Lina A. J. Reiss, Ph.D. (she/her)

  • Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
  • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
  • Neuroscience Graduate Program, School of Medicine

Biography

Background

Lina Reiss received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2005, with a focus on neurophysiology of sound localization circuits in the auditory brainstem. She holds a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University. After receiving her Ph.D., she spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow in the area of cochlear implants and psychoacoustics at the University of Iowa. In 2010, she was appointed as faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology and the Oregon Hearing Research Center, with joint appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Summary of current research

We study auditory perception in children and adults with cochlear implants and/or hearing aids, with a focus on binaural fusion as it relates to auditory object formation/segregation, and speech perception in background noise. Other areas of investigation include music and pitch perception, and measuring neural health recovery after cochlear implantation and how this relates to outcomes.

Techniques used include psychophysics, speech and music synthesis, hearing aid and cochlear implant programming, auditory brainstem and other evoked responses, compound action potential recordings via a cochlear implant, and computational modeling.  Software/hardware platforms used in the lab include MATLAB and Visual C++, and research interfaces for direct cochlear implant stimulation.

We also have collaborations with other laboratories on topics ranging from outcomes with cochlear implantation in underserved populations to objective imaging methods to animal behavior and cortical auditory neurophysiology.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S.E., 1997, Princeton University
    • Ph.D., 2005, Johns Hopkins University

  • Fellowship

    • Postdoctoral Fellow (2005- 2009): University of Iowa, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Memberships and associations:

  • Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Acoustical Society of America
  • American Auditory Society
  • Society for Neuroscience

Areas of interest

  • Pitch and speech perception
  • Hearing loss and cochlear implants
  • Binaural fusion, auditory object formation, and stream segregation
  • Auditory nerve health after cochlear implantation
  • Computational modeling of auditory perception

Additional information

Honors and awards

  • 2018 Excellence in Teaching, OHSU School of Medicine
  • 2022 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America

Publications

Selected publications

  • Oh, Y., Dean, N., Gallun, F. J., & Reiss, L. A. J. (2024). Sequential auditory grouping reduces binaural pitch fusion in listeners with normal hearing, hearing aids, and cochlear implantsa). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(5), 3217–3231. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034366
  • Reiss, L. A. J., Lawrence, M. B., Omelchenko, I. A., He, W., & Kirk, J. R. (2024). Chronic Electro-Acoustic Stimulation May Interfere With Electric Threshold Recovery After Cochlear Implantation in the Aged Guinea Pig. Ear and hearing, 45(6), 1554–1567. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001545
  • Hyzer, J.M., Hill, J.D., He, W., Burwood, G.W.S., Fettig, A.K., and Reiss, L.A.J. (2024) Effects of Cochlear Implantation and Steroids on the Aging Guinea Pig Cochlea.  Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 171(2), 530–537. https://doi.org/10.1002/ohn.732
  • Oh, Y., Hartling, C.L., Srinivasan, N.K., Diedesch, A., Gallun, F.J., and Reiss, L.A.J. (2022).  Factors underlying masking release by voice-gender differences and spatial separation cues in multi-talker listening environments in listeners with and without hearing loss.  Front. Neurosci.-Aud. Cog. Neurosci. 16, 1059639. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1059639
  • Reiss, L.A.J. and Molis, M.R. (2021) An alternative explanation for difficulties with speech in background talkers: Abnormal fusion of vowels across fundamental frequency and ears.  J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 22(4):443-461. doi: 10.1007/s10162-021-00790-7  
  • Hartling, C.H., Fowler, J.R., Stark, G.N., Glickman, B., Eddolls, M., Oh, Y., Ramsey, K., and Reiss, L.A.J.  (2020)  Binaural pitch fusion in children with normal hearing, hearing aids, and cochlear implants.  .  Ear. Hear. 41(6): 1545-1559.  doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000874
  • Oh, Y., and Reiss, L.A.J.  (2020)   Binaural pitch fusion: Binaural pitch averaging in cochlear implant users with broad binaural fusion.  Ear. Hear. 41(6): 1450-1460. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000866
  • Reiss, L.A., Shayman, C.S., Walker, E.P., Bennett, K.O., Fowler, J.R., Hartling, C.L., Glickman, B., Lasarev, M.R., and Oh, Y. (2017)  Binaural pitch fusion: Comparison of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141(3): 1909-1920.
  • Reiss, L.A., Eggleston, J.L., Walker, E.P., and Oh, Y. (2016)  Two ears are not always better than one: Mandatory vowel fusion across spectrally mismatched ears in hearing-impaired listeners.  J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol., 17(4), 341-356.  doi: 10.1007/s10162-016-0570-z
  • Reiss, L.A.J., Ito, R.A., Eggleston, J.L., and Wozny, D.R. (2014) Abnormal binaural spectral integration in cochlear implant users.  J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol., 15(2):235-48. 
  • Reiss, L.A., Turner, C.W., Karsten, S.A., and Gantz, B.J. (2013) Plasticity in human pitch perception induced by tonotopically mismatched electro-acoustic stimulation.  Neuroscience,  256: 43-52.
  • Reiss, L.A.J., and Young, E.D. (2005), “Spectral edge sensitivity in neural circuits of the dorsal cochlear nucleus”,  J. Neurosci.  25(14): 3680-3691.