The Heinz Lab team celebrates the grand opening of the Accessible Precision Audiology Research Center (APARC) located within the 16 Tech Innovation District. We're excited to be part of this innovative space, dedicated to advancing accessible, precision-focused hearing research.
This was our first MOH conference, and it was a blast! Here we are with our Purdue-affiliated colleagues. Sam and Afagh both presented exciting work happening in the lab!
A Fall treat from Isabella Huddleston!!
with visiting PhD student Jonatan Märcher-Rørsted from Torsten Dau's group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), along with new lab members Samantha Hauser (SLHS) and Fernando Aguilera (BME)
Satya Parida, a recent PhD Grad from the Heinz Lab (now a postdoc in Pittsburgh), prepares our signal acquisition and stimulus presentation system for data collection.
Presenting Dr. Vibha Viswanathan!! Congratulations, and good luck in your post-doc at Univ. of Pittsburgh.
Our friends from the Ramachandran Lab at Vanderbilt were our last visitors (in March 2020!) for a year and a half!!
Satya Parida presents his work on Speech In Noise at ARO 2020 in San Jose.
Scanning electron microscope image of chinchilla outer-hair-cell stereocilia. Damage to stereocilia underlies various types of hearing loss (due to excess noise, or ototoxic drugs). The physiological and perceptual consequences of cochlear hearing loss are being investigated using coordinated neurophysiological, anatomical, and perceptual studies.
Purdue TPAN members get photobombed by the Jennings Lab (Utah) at ASA 2019 in Louisville!
Purdue outing in Boston during the Acoustical Society of America 2017 meeting.
The Auditory Neurophysiology and Modeling Lab coordinates the use of neurophysiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling to extend our understanding of the different types of neural and perceptual hearing loss. By using a multidisciplinary approach, we are able to focus our lens to various depths of auditory perception and hearing science— essentially anywhere from the cochlea in the auditory periphery all the way up through the central nervous system. We are currently working on understanding the basic science of neural correlates underlying auditory perception, while also investigating translational approaches to diagnosing different types of cochlear damage to dissect the clinical category of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
Our research team is diverse; in addition to auditory neurophysiology our lab members have training in engineering, audiology, animal sciences, biology, medicine, and even music. The knowledge derived for our work has been and continues to be useful in evaluating the limitations of current hearing aids, and for suggesting novel strategies for hearing aids and cochlear implants. At Purdue, our lab collaborates extensively with the Systems Neuroscience of Auditory Perception Laboratory, the Department of Speech Language, & Hearing Sciences, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience. We also collaborate with many labs outside Purdue.
