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Haptics for hearing
Speech
Fletcher, Akis, Verschuur & Perry (2025) Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Akis, Verschuur & Perry (2024) Improved tactile speech perception and noise robustness using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with amplitude envelope expansion. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Perry, Thoidis, Verschuur & Goehring (2024) Improved tactile speech robustness to background noise with a dual‑path recurrent neural network noise‑reduction method. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Akis, Verschuur, & Perry (2024) Improved tactile speech perception using audio‑to‑tactile sensory substitution with formant frequency focusing. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Verschuur & Perry (2023) Improving speech perception for hearing-impaired listeners using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with multiple frequency channels. Nature Scientific Reports.
Bin Afif (2023) Improving cochlear implant listening using vibrotactile stimulation. PhD Thesis.
Perry (2022) Speech-in-noise performance in hearing-impaired listeners assessed using evoked responses and enhanced using tactile stimulation. PhD Thesis.
Fletcher, Thini, & Perry (2020) Enhanced pitch discrimination for cochlear implant users with a new haptic neuroprosthetic. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Song, & Perry (2020) Electro-haptic stimulation enhances speech recognition in spatially separated noise for cochlear implant users. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Hadeedi, Goehring, & Mills (2019) Electro-haptic enhancement of speech-in-noise performance in cochlear implant users. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Mills, & Goehring (2018) Vibro-tactile enhancement of speech intelligibility in multitalker noise for simulated cochlear implant listening. Trends in Hearing.
Spatial hearing
Fletcher, Zgheib, & Perry (2021) Sensitivity to haptic sound-localisation cues. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Zgheib, & Perry (2021) Sensitivity to haptic sound-localization cues at different body locations. Sensors.
Fletcher & Zgheib (2020) Haptic sound‑localisation for use in cochlear implant and hearing‑aid users. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fletcher, Cunningham, & Mills (2020) Electro-haptic enhancement of spatial hearing in cochlear implant users. Nature Scientific Reports.
Reviews
Fletcher (2021) Can haptic stimulation enhance music perception in hearing-impaired listeners? Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Fletcher & Verschuur (2021) Electro-haptic stimulation: A new approach for improving cochlear-implant listening. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Fletcher (2020) Using haptic stimulation to enhance auditory perception in hearing-impaired listeners. Expert Review of Medical Devices.
Bone-conduction hearing aids
Hampton, Fletcher, Sanderson, Loureiro, Mortimer, & Bhutta (2025) Improved Speech Recognition in Adults With Conductive or Mixed Hearing Loss Using a Direct-to-Consumer Bone-Conduction Device: A Multiple Methods Intervention Study. JMIR.
Bioelectronics
Psoma, Sobianin, & Tourlidakis (2025) A Hybrid Piezoelectric and Reverse Electrowetting Energy Harvester for Wearable Biosensors. Eurosensors.
Sobianin (2024) Energy Harvesting from the Human Body for Portable Biosensors and Implantable Biomedical Devices. PhD Thesis.
Sobianin, Psoma & Tourlidakis (2024) A 3D-Printed Piezoelectric Microdevice for Human Energy Harvesting for Wearable Biosensors. Micromachines.
Sobianin, Psoma & Tourlidakis (2023) A hybrid piezoelectric and electrostatic energy harvester for scavenging arterial pulsations. Materials today.
Sobianin, Psoma & Tourlidakis. (2022) Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting from the Human Body for Biomedical Applications. Energies.
Sobianin, Skonechnyi, & Yarova (2020) Portable electrocardiograph with GSM module for telemedicine. Technical sciences and technologies.
Sobianin & Trofimov (2019) Synthesising solver structure of the OpenFOAM mathematical modeling system for analysing thermal mode of LED lamps. Technology and Design in Electronic Equipment.
Clinical test development
Hamdan & Fletcher (2022) A compact two-loudspeaker virtual sound reproduction system for clinical testing of spatial hearing with hearing-assistive devices. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Education
Sobianin et al. (2026) BeeHive: A flexible open electronics platform for controlling research equipment and teaching electronics principles. Preprint.
High-frequency hearing & ultrasound
Lineton, Al Balushi, Lloyd-Jones, Leighton & Fletcher (2024) Sensory unpleasantness of very-high frequency sound and audible ultrasound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Leighton, Lineton, Dolder, & Fletcher (2020) Public exposure to airborne ultrasound and very high frequency sound. Acoustics Today.
Fletcher, M., Lloyd Jones, S., White, P., Dolder, C., Leighton, T., & Lineton, B. (2018) Effects of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound on humans part I: adverse symptoms after exposure to audible very-high frequency sound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Fletcher, Lloyd Jones, White, Dolder, Leighton, & Lineton (2018) Effects of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound on humans part II: a double-blind randomized provocation study of inaudible 20-kHz ultrasound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Fletcher, Lloyd Jones, White, Dolder, Lineton, & Leighton (2018) Public exposure to ultrasound and very-high frequency sound in air. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Dolder, Fletcher, Lloyd Jones, Lineton, Dennison, Symmonds, & Leighton (2018) Measurements of ultrasonic pest deterrents and an acoustically branded hairdryer: Ambiguities in guideline compliance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Other
Fletcher, de Boer, Krumbholz (2016) Effect of Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Feedback on Perceptual Estimates of Cochlear Gain and Compression. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
Fletcher (2015) Perceptual correlates of efferent modulation in the human auditory system. PhD Thesis.
Fletcher, de Boer, Krumbholz (2014) Is Off-Frequency Overshoot Caused by Adaptation of Suppression? Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
Fletcher & Wiggins (2014) Can an auditory illusion trick the brain into turning down tinnitus? Medical Hypotheses.
Fletcher, de Boer, Krumbholz (2013) Is overshoot caused by an efferent reduction in cochlear gain? In: Basic aspects of hearing: physiology and perception. Springer, New York.
Fletcher, de Boer, Krumbholz (2013) A perceptual measure of cochlear gain control by the medial olivocochlear system. Journal Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
Fletcher, de Boer, Krumbholz (2011) Does reduction in cochlear gain explain the overshoot effect? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.