Research Interests
- neuroimaging of auditory perception/cognition in normal and hearing-impaired systems; cognitive audiology; experience-dependent brain plasticity; “cocktail party” listening; auditory aging; individual differences in hearing skills; brainstem and cortical ERPs/EEG; hierarchical neurocomputation; neurobiology of music/language processing
Research interests
- Auditory perception/cognition in normal and hearing-impaired systems
- Neuroimaging (ERPs/EEG)
- Experience-dependent brain plasticity
- Cognitive aging
- Neurobiology of music/language
The work includes elements of both basic research and clinically motivated inquiry. Lab studies proceed on three main fronts: (1) understanding the neurocomputations involved in the perception-cognition and novel learning of speech and musical sounds—with current emphasis on auditory categorization; (2) a neuroethological approach characterizing the upper bounds of brain plasticity via study of listeners with extraordinary auditory expertise (e.g., musicians, bilinguals); and translational work (3) examining changes in neurophysiological coding across the lifespan in both normal and clinical populations (hard of hearing, mild cognitive impairment).
Skills and Expertise
- Neural Plasticity
- Event-Related Potentials
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Neuroimaging
- EEG
- Brain Imaging
- Neurophysiology
- Brain
- Electroencephalography.
- Cognitive Science
