doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1764135. PMID: 36970649; PMCID: PMC10033189. 
• Wasiuk, P.A., Buss, E., Oleson, J.J., & Calandruccio, L. (2022). Predicting speech-in-speech recognition: Short-term audibility, talker sex, and listener factors. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5). 3010-3024. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015228
• Cowan T, Paroby C, Leibold LJ, Buss E, Rodriguez B, Calandruccio L. Masked-speech recognition for linguistically diverse populations: A focused review and suggestions for the future. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2022 Aug 17; 65(8): 3195-3216. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00011 PMID: 35917458
• Braza MD, Porter HL, Buss E, Calandruccio L, McCreery RW, Leibold LJ. Effects of word familiarity and receptive vocabulary size on speech-in-noise recognition among young adults with normal hearing. PLoS One. 2022;17(3):e0264581. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264581. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 35271608; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8912124.
• Calandruccio L, Weidman D. Online Simulation Education for Audiometry Training. Am J Audiol. 2022 Mar 3;31(1):1-10. doi: 10.1044/2021_AJA-21-00121. Epub 2021 Dec 27. PubMed PMID: 34958736.
• Calandruccio L, Beninate I, Oleson J, Miller MK, Leibold LJ, Buss E, Rodriguez BL. A Simplified Approach to Quantifying a Child's Bilingual Language Experience. Am J Audiol. 2021 Sep 10;30(3):769-776. doi: 10.1044/2021_AJA-20-00214. Epub 2021 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 34310200; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8642093.
• Jett B, Buss E, Best V, Oleson J, Calandruccio L. Does Sentence-Level Coarticulation Affect Speech Recognition in Noise or a Speech Masker?. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2021 Apr 14;64(4):1390-1403. doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00450. Epub 2021 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 33784185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8608179.
• Buss E, Calandruccio L, Oleson J, Leibold LJ. Contribution of Stimulus Variability to Word Recognition in Noise Versus Two-Talker Speech for School-Age Children and Adults. Ear Hear. 2021 Mar/Apr;42(2):313-322. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000951. PubMed PMID: 32881723; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7897187.
• Wasiuk PA, Radvansky GA, Greene RL, Calandruccio L. Spoken narrative comprehension for young adult listeners: effects of competing voices and noise. Int J Audiol. 2021 Sep;60(9):711-722. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1878397. Epub 2021 Feb 14. PubMed PMID: 33586551.
• Calandruccio L, Porter HL, Leibold LJ, Buss E. The Clear-Speech Benefit for School-Age Children: Speech-in-Noise and Speech-in-Speech Recognition. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2020 Dec 14;63(12):4265-4276. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00353. Epub 2020 Nov 5. PubMed PMID: 33151767; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8608216.
• Wasiuk PA, Lavandier M, Buss E, Oleson J, Calandruccio L. The effect of fundamental frequency contour similarity on multi-talker listening in older and younger adults. J Acoust Soc Am. 2020 Dec;148(6):3527. doi: 10.1121/10.0002661. PubMed PMID: 33379934; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7863686.
• Miller MK, Calandruccio L, Buss E, McCreery RW, Oleson J, Rodriguez B, Leibold LJ. Masked English Speech Recognition Performance in Younger and Older Spanish-English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2019 Dec 18;62(12):4578-4591. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00059. Print 2019 Dec 18. PubMed PMID: 31830845; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7839054.
• Regalado D, Kong J, Buss E, Calandruccio L. Effects of Language History on Sentence Recognition in Noise or Two-Talker Speech: Monolingual, Early Bilingual, and Late Bilingual Speakers of English. Am J Audiol. 2019 Dec 16;28(4):935-946. doi: 10.1044/2019_AJA-18-0194. Epub 2019 Nov 7. PubMed PMID: 31697566; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7210432.
• Vicente M, Calandruccio L, Miller MK, Browning JM, Oleson J, Leibold LJ. Language Proficiency and Dominance Considerations When Working With Spanish-English Bilingual Adults. Am J Audiol. 2019 Sep 13;28(3):724-729. doi: 10.1044/2019_AJA-19-0028. Epub 2019 Jul 2. PubMed PMID: 31265332; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6808312.
• Buss E, Hodge SE, Calandruccio L, Leibold LJ, Grose JH. Masked Sentence Recognition in Children, Young Adults, and Older Adults: Age-Dependent Effects of Semantic Context and Masker Type. Ear Hear. 2019 Sep/Oct;40(5):1117-1126. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000692. PubMed PMID: 30601213; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6599542.
