David A. Nelson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus
396 UMHC Rm 8-323 PWB
410 Delaware St. SE.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (651) 674-4224
Fax: (612) 625-2101
Email: dan@umn.edu
Education:
Institution
Degree
Year
Field of Study
St. Olaf College
B.A.
1963
Speech
University of Minnesota
M.A.
1968
Audiology
University of Minnesota
Ph.D.
1970
Hearing Science
Research and Professional Experience:
1963-1965 Research Assistant, Dept Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota
1965-1967 Audiologist, Dept Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota
1965-1970 Research Fellow, Dept Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota (W.D. Ward)
1970-1972 Research Associate, Dept Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh (R.C. Bilger)
1972-1977 Assistant Professor, Dept Otolaryngology and Dept Communication Disorders U/Minn
1977-1987 Associate Professor, Dept Otolaryngology and Dept Communication Disorders U/Minn
1987......... Visiting Professor, Institute for Electroacoustics, Technical University of Munich, Germany (E. Zwicker)
1987-2005 Professor, Dept Otolaryngology and Dept Communication Disorders U/Minn
2005-____ Professor Emeritus, Dept Otolaryngology and Dept Communication Disorders U/Minn
2005-____ Senior Shepherd, Sunrise Sheep & Wool, North Branch, MN (www.sunrisesheep.com)
Publications: (click on a link for a pdf reprint of the publication; hold down Cntrl key for new window)
NELSON, D.A., KREFT, H. A., ANDERSON, E.S. and DONALDSON, G.S. (2011). Spatial tuning curves from apical,
middle and basal electrodes in cochlear implant users,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 129, 3916-3933. PMCID: PMC3135148
KREFT, H.A., DONALDSON, G.S. and NELSON, D.A. (2004). “Effects of pulse rate and electrode array design on intensity coding in Clarion cochlear-implant users,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116, 2258-2268.
KREFT, H.A., DONALDSON, G.S. and NELSON, D.A. (2004). “Effects of pulse rate on threshold and dynamic range in clarion cochlear-implant users,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115, 1885-1888.
NELSON, D.A. and SCHRODERr, A.C. (2004). “Peripheral compression as a function of stimulus level and frequency region in normal-hearing ears,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115, 2221-2233.
MUNSON, B., DONALDSON, G.S., ALLEN, S., COLLISON, E.A. and NELSON, D.A. (2003). “Patterns of phoneme perception errors by listeners with cochlear implants as a function of overall speech perception ability,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113, 925-935.
NELSON, D.A. and DONALDSON, G.S. (2002). “Psychophysical recovery from pulse-train forward masking in electric hearing,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 2932-2947.
NELSON, D.A. and SCHRODER, A.C. (2001). "A new procedure for estimating peripheral compression in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired ears,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 110, 2045-2064.
NELSON, D.A., and DONALDSON, G.S. (2001). "Psychophysical recovery from single-pulse forward masking in electric hearing,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109, 2921-2933.
WOJTCZAK, M., SCHRODER, A.C, KONG, Y-Y., and NELSON, D.A. (2001). "The effect of BM nonlinearity on the shapes of masking period patterns in normal and impaired hearing,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109, 1571-1586.
DONALDSON, G.S. and NELSON, D.A. (2000). "Place-pitch sensitivity and its relation to consonant recognition by cochlear implant listeners using the MPEAK and SPEAK speech processing strategies."
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107, 1645-1658.
DONALDSON, G.S., VIEMEISTER, N.F. and NELSON, D.A. (1997). "Psychometric functions and temporal integration in electric hearing,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 101, 3706-3721.
NELSON,D.A. and SCHRODER, A.C. (1997). "Linearized response growth inferred from growth-of-masking slopes in ears with cochlear hearing loss,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 101, 2186-2201.
NELSON, D.A. and SCHRODER, A.C. (1996). "Release from upward spread of masking in regions of high-frequency hearing loss,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,100, 2266-2277.
NELSON, D.A., SCHMITZ, J.L., DONALDSON, G.S., VIEMEISTER, N.F. and JAVEL, E. (1996). "Intensity discrimination as a function of stimulation level with electrical stimulation,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,100, 2393-2414.
NELSON, D.A. and SCHRODER, A.C. (1995). "Critical bandwidth for phase discrimination in hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 98, 1969-1976.
NELSON, D.A., VAN TASSEL, D.J., SCHRODER, A.C., LEE, A.M., SOLI, S. and LEVINE, S. (1995). "Electrode ranking of 'place pitch' and speech recognition in electrical hearing,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 98, 1987-1999.
NELSON, D.A. (1994). "Level dependent critical bandwidth for phase discrimination,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 95, 1514-1524.
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MARGOLIS, R.H. and NELSON, D.A. (1993). "Acute otitis media with transient sensorineural hearing loss, a case study,"
Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, 118, 682-686.
VAN TASELL, D.J., GREENFIELD, D.G., LOGEMANN, J.L. and NELSON, D.A. (1992). "Temporal cues for consonant recognition: training, talker generalization, and use in evaluation of cochlear implants,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 92, 1247-1257.
