Why do we have two ears?
Binaural hearing refers to being able to integrate information that the brain receives from the two ears. Binaural hearing is known to help us with the ability to listen in noisy, complex auditory environments, and to localize sound sources.
In the Litovsky lab, we study binaural hearing in persons who have normal hearing and in persons who are deaf and use cochlear implants (CIs). We are interested in whether CI users can benefit from having two (bilateral) CIs and whether, for children, having bilateral CIs at a young age offers unique advantages.
Recent News
PhD student Sean Anderson’s F31 Grant Recommended for Funding by NIDCD
Sean Anderson, a senior PhD student in the lab, has had is F31 Grant titled “Mechanisms that underlie poorer binaural outcomes in patients with asymmetrical hearing and bilateral cochlear implants” recommended for funding by the …
BHSL postdoc Ela Warnecke awarded prestigious Frederick V. Hunt Research Fellowship
Ela Warnecke was awarded the 2020 Acoustical Society of America’s Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics. This is a prestigious fellowship offered once a year to a promising postdoc doing exciting work in …
2019 CI CRASH talk schedule is here!
The program for the 10th annual Midwest Conference on Cochlear Implants can be found here: CRASH schedule
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