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Journal papers

Kopco N, Huang S, Belliveau JW, Raij T, Tengshe C, Ahveninen J (2012). Neuronal Representations of Distance in Human Auditory Cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 109 (27), 11019-11024. ( journal link, press release)
Kopčo N, Shinn-Cunningham BG (2011). Effect of stimulus spectrum on distance perception for nearby sources. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(3), 1530-1541 ( link to journal, DOI: 10.1121/1.3431093).
Best V, Carlile S, Kopčo N, van Schaik A (2011). Localization in speech mixtures by listeners with hearing loss. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129 (5), EL210-EL215 ( link to journal, DOI: 10.1121/1.3571534).
Best V, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Ozmeral EJ, Kopčo N (2010). Exploring the benefit of auditory spatial continuity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127 (6), EL258-EL264 ( link to journal, DOI: 10.1121/1.3431093).
Kopčo N, Best V, Carlile S (2010). Speech localization in a multitalker mixture. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 127, 1450-1457 ( link to journal, DOI: 10.1121/1.3290996).
Kopčo, N, I-F Lin, BG Shinn-Cunningham, and JM Groh (2009). Reference frame of the ventriloquism aftereffect. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(44):13809-13814; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2783-09.( supplementary material, link to journal).
Kopčo, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008). Influences of modulation and spatial separation on detection of a masked broadband target, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 2236-2250.
Best, V, Ozmeral, EJ, Kopčo, N, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2008) Object continuity enhances selective auditory attention, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 105, 13174-13178.
N Kopčo, V Best, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2007). Sound localization with a preceding distractor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 420-432.
BG Shinn-Cunningham, N Kopčo, and T Martin (2005). Localizing nearby sound sources in a classroom: binaural room impulse responses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 3100-3115.
Kopčo N and GA Carpenter (2004) PointMap: A Real-Time Memory-Based Learning System with On-line and Post-Training Pruning, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 1, 57-71 (scanned version). Sample implementation of PointMap is available here.
Kopčo N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2003) Spatial unmasking of nearby pure-tone targets in a simulated anechoic environment, J Acoust Soc Am, 114, 2856-2870.
Shinn-Cunningham BG, J Schickler, N Kopčo, and RY Litovsky (2001) “Spatial Unmasking of Nearby Speech Sources in a Simulated Anechoic Environment”, J Acoust Soc Am, 110(2), 1118-1129.
Shinn-Cunningham BG, SG Santarelli, and N Kopčo (2000) “Tori of confusion: Binaural cues for sources within reach of a listener,” J Acoust Soc Am, 107(3), 1627-1636.
Kopčo N, Sinčák P, and S Kaleta (2000) “ARTMAP neural networks for multispectral image classification.” Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, 4(4), 246-250.
Veregin H, P Sinčák, and N Kopčo (2000) “Enhancement of Classification Accuracy Using Conflation Procedures,” Geocarto International, 15(1), 11-18.
Sinčák P, H Veregin, and N Kopčo (1998) “Computational Intelligence for Classification of Remotely Sensed Images,” Neural Network World, 5, 577-593.

