Z. Ellen Peng, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Topic: Investigating cortical processing during comprehension of reverberant speech in adolescents and young adults with cochlear implants
Long-Term Goal: To understand the impact of profound childhood hearing loss treated by cochlear implants on both behavioral outcomes and neural mechanisms involved in understanding speech in adverse auditory environments. This work will add to our knowledge in developing personalized clinical device fitting strategies for children with hearing loss to enhance communication and learning in realistic indoor environments.
Published Research
Web-based psychoacoustics of binaural hearing: Two validation experiments, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023.
Differences between children and adults in the neural encoding of voice fundamental frequency in the presence of noise and reverberation, The European Journal of Neuroscience, 2023.
Hearing Preservation and Spatial Hearing Outcomes After Cochlear Implantation in Children With TMPRSS3 Mutations, Otology & Neurotology, 2023.
Remote testing for psychological and physiological acoustics, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2022.
Spatial release from masking in reverberation for school-age children, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021.
Novel Approaches to Measure Spatial Release From Masking in Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants, Ear & Hearing, 2021.
The Role of Interaural Differences, Head Shadow, and Binaural Redundancy in Binaural Intelligibility Benefits Among School-Aged Children, Trends in Hearing, 2021.
NIH & Other Major Federal Funding: $405,100
Development of functional spatial hearing in reverberation, NIDCD, $202,550 awarded in 2023.
Development of functional spatial hearing in reverberation, NIDCD, $202,550 awarded in 2022.