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Mario A. Ruggero

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

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.

Lab Affiliation

Laboratory for Hearing Biology

Education

PhD	Physiology, University of Chicago
BA	Biology, The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC)

Recent Publications

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.

Recent Awards and Honors

2001	Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
1999	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Recent Grants and Funding

2002-2007

Peripheral Mechanisms of Hearing. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $2,429,079

Courses

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)

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]