Waisman Center @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Listening with Cochlear Implants: Lots of Effort Beneath the Surface
Waisman Center @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Communication Development: Considering the Influence of Hearing Experience on How Children Process and Learn Language
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Hearing loss (HL) impacts more than 40 million individuals in the United States and is the third most prevalent chronic health condition; however, there is very limited research on HL in individuals from communities of color. The work presented here is two-fold: (1) To better understand the prevalence of HL among communities of color; and (2) to explore attitudes about HL within these populations. Ultimately, this work is intended to offer insight into how to improve hearing healthcare within communities of color.
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Post-operative and post-ictal delirium (POD, PID) are acute disorders of consciousness characterized by confusion, fluctuating arousal, impaired executive function, and perceptual disturbances. I will present initial observations on changes in neural activity and connectivity assayed from iEEG recordings in patients experiencing POD and PID.
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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I will present work in our laboratory that characterizes how neurons in the visual cortex represent multiple visual stimuli moving simultaneously at different speeds and/or in different directions.
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Each auditory nerve fiber is tuned to a particular frequency known as the characteristic frequency (CF). The CFs are arranged along the basilar membrane, increasing exponentially from the cochlear apex to base.
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Our lab studies children and adults who receive bilateral cochlear implants (BiCI), or adults with single-sided deafness receiving a CI in the deaf ear (SSD-CI). When patients have access to bilateral hearing they typically improve at localization of sounds and segregation of speech from background noise compared with unilateral hearing.
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) have the greatest possible interaural asymmetry – one ear has clinically normal acoustic hearing while the other has no usable hearing.
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Alterations to sensory feedback can drive robust adaptive changes to the production of consonants and vowels, but these changes often have no behavioral relevance or benefit to communication effectiveness (e.g., causing “head” to be more similar to “had”).
Waisman Center @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Dementia has a long preclinical phase with pathological and neurodegenerative changes often starting decades before clinical symptoms. Early detection of high-risk individuals in midlife has great potential for future targeted treatments and prevention but we currently lack non-invasive, low-cost screening tools.