Auditory Prostheses and Perception Laboratory

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

Full Publication List of the APPLab

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.

• Dr. Deniz Baskent (University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Dr. Adam Bosen (Boys Town National Research Hospital)
• Dr. Nicolas Grimault (University of Lyon, France)
• Dr. Ryan McCreery (Boys Town National Research Hospital)
• Dr. Rochelle Newman (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)
• Dr. Shuman He (The Ohio State University, Ohio)
• Dr. John J Galvin (House Institute Foundation, California)
• Dr. Xin Luo (Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona)
• Dr. Anastasios Sarampalis (Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Dr. Barbara Tillmann (University of Lyon, France)