Conference papers and book chapters

Tomoriova B, Hladek L, Andoga R, Kopco N (2011) Spatial Aspects of Contextual Plasticity in Sound Localization. In: Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2011 conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 21 Jun – 1 Jul 2011 ( abstract, poster).
Andoga R, Tomoriová B, and Kopčo N (2008) Vplyv fixácie očí na krosmodálne riadenie pozornosti pri priestorovom sluchovom vnímaní (Influence of eye fixation on the crossmodal control of attention in spatial hearing). In: Zborník z konferencie Kognice a umělý život VIII, Praha.
Tomoriová B and Kopčo N (2008) Auditory Spatial Cuing for Speech Perception in a Dynamic Multi-talker Environment. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, Herlany, Slovakia, January 21 – 22, 2008.
Kopčo N, S Santarelli, V Best, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2007) Simulating distance cues in virtual reverberant environments. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, Sept 2-7, 2007.
Andoga R and Kopčo N (2007) Mozgové štruktúry a mechanizmy riadenia strategickej pozornosti (Cortical structures and mechanisms of the control of strategic attention). Chapter based on our paper from KUZ 2005. V. Kvasnička, P. Trebatický, J. Pospíchal a J. Kelemen: Myseµ, inteligencia a ľivot. STU vydavateµstvo, Bratislava, 2007.
Andoga R, Tomoriová B, and Kopčo N (2007) Závislosť priestorového sluchového vnímania na modalite riadenia pozornosti (Influence of the modality of attentional control on spatial auditory perception). In: Zborník z konferencie Kognícia a umelý ľivot VII, Smolenice, May 28 – 31, 2007.
Kopčo N, M Podolinský (2006) Endogénna pozornosť a priestorový sluch (Endogenous attention and spatial hearing). In: Proceedings of the Kognice ‘06 conference, Praha, Oct 6-7, 2006.
Kopčo N (2005) Across-frequency integration in spatial release from masking. In: Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum conference, Budapest, 29 Aug – 2 Sept 2005.
Ueno K, Kopčo N, and Shinn-Cunningham B (2005) Calibration of speech perception to room reverberation. In: Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum conference, Budapest, 29 Aug – 2 Sept 2005.
Andoga R and Kopčo N (2005) Mozgové štruktúry a mechanizmy riadenia strategickej pozornosti (Cortical structures and mechanisms of the control of strategic attention). In: Kvasnička V., Pospíchal J., Kelemen J. Zborník z konferencie Kognícia a umelý ľivot V, Smolenice, 30. mája – 2. júna 2005 ( presentation).
Lane CC, Kopčo N, Delgutte B, Shinn-Cunningham BG and Colburn HS (2004) A cat’s cocktail party: Psychophysical, neurophysiological and computational studies of spatial release from masking. In: Auditory signal processing: Physiology, psychoacoustics, and models. (Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A, McAdams, S., and Collet, L., eds), pp 327-333, Springer, New York. (Proc. International Symposium on Hearing, Dourdan, France, Aug. 24-29, 2003)
Kopčo N, M Schoolmaster, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2004) Learning to Judge Distance of Nearby Sounds in Reverberant and Anechoic Environments. (Invited presentation) In: Proc. Joint congress CFA/DAGA ’04 22.-25.03.2004 in Strasbourg, France ( abstract)
Kopčo N, D Celjuska, M Puszta, M Racek, and M Sarnovsky (2004) Effect of spectral content and learning on auditory distance perception. In: Proc. 2nd Slovak-Hungarian Joint Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence, Herlany, Slovakia, Jan 16-17, 2004.
N Kopčo (2003) Sluchové priestorové vnímanie a jeho neurálny kód (Auditory spatial perception and its neural code). In Sinčák et al. (Eds.) Slovensko-české rozpravy o umelej inteligencii (Collection of papers presented at the 3rd Slovak-Czech Seminar on Cognition, Artificial life, and Computational intelligence CALCI 2003, May 15-17, 2003, Stará Lesná, Slovakia), pp. 213-218
Kopčo, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2002) Effects of Cuing on Perceived Location of Auditory Sources. In Sinčák et al. (Eds.) Intelligent Technologies – Theory and Applications (Collection of papers presented at the 2nd Euro-International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Kosice, Slovakia, June 16-19, 2002). IOS Press. pp. 201-209.
Kopčo, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2002) Auditory Localization in Rooms: Acoustic Analysis and Behavior, In: Proceedings of The 32nd International Acoustical Conference – EAA symposium “ACOUSTICS BANSKA STIAVNICA 2002” September 10 – 12, 2002.
Shinn-Cunningham, BG, JG Desloges, and N Kopčo (2001) Empirical and modeled acoustic transfer functions in a simple room: Effects of distance and direction, In Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Pfaltz, NY, 19-24 October 2001, 183-186.
Kopčo N and GA Carpenter (2000) Graded Signal Functions for ARTMAP Neural Networks, In Sinčák et al. (Eds.) The Stane of the Art in Computational Intelligence (Collection of papers presented at the European Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Kosice, Slovakia, Aug 30 – Sept 1, 2000). Physica-Verlag. pp. 9-14.
Kopčo, N, P Sinčák, and H Veregin (1999) Extended Methods for Classification of Remotely Sensed Images Based on ARTMAP Neural Networks, In Reusch B. (Ed.) Cmputational Intelligence, Theory and Applications, International Conference, 6th Fuzzy Days, Dortmund, Germany, May 25-28, 1999, Proceedings, pp. 206-219.
Kopčo, N, P Sinčák, and S Molnar (1999) Evaluation of dependence on cluster representation in ARTMAP classifiers. In Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems INES-99, Stará Lesná, Slovakia, pp. 377-381.

