Positions in Madison WI - Bilateral Cochlear Implant Research

[Ruth Litovsky <litovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Announcing new positions in the area of BILATERAL COCHLEAR IMPLANTS, in 
the Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 
Dept. of Communicative Disorders and Waisman Center.

New positions are open for post-doctoral researchers, senior research 
associates and for PhD level studies, in the laboratory of Ruth 
Litovsky. The positions are funded by grants from the NIH-NIDCD. 
Researchers will focus on studies with adults and children who use 
bilateral cochlear implants, and in normal-hearing listeners.

In adult bilateral implant users we study sensitivity to binaural 
electrical stimulation, using research processors that bypass clinical 
devices and allow us to synchronized inputs to specific pairs of 
electrodes in the right and left ears. In addition, we investigate 
functional abilities in free field on measures of speech intelligibility 
in noise, spatial release from masking and sound localization. In 
children we study the emergence of both auditory and non-auditory 
skills, including spatial hearing, speech intelligibility in noise 
spatial release from masking, speech production, phonological awareness, 
vocabulary acquisition, non-verbal IQ, word learning, etc. Our work also 
involves numerous studies with normal-hearing adults and children, 
investigating basic auditory mechanisms related to listening in complex 
acoustic environments. Our lab provides an interactive environment 
amongst researchers and students, with various collaborative efforts at 
Wisconsin and at other institutions.  

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a distinguished history of 
research in hearing science, and offers unique opportunities for 
research collaborations through the Waisman Center, Departments of 
Communicative Disorders, Psychology, Physiology, Anatomy, Surgery, 
Biomedical Engineering, and others; as well as the Neuroscience Training 
Program and Neuroengineering Training Program.

Please submit inquiries with CV and three contacts for references to 
Ruth Litovsky, litovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:litovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.