We have two students joining our lab from Princeton this summer for various fun projects. This picture is related to a study we were piloting on mild cognitive impairment. 

​Sound-offset responses can be robustly identified at the single-subject level using EEG. Sound-offset responses were larger in the active task than in passive listening, suggesting task dependency and indicating that attention may be involved in sound-offset encoding. Active sound-offset responses correlate with sentence-level speech-in-noise performance.

New publication investigating the auditory cognitive factors contributing to speech-in-noise perception in a large sample. 

This work we highlighted the importance of central auditory processing in speech-in-noise perception in addition to age and pure-tone audiogram, including sound segregation, auditory memory, and temporal processing.

Ester will continue her academic journey in Spain. We will miss you Ester!

Xiaoxuan just graduated her PhD. Wishing you every success in your next chapter.

Dr Meher Lad has just won the Newcastle University Medical Sciences Doctoral Thesis Prize for the wonderful thesis he's recently submitted for his PhD on hearing, memory, and MCI. A preprint will be out soon and you are welcome to contact us for further information if you're interested in this topic! Congratulations Meher!

In this new work published in Hearing Research, we show robust event-related potentials during figure-ground segregation even during passive listening. This was in contrast to speech-in-noise perception, which showed weak neural responses only during active listening.