Announcing the 2022 Grant Recipients
In 2022 Hearing IRC requested research proposals to investigate "When hearing loss is not due to presbycusis: similarities and differences to the age-related hearing loss" and received two proposals. This is comparable to previous calls on topics that has not received much attention in the research community. It is one of the goals of IRC to identify these under-studied domains in the field of Audiology, and for this call focusing on the broader dimensions of hearing rehabilitation that hearing care professionals face in daily practice.
The quality of the applications were regardless of their uniqueness at the usual high level and IRC decided to fund two projects that already started in 2023.
Assessing the Role of Envelope Fluctuations on Communication Difficulties for Individuals with Minimal Hearing Loss led by Assistant Professor Adam Svec at Tower Foundation of San José State University, CA, US (now with University of the Pacific, CA, US) and co-applicants Marc Brennan at University Nebraska-Lincoln and Laurel Carney at University of Rochester.
Results from this project has been published as Maxwell, Braden N, Afagh Farhadi, Marc A Brennan, Adam Svec, and Laurel H Carney. "A Subcortical Model for Auditory Forward Masking with Efferent Control of Cochlear Gain." Eneuro 11, no. 9 (2024) and presented at the 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustics Week in Canada: Measuring and Modeling Gaussian Noise Disruption across Frequency, Level, and Hearing Status.
Sensing fluctuations in hearing loss using novel otoacoustic emission features led by Associate Professor Torsten Marquardt, University College London, UK.
Results from this project has already been presented at the 15th Mechanics of Hearing (MoH) workshop, 8-14th of June, 2024, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Hypoxia-Induced Changes of Cochlear Operating Points Assessed by Low-Frequency Biased Otoacoustic Emissions and Round Window Cochlear Potentials.