Publications 

Borjigin, A., Dennison, S. R., Thakkar, T., Kan, A., Litovsky, R. Y. (2026). Best Cochlear Locations for Delivering Interaural Timing Cues in Electric Hearing. Nature Communications Medicine. (Accepted: March 2026, Published: March 2026). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.27.627652  

Thakkar, T., Knoepker, J., Dennison, S. R., Roche, J. P., Litovsky, R. Y. (2025). Spatial separation enhances speech intelligibility but increases listening effort with session-dependent variability in pupillometric measures. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19. (Accepted: October 2025, Published: November 10, 2025). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1655826  

Suveg, L., Thakkar, T., Burg, E., Godar, S. P., Lee, D., Litovsky, R. Y. (2025). The Relationship Between Spatial Release From Masking and Listening Effort Among Cochlear Implant Users With Single-Sided Deafness. Ear and Hearing. (Published: February 19, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001611  

Thakkar, T., Jahn, K., Doak, K. (2025). Gender Identity and Professional Experiences in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. (Published: June 20, 2025).  

Dennison, S. R., Thakkar, T., Kan, A., Svirsky, M. A., Azadpour, M., Litovsky, R. Y. (2024). A Mixed-Rate Strategy on a Bilaterally-Synchronized Cochlear Implant Processor Offering the Opportunity to Provide Both Speech Understanding and Interaural Time Difference Cues. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(7), 1917. (Published: March 26, 2024). https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13071917  

Kortenkamp, K., Marshik, T., Thakkar, T. (2023). Writing Across the Curriculum: A Longitudinal Assessment of Psychology Majors’ Writing Development. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. (Submitted: April 25, 2023, Accepted: October 2023, Published: December 2023).  

Thakkar, T., Kan, A., Litovsky, R. Y. (2023). Lateralization of interaural time differences with mixed rates of stimulation in bilateral cochlear implant listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3), 1912-1923. (Published: March 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017603  

Dennison, S. R., Thakkar, T., Kan, A., Litovsky, R. Y. (2023). Lateralization of binaural envelope cues measured with a mobile cochlear-implant research processor. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(6), 3543-3558. (Published: June 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019879  

Peng, Z. E., Burg, E. A., Thakkar, T., Godar, S. P., Anderson, S. R., Litovsky, R. Y. (2023). Web-based psychoacoustics of binaural hearing: Two validation experiments. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(2), 751-762. (Accepted: August 2023, Published: August 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020567  

SR Dennison, Thakkar T, Kan A, Litovsky R. Y. (2023). Lateralization of binaural envelope cues measured with a mobile cochlear-implant research processor. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153 (6): 3543–3558. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019879 

Peng EZ, Burg EA, Thakkar T, Godar SP, Anderson SR, and Litovsky RY. Web-based psychoacoustics of binaural hearing: Two validation experiments. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 154, 751–762 (2023) doi: 10.1121/10.0020567 

Peng EZ, Burg EA, Thakkar T, Godar SP, Anderson SR, and Litovsky RY. Web-based psychoacoustics of binaural hearing: Two validation experiments. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 154, 751–762 (2023) doi: 10.1121/10.0020567 

Burg EA, Thakkar T, Litovsky RY. (2022). Interaural speech asymmetry predicts bilateral speech intelligibility but not listening effort in adults with bilateral cochlear implants. Frontiers in neuroscience, 16, 1038856. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.1038856  

Burg, EA., Thakkar T., Fields, T., Misurelli, S. M., Kuchinsky, S. E., Roche, J., Lee, D. J., & Litovsky, RY (2021). Systematic Comparison of Trial Exclusion Criteria for Pupillometry Data Analysis in Individuals With Single-Sided Deafness and Normal Hearing. Trends in hearing, 25, doi:10.1177/23312165211013256  

Thakkar T, Anderson SR, Kan A, Litovsky RY. (2020) Evaluating the Impact of Age, Acoustic Exposure, and Electrical Stimulation on Binaural Sensitivity in Adult Bilateral Cochlear Implant Patients. Brain Sci. 2020;10(6):406. Published 2020 Jun 26. doi:10.3390/brainsci10060406. 

Thakkar T, Kan, A, Jones, HG, and Litovsky, RY (2018). Mixed stimulation rates to improve sensitivity of interaural timing differences in bilateral cochlear implant listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, 1428-1440.  

Brown, A. D., Jones, H. G., Kan, A., Thakkar T., Stecker, G. C., Goupell, MJ, & Litovsky, RY(2015). Evidence for a neural source of the precedence effect in sound localization. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(5), 2991–3001. doi: 10.1152/jn.00243.2015  

Thakkar T., & Goupell, MJ (2014). Internalized elevation perception of simple stimuli in cochlear-implant and normal-hearing listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(2), 841–852. doi: 10.1121/1.4884770