Much of the hospital's success in identifying and treating children with hearing loss is the result of the rapid transfer of research findings from laboratories to clinic and bedside.

Areas of Research

Stephen Taylor Neely
Curriculum Vita

Personal Information:

Date/Place of Birth: 8 September 1953, Iloilo City, The Philippines
Present Position: Staff Scientist
Boys Town National Research Hospital
555 North 30th Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68131
(402) 498-6751, fax (402) 498-6351
neely@boystown.org

Education:

1970-74	Ottawa University, Ottawa, KS: B.A. (Physics/Communication)
1974-77	Calif. Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA: M.S. & Engr. (Electrical Engineering)
1979-81	Washington University, St. Louis, MO: D.Sc. (Electrical Engineering)

Professional Experience:

Summer 1972	Management Assistant, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Summer 1974	Management Assistant, Office of Applications, Washington, DC
Summer 1976	Research Fellow, Acoustics Research Dept., Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
1977-79	Senior Staff, Tactical System Division, ORI, Inc., Silver Spring, MD
1982-present	Staff Scientist, Communication Engineering Laboratory, BTNRH
1987-95	Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Human Communication, Creighton Univ. School of Medicine, Omaha, NE
1995-2004	Adjunct Professor, same as above
2004-present	Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Special Education and Communication Disorders, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln

Honors and Awards:

FCC First Class Radiotelephone License, 1973-78
Elected to Sigma Pi Sigma (honorary physics society), 1974
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Ottawa University, 1974
Caltech Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 1975
NIH Research Training Grant, Washington University, 1979-81
Elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, for contributions to cochlear mechanics, 1999.

Memberships in Professional Organizations:

Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 1972.
Member of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) since 1972.
Elected to the Physiology and Psychophysics Technical Committee of the ASA in 1985-88.
Member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology since 1985.

Bibliography:

Book edited

Allen, J.B., Hall, J.L., Hubbard, A., Neely, S.T. & Tubis, A. (1986). Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Articles in refereed journals

Neely, S.T. & Allen, J.B. (1979). Invertibility of a room impulse response. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66, 165-169.

Neely, S.T. (1981). Finite-difference solution of a two-dimensional mathematical model of the cochlea. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, 1386-1393.

Neely, S.T. (1985). Mathematical modeling of cochlear mechanics. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78, 345-351.

Neely, S.T. & Kim, D.O. (1983). An active cochlear model shows sharp tuning and high sensitivity. Hear. Res. 9, 123-130.

Neely, S.T. & Kim, D.O. (1986). A model for active elements in cochlear biomechanics. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 79, 1472-1480.

Norton, S.J. & Neely, S.T. (1987). Tone-burst-evoked otoacoustic emissions from normal hearing subjects. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 1860-1872.

Neely, S.T., Norton, S.J., Gorga, M.P. & Jesteadt, W. (1988). Latency of auditory brainstem responses and otoacoustic emissions using tone-burst stimuli. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 83, 652-655.

Gorga, M.P., Kaminski, J.R., Beauchaine, K.A., Jesteadt, W. & Neely, S.T. (1989). Auditory brainstem responses from children 3 months to 3 years of age: Normal patterns of response II. J. Speech Hear. Res. 32, 281-288.

Mott, J.B., Norton, S.J., Neely, S.T. & Warr, W.B. (1989). Changes in spontaneous otoacoustic emissions produced by acoustic stimulation of the contralateral ear. Hear. Res. 38, 229-242.

Prieve, B.A., Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (1991). Otoacoustic emissions in an adult with severe hearing loss. J. Speech Hear. Res. 34, 379-385.

Allen, J.B. & Neely, S.T. (1992). Micromechanical models of the cochlea. Physics Today 45(7), 40-47.

Neely, S.T. (1993). A model of cochlear mechanics with outer hair cell motility. J. Acoust. Am. 94, 137-146.

Prieve, B.A., Gorga, M.P., Schmidt, A.R., Neely, S.T., Peters, J., Schulte, L. & Jesteadt, W. (1993). Analysis of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 3308-3319.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Bergman, B., Beauchaine, K., Kaminski, J., Peters, J. & Jesteadt, W. (1993). Otoacoustic emissions from normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects: distortion product responses. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2050-2060.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Bergman, B., Beauchaine, K., Kaminski, J., Peters, J., Schulte, L. & Jesteadt, W. (1993). A comparison of transient-evoked and distortion product otoacoustic emissions in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 2639-2648.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Bergman, B.M., Beauchaine, K.L., Kaminski, J.R. & Liu, Z. (1994). Towards understanding the limits of distortion product otoacoustic emission measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 1494-1500.

