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Volume 4

A New Study at Ryerson University: Hearing Aids and Emotions

by Emma Scholey, SMART lab Research Assistant

Emma Scholey brings us up to speed on a new study investigating how musical emotion is perceived in older adults with hearing loss which is underway at the SMART laboratory (Science of Music, Auditory Research and Technology), Ryerson University.

Volume 3

Is there a Role for Evoked Potentials in the Hearing Aid Fitting?

by Samira Anderson, AuD, PhD

Although hearing aid technology has improved dramatically, some problems persist and hard to predict leading to poor hearing aid acceptance. Samira Anderson’s hypothesis is that the lack of hearing aid acceptance may be due in part to age- and hearing-related changes in the central processing of sound in the auditory nerve, brainstem, or cortex that affect the neural representation of the speech signal.