Research Programs
Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) Laboratory
Drs. Anna Nabelek and Sam Burchfield
- Acceptance of background noise in all types of hearing aid users
- Effects of directional microphones and binaural hearing aid use on acceptance of background in hearing aid users
- Using technology pharmacology to influence acceptance of background noise in individuals with ADHD/ADD
Audiology Laboratory
Dr. James W. Thelin
- Hearing and Communication in CHARGE Syndrome
- Measurement of Averaged Acoustic Reflex Thresholds
- Behavioral Assessment of Hearing for Medical-Legal Purposes
Cognitive Wellness & Neurologic Communication & Swallowing Disorders
Dr. Colleen Karow
- Cognitive Fitness in the Elderly with Normal Cognitive Aging and those with Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Problem Solving Skills in Patients with Neurologic Communication Disorders
- Web Interfaced Computerized Treatments for Patients with Communication & Cognitive Disorders
- Instrumental Assessment and Treatment Programming for Patients with Dysphagia
See Also: Rapid Assessment of Problem Solving
Hearing Instrument Laboratory
Dr. Patrick Plyler
- Impact of high Hz amplification on subjective and objective benefit in hearing instrument users
- Effects of expansion on subjective and objective benefit in hearing instrument users
- Effects of expansion time constants on subjective and objective benefit in hearing instrument users.
Human Auditory Physiology Laboratory
Dr. Ashley W. Harkrider
- Neurophysiological correlates for perceptual behavior of normal and impaired populations
- Underlying physiological mechanisms in the cochlea and/or central auditory nervous system responsible for overt behavioral responses to, and perception of, various acoustic stimuli in quiet and in noise
Neurocognitive Linguistics Laboratory
Dr. Kristin King
- Communication and swallowing disorders arising secondary to traumatic brain injury, stroke, neurologic disease, and dementias in both children and adults
- Investigation of hemispheric processing and neurocognitive skills for linguistic processes in individuals following traumatic brain injury
Psychoacoustics Laboratory
Dr. Mark Hedrick
- Perceptual abilities of listeners with hearing loss
- Speech perception by listeners with normal hearing and listeners with hearing loss
- Elucidation of frequency and temporal coding mechanisms
Spatial and Binaural Hearing Laboratory
Dr. Patti Johnstone
- Sound localization ability
- Spatial release from masking
- Aided and prosthetic binaural, bilateral, and spatial hearing
- Hearing loss prevention
Speech Perception and Production Laboratory
Dr. Deborah Von Hapsburg
- The effect of signal audibility on the emergence of early vocalization patterns in hearing impaired infants.
- The effects of increasing word familiarity on bilingual speaker’s speech perception in noise
- Speech perception in noise in [Korean/English] bilingual listeners
Stuttering and Speech Science Laboratory
Dr. Tim Saltuklaroglu
- Investigations into the neural mechanisms responsible for inducing fluent speech in people who stutter.
- Examining the role of mirror neuron systems in speech perception and simulated production tasks via electroencephalograpy (EEG).
- Investigations into clinical efficacy of altered auditory feedback and other treatments for stuttering.
- Listener reactions to stuttering:
- Changes in eye-gaze behaviors and physiological responses. How these reactions may in turn affect people who stutter and their communicative interactions.
- Anticipatory reactions to stuttering in people who stutter. Changes in physiological responses of anxiety in anticipation of stuttered versus fluent speech.
- The effects of stuttering on manual functions.
See Also: The Stuttering Treatment and Research Center at University of Tennessee
Verbotonal Research Laboratory
Dr. Carl Asp
Voice and Speech Science Laboratory
Dr. Molly Erickson
- Spasmodic dysphoniaAcoustic and physiology of singing
- Acoustics of cultural diversity
- Normative data - vocal physiology
- Experimental phonetics - duration modeling
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