PHOTO: Lincoln Gray

Lincoln Gray, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: HHS 1147
Phone: 540-568-8154
Email: graylc@jmu.edu

Research and Teaching Areas:

Development of Hearing
Auditory Processing in Children with ADHD and Dyslexia
Mathematical models of metastases
Psychophysical scaling methods in educational evaluation

Research Laboratory

C(SD)² Lab -- Computational, Speech, Sensory, Development, & Diseases Laboratory
Educational and cancer models available at http://www.uth.tmc.edu/oto/lab

Current and Ongoing Research Projects:

Effects of early trauma, toxins, and deprivation 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.

Publications (last five years)

Lurie, D.I, Brooks, D.M., Gray, L. The Effect of Lead on the Avian Auditory Brainstem. Neurotoxicology. In press.

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, in press.

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.

Breier, J.I., Fletcher, J.M., Foorman, B.R., Klaas, P., & Gray, L.C. Auditory temporal processing in children with specific reading disability with and without attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 46:31-42, 2003.

Gray, L.C., Breier, J.I., Foorman, B.R., Fletcher, J.M. A Continuum of Impulsiveness Caused by Auditory Masking. Int. J. Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 66:265-272, 2002.

Breier, J.I., Gray, L.C., Fletcher, J.M., Foorman, B.R. & Klaas, P. Perception of speech and nonspeech stimuli by children with and without reading disability and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 8:226-50, 2002.

Breier, J., Gray, L., Klaas. P., Fletcher, J., Foorman, B.: Dissociation of sensitivity and response bias in children with ADHD during central auditory masking. Neuropsychology 16:28-34, 2002

Gray, L.C., Herrin, H.K., Stiernberg, C. Novosad, G., & Tornwall, R. Perceptions of Tongue Lesions by Dental Hygiene Students and Otolaryngologists. J. Cancer Education, 17:199-203, 2002.

Philbin, K, and Gray, L. Changing levels of quiet in an intensive care unit. J. Perinatol., 22:455-460, 2002.

Breier, J., Gray, L., Fletcher, J., Diehl, R., Klaas. P., Foorman, B., Molis, M.: Perception of voice and tone onset time continua in children with dyslexia with and without attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. J. Exp. Child Psychol., 80:245-270, 2001.

Gray, L. Use of psychophysical scaling for peer review in problem-based learning. 'Really Good Stuff': New ideas in medical education. Medical Education, 35:1089-1090, 2001.

Gray, L, Woolgar, J., and Brown, J.: A functional map of cervical metastases from oral squamous cell carcinoma. Acta Otolaryngol., 120:885-890, 2000.

Gray, L.: Properties of Sound. J. Perinatol. 20:S6-S11, 2000

Gray, L., and Philbin, K.: Measuring Sound in Hospital Nurseries J. Perinatol. 20:S100-S105, 2000.

National and International Conference Presentations (last five years)

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, in press.

Lasky RE Williams AL van Drongelen W Gray LC. Noise in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) and its Effect on High Risk Newborns. Noise-Con, 2005, in press.

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.

Gray, L., Vaidya, J., Houghton, J., Baum, M. 2003. Functional Maps: A novel way of visualizing patterns of recurrence from breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 82: S90. 2003. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, #372.

Lurie, D., Brooks, D. Gray, L. Low levels of lead induce neuronal and glial changes during development of the avian auditory brainstem. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstracts 25: 2002.

Breier, J., Gray, L., Fletcher, J., Foorman, B. Klass, P. Auditory Perception in Children with Dyslexia with and Without Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstracts 25: 2002

Gray, L., Saddique, T., Wiarda, D. Functional mapping of metastases. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 2001, #416.

Gray, L., Gordon, H. Dains, J., Richards, B., Rogers, J. Multidimensional scaling and forced-choice comparisons reveal the structural dimensions to which physicians attend in patient encounters. Research in Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, 2001.

Gray, L., Breier, J., Diehl, R., Haardt, P., Turley, C. Development of perceptual dimensions lags the ability to perceive details. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109: 2358, 2001.

Gray, L., and Breier, J. ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Affects False Alarms in Central Masking but not Absolute Thresholds. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstracts 24: 2001.

Richards, B., Middleman, A., Gray, L.: Faculty perceptions of skills required for effective teaching are two-dimensional. Research in Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, 2000.

Gray, L., Herrin, K., Stiernberg, C. Novosad, G., and Tonwall, R. Perceptions of Tongue Lesions by Dental hygiene students and otolaryngologists. J. Cancer Educ 15:36, 2000.

Verklan, T. and Gray, L.: Patterns of metastases in the aged. Possibility Conference for Collaboration, Yamaguchi School of Medicine, Japan, 2000.

Gray, L., and Holian, A. Early lead exposure affects auditory temporal processing. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstracts 23:103, 2000.

Gray, L., Woolgar, J., and Brown, J.: A functional map of cervical metastases from oral squamous cell carcinoma. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abstracts 23:211, 2000 and M.D.Anderson Annual Symposium on Fundamental Cancer Research 52:153-154, 2000.