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.
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Tanvi Thakkar receives the Emma Allen Fellowship Award
Tanvi Thakkar, PhD student in the BHSL has been awarded the Emma Allen Fellowship Award from the CSD Department to support her participation in the 2018 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop in Colorado this coming …
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D., Receives 2018 University of Wisconsin Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Research Award
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D., Director of the Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab and professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been named a recipient of the 2018 University of Wisconsin Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Research Award. The …
BHSL travels to San Diego for the 2018 ARO MidWinter Meeting
Lab members traveled to the golden state for the 2018 Association for Research in Otolaryngology conference last week. Ellen Peng, Thibaud Leclère, and Sean Anderson (pictured above) gave talks, and Tanvi Thakkar presented a poster.
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