Publications

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Journal Papers

Stasiak A, Sayles M, Winter IM (in press). Perfidious synaptic transmission in the guinea-pig auditory brainstem. PLoS ONE

Dähn J, Anschuetz L, Konishi M, Sayles M, Caversaccio M, Dubach P (2017). Endoscopic Ear Surgery for External Auditory Canal Cholesteatoma. Otol. Neurotol.

Sayles M, Stasiak A, Winter IM (2015). Reverberation impairs brainstem temporal representations of voiced vowel sounds: challenging “periodicity-tagged” segregation of competing speech in rooms. Front. Syst. Neurosci. 8:248.

Sayles M, Füllgrabe C, Winter IM (2013). Neurometric amplitude modulation detection threshold in the guinea-pig ventral cochlear nucleus. J Physiol. 591(13): 3401-3419.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2010). Equivalent rectangular bandwidth of single units in the anaesthetized guinea pig ventral cochlear nucleus. Hear Res. 262: 26-33. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2010.01.015.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Ambiguous pitch and the temporal representation of inharmonic iterated rippled noise in the ventral cochlear nucleus. J Neurosci. 28: 11925-11938.

Pressnitzer D, Sayles M, Micheyl C, Winter IM (2008). Perceptual organization begins in the auditory periphery. Curr Biol. 18: 1124-1128.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Reverberation challenges the temporal representation of the pitch of complex sounds. Neuron. 58: 789-801.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2007). The temporal representation of the delay of dynamic iterated rippled noise with positive and negative gain by single units in the ventral cochlear nucleus. Brain Res. 1171: 52-66

Bleeck S, Sayles M, Ingham NJ, Winter IM (2006). The time course of recovery from adaptation and facilitation from single units from the mammalian cochlear nucleus. Hear. Res. 212: 176-184.

Sayles M, Grant DG (2014). Preventing Pharyngo-Cutaneous Fistula in Laryngectomy: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Laryngoscope.124: 1150-1163.

Sayles M, Koonce SL, Harrison L, McRae AR, Beasley N, Grant DG (2013). Pharyngo-Cutaneous Fistula Complicating Total Laryngectomy in the Chemoradiotherapy Organ Preservation Epoch. European Archives of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

Sayles M, Kamel H, Fahmy FF (2013). Operative management of ear canal cholesteatoma: a case series and literature review. Journal of Laryngology and Otology. 127:859-866.

Street I, Sayles M, Nistor M, McRae AR (2013). A randomised comparison between an inexpensive, general-purpose LED headlight and a purpose-built surgical headlight on users' visual acuity and colour vision. European Archives of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 271:407–410.

Sayles M, Harrison L, McGlashan JA, Grant DG (2013). Zenker's diverticulum complicating achalasia: a 'cup and spill' oesophagus. BMJ Case Reports.

Sayles M, Jackson PB, O'Neill D, Shenoy MU, Stewart RJ (2013). Torsion of a benign cyst of the tunica vaginalis presenting as an acute scrotum. Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports. 1: 197-199.

Kamel HA, Sayles M, Fahmy FF (2012). Meatoplasty for External Auditory Canal Cholesteatoma. Hellenic Otolaryngol. 32(4): 195-197.

Sayles M, Gull SE, Allan JDD (2011). Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma presenting as macroscopic haematuria and acute urinary retention in pregnancy. BJUI.

Sayles M, Maleknasr D, Crawley F, Allan JDD (2011). Inflammatory polyneuropathy presenting as acute urinary retention. BJUI.

Sayles M, Kayes O, Allan JDD (2011). Renal colic complicated by antegrade ureteral intussusception. BJUI.

Sayles M, Courtney E, Younis F, O’Donovan M, Ibrahim A, Fearnhead NS (2010). Appendiceal mucinous adenocarcinoma presenting as an enterocutaneous fistula in an incisional hernia. BMJ Case Reports.