• Sobon KA, Taleb NM, Buss E, Grose JH, Calandruccio L. Psychometric function slope for speech-in-noise and speech-in-speech: Effects of development and aging. J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 Apr;145(4):EL284. doi: 10.1121/1.5097377. PubMed PMID: 31046371; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6910021.
• Calandruccio L, Wasiuk PA, Buss E, Leibold LJ, Kong J, Holmes A, Oleson J. The effect of target/masker fundamental frequency contour similarity on masked-speech recognition. J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 Aug;146(2):1065. doi: 10.1121/1.5121314. PubMed PMID: 31472562; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6690832.
• Calandruccio L, Buss E, Bencheck P, Jett B. Does the semantic content or syntactic regularity of masker speech affect speech-on-speech recognition?. J Acoust Soc Am. 2018 Dec;144(6):3289. doi: 10.1121/1.5081679. PubMed PMID: 30599661; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6786886.
• García PB, Leibold L, Buss E, Calandruccio L, Rodriguez B. Code-Switching in Highly Proficient Spanish/English Bilingual Adults: Impact on Masked Word Recognition. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2018 Sep 19;61(9):2353-2363. doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-H-17-0399. PubMed PMID: 30076419; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6195050.
• Leibold LJ, Buss E, Calandruccio L. Developmental Effects in Masking Release for Speech-in-Speech Perception Due to a Target/Masker Sex Mismatch. Ear Hear. 2018 Sep/Oct;39(5):935-945. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000554. PubMed PMID: 29369288; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6056341.
• Gallun FJ, Seitz A, Eddins DA, Molis MR, Stavropoulos T, Jakien KM, Kampel SD, Diedesch AC, Hoover EC, Bell K, Souza PE, Sherman M, Calandruccio L, Xue G, Taleb N, Sebena R, Srinivasan N. Development and validation of Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) measures for auditory research. Proc Meet Acoust. 2018 May 7;33(1). doi: 10.1121/2.0000878. Epub 2018 Oct 1. PubMed PMID: 30627315; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6322842.
• Miller G, Lewis B, Benchek P, Buss E, Calandruccio L. Masked Speech Recognition and Reading Ability in School-Age Children: Is There a Relationship?. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2018 Mar 15;61(3):776-788. doi: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-17-0279. PubMed PMID: 29507949.
• Calandruccio L, Buss E, Bowdrie K. Effectiveness of Two-Talker Maskers That Differ in Talker Congruity and Perceptual Similarity to the Target Speech. Trends Hear. 2017 Jan-Dec;21:2331216517709385. doi: 10.1177/2331216517709385. PubMed PMID: 29169315; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5476326.
• Calandruccio L, Buss E. Spectral integration of English speech for non-native English speakers. J Acoust Soc Am. 2017 Sep;142(3):1646. doi: 10.1121/1.5003933. PubMed PMID: 28964099; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5614729.
• Calandruccio L, Leibold LJ, Buss E. Linguistic Masking Release in School-Age Children and Adults. Am J Audiol. 2016 Mar;25(1):34-40. doi: 10.1044/2015_AJA-15-0053. PubMed PMID: 26974870; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4832874.
• Calandruccio L, Buss E, Doherty KA. The effect of presentation level on spectral weights for sentences. J Acoust Soc Am. 2016 Jan;139(1):466-71. doi: 10.1121/1.4940211. PubMed PMID: 26827040; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4723404.
• Buss E, Calandruccio L, Hall JW 3rd. Masked sentence recognition assessed at ascending target-to-masker ratios: modest effects of repeating stimuli. Ear Hear. 2015 Mar-Apr;36(2):e14-22. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000113. PubMed PMID: 25329373; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4354773.
• Leibold LJ, Hodson H, McCreery RW, Calandruccio L, Buss E. Effects of low-pass filtering on the perception of word-final plurality markers in children and adults with normal hearing. Am J Audiol. 2014 Sep;23(3):351-8. doi: 10.1044/2014_AJA-14-0003. PubMed PMID: 25036654; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282933.
• Calandruccio L, Gomez B, Buss E, Leibold LJ. Development and preliminary evaluation of a pediatric Spanish-English speech perception task. Am J Audiol. 2014 Jun;23(2):158-72. doi: 10.1044/2014_AJA-13-0055. PubMed PMID: 24686915; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282934.
