Overview
Dr. Xiao-Ming Sun is a professor of audiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) at Wichita State University. He teaches courses in the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program. He directs the Auditory Research Lab, located in 106 Hubbard Hall, where he also mentors AuD and PhD students completing their research projects.
Information
Postdoctoral Fellow, Auditory Neurophysiology, University of Michigan Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow, Auditory Physiology, University of Connecticut Health Center
PhD, Speech, Language & Hearing, University of Connecticut
BMed and MMed, Medicine/ Otolaryngology, Hunan College of Chinese Medicine
Physiology of the cochlea, middle ear, and auditory efferent system.
Physiological assessment techniques in audiology:
Otoacoustic emissions;
Auditory evoked potentials;
Wideband acoustic immittance (Wideband tympanometry, wideband acoustic reflex).
(Doctor of Audiology Program)
Acoustics & Instrumentation
Advanced Anatomy & Physiology of
the Auditory & Vestibular Systems
Principles of AEPs and OAEs
Medical Audiology
Research in CSD
[Selected Journal Articles] (For others please see Google Scholar)
Sun, X.-M. (2016) Wideband acoustic immittance: Normative study and test-retest reliability of tympanometric measurements in adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(4):819-834.
Shaver, M.D., Sun, X.-M. (2013) Wideband energy reflectance measurements: Effects of negative middle ear pressure and application of a pressure compensation procedure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(1):332 –341.
Sun, X.-M., Shaver, M.D. (2009) Effects of negative middle-ear pressure on distortion product otoacoustic emissions and application of a compensation procedure in humans. Ear and Hearing, 30(2):191–202.
Sun, X.-M. (2008) Contralateral suppression of distortion product otoacoustic emissions and the middle-ear muscle reflex in human ears. Hearing Research, 237(1-2):66–75.
Sun, X.-M. (2008) Distortion product otoacoustic emission fine structure is responsible for variability of distortion product otoacoustic emission contralateral suppression. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6):4310–4320.
Sun, X.-M., Kim, D.O. (1999) Adaptation of 2f1–f2 distortion product otoacoustic emission in young-adult and old CBA and C57 mice. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105(6):3399–3409.
Kim, D.O., Paparello, J., Jung, M.D., Smurzynski, J., Sun, X. (1996) Distortion product otoacoustic emission test of sensorineural hearing loss: Performance regarding sensitivity, specificity and receiver operating characteristics. Acta Oto-laryngologica (Stockholm), 116(1):3–11.
[Recent Presentations; Underlined, student co-authors]
DeFord, H.K., Sun, X.-M. (2023) Effects of contralateral sounds on short-latency auditory evoked potentials, The American Academy of Audiology (AAA) Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, April 19-22)
Jiang, J., Sun, X.-M. (2022) A normative study of ipsilateral wideband acoustic reflex growth function, The 49th Annual Scientific and Technology Conference of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, February 24–26 (pp. 81-82)
Jiang, J., Sun, X.-M. (2021) Ipsilateral wideband and single-frequency acoustic reflex thresholds in adults, The 48th Annual Scientific and Technology Conference of the American Auditory Society ( [virtual], March 4–6): pp. 9-10. (See GRASP)
Holmes, B., Sun, X.-M. (2021) Response Criterion for Determining Acoustic Reflex Thresholds Using a 1000-Hz Probe Tone, The 33rd Annual Conference of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) [virtual], April 14-16. (See GRASP)
Holt, D.E., Sun, X.-M. (2019), Comparison of contralateral wideband and single-frequency acoustic reflex thresholds in normal-hearing adults, The 31st Annual Conference of AAA (Columbus, OH, March 27-30). (See GRASP)
Burdine, R., Sun, X.-M., (2017) Ipsilateral and Contralateral Wideband Acoustic Reflex Thresholds in Adults, Bulletin of the American Auditory Society (The 44th Annual Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2–4), 42(1): p. 9.
Sun, X.-M., McCoy, B.L., Frye, M.D. (2016) Wideband acoustic reflex thresholds: A preliminary study in adult ears with self- induced middle ear pressure, Abstracts of the 39th Annual Midwinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), p. 92.
Frye, M.D., Sun, X.-M. (2015) Contralateral wideband acoustic reflex thresholds: Normative study and test-retest reliability, Bulletin of the American Auditory Society (The 42nd Annual Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 5–7), 40(1): pp. 56-57.