Sayles M, Jackson PB, Williams A, Shenoy MU (2013). Re. [Bhat et al. (2012). Congenital bladder diverticulum presenting as bladder outlet obstruction in infants and children]. Journal of Pediatric Urology. 9(2):250.

Conference Proceedings

Sayles M, Walls MK, Heinz MG (2016). Suppression measured from chinchilla auditory-nerve-fiber responses following noise-induced hearing loss: adaptive-tracking and systems-identification approaches. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hearing 2015, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Sayles M, Stasiak A, Winter IM (2016). Neural segregation of concurrent speech: effects of background noise and reverberation on auditory scene analysis in the ventral cochlear nucleus. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hearing 2015, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Sayles M, Schouten B, Ingham NJ, Winter IM (2007). The effect of reverberation on the temporal representation of the F0 of frequency swept harmonic complexes in the ventral cochlear nucleus. In: Hearing – from sensory processing to perception. Kollmeier B et al. (Eds.). Springer.

McGlashan JA, Sayles M, Kjelin H, Sadolin C (2013). Vocal effects in singing: A study of intentional distortion using laryngostroboscopy and electrolaryngography. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on advances in quantitative laryngology, voice and speech research. pp 81-82.

Book chapters and review articles

Sayles M, Heinz MG (2017). Afferent Neural Coding and Efferent Control in the Normal and Impaired Cochlea. In: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research: Understanding the Cochlea. Manley G et al. (Eds.). Springer.

Sayles M, Koonce SL, Hinni M, Grant DG (2018). Transoral Laser Microsurgery. In: Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 8th edition. CRC press.

Barker RA, Sayles M (2006). Porcine neural xenotransplantation: Current status. In: Olanow CW, Brundin P (Eds.). Restorative therapies in Parkinson's disease. Springer, New York.

Sayles M, Jain M, Barker RA (2004). The cellular repair of the brain in Parkinson’s disease - past, present and future. Transplant immunology 12:321-342.

Abstracts and poster presentations

Sayles M, Fontaine B, Smith PH, Joris PX (February 2017). Level-dependence of tuning in the auditory nerve. ARO midwinter meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Sayles M, Smith PH, Joris PX (February 2017). In-vivo intracellular characterization of ITD sensitivity in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus. ARO midwinter meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Maulden AC, Walls MK, Sayles M, Heinz MG (February 2017). Comparison of Psychometric and Neurometric Amplitude-Modulation Detection Thresholds in Normal-Hearing Chinchillas. ARO midwinter meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Sayles M, Fontaine B, Smith PH, Joris PX (November 2016). Against “broadening with sound level”. Acoustical Society of America fall meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Franken TP, Sayles M, Smith PH, Joris PX (November 2016). In-vivo intracellular characterization of “OFF” responses in the superior para-olivary nucleus. Acoustical Society of America fall meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Sayles M, Fontaine B, Smith PH, Joris PX (November 2016). Cochlear disparities underlie ITD tuning in the medial superior olive. Binaural Bash 2016, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

Sayles M, Smith PH, Joris PX (February 2016). Inter-aural Time Sensitivity of Superior-Olivary-Complex Neurons is shaped by Systematic Cochlear Disparities. ARO midwinter meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.

Sayles M, Heinz MG (February 2016). Spectro-Temporal Tuning of Suppressive Non-Linearities Measured from Chinchilla Auditory-Nerve-Fiber Responses Following Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. ARO midwinter meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.

Alsindi S, Sayles M, Winter IM (February 2016). Binaural Integration of Pitch in the Guinea-Pig Medial Superior Olive. ARO midwinter meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.

Sayles M, Joris PX (October 2015). Binaural Frequency Tuning and Timing in Neurons from the Chinchilla Medial Superior Olive. Neuroscience (Society for Neuroscience) 2015, Chicago, IL, USA.