Bergman, B.M., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Kaminski, J.R., Beauchaine, K.L. & Peters, J. (1994). Preliminary descriptions of transient-evoked and distortion product otoacoustic emissions from graduates of an intensive care nursery. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 6, 150-162.

Nittrouer, S., Neely, S.T., & Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1996). How children learn to organize their speech gestures: Further evidence from fricative-vowel syllables. J. Speech Hear. Res. 39, 379-389.

Gorga, M.P., Stover, L., Neely, S.T. & Montoya, D. (1996). The use of cumulative distributions to determine critical values and levels of confidence for clinical distortion product otoacoustic emission measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100, 968-977.

Nittrouer, S., Studdert-Kennedy, M. & Neely, S.T. (1996). How children learn to organize their speech gestures: Further evidence from fricative-vowel syllables. J. Speech Hear. Res. 39, 379-389.

Prieve, B.A., Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (1996). Click- and toneburst-evoked otoacoustic emissions in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99(5), 3077-3086.

Stover, L., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Montoya, D. (1996). Toward optimizing the clinical utility of distortion product otoacoustic emission measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100, 956-967.

Stover, L.J., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1996). Latency and multiple sources of distortion product otoacoustic emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99(2), 1016-1024.

Warr, W.B., Boche-Beck, J.E. & Neely, S.T. (1997). Efferent innervation of the inner hair cell region: Origins and terminations of two lateral olivocochlear systems. Hear. Res. 108, 98-111.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Ohlrich, B., Hoover, B., Redner, J. & Peters, J. (1997). From laboratory to clinic: A large-scale study of distortion product otoacoustic emissions in ears with normal hearing and ears with hearing loss. Ear Hear. 18, 440-455.

Allen, J.B. & Neely, S.T. (1997). On the relation between the intensity JND and loudness for pure tones. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 3628-3646.

Dorn, P.A., Piskorski, P., Keefe, D.H., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1998). On the existence of an age/threshold/frequency interaction in distortion product otoacoustic emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 964-971.

Hussain, D.M., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H. & Peters, J. (1998). Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions in patients with normal hearing and in patients with hearing loss. Ear Hear. 19, 434-449.

Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1998). Comparison between intensity and pressure as measures of sound level in the ear canal. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 2925-2934.

Neely, S.T. & Allen, J.B. (1998). Predicting the intensity JND from the loudness of tones and noise. In A. R. Palmer, A. Rees, A. Q. Summerfield & R. Medis (Eds.), Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing. Whurr, London, pp. 458-464.

Dorn, P.A., Piskorski, P., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Keefe, D.H. (1999). Predicting audiometric status from distortion product otoacoustic emissions using multivariate analyses. Ear Hear. 20, 149-163.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Dorn, P.A. (1999). Distortion product otoacoustic emission test performance for a priori criteria and for multifrequency audiometric standards. Ear Hear. 20, 345-362.

Stover, L.J., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1999). Cochlear generation of intermodulation distortion revealed by DPOAE frequency functions in normal and impaired ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2669-2678.

Gorga, M.P., Norton, S.J., Sininger, Y.S., Cone-Wesson, B., Folsom, R.C., Vohr, B.R., Widen, J.E. & Neely, S.T. (2000). Identification of neonatal hearing impairment: Distortion product otoacoustic emissions during the perinatal period. Ear Hear. 21, 400-424.

Gorga, M.P., Nelson, K., Davis, T., Dorn, P.A. & Neely, S.T. (2000). DPOAE test performance when both 2f1-f2 and 2f2-f1 are used to predict auditory status. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 2128-2135.

Dorn, P.A., Konrad-Martin, D., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H., Cyr, E. & Gorga, M.P. (2001). Distortion product otoacoustic emission input/output functions in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired human ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 3119-3131.

Kim, D.O., Dorn, P.A., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (2001). Adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emission in humans. J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 2, 31-40.

Konrad-Martin, D., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H., Dorn, P.A. & Gorga, M.P. (2001). Sources of distortion product otoacoustic emissions revealed by suppression experiments and inverse fast Fourier transforms in normal ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2862-2879.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A. & Konrad-Martin, D. (2002). The use of distortion product otoacoustic emission suppression as an estimate of response growth. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, 271-284.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A., Dierking, D. & Cyr, E. (2002). Evidence of upward spread of suppression in DPOAE measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 2910-2920.

