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Ozmeral, Erol J., Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Phone: 813.974.4148
Office: BPB 210C

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 Auditory & Speech Sciences Laboratory

Dr. Ozmeral joined the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at USF in 2013 as a postdoctoral fellow, and he is currently research faculty in the Auditory and Speech Sciences Laboratory directed by Dr. David Eddins. Dr. Ozmeral is a cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in psychoacoustics and electrophysiology. He has primarily led research on the behavioral and neural mechanisms associated with sensorineural hearing loss across the adult lifespan. His research interests are in cognitive aging, speech perception, spatial attention, and emerging technologies in hearing instruments, including brain-computer interfaces. Erol has been funded in the past by the NIH as well as industry contracts.

Education
Postdoc (Comm Sciences and Disorders) University of South Florida 2013-2017
Ph.D. (Cognitive Psychology) University of North Carolina 2013
M.A. (Cognitive Psychology) University of North Carolina 2011
M.A. (Cognitive and Neural Systems) Boston University 2007
B.S. (Biomedical Engineering) Boston University 2004

 Teaching

  • SPA7931 | Seminar in Computational Methods: Introduction to MATLAB
  • SPA7931 | Seminar in Advanced Auditory Perception

Recent Scholarly Activity

  • Park, Y., Anand, S., Ozmeral, E.J., Shrivastav, R., & Eddins, D.A. (in press). Predicting perceived vocal roughness using a bio-inspired computational model of auditory temporal envelope processing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Lertpoompunya, A., Ozmeral, E.J., Higgins, N.C., Eddins, A.C., & Eddins, D.A. (2022). Large individual differences in binaural sensitivity are represented in pre-attentive responses from auditory cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 127(3): 660-672
  • Ozmeral, E.J., Eddins, D.A., & Eddins, A.C. (2021). Selective auditory attention modulates cortical responses to sound-location change in younger and older adults. Journal of Neurophysiology. 126(3), 803-815.
  • Yellamsettty, A.; Ozmeral., E.J., Budinsky, R.A. & Eddins, D.A. (2021). A comparison of environment classification among premium hearing instruments. Trends in Hearing. 25, 1-14.
  • Ozmeral, E.J., Hoover, E.C., Gabbidon, P., & Eddins, D.A. (2020). Development of the Continuous Number Identification Test (CNIT): Feasibility of dynamic assessment of speech intelligibility. International Journal of Audiology. 59(6), 434-442.
  • Isarangura, S., Eddins, A.C., Ozmeral, E.J., & Eddins, D.A. (2019). The effects of duration and level on spectral modulation perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 62(10), 3876-3886.
  • Ozmeral, E.J., Eddins, D.A., & Eddins, A.C. (2019). Electrophysiological responses to lateral shifts are not consistent with opponent-channel processing of interaural level differences. Journal of Neurophysiology. 122(2), 737-748
  • Ozmeral, E.J., Eddins, A.C., & Eddins, D.A. (2018). How do age and hearing loss impact spectral envelope perception? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 61 (9), 2376-2385.