NIH R01 · 2025
CRCNS: The Role of Statistical Structure for Natural Sound Recognition in Noise
The ability to listen and identify sounds in the presence of competing background noise is a critical function of the healthy auditory system. Humans with normal hearing can easily carry a conversation even with relatively high levels of noise and in complex auditory environments, such as a busy restaurant. Yet, for individuals with hearing loss even moderate levels of background noise can adversely impact sound recognition. Understanding the neural mechanisms that underlie recognition in noise is thus of high clinically relevance. This project provides a novel approach to study how the healthy auditory system utilizes statistical sound cues during real-world sound recognition in the…
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