OPENING WINDOWS TO THE LISTENING BRAIN: DEVELOPING OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF HEARING ACUITY IN THE HUMAN BRAIN.

Grant number: 1069999 | Funding period: 2014 - 2019

Completed

Abstract

Up to 160,000 Australians are un-employed due to hearing impairment, costing an estimated $12 billion per year. I will undertake systematic research which will result in EEG-based clinical tools designed to measure the reliability and acuity with which brainstem and brain structures are able to encode fine details in sounds. These tools will improve diagnostic and prognostic tests, especially for clinicians and parents of infants diagnosed with auditory neuropathies.

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Fully objective hearing threshold estimation in cochlear implant users using phase-locking value growth functions

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Hearing Aid Use in Older Adults With Postlingual Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study.

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BACKGROUND: Older adults with postlingual sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) exhibit a poor prognosis that not only includes impair..

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Auditory Stream Segregation and Selective Attention for Cochlear Implant Listeners: Evidence From Behavioral Measures and Event-Related Potentials

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Towards Objective Measures of Functional Hearing Abilities

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