• Calandruccio L, Zhou H. Increase in speech recognition due to linguistic mismatch between target and masker speech: monolingual and simultaneous bilingual performance. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2014 Jun 1;57(3):1089-97. doi: 10.1044/2013_JSLHR-H-12-0378. PubMed PMID: 24167230; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4043956.
• Calandruccio L, Bradlow AR, Dhar S. Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech for native and nonnative english speakers. J Am Acad Audiol. 2014 Apr;25(4):355-66. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.25.4.7. PubMed PMID: 25126683; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4574911.
• Calandruccio L, Buss E, Hall JW 3rd. Effects of linguistic experience on the ability to benefit from temporal and spectral masker modulation. J Acoust Soc Am. 2014 Mar;135(3):1335-43. doi: 10.1121/1.4864785. PubMed PMID: 24606272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4042472.
• Calandruccio L, Brouwer S, Van Engen KJ, Dhar S, Bradlow AR. Masking release due to linguistic and phonetic dissimilarity between the target and masker speech. Am J Audiol. 2013 Jun;22(1):157-64. doi: 10.1044/1059-0889(2013/12-0072). PubMed PMID: 23800811; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3694489.
• Rimikis S, Smiljanic R, Calandruccio L. Nonnative English speaker performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentences. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2013 Jun;56(3):792-804. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0178). Epub 2012 Dec 28. PubMed PMID: 23275396.
• Calandruccio L, Smiljanic R. New sentence recognition materials developed using a basic non-native English lexicon. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2012 Oct;55(5):1342-55. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/11-0260). Epub 2012 Mar 12. PubMed PMID: 22411279.
• Brouwer S, Van Engen KJ, Calandruccio L, Bradlow AR. Linguistic contributions to speech-on-speech masking for native and non-native listeners: language familiarity and semantic content. J Acoust Soc Am. 2012 Feb;131(2):1449-64. doi: 10.1121/1.3675943. PubMed PMID: 22352516; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3292614.
• Calandruccio L, Van Engen K, Dhar S, Bradlow AR. The effectiveness of clear speech as a masker. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2010 Dec;53(6):1458-71. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0210). Epub 2010 Aug 5. PubMed PMID: 20689024; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3532029.
• Calandruccio L, Dhar S, Bradlow AR. Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech. J Acoust Soc Am. 2010 Aug;128(2):860-9. doi: 10.1121/1.3458857. PubMed PMID: 20707455; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2933260.
• Deeter R, Abel R, Calandruccio L, Dhar S. Contralateral acoustic stimulation alters the magnitude and phase of distortion product otoacoustic emissions. J Acoust Soc Am. 2009 Nov;126(5):2413-24. doi: 10.1121/1.3224716. PubMed PMID: 19894823; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2787069.
• Prieve BA, Calandruccio L, Fitzgerald T, Mazevski A, Georgantas LM. Changes in transient-evoked otoacoustic emission levels with negative tympanometric peak pressure in infants and toddlers. Ear Hear. 2008 Aug;29(4):533-42. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181731e3e. PubMed PMID: 18469719.
• Calandruccio L, Doherty KA. Spectral weighting strategies for hearing-impaired listeners measured using a correlational method. J Acoust Soc Am. 2008 Apr;123(4):2367-78. doi: 10.1121/1.2887857. PubMed PMID: 18397039.
• Calandruccio L, Doherty KA, Carney LH, Kikkeri HN. Perception of temporally processed speech by listeners with hearing impairment. Ear Hear. 2007 Aug;28(4):512-23. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31806dc1fe. PubMed PMID: 17609613; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2572868.
• Calandruccio L, Doherty KA. Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method. J Acoust Soc Am. 2007 Jun;121(6):3827-36. doi: 10.1121/1.2722211. PubMed PMID: 17552730.
• Anzalone MC, Calandruccio L, Doherty KA, Carney LH. Determination of the potential benefit of time-frequency gain manipulation. Ear Hear. 2006 Oct;27(5):480-92. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000233891.86809.df. PubMed PMID: 16957499; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2572863.
• Calandruccio L, Fitzgerald TS, Prieve BA. Normative multifrequency tympanometry in infants and toddlers. J Am Acad Audiol. 2006 Jul-Aug;17(7):470-80. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.17.7.2. PubMed PMID: 16927511.
• Dhar S, Humes LE, Calandruccio L, Barlow NN, Hipskind N. Predictability of speech-in-noise performance from real ear measures of directional hearing AIDS. Ear Hear. 2004 Apr;25(2):147-58. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000121236.56217.8f. PubMed PMID: 15064660.