{"id":13,"date":"2022-10-17T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-09-10T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T19:09:20","slug":"current-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/current-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Binaural Hearing and Listening Effort<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Binaural hearing is the use of two ears to hear.\u00a0 Binaural hearing is known to improve the ability to locate a sound source and to improve speech understanding in noise.\u00a0 We are interested in understanding binaural-hearing benefits for listening effort in listeners with cochlear implants, and how asymmetry in the functionality across ears impacts these benefits.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objective Measures of Listening Difficulty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">We are developing enhanced objective measures of hearing difficulty in individuals whose reported hearing difficulties exceed what is expected based on their hearing thresholds.&nbsp; We are also investigating ways to translate these measures to the clinic.&nbsp; This work is funded by a grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Hearing Restoration Research Program (HRRP), in a collaboration between Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the University at Buffalo (PI at WRNMMC: Douglas Brungart, Subaward PI at UB: Kristina Milvae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binaural Hearing and Listening Effort Binaural hearing is the use of two ears to hear.\u00a0 Binaural hearing is known to improve the ability to locate a sound source and to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/current-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/lelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}