Conference abstracts, posters, and presentations

Tomoriová B, Hládek, Ą, and Kopčo N (2012). “Absolute and relative localization strategies in expectation of a distractor sound,” Presented at the 35nd MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Diego, CA. ( abstract, poster)
Kopčo N (2011). Sound Localization Strategies in Simple and Complex Environments Invited talk in the Active Auditory System talk series at University Oldenburg. ( powerpoint)
Kopčo N (2011). ” Ako pouľívame pozornos» a apriórne informácie pri priestorovom sluchu,” (How we use attention and a priori information in spatial hearing), invited keynote lecture at Kognice 2011, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep, 22-24 Sept, 2011.
Kopco N, Silvera P, Tskhay K, Tomoriova P, and A Seitz (2011). \x{201c}Learning of reverberation cues for auditory distance perception. (A)”J. Acoust. Soc. Am., , . (Presented at the 161th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA). ( abstract, poster)
Kopco N, Huang S, Tengshe C, Raij T, Belliveau JW, Ahveninen A (2011). “Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Auditory Distance Perception,” Presented at the 34nd MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. ( abstract, poster)
Tomoriová B, Kopčo N, and R Andoga (2010). “Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Auditory Distance Perception,” Presented at the 32nd MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Annaheim, CA. ( abstract, poster)
Kopčo, N, V Best, S Carlile (2009). \x{201c}Localizing a speech target in a multitalker mixture. (A)”J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 125, 2691. (Presented at the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR). ( abstract, powerpoint)
Tomoriová B, Andoga R, Barto M and N Kopčo (2008) \x{201c}Temporal profile of contextual adaptation in horizontal sound localization,” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, May 2009. ( abstract, poster)
Ozmeral E, Best V, C McGuffin, B Hurd, N Kopčo, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2009). “Exploring how auditory spatial continuity enhances speech perception,” Presented at the 32nd MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD, USA. ( abstract, poster)
Kopčo N, Tomoriová B, Andoga R, and M Barto (2009). Temporal Characteristics of Task-Dependent Contextual Shifts in Sound Localization, Presented at the 32nd MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD. ( abstract, PDF)
Tomoriová B, Andoga R and N Kopčo (2008) \x{201c}Influence of eye fixation on the effects of visual and auditory cuing in sound localization,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, May 2008. ( abstract, poster)
Tomoriová B, Andoga R and N Kopčo (2008) Effects of modality-dependent cuing and eye movements on sound localization. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at the joint meeting Acoustics \x{2019}08 Paris: 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 5th FORUM ACUSTICUM, and 9th Congr?s Français d\x{2019}Acoustique, Paris, France, 29 June-4 July 2008). ( abstract)
Ozmeral E, Best V, Kopčo N, Mason C, Kidd G Jr, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2008). “Dynamic aspects of auditory spatial attention,” Presented at the 31st MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, February 16 -21, 2008. ( abstract)
Kopčo N, Lin, I-F. Shinn-Cunningham B, Groh JM (2008). “Visual calibration of auditory spatial perception in humans and monkeys,” Presented at the 31st MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, February 16-21, 2008. ( abstract)
Kopčo N, Lin, I-F. Shinn-Cunningham B, Groh JM (2007) “Visually-induced auditory spatial adaptation in monkeys and humans,” Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. ( abstract)
Lin, I-F, Kopčo N, Groh JM, Shinn-Cunningham B (2007) “Characteristics of visually-induced auditory spatial adaptation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at th 153th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT). ( abstract, poster)
Kopčo, N , Tomoriová, B, Andoga, R. (2007) “Visual and auditory hemispheric cuing in horizontal sound localization.,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at th 153th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT). ( abstract, poster)
Kopčo, N , Tomoriová, B, Andoga, R. (2007) \x{201c}Eye fixation and visual cuing in horizontal sound localization,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, May 2007. ( abstract, poster)
Ueno K, Kopčo N, and Shinn-Cunningham B (2006). ” Calibration of consonant perception in room reverberation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at th 151th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI). ( abstract, presentation)
Andoga, R., Bernát, M., Tomoriová, B, Kopčo, N (2006). “Spatial Modality-dependant attentional control in human sound localization,” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, May 2006. ( abstract, Poster in PDF)
Kopčo, N. (2006) \x{201e}Click vs. click-click vs. blink-click: Factors influencing human sound localization in the horizontal plane,” Invited lecture at the Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Apr 2006 ( abstract, presentation in PowerPoint)
Kopčo, N, Jacobsen JJ, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2006). “Spatial Effect of roving on spatial release from masking for amplitude modulated noise stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at th 150th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI). ( abstract, presentation in PowerPoint)
Kopčo, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2005). “Spatial release from masking for amplitude modulated and non-modulated noise stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at th 149th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, Canada). ( abstract, presentation in PowerPoint)
Kopčo N, Best V and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2005). ” Click versus Click-Click: Influence of a Preceding Stimulus on Sound Localization,” Presented at the 28th MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, New Orleans, LA, February 19-24. ( abstract, poster)
