PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS


1.   Kovačić Damir and Balaban Evan. Hearing history influences voice gender perceptual performance cochlear implantees. Ear & Hearing. 2010 Dec; 31(6):806-14

2.   Kovačić Damir and Balaban Evan. Voice gender perception by cochlear implantees. Journal of Acoustical Society of America. 126 (2009); 762-775

3.   Pena, Marcela; Maki, Atsushi; Kovačić, Damir; Dehaene-Lambertz, Ghislaine; Koizumi, Hideaki; Bouquet, Furio; Mehler, Jacques.
Sounds and silence: an optical topography study of language recognition at birth. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences USA. 100 (2003) , 20; 11702-11705

4.   Costa, Albert*; Kovačić, Damir*; Fedorenko, Evelina; Caramazza, Alfonso.
The gender congruency effect and the selection of free-standing and bound morphemes: Evidence from Croatian.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 29 (2003) , 6; 1270-1282

5.   Costa, Albert*; Kovačić, Damir*; Franck, Julie; Caramazza, Alfonso.
On the autonomy of the grammatical gender systems of the two languages of a bilingual. Bilingualism : Language and Cognition. 6 (2003) ; 181-200

6.   Zgrablić, Goran; Vinković, Dejan; Gradečak, Silvija; Kovačić, Damir; Biliškov, Nikola; Grbac, Neven; Andreić, Željko; Garaj, Slaven.
Instrumental recording of electrophonic sounds from Leonid fireballs.
Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics. 107 (A7) (2002) ; 1124-1132

7.   Vinković, Dejan; Garaj, Slaven; Lim, P. L.; Kovačić, Damir; Zgrablić, Goran; Andreić, Željko.
Global Electrophonic Fireball Survey: a review of witness reports - I. // WGN, Journal of International Meteor Organisation. 30 (2002) , 6; 244-257

8.   Andreić, Željko; Vinković, Dejan; Garaj, Slaven; Zgrablić, Goran; Kovačić, Damir; Gradečak, Silvija; Biliškov, Nikola; Grbac, Neven.
Instrumental Detection of Meteor-produced VLF Electromagnetic Radiation.
The INSPIRE Journal. 9 (2001) , 1; 27-34

9.   Vinković, Dejan; Andreić, Željko; Garaj, Slaven; Kovačić, Damir; Mladinov, Mario; Zgrablić, Goran.
Global Electrophonic Fireball Survey.
WGN : Journal of International Meteor Organisation. 28 (2000) , 2-4; 48-53

10.        Garaj, Slaven; Vinković, Dejan; Zgrablić, Goran; Kovačić, Damir; Gradečak, Silvija; Biliškov, Nikola; Grbac, Neven; Andreić, Željko.
Observational detection of meteor-produced VLF Electromagnetic radiation.
Fizika A. 8 (1999) , 3; 91-98

 

# Note: There was an interruption in my scientific work from February 2002 till May 2003 due to the deafness and cochlear implantation

* Joint first authors



 

INVITED TALKS


1.   Kovačić, Damir. Spatial Profiles of Correlation in Spike Timing to Broadband Noise Across Auditory Nerve Fibers. Gordon Research Seminar, June 12-13, 2010. Colby-Saywer College, NH, US.

2.   Kovačić, Damir. How sounds are perceived and encoded in normal and impaired auditory systems? Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit - Medical Research Council, Cambridge, November 20th 2009.

3.   Kovačić, Damir. The gender congruency effect. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, July 31th , 2006, Leuven, Belgium

4.   Kovačić, Damir. Pitch Reconstruction Of Speech In Subjects With Cochlear Implants. The days of Petar Guberina, May 24th , 2006, Zagreb, Croatia

5.   Kovačić, Damir. Verbotonal Rehabilitation After Cochlear Implantation. International congress of the verbotonal rehabilitation, October 15th-18th 2005, Moscow, Russia

6.   Kovačić, Damir. Speech Perception With Cochlear Implant: Optical Topography Study. 7th Alps-Adria Conference in Psychology, June 2nd-4th 2005, Zadar, Croatia

7.   Kovačić, Damir. Evocirani potencijali i verbotonalna metoda. Okrugli stol Poliklinike SUVAG – Dani Petra Guberine, May 24th , 2005, Zagreb, Croatia

8.   Kovačić, Damir. Speech Perception With Cochlear Implant: Optical Topography Study. The BIONIC EAR Institute, July 16th , 2004, Melbourne, Australia

9.   Kovačić, Damir. Optical topography study of language recognition at birth. Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, February 13th 2004, Milano, Italy

10.        Kovačić, Damir. Speech Perception With Cochlear Implant: Optical Topography Study.
Cognitive Neuroscience and Verbotonal Method, October 11-13, 2003, Roma, Italy

 

INVITED PUBLIC TALKS


1.   Kovačić, Damir. My auditory experience with the Freedom cochlear implant. Annual retreat of Croatian CI users, September 22nd 2007, Bjelolasica, Croatia.