Konrad-Martin, D., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H., Dorn, P.A., Cyr, E. & Gorga, M.P. (2002). Sources of DPOAEs revealed by suppression experiments, inverse fast Fourier transforms, and SFOAEs in impaired ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, 1800-1809.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Hoover, B.M., Dierking, D.M., Beauchaine, K.L. & Manning, C. (2003). Determining the upper limits of stimulation for auditory steady-state response measurements. Ear Hear. 25, 302-307.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A. & Hoover, B.M. (2003). Further efforts to predict pure-tone thresholds from distortion product otoacoustic emission input/output functions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 3275-3284.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dierking, D.M., Dorn, P.A., Hoover, B.M. & Fitzpatrick, D.F. (2003). Distortion product otoacoustic emission tuning curves in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired human ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 263-278.

Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (2003). Cost-effectiveness and test-performance factors in relation to universal newborn hearing screening. Ment. Retard. Dev. Disabil. Res. Rev. 9, 103-108.

Keefe, D.H., Zhao, F., Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Vohr, B.R. (2003). Ear-canal acoustic admittance and reflectance effects in human neonates. I: Predictions of otoacoustic emission and auditory brainstem responses. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 389-406.

Keefe, D.H., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Zhao, F. & Vohr, B.R. (2003). Ear-canal acoustic admittance and reflectance measurements in human neonates: II: Predictions of middle-ear dysfunction and sensorineural hearing loss. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 407-422.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (2003). Cochlear compression estimates from measurements of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 1499-1507.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T., Dierking, D.M. & Hoover, B.M. (2004). An alternate approach to constructing distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) suppression tuning curves. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116-6.

Gorga, M.P., Dierking, D.M., Johnson, T.A., Beauchaine, K.L., Garner, C. & Neely, S.T. (2005). A validation and potential clinical application of multivariate analyses of DPOAE data. Ear Hear. 26, 593-607.

Neely, S.T., Schairer, K. & Jesteadt, W. (2005). Estimates of cochlear compression from measurements of loudness growth. In D. Pressnitzer, A. deCheveigne, S. McAdams & L. Collet (Eds.), Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Models. Springer, New York, pp. 42-48.

Neely, S.T., Johnson, T.A., Garner, C.A. & Gorga, M.P. (2005). Stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions measured with amplitude-modulated suppressor tones (L). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 2124-2127.

Neely, S.T., Johnson, T.A. & Gorga, M.P. (2005). Distortion-product otoacoustic emission measured with continuously varying stimulus level. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 1248-1259.

Gorga, M.P., Johnson, T.A., Kaminski, J.K., Beauchaine, K.L., Garner, C. & Neely, S.T. (2006). Using a combination of click- and toneburst-evoked auditory brainstem response measurements to estimate pure-tone thresholds. Ear Hear. 27, 60-74.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T., Garner, C.A. & Gorga, M.P. (2006). Influence of primary-level and primary-frequency ratios on human distortion product otoacoustic emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 418-428.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T., Kopun, J.G. & Gorga, M.P. (2006). Reducing reflected contributions to ear-canal distortion product otoacoustic emissions in humans. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3896-3907.

Neely, S.T. & Allen, J.B. (2006). Retrograde waves in the cochlea. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (submitted).

Neely, S.T. & Jesteadt, W. (2006). Quadratic compression model of auditory discrimination and detection. Acustica 91, 980-991.

Books / Articles in books

Kim, D.O., Neely, S.T., Molnar, C.E. & Matthews, J.W. (1980). An active cochlear model with negative damping in the cochlear partition. In G. van den Brink & F.A. Bilsen (Eds.), Psychological, Physiological, and Behavioral Studies in Hearing, Delft Univ. Press, The Netherlands, pp 7-14.

Neely, S.T. (1983). The cochlear amplifier. In E. de Boer & M.A. Viergever (Eds.), Mechanics of Hearing, Delft University Press, Delft, The Netherlands, pp 111-118.

Gorga, M.P., Farley, G.R., Morley, B.J., Neely, S.T., Neff, D.L. & Osberger, M.J. (1986). Review of Hearing Science. In C.I. Berlin (Ed.), The Volta Review 88, College-Hill Press, San Diego, 118-119.

Neely, S.T. (1986). Micromechanics of the cochlear partitions. In J.B. Allen, J.L. Hall, A. Hubbard, S.T. Neely & A. Tubis (Eds.), Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp 137-146.

