Chhayakant Patro, Ph.D.

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Iowa, 2021

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2018-2021

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Audiologist, Heuser Hearing Institute, 2017

Grants

External:

• R01DC021702-01, NIH/NIDCD (Current)
• Grammy Foundation (Past)

Internal

• Faculty Development & Research Committee Grant (Past)
• Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson Scholarship (Past)

Recent Publications

Patro, C., Shephard, E., & Srinivasan, N. K. (in press). Effects of electro-acoustic stimulation on the temporal dynamics of word recognition. Cochlear Implant International.

Patro, C., Srinivasan, N. K., O’Neill, S., Barkhouse, M., & Mishra, S. K. (in press). Investigating the role of extended high-frequency audibility on temporal envelope processing and spatial release from masking. Hearing Research.

Patro, C., Wasko, E., Prabhu, P., & Srinivasan, N. K. (2025). Investigating neurophysiological, perceptual, and cognitive mechanisms in misophonia. Biology, 14(3), 238.

Patro, C., Singer, A., Monfiletto, A., Peitsch, K., & Bologna, W. J. (2024). Effects of noise exposure on peripheral auditory function, binaural envelope coding, and speech perception in student musicians with normal hearing. Ear and Hearing. Epub ahead of print.

Patro, C., Monfiletto, A., Singer, A., Srinivasan, N. K., & Mishra, S. K. (2024). Midlife speech perception deficits: Impact of extended high-frequency hearing, peripheral neural function, and cognitive abilities. Ear and Hearing, 45(5), 1149–1164.

Srinivasan, N., McCannon, S., & Patro, C. (2024). Spatial release from masking for small spatial separations using simulated cochlear implant speech. Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine, 5(2), 18.

Patro, C., & Mishra, S. K. (2024). The not-so-slight perceptual consequences of slight hearing loss in school-age children: A scoping review. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1–21.

Patro, C., & Srinivasan, N. K. (2023). Assessing subclinical hearing loss in musicians and nonmusicians using auditory brainstem responses and speech perception measures. JASA Express Letters, 3(7).

Patro, C., Bennaim, A., & Shephard, E. (2023). Effects of spectral degradation on gated word recognition. JASA Express Letters, 3(8).

Complete Bibliography: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wcbEF34AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Presentations

Patro, C. (2023, November). Time-gated word recognition in individuals with cochlear implants: Effects of number spectral channels, spectral smearing, and electro-acoustic stimulation. In Mid-Atlantic Seminars on Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Patro, C., Bennaim, A., & Shephard, E. (2023, July). Effects of spectral degradation on gated word recognition. In Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP), Lake Tahoe, CA.

Patro, C., & Srinivasan, N. (2023, May). Effects of spectral resolution and smearing on gated word recognition. Poster presented at the 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Patro, C. (2022, November). Time-gated word recognition in individuals with cochlear implants: Effects of spectral resolution and electro-acoustic stimulation. In Mid-Atlantic Seminars on Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Patro, C., & Srinivasan, N. K. (2022). Noise exposure, binaural envelope processing, and spatial release from masking in student musicians with normal hearing. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(4), A126.

Patro, C., Kreft, H., & Wojtczak, M. (2020). Effects of age and tinnitus: Limited physiological evidence and no perceptual consequence of cochlear synaptopathy. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4), 2466-2466.

Patro, C., Klang, A., Kreft, H. A., & Wojtczak, M. (2020). Effects of tinnitus and hearing loss on spatial release from speech-on-speech masking and physiological proxies of cochlear synaptopathy. Midwinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose.

Beim, J. A., Patro, C., & Wojtczak, M. (2020). Examining the efficacy of forward-pressure calibrated activators on wideband measures of the middle-war muscle reflex. Midwinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Jose.

Patro, C., Klang, A., Kreft, H., & Wojtczak, M. (2019). Effects of age and hearing loss on spatial release from speech-on-speech masking, performance in envelope-based psychophysical tasks, and eeg envelope-following responses. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1875-1875.

Patro, C., Klang, A., Kreft, H. A., & Wojtczak, M. (2019). Relating physiological measures of cochlear synaptopathy to speech perception in individuals with noise-induced tinnitus. Association for research in otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD.

Patro, C., Klang, A., Kreft, H. A., & Wojtczak, M. (2018). Individual differences in the strength of middle-ear-muscle reflex in young adults with normal hearing and varying degree of noise exposure. International hearing aid research conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe, CA.

Patro, C., & Mendel, L.L. (2017). Processing spoken words with and without semantic content: effects of spectral degradation and cochlear implantation. Conference on implantable auditory prostheses (CIAP), Lake Tahoe, CA.

Najnin, S., Banerjee, B., Mendel, L. L., Kapourchali, M. H., Dutta, J. K., Lee, S., Patro, C., & Pousson, M. (2016). Identifying hearing loss from learned speech kernels. In INTERSPEECH, 243-247.

Banerjee, B., Kapourchali, M. H., Najnin, S., Mendel, L. L., Lee, S., Patro, C., & Pousson, M. (2016, December). Inferring hearing loss from learned speech kernels. In 2016 15th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 26-31.

Patro, C., & Mendel, L.L. (2015). Effect of contextual cues on the perception of interrupted speech under variable spectral conditions. Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP), Lake Tahoe, CA.

Memberships/Affiliations 

• Acoustical Society of America
• Association for Research in Otolaryngology