Complex processing in the brain plays an important role in hearing. Understanding how hearing impairment and hearing aids affect such cognitive ability is critical to better hearing aid design and counseling of hearing aid wearers
Learning Outcomes
- After this course participants will be able to summarize how cognitive function affects how we hear.
- After this course participants will be able to give examples of how attention and effort can affect what we hear.
- After this course participants will be able to list ways in which hearing aids can affect the brain's ability to analyze sound.
Agenda
| 0-10 Minutes | Introduction |
| 10-25 Minutes | Cognitive Ability |
| 25-40 Minutes | Measures of Attention and Effort |
| 40-50 Minutes | Auditory Scene Analysis |
| 50-60 Minutes | Summary |
Presented By
Brent Edwards
PhD
Executive Director, Starkey Hearing Research Center
Brent Edwards completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1992 where he investigated the application of signal processing techniques to the human auditory system. He followed this with a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology at the University of Minnesota where he conducted psychoacoustic research and taught in the University's Department of Communication Disorders. Since then, Dr. Edwards has directed Research departments that combined engineering, hearing science and audiology to develop new technology for the hearing impaired. He has published and presented extensively on hearing aids and auditory perception.
Dr. Edwards is currently the Executive Director of the Starkey Hearing Research Center located the Berkeley, California-a center created to conduct fundamental research on perception by the hearing impaired and on new ideas for hearing aid technology.
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American Academy of Audiology
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.
Intermediate Level
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