Assistant Professor

Education
· Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor concentration in Audiology - Northeastern University
· B.S., Electrical Engineering - Binghamton University

Office: 133 Forsyth
Voice: 617-373-5424
Fax: 617-373-5199
E-mail: m.epstein@neu.edu

Scholarly Interests
· Psychoacoustics
· Loudness
· Otoacoustic Emissions
· Binaural Hearing
· Auditory Physiology

Bio
Dr. Epstein directs the Auditory Modeling and Processing Laboratory (AMPLab). He leads research that seeks to build bridges between the understandings of physiological and psychological auditory processing and perception.

Publications

Epstein, M. (2007) "An introduction to induced loudness reduction," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122 (3), EL74-80. [PDF]

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) "Reaction time to 1- and 4-kHz tones as a function of sensation level in normal listeners," Ear Hear. 27(4):424-429. [LINK]

Epstein, M., and Gifford, E. (2006). "A potential carry-over effect in the measurement of induced loudness reduction," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 305-309. [PDF]

Marozeau, J., Epstein, M., Florentine, M., and Daley, B. (2006). "A test of the Binaural Equal-Loudness-Ratio Hypothesis for tones," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3870-3877. [PDF]

Epstein, M., and Florentine, M. (2006). "Loudness of brief tones measured by magnitude estimation and loudness matching," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 1943-1945.[PDF]

Epstein, M., and Florentine, M. (2005). "A test of the Equal-Loudness-Ratio hypothesis using cross-modality matching functions," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 907 - 913.[PDF]

Epstein, M., and Florentine, M. (2005). "Inferring basilar-membrane motion from tone-burst otoacoustic emissions and psychoacoustic measurements," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 263-274.[PDF]

Epstein, M., Buus, S., and Florentine, M. (2004). "The effects of window delay, delinearization, and frequency on tone-burst otoacoustic emission input/output measurements," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 1160-1167.[PDF]

Conference Presentations and Publications


Silva, I. and Epstein, M. (2007) "Clinical Use of Auditory Brainstem Response to Assess Loudness Growth," Am. Speech-Lang. Hear. Assoc., Boston, MA.

North, M., Sullivan, J., and Epstein, M. (2007) "Effective Approaches to Accent Modification: Research, Design, & Implementation," Am. Speech-Lang. Hear. Assoc., Boston, MA.

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2007) "Binaural loudness summation and binaural loudness constancy," Binaural Bash, Boston, MA.

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) "Induced loudness reduction," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3246. Invited talk.

Marozeau, J., Epstein, M., Florentine, M., and Ioffe, S. (2006). "Loudness reduction caused by a tone at a different frequency, " Am. Speech-Lang. Hear. Assoc., Miami, Fl.

Florentine, M. and Epstein, M. (2006) "Why classroom demonstrations of binaural loudness summation fail," Proc. IHCON Int. Hearing Aid Res. Conf.

Florentine, M. and Epstein, M. (2006) "To honor Stevens and repeal his law (for the auditory system)," International Society for Psychophysics. Invited talk. [PDF]

Epstein, M., Marozeau, J., Florentine, M. (2006) "Basilar-membrane activitiy and loudness," International Society for Psychophysics. [PDF]

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) "Reexamining loudness at and near threshold," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3292. Invited talk. [LINK]

Marozeau, J., Epstein, M., Florentine, M. (2006) "Induced loudness reduction as a function of frequency separation," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3266.[LINK]

Marozeau, J., Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Daley, B. (2006): "Testing the Binaural Equal-Loudness-Ratio Hypothesis using Cross-modality Matching," Am. Aud. Soc.

Marozeau, J., Florentine, M., and Epstein, M. (2006) "New method for deriving loudness functions from binaural level difference for equal loudness," Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) "The effect of frequency on reaction time for listeners with normal hearing," Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2005) "Tone-burst otoacoustic emissions and loudness," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 2454.

Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2005) "Basilar-membrane motion inferred from otoacoustic emissions and psychoacoustic measurements," Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abs., 50.

Epstein, M., Buus, S, and Florentine, M. (2004) "Can tone-burst otoacoustic emissions be used to measure basilar-membrane response in humans?" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 2499.

Epstein, M., Buus, S., and Florentine, M. (2002) "Measuring loudness of short and long tones using magnitude estimation," Proc. 2nd Int. Hearing Aid Res. Conf., 46.

Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Buus, S. (2002) "Using cross-modality matching to test the Equal-Loudness-Ratio hypothesis: Loudness of short and long tones," Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abs., 178.

Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Buus, S. (2001) "Loudness functions for long and short tones," In: E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass and T. Lachmann (Ed.) Fechner Day 2001, Pabst, Berlin, 361-366. [PDF]

Epstein, M., Florentine, M., and Buus, S. (2001) "Measuring loudness of long and short tones using magnitude estimation," In: E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass and T. Lachmann (Ed.) Fechner Day, Pabst, Berlin, 231-235. [PDF]

Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Buus, S. (2001) "Loudness functions for long and short tones," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2349.