Silver Medal and the first to receive the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal (2019), which she was awarded in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Speech Communication, and Architectural Acoustics "for contributions to understanding the perceptual, cognitive, and neural bases of speech perception in complex acoustic environments." In 2020, she was recognized by the Society for Neuroscience as a recipient of the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. She is a Lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal life Shinn-Cunningham is married to Robert Kevin Cunningham, an engineer-scientist who has worked in machine learning, computational vision, and cybersecurity. They have two sons, Nick and Will, born in 1994 and 1996 respectively. She took up saber fencing as an adult. As a member of the 2019 US Veteran Team, she participated in the World Veteran Fencing Championships in Cairo, Egypt, where she was a member of the bronze-medal-winning US Women's Saber Team and placed seventh in the individual Women Vet50 category. Selected publications Deng, Y, I Choi, B Shinn-Cunningham (2020). "Topographic specificity of alpha power during auditory spatial attention," Neuroimage, 207, 116360. Michalka SW, L Kong, ML Rosen, BG Shinn-Cunningham, DC Somers(2015). "Short-term memory for space and time flexibly recruit complementary sensory-biased frontal lobe attention networks," Neuron, 87, 882-892. Bharadwaj HM, S Verhulst, L Shaheen, MC Liberman, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2014). "Cochlear neuropathy and the coding of supra-threshold sound," Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00026. Ruggles D, H Bharadwaj, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2012). "Why middle-aged listeners have trouble hearing in everyday settings," Current Biology, 22, 1417-1422. Ruggles D, H Bharadwaj, and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2011). "Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 15516-15521. Shinn-Cunningham, BG (2008). "Object-based auditory and visual attention," Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 182-186. Shinn-Cunningham, B and V Best (2008). "Selective attention in normal and impaired hearing," Trends in Amplification [invited submission for special issue on Auditory Scene Analysis], 12, 283-299. Shinn-Cunningham BG, N Kopco, TJ Martin (2005). "Localizing nearby sound sources in a classroom: Binaural room impulse responses," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America," 117, 3100-3115. Durlach NI, CR Mason, G Kidd Jr, TL Arbogast, HS Colburn and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2003). "Note on informational masking," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America," 113, 2984-2987. References External links Google Scholar citation link Personal web