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Lincoln Gray, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: HHS 1137
Phone: 540-568-8154
Email: graylc@jmu.edu

Teaching Areas:

• Neuroanatomy and Neurogenic Communication Disorders, annually for undergraduates.
• Research in Communication Sciences, annually for Au.D. students.
• Strategies for Making Sense of Complex and Variable Data, Advanced Seminar in CSD, in a rotation of courses for Ph.D. students.
• Supervision of Au.D. dissertations.

Research Areas:

• Development of Hearing
• Auditory Processing in Children with ADHD and Dyslexia
• Emergence of stereo hearing in surgical patients given a newly functional ear
• Mathematical models of spreading diseases and our attempts to prevent that spread
• Psychophysical scaling methods in educational evaluation

Research WebPages:

• C(SD)² Lab -- Computational, Speech, Sensory, Development, & Diseases Laboratory
• Mathematical models of disease explained at   http://www.csd.jmu.edu/csdsquared/
• http://csdsquared.cs.jmu.edu/ to participate in research.
• http://www.uth.tmc.edu/oto/lab (previous, still active) Art of Observation, demonstrations of peer-review and perceptions of tongue lesions

Current and Ongoing Research Projects:

• Effects of early conductive hearing loss on human stereo hearing
• Effects of early trauma, toxins, and nutrition on hearing
• Effects of distracting background sounds, especially on subjects with attention deficits.
• Peer review, learning to observe and to listen, and standardized patient exams in graduate education
• Interactive visualizations of when and where oral and breast cancers recur, how both pandemics and our attempts to protect the Homeland ‘spread’.

Publications (last five years)

Gray. L., McCabe, J. Bernstein D. Constructed Charts of Vaccination Strategies. Health Informatics Journal.  16 (1), 2010 (in press).

Gray, L., Kesser, B., and Cole, E. Detection of Speech in Noise after Correction of Congenital Unilateral Aural Atresia: Effects of age in the emergence of binaural squelch but not in use of head-shadow. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 73: 1281–1287, 2009.

Morton, R.P., Gray, L., Tandon, D.A., Izzard, M., McIvor, M.P., Efficacy of Neck Dissection: Are Surgical Volumes Important? Laryngoscope.  119(6): 1147-1152, 2009.

Noftsinger, J., Newbold, K., Gray, L. Delp, B.  2008. An Innovative Approach to Studying Migration: Applying Functional Mapping to Examine Global Migration Trends.  Forum on Public Policy. http://forumonpublicpolicy.com/archivesum07/noftsinger.pdf.

Cooper, P.M.; Capo K.; Mathes B; Gray, L. One Authentic Early Literacy Practice and Three Standardized Tests: Can a Storytelling Curriculum Measure Up?  Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 28(3): 251 – 275, 2007. (runner-up for best paper of the year in this journal)

Barreto, E.D. Morris, B.H., Philbin, M.K., Gray, L.C., Lasky, R.E. Do Former Preterm Infants Remember and Respond to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Noise? Early Human Development 82(11):703-7, 2006.

Philbin, M.K, Hilton, J.C, Gray, L. The Effects of the Acoustic Environment of the NICU on Infants and Adults. eNeonatal Review, 2006 6:3.

Lurie, D.I, Brooks, D.M., Gray, L. The Effect of Lead on the Avian Auditory Brainstem. Neurotoxicology. 27: 108-17, 2006.

Hilton, J.C.  Gray, L.  Infusing evidence-based practice into university clinical training programs.  Report on Emotional Behavioral Disorders in Youth 6(4): 75-93, 2006.

Schairer, K., and Gray, L. Effects of Lead Exposure on Auditory Function and Perception. In Champlin, C. (Ed.)  Perspectives. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Division 6, Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics, September 2005. 22-26.

Gray, L., and Kent, L.:  Auditory Impulsivity in ADHD: Implications for Development and Persistence.  In Larimer, M.P. (Ed.) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Research Developments,  Nova Science Publishers Inc. pp. 137-156, 2005.

Chang C.Y.J., Gray L. Pressed scar tissue graft for tympanic membrane grafting in revision tympanoplasty. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 132:30-36, 2005.

Gray, L. & Philbin, M.K. Effects of the Newborn ICU on Auditory Attention and Distraction.  Clinics in Perinatology 31:243-260, 2004.

Breier, J.I., Fletcher, J.M., Denton, C., Gray, L. Categorical Perception of Speech Stimuli in Children At-Risk for Reading Difficulty.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 88:152-70, 2004.

Gray, L., Vaidya, J., Baum, M., Badwe, R., Mittra, I., Siddiqui, T., & Wiarda, D.  Functional Maps of Metastases from Breast Cancers: Proof of the Principle that Multidimensional Scaling can Summarize Disease Progression.  World Journal of Surgery 28: 646-651, 2004.

