Anahita Mehta, PhD

Research Associate

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N640 Elliott Hall

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Anahita is a research associate in Dr. Andrew Oxenham's Auditory Perception & Cognition Lab at the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Anahita completed her PhD in 2015 in Auditory Neuroscience at University College London, UK. Prior to that, she completed her MSc in Audiological Science at University College London and a BSc in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at the University of Mumbai. Her research interests lie in using EEG and behavioural measures to study pitch perception in normal and impaired hearing, adaptation and effects of attention on auditory perception. She also collaborates with Dr. Kendrick Kay's Computational Visual Neuroscience Lab for functional neuroimaging research related to pitch perception. 

Anahita Mehta CV June 2020

Awards

Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health – K99/R00 DC017472. This is an NIH 5 year grant consisting of 2 years of mentored research funding (K99) and 3 years of independent research funding (R00). 

Topic: Cortical representations of harmonic and virtual pitch in humans using fMRI, EEG and psychophysics.

Publications

  1. Lu, H., Mehta, A. H., Bharadwaj, H. M., Shinn-Cunningham, B. G., and Oxenham, A. J. (2020). “Comment on ‘Rapid acquisition of auditory subcortical steady state responses using multichannel recordings,’” Clin. Neurophysiol., 131, 1833–1834. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2020.05.018
  2. Mehta, A. H., and Oxenham, A. J. (2020). “Effect of lowest harmonic rank on fundamental-frequency difference limens varies with fundamental frequency,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 147, 2314. doi:10.1121/10.0001092 
  3. Mehta, A. H., Lu, H., and Oxenham, A. J. (2020). “The Perception of Multiple Simultaneous Pitches as a Function of Number of Spectral Channels and Spectral Spread in a Noise-Excited Envelope Vocoder,” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. JARO, 21, 61–72. doi:10.1007/s10162-019-00738-y
  4. Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2018). Fundamental-frequency discrimination based on temporal-envelope cues: Effects of bandwidth and interference. J. Acoust. Soc. Am - EL EL423-EL428. doi: 10.1121/1.5079569 
  5. Mehta, A.H., Feng, L. & Oxenham, A.J. (2018). Neural correlates of auditory enhancement in humans, bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/458521. doi:10.1101/458521
  6. Lau, B. K., Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Super-optimal perceptual integration suggests a place-based representation of pitch at high frequencies. Journal of Neuroscience, 1507–17.
  7. Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Vocoder simulations explain complex pitch perception limitations experienced by cochlear implant users. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 1–14.
  8. Wojtczak, M., Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Rhythm judgments reveal a frequency asymmetry in the perception and neural coding of sound synchrony. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(5), 1201–1206.
  9. Mehta, A. H., Jacoby, N., Yasin, I., Oxenham, A. J., Shamma, S. (2017). An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in the temporal misallocation of perceptual objects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372, 20160114.
  10. Mehta, A. H., Yasin, I., Oxenham, A. J., Shamma, S. (2016). Neural correlates of attention in a perceptually multistable auditory illusion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140:2225–2233. doi: 10.1121/1.4963902
  11. Moore, B. C. J., Vickers, D. A., Mehta, A. (2012). The effects of age on temporal fine structure sensitivity in monaural and binaural conditions, International Journal of Audiology, 51(10), 715-721.
  12. Gockel, H. E., Carlyon, R. P., Mehta, A., Plack, C. J. (2011). The frequency following response (FFR) may reflect pitch-bearing information but is not a direct representation of pitch, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 12(6), 767-782.
Mehta, PhD

Publications

  1. Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2018). Fundamental-frequency discrimination based on temporal-envelope cues: Effects of bandwidth and interference. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144, EL423–EL428. doi:10.1121/1.5079569. 
     
  2. Mehta, A.H., Feng, L. & Oxenham, A.J. (2018). Neural correlates of auditory enhancement in humans. bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/458521.
     
  3. Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2018). The perception of multiple simultaneous pitches as a function of number of spectral channels and spectral spread in a noise-excited envelope vocoder (in review). 
     
  4. Lau, B. K., Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Super-optimal perceptual integration suggests a place-based representation of pitch at high frequencies. Journal of Neuroscience, 1507–17. 
     
  5. Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Vocoder simulations explain complex pitch perception limitations experienced by cochlear implant users. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 1–14. 
     
  6. Wojtczak, M., Mehta, A. H., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Rhythm judgments reveal a frequency asymmetry in the perception and neural coding of sound synchrony. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(5), 1201–1206. 
     
  7. Mehta, A. H., Jacoby, N., Yasin, I., Oxenham, A. J., Shamma, S. (2017). An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in the temporal misallocation of perceptual objects. Phil Trans R Soc B 372, 20160114. 
     
  8. Mehta, A. H., Yasin, I., Oxenham, A. J., Shamma, S. (2016). Neural correlates of attention in a perceptually multistable auditory illusion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140:2225–2233. doi: 10.1121/1.4963902 
     
  9. Moore, B. C. J., Vickers, D. A., Mehta, A. (2012). The effects of age on temporal fine structure sensitivity in monaural and binaural conditions, International Journal of Audiology, 51(10), 715-721. 
     
  10. Gockel, H. E., Carlyon, R. P., Mehta, A., Plack, C. J. (2011). The frequency following response (FFR) may reflect pitch-bearing information but is not a direct representation of pitch, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 12(6), 767-782. 
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