Researcher Recognized for VR Project Work With Heuser Hearing
Matthew Neal, a University of Louisville researcher at the School of Medicine, has been recently honored for his work and partnership with Heuser Hearing Institute on virtual reality (VR) software for listening with hearing aids in realistic environments. Read the news release here.
Heuser Research Center Published in Hearing Research
The Heuser Hearing Institute Research Center published a study in the July 2020 issue of Hearing Research. The study finds that noise exposure may help explain why some people struggle to understand speech in loud environments even if they have normal hearing on an audiogram. This research was supported by a partnership between Heuser Hearing…
Grant Proposal for Pediatric Telemedicine Study
On October 3, 2018, Dr. Maria Kondaurova submitted an internal University of Louisville EVPRI grant titled “Telepractice in pediatric speech-language therapy: characterization of patient, parent and provider vocal interactions.” The collaborative project between the University of Louisville, Heuser Hearing Institute and the University of Kentucky will examine the quantity and quality of speech between a speech-language…
Dr. James Shehorn published in The Hearing Journal
Dr. James Shehorn, Research Audiologist, was recently published in the The Hearing Journal for his work regarding age-related hearing loss and difficulty hearing high pitches. Several hearing aid manufacturers have developed a strategy called frequency compression that compresses high-pitched sounds into lower pitch regions to restore audibility of those sounds. The study found that frequency…