Competences:
- Exploring perceptual consequences of noise-induced synaptopathy.
- Hidden Hearing Loss: Normal audiogram but degraded supra-threshold hearing in challenging listening scenarios.
- Translating the physiology of noise-induced hearing loss to sensitive diagnostic metrics by using a computational models of the auditory periphery
Research projects:
- ERC project: Robust Sound Encoding in Impaired Hearing (RobSpear)
Collaborations:
- Dept of Otolaryngology (Ghent University)
- Dept of Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders (Ghent University)
- Boston University
- Oldenburg University
Key Publications:
- Individual differences in auditory brainstem response wave characteristics: Relations to subcomponents of peripheral hearing loss. (Verhulst S, Jagadeesh A, Mauermann M, Ernst F. (2016) Trends in Hearing 20, 2331216516672186)
- On the Interplay Between Cochlear Gain Loss and Temporal Envelope Coding Deficits. (Verhulst S, Piktel P, Jagadeesh A, and Mauermann M (2016). In Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing, Springer International Publishing, 467-475)
- Auditory brainstem response latency in noise as a marker of cochlear synaptopathy (Mehraei G, Hickox A, Bharadwaj H, Goldberg H, Verhulst S, Liberman MC, Shinn-Cunningham BG (2016). The Journal of Neuroscience 36 (13): 3755-3764)
- Individual differences reveal correlates of hidden hearing deficits (Bharadwaj H, Masud S, Mehraei G, Verhulst S, Shinn-Cunningham BG. (2015). Journal of Neuroscience 35 (5): 2161-2172)
- Cochlear Neuropathy and the coding of supra-threshold sound (Bharadwaj H, Verhulst S, Shaheen L, Liberman MC, Shinn-Cunningham B, (2014). , Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, 26)