Neely, S.T. (1988). Transient responses in an active, nonlinear model of cochlear mechanics. In D. Duifuis, J.W. Horst & H.P. Wit (Eds.), Basic Issues in Hearing, Academic Press, London, pp 106-115.

Norton, S.J., Mott, J.B. & Neely, S.T. (1988). Changes in spontaneous emissions produced by acoustic stimulation. In D. Duifuis, J.W. Horst & H.P. Wit (Eds.), Basic Issues in Hearing, Academic Press, London, pp. 88-92.

Neely, S.T. (1989). A model for bidirectional transduction in outer hair cells. In J.P. Wilson & D.T. Kemp (Eds.), Cochlear Mechanisms, Plenum Press, pp 71-82.

Neely, S.T. (1991). Level dependence of the latency of cochlear transients. In P. Dallos, C.D. Geisler, J.W. Matthews, M.A. Ruggero & C.R. Steele (Eds.), The Mechanics and Biophysics of Hearing, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp 411-418.

Neely, S.T. & Liu, Z. (1993). ABRAV: Auditory Brainstem Response Averager. (Boys Town, Omaha, NE).

Neely, S.T. & Stover, L.J. (1993). Otoacoustic emissions from a nonlinear, active model of cochlear mechanics. In H. Duifhuis, J.W. Horst, P. van Dijk & S.M. van Netten (Eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium on: Biophysics of Hair Cell Sensory Systems, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 64-71.

Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (1994). Stimulus calibration in auditory evoked potential measurements. Chapter 4 in J.T. Jacobson (Ed.), Principles and Applications in Auditory Evoked Potentials, Allyn & Bacon, Needham Heights, pp. 85-97.

Neely, S.T. & Allen, J.B. (1997). Relation between the rate of growth of loudness and the intesity DL. In W. Jesteadt (Ed.), Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Mahwah, pp 213-222.

Neely, S.T. & Stover, L.J. (1997). Generation of distortion products in a model of cochlear mechanics. In E.R. Lewis, G.R. Long, R.F. Lyon, P.M. Narins, C.R. Steele & E. Hecht-Poinar (Eds.), Diversity in Auditory Mechanics. Singapore: World Scientific Publ. Co., pp 434-440.

Neely, S.T. & Allen, J.B. (1998). Predicting the intensity JND from the loudness of tones and noise. In A.R. Palmer, A. Rees, A.Q. Summerfield & R. Medis (Eds.), Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing. Whurr, London, pp. 458-464.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (2000). Distortion product and loudness growth in an active, nonlinear model of cochlear mechanics. In H. Wada, T. Takasaka, K. Ikeda, K. Ohyama & T. Koike (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Developments in Auditory Mechanics. World-Scientific Publ. Ltd., Singapore, pp. 237-243.

Dai, H., Neely, S.T., Neff, D.L. & Jesteadt, W. (2001). Temporal integration models: Implications for psychometric functions for detecting level increments. In A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs & R. Schoonhoven (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIth International Symposium on Hearing: Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function. Shaker Publishing BV, Maastricht, The Netherlands, pp. 51-58.

Neely, S.T. & Dai, H. (2001). Inferring properties of IHC excitation from psychophysical growth of masking. In A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs & R. Schoonhoven (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIth International Symposium on Hearing: Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function. Shaker Publishing BV, Maastricht, The Netherlands, pp. 28-34.

Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (2002). Some factors that may influence the accuracy of auditory brainstem response estimates of hearing loss. In R. C. Seewald & J. S. Gravel (Eds.), A Sound Foundation Through Early Amplification 2001, Proceedings of the Second International Conference. Phonak A.G., Chicago, pp. 49-61.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Dorn, P.A. (2002). Distortion product otoacoustic emissions in relation to hearing loss. In M. S. Robinette & T. J. Glattke (Eds.), Otoacoustic Emissions: Clinical Application (2nd Edition). Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., New York, pp. 243-272.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Widen, J.E. (2003). Otoacoustic emissions in children. In R. D. Kent (Ed.), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 515-517.

Kim, D.O., Yang, X.M. & Neely, S.T. (2003). Effects of the medial olivocochlear reflex on cochlear mechanics: Experimental and modeling studies of DPOAE. In A. W. Gummer (Ed.), Biophysics of the Cochlea: From Molecules to Models. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, pp. 506-516.

