Mario Ruggero studies all aspects of the ear, from the external ear to the auditory nerve. Ruggero’s research has shed light not only on how the normal ear works but also on what causes deafness and how it might be treated.
Mario Ruggero studies all aspects of the ear, from the external ear to the auditory nerve. Ruggero’s research has shed light not only on how the normal ear works but also on what causes deafness and how it might be treated.
| PhD | Physiology, University of Chicago |
| BA | Biology, The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) |
Ruggero, M. A. and Temchin, A. N. (2007). Similarity of traveling-wave delays in the hearing organs of humans and other tetrapods. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 8: 153-166.
Recio-Spinoso, A., Temchin, A. N., van Dijk, P., Fan, Y.-H. and Ruggero, M. A. (2005). Wiener-kernel analysis of responses to noise of chinchilla auditory-nerve fibers. Journal of Neurophysiology 93: 3615-3634.
Temchin, A. N., Recio-Spinoso, A., van Dijk, P. and Ruggero, M. A. (2005). Wiener kernels of chinchilla auditory-nerve fibers: verification using responses to tones, clicks and noise and comparison with basilar-membrane vibrations. Journal of Neurophysiology 93: 3635-3648.
| 2001 | Fellow, Acoustical Society of America |
| 1999 | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2002-2007 | Peripheral Mechanisms of Hearing. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $2,429,079 |
| 401 | Signals, Systems and Acoustics for the Communication Sciences |
| 550-2 | Research Procedures in Communication Sciences and Disorders (with Profs. C. K. Thompson and S. Zecker) |
| 516 | Readings on cochlear biophysics and physiology, basic and applied (with Profs. S. Dhar and J. Siegel) |