Dr Robert Morse

Lecturer on the B.Sc. Audiology programme

2nd Year Tutor

Member of the Sensory and Perception research rroup

Member of research strand: 'Technologies supporting healthy ageing' - Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing

mailto: r.p.morse@aston.ac.uk
telephone: +44 (0) 121 204 4179
fax: +44 (0) 121 204 3886

Career History

2006 to date	Aston University. Lecturer in Audiology
2004 to 2006	University of Keele / University of Warwick. Research Fellow
2001 to 2004	University of Keele / University of Liverpool. Research Fellow
1997 to 2001	University of Keele. Research Fellow
1992 to1997	University of Keele. Ph.D. “Studies of temporal coding for analogue cochlear implants using animal and computational models: benefits of noise”
1991 to 1992	University of Keele. M.Sc. Machine Perception and Neurocomputing
1988 to 1990	Gooch and Housego Ltd. Teaching Company Associate involved in the design of radio-frequency electronics for acousto-optic devices
1984 to 1987	University of Reading, B.Sc. Cybernetics and Information Science

1st Year

Auditory Sciences I (Module convenor)

Instrumentation and Calibration (Module convenor)

2nd Year

Auditory Sciences II

Statistics and Research Methods (Module convenor)

4th Year

Dissertation in Audiology (Module convenor)

�241,698 from the EPSRC to study, “Enhanced cochlear implant coding using stochastic beamforming” (EP/D05/1894/1(P)). This is a three-year grant with Dr. Nigel Stocks from the University of Warwick (Started April 2006).
�252,671 from the EPSRC to study, “Multiplicative and fractal noise coding for cochlear implants” (EP/C523334). This is a three-year grant with Dr. Nigel Stocks from the University of Warwick (Awarded April 2005).

Enhanced speech coding strategies for cochlear implants using stochastic signals
The application of information theory to get an objective outcome measure for cochlear implant design
Optimizing cochlear implant strategies for individual patients
Stochastic resonance
Computational modeling
Hearing research and more general sensory perception
Optimal neural coding

Collaborator	Location	Research interests
Mr. Paddy Boyle, Advanced Bionics (UK) Ltd	Cambridge, UK	Coding strategies for cochlear implants
Dr. Monita Chatterjee	University of Maryland, USA	Auditory processing; cochlear implants; auditory scene analysis
Professor Andr� Longtin	University of Ottawa, Canada	Nonlinear dynamics; stochastic dynamical systems; neural/physiological modelling; computational neuroscience; neurophysics; nonlinear time series analysis; mathematical biology; emergent computation; electric fish; swarm intelligence
Dr. Georg Meyer	University of Liverpool, UK	Speech and hearing, in particular in the neural mechanisms that underlie the perceptual organisation of auditory environments; audiovisual perception and data fusion
Mr. Terry Nunn	St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK	Coding strategies for cochlear implants
Dr. Nigel Stocks	University of Warwick, UK	Stochastic resonance; optimal methods of information transmission in noisy systems; information measures in nonlinear channels; noise-induced linearization; neural encoding of sensory stimuli; optimal reconstruction of signals from spike train data; cochlear implant coding

Morse, R.P., Evans, E.F., (1996) "Enhancement of vowel coding for cochlear implants by addition of noise" Nature Medicine, 2,928-932.
Morse, R.P., Evans, E.F. (1999) “Additive noise can enhance temporal coding in a computational model of analogue cochlear implant stimulation” Hearing Research, 133, 107-119.
Morse, R.P., Meyer, G.F. (2000) “The practical use of noise to improve speech coding by analogue cochlear implants” Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 11, 1885-1894.
Morse, R.P., Roper, P. (2000) “Enhanced coding in a cochlear-implant model using additive noise: aperiodic stochastic resonance with tuning” Physics Review E, 61, 5683-5692.
Zeng, F.-G., Fu, Q.-J., Morse, R.P. (2000) “Human hearing enhanced by noise” Brain Research, 869, 251-255.
Stocks, N.G., Allingham, D., Morse, R.P. (2002) “The application of suprathreshold stochastic resonance to cochlear implant coding”, Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 2, L169-L181.
Morse, R.P., Evans, E.F. (2003) “The sciatic nerve of the toad Xenopus laevis as a physiological model of the human cochlear nerve”, Hearing Research, 182, 97-118.