Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. - Director
Members of the BHSL volunteered to participate at the 2018 UW Science Expeditions event to educate the Madison community about the auditory system and hearing through cochlear implants. It was a blast! Big thank you to everyone who stopped by!
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 Kellett award recognizes outstanding faculty seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The award honors …
Ph.D. student Taylor Fields was selected to present her research titled “Self-reported hearing loss, cognitive performance, and risk for mild cognitive impairment: Findings from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention” at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2017 in London, England. The research was also highlighted in two articles by the The Washington Post and The …
Lab members Jasenia Hartman and Taylor Fields traveled to Linkoping, Sweden to present their research at the 2017 “Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication.” Jasenia’s talk was titled “The effect of degraded auditory input on memory span using cochlear implant simulations in normal-hearing listeners.” Taylor’s poster about self-reported hearing loss, cognitive performance, and risk …
Check out the 2017 CIAP posters here!
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Tanvi Thakkar is a 4th year PhD Candidate in the UW–Madison Communication Sciences & Disorders Department. She developed her interest in hearing science and cochlear implant research as a post-grad while she was a lab manager at the Auditory Perception and Modeling Lab at the University of Maryland. Her current work is focused on how listeners …
Congratulations Emily Burg!