Effects of noise - epidemiologic and physiologic

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)