Schoolmaster, M, N Kopčo, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2004). “Auditory distance perception in fixed and varying simulated acoustic environments,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at th 147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, NY). ( abstract, poster)
Kopčo N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2004). ” Effects of Spectral Content on Distance Perception in Reverberant Space,” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 22-26, 2004, Daytona Beach, Florida. ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Schoolmaster, M, N Kopčo, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2003). “Effects of reverberation and experience on distance perception in simulated environments,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., (Presented at the 145th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN). ( abstract in HTML, poster in PDF)
Kopčo, N, CC Lane, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2003). “Spatial Unmasking of Chirp Trains in a Simulated Anechoic Environment: Behavioral Results and Model Predictions,” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 23-27, 2003, Daytona Beach, Florida. ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Kopčo, N and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2002). “Effect of Cuing on Sound Localization Accuracy in a Room,” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Jan 27-31, 2002, St. Petersburg, Florida. ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Shinn-Cunningham, BG, S Constant, and N Kopčo (2002). “Spatial unmasking of speech in simulated anechoic and reverberant rooms,” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Jan 27-31, 2002, St. Petersburg, Florida. ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Shinn-Cunningham BG, and N Kopčo (2002). “Effects of reverberation on spatial auditory performance and spatial auditory cues,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111(5 Pt.2), 2440 (Presented at th 143th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburg, PA). ( abstract in PDF, presentation in PowerPoint)
Kopčo, N, T Brown, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2001). “Effect of listener location on localization cues and localization performance in a reverberant room,” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Feb 3-7, 2001, St. Petersburg, Florida. ( abstract, poster in PDF)
Kopčo, N, A Ler, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2001). “Effect of auditory cuing on azimuthal localization accuracy,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109(5), 2377 (Presented at th 141th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA). ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Shinn-Cunningham BG, L Mraz, N Kopčo (2001). “Effect of reverberation on spatial unmasking for nearby speech sources,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109(5), 2486 (Presented at th 141th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL). ( abstract in PDF, presentation in PowerPoint)
Kopčo, N, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2000). “Spatial unmasking of nearby pure-tone sources in a simulated anechoic environment,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(5 Pt. 2), 2849 (Presented at th 139th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA). ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Schickler, J, N Kopčo, B Shinn-Cunningham, and RY Litovsky (2000). “Spatial unmasking of nearby speech sources in a simulated anechoic environment,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(5 Pt. 2), 2849 (Presented at th 139th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA). ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Santarelli, SG, N Kopčo, and B Shinn-Cunningham (2000). “Distance judgments of nearby sources in a reverberant room: Effects of stimulus envelope,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(5 Pt. 2), 2822 (Presented at th 139th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA). ( abstract in PDF)
Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Santarelli, S., and Kopčo, N. (2000). “Distance perception of nearby sources in reverberant and anechoic listening conditions: Binaural versus monaural cues.” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida ( abstract, poster in PDF)
Kopčo, N, and Carpenter G. A. (2000) “Fuzzy ARTMAP systems with graded signal function and with point-box coding” Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA ( abstract in PDF, presentation in PowerPoint)
Santarelli, SG, N Kopčo, and B Shinn-Cunningham (1999) “Near-field localization in echoic rooms,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(2 Pt. 2), 1024 (Presented at the 137th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Berlin, Germany). ( abstract in PDF, poster in PDF)
Santarelli, SG, N Kopčo, and B Shinn-Cunningham (1999) “Localization of near-field sources in a reverberant room,” Presented at the MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida. Abstract #103, Date 2/14/99, Session E4, Poster (B71) ( abstract, poster in PDF)
Kopčo, N, P Sinčák, and R Jaksa (1999) “Methods for analysis and enhancement of neural network classification of remotely sensed images” Presented at the Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA ( presentation in PowerPoint)

Theses

Kopčo N (2010) Mechanizmy priestorového počutia a separácie zvukov (Mechanisms of spatial hearing and sound segragation), Habilitation Thesis, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University. Prague.
Kopčo N (2003) Spatial hearing, auditory sensitivity, and pattern recognition in noisy environments, Dissertation Thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University. Published by UMI.

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