About the Lab
Overview
Mission: Our mission is to improve speech understanding and communication outcomes for individuals with hearing loss. Our research integrates auditory science, cognitive hearing science, and hearing aid technology to achieve these overarching goals:
- To understand unique communication challenges of individual listeners
- To personalize hearing aid treatment based on individual needs
- To support the development of innovative hearing aid treatments to overcome communication challenges in realistic listening environments.
We use a combination of behavioral testing and speech perception models to evaluate:
- Advanced hearing aid signal processing, including dynamic range compression and noise management algorithms
- Speech perception in complex listening environments
- Cognitive contributions to listening, including working memory and attention
- Individualized approaches to amplification, with the goal of improving real-world communication outcomes