National and International Conference Presentations (last five years)

Gray. L. Vulnerable listeners are abnormally distracted by unpredictable backgrounds and details.  2 hour Keynote Presentation. 39th MidSouth Conference on Communication Disorders, Memphis, TN, 2009.

Belzner,K.A., Ryals, B.M., & Gray, L.C. (2009). Sources of variability in DPOAE in normal adult Coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) [Abstract].  American Auditory Society.  Scottsdale, AZ.

Gaven, J., Lickliter, R., and Gray, L. Bobwhite Hatchlings as Subjects for Developmental Psychoacoustics. International Neuropsychological Society, 2009

Belzner, K, Ryals, B and Gray L Changes in DPOAE and ABR Responses following hair cell regeneration American Auditory Society Bulletin, 33(1)17 2008.

Gray, L., McCabe, J., Bernstein, D. Functional mapping of disease mitigation strategies.  Solving Wicked Problems, Managing and Engineering Complex Situations (MECS) 2007 Conference

Noftsinger, J., Newbold, K., Gray, L. Deltp, B.  An Innovative Approach to Studying Migration: Applying Functional Mapping to Examine Global Migration Trends.  Oxford Roundtable (UK) 2007.

Shih, L., Kodali, S., Darby, E., Nettimi, T., & Gray, L. Cancer Metastasis Prediction for Effective Blocking via Back-propagation.  International Symposium on Bio-Medical Informatics and Cybernetics (BMIC), 2007.

Belzner, K. Seal, B.C., Nussbaum, D, Scott, S. Waddy-Smith, B, & Gray, L.  Sign Movements Predict Consonant Acquisition in Young Children with Implants, ASHA 2007.

Seal, B. Nussbaum, D. Scott, S. Waddy-Smith, B. Belzner, K. Gray, L. Trajectories Of Spoken And Sign Language Development In Implanted Children From Total Communication Programs, 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants in Children, 2007

Skubicz, K. C., Seal, B. C., & Gray, L. Short-Term Auditory Stimulation through Contralateral Hearing Aid Use in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users.  11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants in Children, 2007

Gray, L., & Ryals, B. Antibiotic Injections (Hair-Cell Death and Regeneration) Delay Development of High Frequency Sensitivity and Vocal Behaviors in Hatchling Chicks. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol, Abstracts, 2007.

Seal, B. C.,  Ward, K., Acker, B., Hilton, J. C., Gray, L., & Marler, J. Hand Preference in Communicative Gestures of Young Children With Autism.  Amer. Speech-Language and Hearing Assoc. 2006

Skubicz, K. C., Seal, B. C., & Gray, L. Short-Term Contralateral Hearing Aid Use in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users.  .  Amer. Speech-Language and Hearing Assoc. 2006

Seal, B. C., Belzner, K., Gray, L., Nussbaum, D., & Scott, S.  Children with Cochlear Implants: A Goodness-of-Fit Demographic Model. Amer. Speech-Language and Hearing Assoc. 2006

Philbin, M.K. and Gray, L.: Chautauqua on Sound, 19th Annual Graven Conference on the Physical and Developmental Environment of the High Risk Infant” Human Factors and Research in the NICU, 2006.
Gray, L: In Unpredictable Listening Conditions Lead-Exposed Chicks Respond Similarly to Children with Attention-Deficit Disorders.  Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol, Abstracts, 2006.

Breier J Fletcher JM Klaas P Gray L: The relation between categorical perception of speech stimuli and reading skills in children.  J Acoust Soc Am, 118(2): 2005.

Lasky RE Williams AL van Drongelen W Gray LC.  Noise in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) and its Effect on High Risk Newborns.  J Acoust Soc Am, 118 (2):1956, 2005.          

Darby E Nettimi T Kodali S Shih L Gray L Head and Neck Cancer Metastasis Prediction via Artificial Neural Networks. IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, Stanford, 2005.

Philbin MK, Gray L. Fetal, preterm, and adult hearing: Order and disorder in the acoustic environment. Infant Development in Neonatal Intensive Care. London. 2005.

Philbin MK, Gray L. Safety, errors, and wellbeing: order and disorder in the acoustic environment of the NICU. The Physical and Developmental Environment of the High Risk Infant. Clearwater Beach, FL. 2005.

Gray, L.:  A possible animal model of attention-deficit disorder.  Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.  Abstracts 28: 2005.

Breier, J., Fletcher, J., Gray, L.: Categorical perception of speech stimuli in children at risk for reading disability.  Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.  Abstracts 28: 2005.

Gray, L., Miller, D. Early lead poisoning decreases chicks’ responsiveness to naturalistic, amplitude-modulated sounds.  Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.  Abstracts 27: 2004.