Neely, S.T., Schairer, K. & Jesteadt, W. (2003). Estimates of cochlear compression from measurements of loudness growth. In D. Pressnitzer, A. deCheveigne, S. McAdams & L. Collet (Eds.), Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychophysics and Models. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 42-56.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (2003). Growth of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions in a nonlinear, active model of cochlear mechanics. In A.W. Gummer (Ed.), Biophysics of the Cochlea: From Molecules to Models. World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 531-538.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Johnson, T.A., Dierking, D. & Garner, C. (2006). The relation between distortion product otoacoustic emissions and hearing loss. In M.S. Robinette & T.J. Glattke (Eds.), Otoacoustic Emission, 3^rd Edition (in press).

Johnson, T.A., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Oxenham, A.J. & Shera, C.A. (2006). Relation between otoacoustic emission and psychophysical measurements of cochlear function. In G. A. Manley & B. Lonsbury-Martin (Eds.), Springer Handbook on Auditory Research (in press).

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (2006). The relationship between distortion product otoacoustic emissions and hearing loss. In Craig Champlin (Ed.), Perspectives on Audiology. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, (in press).

Neely, S.T. & Kim, D.O. (2006). Cochlear models incorporating active processes. In B. Lonsbury-Martin, G. A. Manley, R. R. Fay & A. N. Popper (Eds.), Active Processes and Otoacoustic Emissions. Springer-Verlag, New York (accepted for publication).

Published abstracts

Kim, D.O., Molnar, C.E., Matthews, J.W. & Neely, S.T. (1980). Non-linearity, physiological vulnerability, and frequency selectivity, of cochlear responses. J. Acoust. Soc Am. 67, S47.

Matthews, J.W., Kim, D.O., Molnar, C.E. & Neely, S.T. (1981). Modeling reverse middle-ear transmission aural acoustic distortion products, 'echoes', and spontaneous emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, S43.

Neely, S.T. (1980). Backward solution of a two-dimensional cochlear model. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, S75.

Norton, S.J. & Neely, S.T. (1985). Latency of click-evoked oto-acoustic emissions in humans. Abs. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 97, 79.

Nielsen, D.W., Saunders, J.C., Neely, S.T, Brownell, W.E., Thorne, P. & Norton, S.J. (1985). A discussion of cochlear micromechanics and some clinical implications. ASHA 27, 109.

Osberger, M.J. & Neely, S.T. (1985). Acoustic distinctions between intelligible and unintelligible vowels in the speech of the deaf. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, S107.

Neely, S.T., Norton, S.J., Gorga, M.P. & Jesteadt, W. (1986). Latency of otoacoustic emissions and ABR wave V using tone-burst stimuli. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 79, S1.

Jesteadt, W. Neely, S.T., Callaghan, B.P. & Ferrel, R. (1988). Software for analyzing and plotting scientific data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 83, S16.

Neely, S.T. (1992). The role of outer hair cell motility in cochlear mechanics. Abs. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 15, 102.

Neely, S.T., Nittrouer, S.N. & Carney, E.J. (1992). Waveform editing and spectrographic software. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2460.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Bergman, B.M., Beauchaine, K.L., Kaminski, J.R., Peters, J. & Jesteadt, W. (1993). Acoustic distortion products in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired ears. Abs. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. 401, 101.

Neely, S.T. & Stover, L. (1993). Otoacoustic emissions form a nonlinear active model of cochlear mechanics. presented at Mechanics of Hearing Meeting.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P., Bergman, B.M., Beauchaine, K.L., Kaminski, J.R., Peters, J. & Jesteadt, W. (1993). A comparison of transient evoked and distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Abs. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. 404, 101.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Bergman, B.M., Beauchaine, K.L., Kaminski, J.R. & Liu, Z. (1994). Preliminary data obtained with a customed designed emission averaging (EMAV) system. Abs. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. 217, 55.

Stover, L.S., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1994). Explorations of the "filter" of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs). Abs. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. 215, 54.

Neely, S.T. (1994). Cochlear mechanics and otoacoustic emissions, presented to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Ophthalmology Department Journal Club, March.

Neely, S.T. (1994). Dynamic range compression in cochlear mechanics, presented at Issues in Advanced Hearing Aid Research Conference (sponsored by House Ear Institute), Lake Arrowhead, CA, May.

Pepe, M.S. & Neely, S.T. (1994). Estimating residual noise in the auditory brainstem response. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

Stover, L.J., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1994). Explorations of the "filter" of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs). Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abs. 17, 54.

Stover, L.J., Montoya, D., Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (1995). Clinical efficacy of distortion product otoacoustic emissions input/output functions. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. Abs. 18, 125.

