Sriram Boothalingam

The paper investigates the role of the medial olivocochlear reflex in human auditory perception by measuring ear, brain, and behavioral responses to intensity changes.

The paper investigates how the brainstem compensates for peripheral inhibition in the auditory system using short stimuli and finds that brainstem inhibition diminishes with longer stimuli.

This paper introduces a time series-based method to detect middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) using clicks and finds that MEMR thresholds are lower than clinical tympanometry in most participants.

The paper shows that the MOC reflex enhances speech understanding by gating auditory signals in degraded or noisy environments, with different brain regions engaged depending on the type of speech challenge.