Bluetooth Assistive Listening Gets Closer

Auracast, formerly known as Bluetooth LE Audio Sharing, will allow multiple users to connect to a Bluetooth signal. This will make Bluetooth a competitor with FM, infrared, hearing loop, and WiFi audio assistive listening systems.

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Perceptual Decision-Making for Speech Recognition in Noise

Our study indicates that perceptual decision-making is engaged for difficult word recognition conditions, and that frontal cortex activity may adjust how much information is collected to benefit word recognition task performance.

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Let’s Bring Bling to Hearing!

Wouldn't it be cool if manufacturers of hearing aids partnered with designers like Gucci and Prada to make beautiful hearing aids, much like designer eyeglass frames?

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How We Got Our Dad to Say Yes to Hearing Aids (With Some Help From Aristotle)

Aristotle’s three appeals—ethos, logos, and pathos—helped us get our dad into an audiologist's office.

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How My Hearing Loss Inspired My Tech Career

Being born with bilateral profound hearing loss to two Deaf parents and having one hard of hearing sister meant a life of constant misunderstandings and questions.

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The Enduring Legacy of Les Paul in Music and Science

Since 2014 the Les Paul Foundation has funded six Emerging Research Grants on tinnitus, deepening our understanding of its causes as well as improving diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

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Hope for Treatments Against Hearing Loss as 10 New Genes Identified

Researchers argue that the stria vascularis, a part of the cochlea in the ear, is a new target for treatments to help people with hearing loss.

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Using Algorithms to Measure Brain Response Times to Auditory Nerve Stimulation

The proposed algorithms could provide a clue on the signal response and its shifts in the brain during the development of hyperactivity, a neural mechanism of tinnitus, and lead to an in-depth understanding of the information flow inside the auditory pathway. This will help us to better understand the mechanisms of tinnitus.

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The Magic of Streaming

Streaming the audio from videos directly to my hearing devices became an option as either standalone or as something to pair with the captions. Once I learned this was an option, I gave it a try and found that the audio was much clearer to me than before. It was so clear that I didn't need the captions to understand what I was watching!

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Increasing Our Understanding of Avian Hair Cell Regeneration   

We provide evidence that in the regenerating basilar papilla, the expression of immune-related genes is tightly controlled, such that four days after damage, they are no longer expressed in newly regenerated hair cells. This is important because the JAK/STAT signaling pathway is highly potent, leading to inflammation, cytokine storms, and fibrosis.

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