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  1. Understanding Hearing Health Care Choices and Customer Archetypes in an Era of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, July 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  2. Examination of the Words-in-Noise Test Signal-to-Noise Ratio Thresholds From the National Institutes of Health Toolbox for Children and Adults

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  3. Is accuracy of Real Ear Measures or patient report of benefit linked to hearing aid retention?

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, December 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Ethan Chen

  4. A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Two Self-Fit Methods to the Best-Practices Method of Hearing Aid Fitting

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Larry E Humes, Sumitrajit Dhar

  5. Customer Archetypes in Hearing Health Care

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, October 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  6. Sex-Specific Prevalence, Demographic Characteristics, and Risk Factors of Tinnitus in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, March 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  7. History and Lingering Impact of the Arbitrary 25-dB Cutoff for Normal Hearing

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, March 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  8. Relationship Between Behavioral and Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions Delay-Based Tuning Estimates

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Arturo Moleti, Renata Sisto

  9. Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions Reveal an Efficient Auditory Efferent Network

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, November 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  10. Exploring Optimal Stimulus Frequency Ratio for Measurement of the Quadratic f 2 –f 1 Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission in Humans

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Rachael Baiduc

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    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Larry Lundy, Sumitrajit Dhar, Donald Nielsen

  12. Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Hearing Impairment: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

    Article • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, May 2016, American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  13. Automated audiometry

    Article • Ear & Hearing, May 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Gayla L. Poling

  14. Efferent Modulation of Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emission Fine Structure

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, December 2015, Frontiers

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  15. Hearing Impairment Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

    Article • JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, July 2015, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  16. Working memory training to improve speech perception in noise across languages

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  17. Wideband profiles of stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions in humans

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  18. A pilot study of phase-evoked acoustic responses from the ears of human subjects

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  19. Comparison of nine methods to estimate ear-canal stimulus levels

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  20. Effects of Contralateral Acoustic Stimulation on Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions and Hearing Threshold Fine Structure

    Article • Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  21. Speech-on-speech Masking with Variable Access to the Linguistic Content of the Masker Speech for Native and Nonnative English Speakers

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, April 2014, American Academy of Audiology

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  22. Aging of the medial olivocochlear reflex and associations with speech perception

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, February 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  23. Toward a test battery for differential categorization of age-related hearing loss

    Article • Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, January 2014, Medknow

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  24. Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, threshold microstructure, and psychophysical tuning over a wide frequency range in humans

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  25. DPOAE characteristics

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Gayla L. Poling

  26. Masking Release Due to Linguistic and Phonetic Dissimilarity Between the Target and Masker Speech

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Lauren Calandruccio, Ann Bradlow

  27. The relevance of otoacoustic emission fine structure

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  28. Can cochlear mechanics contribute to amplitude modulation perception?

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  29. Noise-induced hearing loss

    Article • Disease-a-Month, April 2013, Elsevier

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Gayla L. Poling

  30. Clinical measure of auditory function

    Article • Disease-a-Month, April 2013, Elsevier

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Gayla L. Poling

  31. The relevance of otoacoustic emission fine structure

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  32. Can cochlear mechanics contribute to amplitude modulation perception?

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  33. Maturation and Aging of the Human Cochlea: A View through the DPOAE Looking Glass

    Article • Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  34. Medial olivocochlear influence on stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emission input-output functions

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  35. Efferent modulation of physiological and behavioral measures of cochlear mechanics

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  36. Behavioral Hearing Thresholds Between 0.125 and 20 kHz Using Depth-Compensated Ear Simulator Calibration

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  37. Weighting Function-Based Mapping of Descriptors to Frequency-Gain Curves in Listeners With Hearing Loss

    Article • Ear & Hearing, May 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  38. The breaking of cochlear scaling symmetry in human newborns and adults

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  39. Breaking away: Violation of distortion emission phase-frequency invariance at low frequencies

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  40. Level dependence of distortion product otoacoustic emission phase is attributed to component mixing

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  41. Fast and Slow Effects of Medial Olivocochlear Efferent Activity in Humans

    Article • PLOS One, April 2011, PLOS

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  42. Effects of contralateral acoustic stimulation on hearing threshold fine structure and spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  43. In-Depth Investigation of Frequency-Dependence of Nonlinearity in Human Cochlea Using DPOAE

    Article • The Laryngoscope, January 2011, Wiley

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  44. Deviations from Scaling Symmetry in the Apical Half of the Human Cochlea

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  45. The Effectiveness of Clear Speech as a Masker

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2010, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar, Lauren Calandruccio, Ann Bradlow

  46. Neuroanatomical Characteristics and Speech Perception in Noise in Older Adults

    Article • Ear & Hearing, August 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  47. Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2010, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  48. Differences in distortion product otoacoustic emission phase recorded from human neonates using two popular probes

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 2010, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  49. Distortion product otoacoustic emission phase and component analysis in human newborns

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2010, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  50. Contralateral acoustic stimulation alters the magnitude and phase of distortion product otoacoustic emissions

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  51. The Effect of Contralateral Acoustic Stimulation on Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions

    Article • Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  52. Comparing two methods to measure preferred listening levels of personal listening devices

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  53. Spectral modulation detection training in older adults with hearing loss.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  54. A weighting‐function‐based approach to subjectively modify the frequency response of a hearing aid.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  55. Foreign accented speech: Energetic or informational masking?

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  56. Aging and cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2009, Elsevier

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  57. Cortical Mechanisms of Speech Perception in Noise

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2008, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  58. Speech Perception in Noise Using Directional Microphones in Open-Canal Hearing Aids

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, July 2008, American Academy of Audiology

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  59. Cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise in elderly listeners

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2008, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  60. A comparative study of distortion-product-otoacoustic-emission fine structure in human newborns and adults with normal hearing

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2007, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  61. Comparison of universal newborn hearing screening programs in Illinois hospitals

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, February 2007, Elsevier

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  62. Comparison of Performance on the Hearing in Noise Test Using Directional Microphones and Digital Noise Reduction Algorithms

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2006, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  63. DPOAE Component Estimates and Their Relationship to Hearing Thresholds

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, April 2006, American Academy of Audiology

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  64. A comparison of OAEs arising from different generation mechanisms in guinea pig

    Article • Hearing Research, September 2005, Elsevier

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  65. The effect of stimulus-frequency ratio on distortion product otoacoustic emission components

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2005, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  66. Effects of a Suppressor Tone on Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions Fine Structure: Why a Universal Suppressor Level Is Not a Practical Solution to Obtaining Single-Generator DP-Grams

    Article • Ear & Hearing, December 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  67. Predictability of Speech-In-Noise Performance from Real Ear Measures of Directional Hearing Aids

    Article • Ear & Hearing, April 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Sumitrajit Dhar

  68. Multiple internal reflections in the cochlea and their effect on DPOAE fine structure

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2002, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Sumitrajit Dhar