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
Research associate Ellen Peng awarded prestigious JSLHR-Hearing Editor’s Award
Ellen Peng, a research associate in the BHSL, was awarded the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Editor’s Award for her dissertation work with Lily Wang on listening effort in native and nonnative listeners …
AuD/PhD student Emily Burg recieves Friends of Wasiman Center Award
Emily Burg, an Audiology/Ph.D. graduate student in the lab was awarded the Alvin L. Berman & Ruth Bleier Memorial Research Award on behalf of the Friends of Waisman Center. The award acknowledges outstanding research achievement …
PhD Student Jasenia Hartman Receives NIH Diversity Supplement Award
Senior PhD student Jasenia Hartman has been awarded the “Diversity Supplement Award” by the National Institutes of Health. The money from the award will help fund Jasenia’s research, which aims to investigate the impact of …
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