Gorga, M.P., Stover, L.J., Neely, S.T., Montoya, D. & Brandon, T. (1996). Cumulative distributions of DPOAE thresholds and amplitudes in normal hearing and hearing impaired subjects. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. Abs. 19, 178.

Stover, L.J., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1996). DPOAE 'filter' responses from hearing impaired subjects. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. Abs. 19, 178.

Dorn, P.A., Piskorski, P., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H. & Gorga, M.P. (1998). On the existence of an age/threshold/frequency interaction in distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 21, 149.

Dorn, P.A., Piskorski, P., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Keefe, D.H. (1998). Predicting audiometric status from distortion product otoacoustic emissions using discriminant analysis. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 21, 149.

Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. (1998). DPOAEs and TEOAEs in relation to hearing loss. Presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November.

Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (1998). Comparison between intensity and pressure as a measure of sound level in the ear canal. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 21, 25.

Siegel, J.H., Dreisbach, L.E., Neely, S.T. & Spear, W.H. (1998). Vector decomposition of distortion product otoacoustic emission sources in humans. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 21, 87.

Gorga, M.P., Dorn, P.A. & Neely, S.T. (1999). DPOAEs: Test procedures and clinical implications. Presented at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Dorn, P.A. (1999). DPOAE test performance for different gold standards. Presented at the 11th Meeting of the American Academy of Audiology, Miami Beach, FL, May.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T. & Dorn, P.A. (1999). DPOAE test performance for a priori criteria and for multifrequency gold standards. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 22, 101.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (1999). Optimized methods for automated detection of auditory brainstem responses in humans. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 22, 170.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (1999). Distortion product and loudness growth in an active, nonlinear model of cochlear mechanics. Presented at the Symposium on Recent Development in Auditory Mechanics, Sendai, Japan, July.

Neely, S.T. (1999). Method for continuous measurement of adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emission. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 22, 97.

Nelson, K., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A. & Cohn, E.S. (1999). Can low-frequency DPOAEs be detected more reliably at 2f₂ - f₁ than at 2f₁ - f₂? Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstr. 22, 103.

Dai, H., Neely, S.T., Neff, D.L. & Jesteadt, W. (2000). Psychometric function for level discrimination: Difference between continuous and gated pedestals and differential coupling. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 23, 105.

Kim, D.O., Dorn, P.A., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (2000). Adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emission in humans. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 23, 283.

McGee, J., Walsh, E.J., Neely, S.T., Joseph, J. & Kim, D.O. (2000). Adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emissions in gerbils and mice. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 23, 283.

Dorn, P.A., Konrad-Martin, D., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H., Cyr, E. & Gorga, M.P. (2001). DPOAE input/output functions in normal and impaired human ears. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 24, 8.

Konrad-Martin, D., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H., Dorn, P.A., Cyr, E. & Gorga, M.P. (2001). Sources of DPOAEs revealed by suppression experiments, IFFTs and SFOAEs in impaired ears. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 24, 8.

Konrad-Martin, D., Neely, S.T., Keefe, D.H., Dorn, P.A. & Gorga, M.P. (2001). Sources of DPOAEs revealed by suppression experiments and IFFTs in normal ears. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 24, 7.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A., Cyr, E. & Dierking, D. (2002). DPOAE measurements reveal upward spread of suppression. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 25, 199-200.

Jesteadt, W., Neely, S.T. & Schairer, K. (2002). Estimating the form of the peripheral nonlinearity from slopes of psychometric functions in forward masking. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 111, 2358.

Kim, D.O., Pietrzak, R.H., Yang, X. & Neely, S.T. (2002). Adaptation of distortion product otoacoustic emission in awake rabbits. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 25, 200.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (2002). Cochlear compression estimates from measurements of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 25, 200.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dierking, D., Dorn, P.A. & Fitzpatrick, D.F. (2003). DPOAE suppression in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired human subjects. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 26, 172.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A. & Hoover, B.M. (2003). Predicting pure-tone thresholds form DPOAE input/output (I/O) functions. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 26, 171.

Neely, S.T., Kim, D.O. & Gorga, M.P. (2003). A novel method for making fast measurements of DPOAE as a continuous function of primary level. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 26, 240.

Warr, W.B., Neely, S.T. & Boche, J.E. (2003). Projections of intrinsic lateral olivocochlear neurons in the rat: Evidence of a frequency mismatch between origins and terminations. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 26, 257.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T., Dierking, D.M., Hoover, B.M. & Gorga, M.P. (2004). DPOAE suppression tuning curves: Effect of suppression criterion. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 27, 33-34.

