Selective Attention Across the Auditory System

Humans are remarkably adept at listening to one person talking in the presence of substantial background noise, solving the so-called cocktail party problem. What does this look like in the brain? In this research webinar, Ross Maddox, Ph.D., will discuss how we can measure the electrical activity in humans listening to natural speech to get a glimpse of how selective attention impacts the neural encoding of speech, both in the cortex and in much lower levels of the auditory system. A 2013 Emerging Research Grants scientist generously funded by Royal Arch Research Assistance, Maddox is an associate professor at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at the University of Michigan.

HHF’s research webinars are a live webinar series that shares the latest developments in hearing and balance research through our community of funded researchers. All sessions include an interactive Q&A with the speaker.

The series is moderated by Anil K. Lalwani, M.D., a member of HHF's Board of Directors and the head of HHF's Council of Scientific Trustees, which oversees the ERG program. He is a professor and the vice chair for research in the division of otology, neurology, and skull base surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and a codirector at the Columbia Cochlear Implant Program.

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