NELSON, D.A. and KIMBERLEY, B.P. (1992). "Distortion product emissions and auditory sensitivity in human ears with normal hearing and cochlear hearing loss,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 35, 1142-1159.
FREYMAN, R.L. and NELSON, D.A. (1991). "Frequency discrimination as a functionof signal frequency and level in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 34, 1371-1386.
NELSON, D.A., CHARGO, S.J., KOPUN, J.G., and FREYMAN, R.L. (1990). "Effects of stimulus level on forward-masked psychophysical tuning curves in quiet and in noise,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 88, 2143-2151.
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KIMBERLEY, B.P. and NELSON, D.A. (1989). "Cochlear emissions and sensorineural hearing loss."
J. Otolaryngology, 18:7, 365-369.
NELSON, D.A. and PAVLOV, R. (1989). "Auditory time constants for off-frequency forward masking in normal- hearing and hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 32, 298-306.
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KIMBERLEY, B.P., LEE, A., SCHELLER, L., LEVINE, S., ADAMS, G. and NELSON, D.A.(1989). "Cochlear- implant hearing performance at the University of Minnesota,"
J. of Otolaryngology, 18, 24-27.
KIMBERLEY, B.P., NELSON, D.A., and BACON, S.P. (1989). "Temporal overshoot in simultaneous-masked psychophysical tuning curves from normal and hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 85, 1660-1665.
FREYMAN, R.L. and NELSON, D.A. (1987). "Frequency discrimination for short- vs long-duration tones by normal and hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 30, 28-36.
FREYMAN, R.L. and NELSON, D.A. (1986). "Frequency discrimination as a function of tonal duration and excitation-pattern slopes in normal and hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 79, 1034-1044.
NELSON, D.A. and FREYMAN, R.L. (1986). "Psychometric functions for frequency discrimination from listeners with sensorineural hearing loss,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 79, 799-805.
WAKEFIELD, G.A. and NELSON, D.A. (1985). "Extension of a temporal model of frequency discrimination: Intensity effects in normal and hearing-impaired listeners,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 77, 613-619.
NELSON, D.A., STANTON, M.E. and FREYMAN, R.L. (1983). "A general equation describing frequency discrimination as a function of frequency and sensation level,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 73, 2117-2123.
CARNEY, A.E. and NELSON, D.A. (1983). "An analysis of psychophysical tuning curves in normal and pathological ears,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 73, 268-278.
STANTON, M.E. and NELSON, D.A. (1982). "Frequency discrimination at 1200 Hz in the presence of high- frequency masking noise,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 71, 660-664.
TURNER, C.W. and NELSON, D.A. (1982). "Frequency discrimination in regions of normal and impaired sensitivity,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 25:34-41.
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NELSON, D.A. (1980). "Comment on: 'The use of psychophysical tuning curves to measure frequency selectivity.' (D.L. Weber, D. Johnson-Davies and R.D. Patterson),"
In Psych. Physiol. and Behav. Studies in Hearing. G. van den Brink and F.A. Bilsen (eds.), Delft University Press, p. 116.
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NELSON, D.A. and TURNER, C.W. (1980). "Decay of masking and frequency resolution in sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners,"
In Psych. Physiol.and Behav. Studies of Hearing. G. van den Brink and F.A. Bilsen (eds.) Delft University Press, pp. 175-182.
NELSON, D.A. and KEISTER, T.E. (1978). "Frequency discrimination in the chinchilla,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 64, 114-126.
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NELSON, D.A. and LASSMAN, F.M. (1977). "Re-examination of the effects of periodic and aperiodic stimulation
on the auditory evoked vertex response,"
Audiology, 16, 193-221.
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NELSON, D.A., KIESTER, T.E., TURNER, C.W. and WARD, W.D. (1977). "Automated conditioned-avoidance audiometry in the chinchilla,"
J. Aud. Res., 16:193-221.
NELSON, D.A. and LASSMAN, F.M. (1972). "Combined effects of recovery period and stimulus intensity on the human auditory-evoked vertex response,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 16(2), 297-308.
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NELSON, D.A. (1971). "Human auditory electrical responses,"
1970 Reviews of Scientific Literature W.D. Ward, ed., (Amer. Acad. Ophth. Otol., Rochester, Minn.) p. 81-97.
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WARD, W.D. and NELSON, D.A. (1970). "On the equal-energy hypothesis relative to damage-risk criteria in the chinchilla,"
Occupational Hearing Loss, D.W. Robinson, ed. (Academic Press, New York), p. 225-232.
NELSON, D.A. and CHAIKLIN, J.B. (1970). "Writedown versus talk back scoring procedures in speech discriminaton testing,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 13, 645-654.
NELSON, D.A., LASSMAN, F.M. and HOEL, R.L. (1969). "The effects of variable-interval and fixed- interval signal presentation schedules on the auditory evoked response,"
J. Speech Hearing Res., 12(1), 199-209.
NELSON, D.A. and LASSMAN, F.M. (1968). "Effects of intersignal interval on the human auditory evoked response,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 44(6), 1529-1532.
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NELSON, D.A. (1967). "Negligible effect of the acoustic reflex on suprathreshold loudness tracking of interrupted and continuous pure tones,"
J. Auditory Res., 7, 425-434.
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