Heinz MG, Henry KS, Sayles M (October 2015). Spectro-Temporal Dynamics of Excitatory, Suppressive, and Inhibitory Influences in the Auditory Nerve and Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Following Sensorineural Hearing Loss. Neuroscience (Society for Neuroscience) 2015, Chicago, IL, USA.

Alsindi S, Sayles M, Winter IM (2015). Response Properties of Single Units in the Guinea-Pig Superior Olivary Complex. British Society of Audiology: Basic Auditory Science – the cutting edge, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Sayles M, Stasiak A, Winter IM (2015). Neural segregation of concurrent speech under challenging listening conditions: divergent effects of background noise and reverberation on auditory scene analysis in the ventral cochlear nucleus. 17^th International Symposium on Hearing, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Sayles M, Walls MK, Heinz MG (2015). Two-tone suppression following noise-induced hearing loss: frequency extent and growth of suppression in auditory nerve fibers. 17^th International Symposium on Hearing, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Sayles M, Heinz MG (2015). Effects of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss on Coding of Temporal Fine Structure and Envelope in the Chinchilla Ventral Cochlear Nucleus. ARO midwinter meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Sayles M, Stasiak A, Winter IM (2015). Differential Effects of Background Noise and Reverberation on Periodicity-Tagged Neural Segregation of Intonated Concurrent Vowels in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus. ARO midwinter meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Sayles M, Heinz MG (2014). Neurometric amplitude-modulation detection threshold measured in the chinchilla ventral cochlear nucleus following sensorineural hearing loss. Acoustical Society of America spring meeting, Providence, RI, USA.

Henry K, Hickox AE, Sayles M, Heinz MG (2014). Effects of furosemide-induced metabolic hearing loss on temporal coding of fine structure and envelope in the auditory nerve. ARO midwinter meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.

Sayles M, Heinz MG (2014). Monaural across-frequency coincidence detection cues are degraded in a model of sensori-neural hearing loss. ARO midwinter meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.

Stasiak A, Sayles M, Winter IM (2012). How reliable are faithful “giant” synapses in the ventral cochlear nucleus and medial nucleus of the trapezoid body of the guinea pig? British Society of Audiology annual meeting. Nottingham, UK. Abstract published in: International Journal of Audiology (2013); 52: 298.

Stasiak A, Sayles M, Winter IM (2010). The effect of reverberation on the representation of consonant-vowel syllables by single units in the ventral cochlear nucleus. ARO midwinter meeting, Baltimore MD, USA.

Füllgrabe C, Sayles M, Winter IM (2010). Effect of modulation depth on the neural coding of amplitude modulation in the guinea-pig ventral cochlear nucleus. British society of Audiology short papers meeting, Manchester, UK. Abstract published in: International Journal of Audiology (2011); 50: 761.

Stasiak A, Sayles M, Winter IM (2010). The effect of reverberation on the representation of the fundamental frequency of single and double vowels by neurons in the ventral cochlear nucleus. British society of Audiology short papers meeting, Manchester, UK. Abstract published in: International Journal of Audiology (2011); 50: 762.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Hard times for the pitch of complex sounds in reverberant environments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123: 3713. Presented at “Acoustics ‘08”, Paris, France.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Neuronal representation of pitch ambiguity. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123: 3715. Presented at “Acoustics ‘08”, Paris, France.

O’Mard LP, Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Modelling the temporal response of the auditory nerve to the pitch of complex tones in reverberation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123: 3302-3302. Presented at “Acoustics ‘08”, Paris, France.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). The Effect of F0 Modulation Rate on the Temporal Representation of the F0 of Complex Sounds in Reverberant Spaces. ARO midwinter meeting, Phoenix AZ, USA.

Stasiak A, Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Spike Waveforms in the Anteroventral Cochlear Nucleus Revisited. ARO midwinter meeting, Phoenix AZ, USA.

Winter IM, Stasiak A, Sayles M (2008). When is a primary-like unit not a primary-like unit? British society of Audiology short papers meeting, York, UK.

