Bobby E. Gibbs, II, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Contact Information

Waisman Center
1500 Highland Avenue
Room Number 541
Madison, WI 53705
608-890-4785
bgibbs5@wisc.edu

Research Statement

Bobby Gibbs investigates how strategies for optimizing acoustic information are affected by differences in the neural encoding of sound. He combines acoustic, perceptual, and electrophysiological measures to uncover the best strategies for enhancing acoustic signals masked by noise when neural encoding is altered. Gibbs has begun incorporating data science and machine learning techniques to link temporal processing deficits in noise to encoding alterations from sub-optimal electric neural stimulation (in the case of cochlear implant recipients) and older age. His research aims to guide signal enhancement strategies using neurologically inspired models of acoustic cue utilization.

Selected Publications

PubMed

Khalil, R.M., Papanicolaou, A., Chou, R.T., Gibbs, B.E., Anderson, S., Gordon-Salant, S., Cummings, M.P., Goupell, M.J. (2023). Using Machine Learning to Understand the Relationships Between Audiometric Data, Speech Perception, Temporal Processing, And Cognition, in: ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Presented at the ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095325
Gibbs, B. E., 2nd, Bernstein, J. G. W., Brungart, D. S., & Goupell, M. J. (2022). Effects of better-ear glimpsing, binaural unmasking, and spectral resolution on spatial release from masking in cochlear-implant users. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(2), 1230. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0013746
Gibbs, B. E., 2nd, & Fogerty, D. (2018). Explaining intelligibility in speech-modulated maskers using acoustic glimpse analysis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(6), EL449. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5041466
Miller, R. E., Gibbs, B. E., 2nd, & Fogerty, D. (2018). Glimpsing speech interrupted by speech-modulated noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(5), 3058. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5038273
Fogerty, D., Xu, J., & Gibbs, B. E., 2nd (2016). Modulation masking and glimpsing of natural and vocoded speech during single-talker modulated noise: Effect of the modulation spectrum. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(3), 1800. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4962494