Neely, S.T., Dierking, D.M., Hoover, B.M. & Gorga, M.P. (2004). Fast DPOAE I/O measurements covering L1-L2 stimulus level space. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 27, 34.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T., Garner, C., & Gorga, M.P. (2005). Optimal Stimulus Parameters for Recording Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions (DPOAEs). Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 28, 43.

Neely, S.T., Johnson, T.A., Garner, C., & Gorga, M.P. (2005). Measurement of Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions Using Amplitude-Modulated Suppressor Tones. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 28, 67.

Johnson, T.A., Kopun, J.G., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (2006). Controlling reflected contributions to ear-canal DPOAEs in humans. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abst. 29, 19.

Presentations

Neely, S.T. The cochlear amplifier. Presented at the symposium Mechanics of Hearing, Delft, The Netherlands, July 1983.

Neely, S.T. Mathematical modeling of cochlear mechanics. Presented at NSF-CHABA Workshop on Basic Research in Hearing, October 1983.

Neely, S.T. Model of peripheral auditory mechanics with active elements in the cochlea. Presented at Digital Signal Processing Workshop, sponsored by IEEE Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society, Chatham, MA, July 1984.

Neely, S.T. & Norton, S.J. A mathematical model of cochlear acoustic emissions. Presented at Veterans Admin. Symp. on Current Topics in Audiology, Univ. of California, August 1984.

Neely, S.T. Micromechanics of the cochlear partition. Presented at Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, Boston University, Boston, MA, August 1985.

Neely, S.T. Cochlear models. Presented at the annual meeting of ASHA, November 1985.

Neely, S.T. & Norton, S.J. Latency of tone-burst evoked otoacoustic emissions, Presented at 12th Int'l Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, Canada, July 1986.

Neely, S.T. Transient responses in an active, nonlinear model of cochlear mechanics. Presented at 8th Int'l Symposium on Hearing, Groningen, The Netherlands, April 1988.

Neely, S.T. A model for bidirectional transduction in outer hair cells. Presented at Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, University of Keele, Keele, England, July 1988.

Neely, S.T. Level dependence of the latency of cochlear transients. Presented at the symposium Mechanics & Biophysics of Hearing, Patterswolde, The Netherlands, June 1990.

Neely, S.T. Active cochlear models and otoacoustic emissions. Presented at Int'l Symposium on Otoacoustic Emissions: Theory, Technique and Application, Kansas City, MO, May 1991.

Neely, S.T. Cochlear mechanics and otoacoustic emissions. Invited presentation at BTNRH Audiology Seminar Series, August 1991.

Neely, S.T. The influence of outer hair cell motility on cochlear mechanics. Presented at Issues in Advanced Hearing Aid Research Conference (sponsered by House Ear Institute), Arrowhead, CA, May 1992.

Neely, S.T. Cochlear Mechanics and Otoacoustic Emissions. Presented at the UNMC Opthamology Department Journal Club, Omaha, NE, March 1993.

Neely, S.T. & Stover, L.J. Otoacoustic emissions from a nonlinear, active model of cochlear mechanics. Presented at the Symposium: Biophysics of Hair Cell Sensory Systems, Paterswolde, The Netherlands, June 1993.

Neely, S.T. The World Wide Web. Presented at the workshop on Information Sharing via the Internet, presented at the 18th Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersbug Beach, FL, February 1994.

Neely, S.T. Dynamic Range Compression in Cochlear Mechanics. Presented at Issues in Advanced Hearing Aid Research conference (sponsered by House Ear Institute, Arrowhead, CA, 30 May 1994.

Neely, S.T. Computer simulation of cochlear mechanics. Presented at the UNO chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, Omaha, NE, April 1995.

Neely, S.T. & Stover, L.J. Generation of distortion products in a model of cochlear mechanics. Presented at the symposium Diversity in Auditory Mechanics, Berkeley, Calif., June 1996.

Neely, S.T. & Allen, J.B. Predicting the intensity JND from the loudness of tones and noise. Presented at the 11th Int'l Symposium on Hearing, Grantham, U.K., August 1997.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. Distortion product and loudness growth in an active, nonlinear model of cochlear mechanics. Presented at the symposium Recent Developments in Auditory Mechanics, Sendai, Japan, July 1999.

Dorn, P.A., Nelson, K., Davis, T., Gorga, M.P. & Neely, S.T. DPOAE test performance: Using multiple DPs to predict auditory status. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, April 2000.