O’Mard LP, Sayles M, Winter IM (2008). Modelling the temporal response of the auditory nerve to the pitch of complex tones in reverberation. British society of Audiology short papers meeting, York, UK.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2007). The Temporal Representation of the F0 of Complex Sounds in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Under Reverberant Conditions. ARO midwinter meeting, Denver CO, USA.

Pressnitzer D, Micheyl C, Sayles M, Winter IM (2007). Responses to Long-Duration Tone Sequences in the Cochlear Nucleus. ARO midwinter meeting, Denver CO, USA.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2007). Temporal representations of dynamic pitch. British society of Audiology short papers meeting, UCL, London, UK.

Sayles M, Winter IM (2006). Reverberation gives temporal representations of pitch a hard time. British society of Audiology short papers meeting, Cambridge, UK.

Sayles M, Ingham NJ, Winter IM (2005). Hard times for pitch. British society of Audiology short papers meeting, Cardiff, UK.

Harrison L, Sayles M, Grant DG, Igwe C, Gill S, Gardiner D (2013). Tracheostomy at a tertiary referral hospital: a prospective evaluation of percutaneous methods and the impact on surgical experience of otolaryngology- head & neck trainees. European Academy of ORL-HNS. Nice, France.

Harrison L, Sayles M, McCulloch T, Beasley N, Grant DG (2013). Oncologic outcomes in head and neck soft-tissue sarcoma. European Academy of ORL-HNS. Nice, France.

Sayles M, Harrison L, Abercrombie J, Grant DG (2013). Colon Adenocarcinoma Metastatic to the Larynx Presenting as Acute Airway Obstruction: A Case Report and Discussion of Treatment Controversies. European Academy of ORL-HNS. Nice, France.

Sayles M, Harrison L, Beasley N, Grant DG (2013). Reducing wound complications in salvage total laryngectomy: a case series and meta-analysis. European Academy of ORL-HNS. Nice, France.

Elmalik K, Sayles M, Alabdullah M, Motiwale S, O'Neill D (2013). How should we treat persistent umbilical granuloma? British Association of Paediatric Surgery 60th anniversary congress. Bournemouth, UK.

Sayles M, Harrison L, Beasley N, Grant DG (2013). The incidence of pharyngocutaneous fistulae following laryngectomy: a case series and meta-analysis. Laryngology and Rhinology section short-papers meeting. Royal Society of Medicine, London.

Harrison L, Sayles M, McCulloch T, Beasley N, Grant DG (2013). Outcomes of head and neck soft-tissue sarcoma: a ten-year analysis. Laryngology and Rhinology section short-papers meeting. Royal Society of Medicine, London.

Street I, Sayles M, Nistor M, McRae AR (2012). Comparison between an inexpensive LED headlight and a purpose built surgical headlight on users’ visual acuity and colour vision. British Academic Conference on Otolaryngology. Glasgow SECC. July 2012. Abstract in Clinical Otolaryngology. 37 (supplement 1): 20.

Prasai A, Sayles M, Kelly C, Ahmed A (2012). Does individualized prospective post tonsillectomy audit reduce complication rates? British Academic Conference on Otolaryngology. Glasgow SECC. July 2012. Abstract in Clinical Otolaryngology. 37 (supplement 1): 71.

Sayles M, Kamel HA, Fahmy F (2012). Operative management of external auditory canal cholesteatoma. British Academic Conference on Otolaryngology. Glasgow SECC. July 2012. Abstract in Clinical Otolaryngology. 37 (supplement 1): 136.

Sayles M, Prasai A, Chelladurai JP, McRae AR (2012). Pharyngocutaneous fistulae following laryngectomy: role of the pectoralis major myocutaneous flap. British Academic Conference on Otolaryngology. Glasgow SECC. July 2012. Abstract in Clinical Otolaryngology. 37 (supplement 1): 78