We study auditory and speech perception by adults and children with normal hearing, hearing loss and cochlear implants. New studies are focusing on mechanisms underlying adult cochlear implant listeners’ and normally hearing listeners’ sensitivity to emotional prosody, particularly on aging effects on emotion perception. In children, new studies are focusing on the link between their perception and production of emotional prosody.
Publications
Facilities
The APPL area includes two large sound booths for conducting listening tests in quiet environments, and a space in which experiments involving direct electrical stimulation of the implanted device are conducted.
Funding
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the NIH, the American Hearing Research Foundation, and House Institute Foundation.
Collaborations
We collaborate extensively with a number of scientists at Boys Town National Research Hospital and elsewhere, listed below.
