This project will address how should the functioning of a hearing aid be adjusted over time to best complement the differing cognitive and hearing abilities of their users.
Project Leader: Dr Gitte Keidser
Based on insights gained from The Listening Brain Program, this Key Project is determining the most effective methods for fitting:
In the current environment, clinicians are faced with prescription of electroacoustic stimulation for their clients, provided either through a cochlear implant and hearing aid used in opposite ears (the bimodal solution) and/or a cochlear implant and hearing aid used together in the same ear (the hybrid solution). A key question being addressed is – how should these devices be fitted to the same or opposite ears to best suit individual users?
Another element of the project is investigating how functioning of hearing aids can be adjusted over time to best complement differing cognitive and hearing abilities of their users as they age. Further it is looking at how directional characteristics of microphones can be best adjusted for different users and different listening situations.
This project will address how should the functioning of a hearing aid be adjusted over time to best complement the differing cognitive and hearing abilities of their users.
Project Leader: Dr Gitte Keidser
The project will determine how the directional characteristics of microphone arrays can be adjusted for different hearing aid wearers and in different listening situations to provide an improved listening experience.
Project Leader: Dr Jorge Mejia
This project will look at how cochlear implants can be efficiently fitted to infants and elderly patients who are not able to provide clinicians with reliable behavioural responses to stimulation.
Project Leader: Dr Bram Van Dun
The project examines how hearing aids and cochlear implants fitted to the same or opposite ears can be adjusted to best complement each other for an individual.
Project Leader/PhD Student: Paola Incerti
This project will consider how hearing aids and cochlear implants should be fitted to children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD) to best effect.
Project Leader: Dr Kirsty Gardner-Berry