2.   Kovačić, Damir. Electrophonic sounds from meteors. Summer School of Science “Astrobiology”, August 15th , 2007, Kaštela, Croatia

3.   Kovačić, Damir. Verbotonal Rehabilitation After Cochlear Implantation. International congress of the verbotonal rehabilitation, October 15th-18th 2005, Moscow, Russia

4.   Kovačić, Damir. Speech Perception and Cochlear Implants & Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. Summer School of Science 2003, Višnjan, Croatia, 2003

5.   Kovačić, Damir. Cochlear Implants. V. International Symposium of the Verbotonal System: Multisensorics and Speech, Zagreb, May 2001.

 


 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


1.   Kovačić, Damir; Balaban, Evan.
Do Cochlear Implants Provide Spectral Envelope Cues For Voice Gender Identification?
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis (CIAP 2009), Lake Tahoe, CA, USA 2009, pg.141

2.   Kovačić, Damir; Balaban, Evan.
The Role Of Temporal And Spectral Information In Gender Identification And Discrimination In Children With Cochlear Implants
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis (CIAP 2007), Lake Tahoe, CA, USA 2007, pg.191

3.   Kovačić, Damir; Balaban, Evan.
Morphological Changes Of ERPs To The Perception of Vowels And CV Syllables In The Post-Implantation Period In One Cochlear Implant User
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis (CIAP 2005), Asilomar, CA, USA 2005, pg.165

4.   Kovačić, Damir.
Optička topografija i verbotonalna metoda
Nove tehnologije i verbotonalna metoda: zbornik sažetaka.
Zagreb : Poliklinika SUVAG, 2004. 4-4

5.   Kovačić, Damir; Pena, Marcela; Tsubokura, Hifumi; Maki, Atsushi; Mehler, Jacques.
Optical Topography And ERP Study Of Speech Perception Changes Following Cochlear Implantation: A Case Study
Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis (CIAP 2003), Asilomar, CA, USA 2003

6.   Kovačić, Damir.
Postoperativna verbotonalna rehabilitacija nakon ugradnje umjetne pužnice // Međunarodna znanstveno-stručna konferencija: Verbotonalna metoda. Socijalna adaptacija i integracija djece oštećena sluha: Zbornik sažetaka.
Moskva, 2003. 14-15

7.   Vinković, Dejan; Garaj, Slaven; Zgrablić, Goran; Gradećak, Silvija; Kovačić, Damir; Biliškov, Nikola; Grbac, Neven; Andreić, Željko.
VLF emission and electrophonic sounds from Leonids identified
The Leonid MAC Workshop book of abstracts. AMES, 1999.

 

AWARDS


2008        FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (April 2008-April 2010) for the project: “Neurophysiological correlates of the anatomically discrete organization of the auditory nerve”. Host institute: Laboratory for auditory neurophysiology (Professor Philip X. Joris), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2008        Post-doc fellowship from the Croatian National Science Foundation for the project: “Neurophysiological correlates of the anatomically discrete organization of the auditory nerve”

2006        Fellowship from Central European Initiative Science and Technology Network for project “Pitch Extraction from Voices: Behavioral and Event Related Potentials (ERP) Studies In Children With Cochlear Implants” (January – July 2006)

2004        Fellowship from Central European Initiative Science and Technology Network in order to carry out the project: Cognition, Language and Auditory Performance in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users between 3-12 years of age (for the period of May 2 2004 - December 31 2005)

2003-       Young Investigator of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Croatia

2000        PhD fellowship by Cognitive Neuroscience Sector at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste

1998        Oticon Focus on People Awards

1997        Rector's Award for the outstanding student paper 'Dynamics of Coupled van der Pol Oscillators as Generators of Otoacoustic Emissions' in 1996/97

1997        Student Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Croatia

1996        Volta Scholarship Award of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf

1996        Second Century Award of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf

1996        Fellowship from the European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students (EMSPS) for 6-month stay at Rijskuniversiteit, Groningen (The Netherlands)