Neely, S.T. Acoustic emissions from the cochlea. Presented at the international seminar, Day on Diffraction 2000, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2000.

Neely, S.T. & Dai, H. Inferring properties of IHC excitation from psychophysical growth of masking. Presented at the 12th Int'l Symposium on Hearing, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 2000.

Gorga, M.P., Dorn, P.A., Konrad-Martin, D. & Neely, S.T. Clinical utility of distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2000.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Konrad-Martin, D. & Dorn, P.A. Suppression of distortion product otoacoustic emission amplitude as a measure of response growth: Preliminary findings in subjects with normal hearing. Presented at the American Auditory Society Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2001.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Konrad-Martin, D. & Dorn, P.A. DPOAE suppression as a measure of response growth. Presented at the ASHA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2001.

Keefe, D.H., Zhao, F., Neely, S.T. & Vohr, B.R. Relationships between admittance/reflectance (YR) and EOAEs, ABRs and hearing status in infants. Presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, November 2001.

Neely, S.T. Compression ratio of the peripheral nonlinearity. Presented at a Conference on the Perceptual Consequences of Cochlear Nonlinearity, hosted by Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany, organized by G. Long and A. Oxenham, August 2001.

Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Dorn, P.A., Dierking, D. & Cyr, E. (2002). Upward spread of DPOAE suppression. Presented at the American Auditory Society Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March.

Keefe, D.H., Gorga, M.P., Neely, S.T., Zhao, D. & Vohr, B.R. (2002). Using middle-ear measurements to interpret cochlear, sensorineural, and behavioral responses in a study of neonatal hearing impairment. Presented at the Second International Conference on Newborn Hearing Screening, Milan, Italy, May.

Neely, S.T., Gorga, M.P. & Dorn, P.A. (2002). Growth of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions in a nonlinear, active model of cochlear mechanics. Presented at Biophysics of the Cochlea: Molecules and Models, Titisee, Germany, July.

Keefe, D.H., Gorga, M.P., Neely, J.G., Zhao, F. & Vohr, B.R. (2003). Influence of admittance and reflectance (YR) in predicting EOAEs, ABRs, and hearing loss in infants. Presented at the American Academy of Audiology Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Neely, S.T., Schairer, K. & Jesteadt, W. (2003). Estimates of cochlear compression from measurements of loudness. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Hearing, VVF-Villagium le Normont, Dourdan, France, August. Presented at the 13th International Symposium on Hearing, VVF-Villagium le Normont, Dourdan, France, August.

Dierking, D.M., Neely, S.T., Johnson, T.A., Beauchaine, K.A., Garner, C. & Gorga, M.P. (2004). A new approach for describing clinical DPOAEs. Presented at the Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ.

Jesteadt, W., Nizami, I.L., Neely, S.T. & Schairer, K. (2004). Effect of noise on the detection of intensity increments. Paper presented at the 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, NY, May.

Neely, S.T. & Jesteadt, W. (2004). Model of Auditory Perception. Presented at Summerschool 2004, International Graduate School for Neurosensory Science and Systems, University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T., Dierking, D., Beauchaine, K.L., Garner, C. & Gorga, M.P. (2005). Validation of multivariate and multifrequency analyses of DPOAE responses. Presented at the 148th Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ.

Dierking, D., Neely, S.T., Johnson, T.A., Beauchaine, K.L., Garner, C. & Gorga, M.P. (2005). A New Approach for Describing Clinical DPOAEs. Presented at the 148th Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ.

Johnson, T.A., Neely, S.T. & Gorga, M.P. (2006). Influence of optimal stimulus parameters on DPOAE test performance. Presented at the 2006 Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March.

Supplemental information:

University service

Member of the doctoral thesis committee for Lisa Stover (by ad hoc appointment to the faculty of the University of Kansas), 1991.

Member of the doctoral thesis committee for Janet Fitzakerley, 1990-92.

Member of the doctoral thesis committee for Lei Song, 1997-2001.

Community service

Member of the science curriculum committee for the King Science Center at Horace Mann Middle School, 1990-91.

Teaching

Assisted in the supervision of the following postdoctoral students:

Susan Norton, 1984-86	John Mott, 1986-88
Beth Prieve, 1989-90	Lisa Stover, 1991-93
Patricia Dorn, 1997-99	Dawn Konrad Martin, 1999-2001
Tiffany Johnson, 2003-06

Taught Auditory Signal Processing in the Spring semester of 2006 to first year graduate students in the department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.