“Tuning In: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham taps brains to find and fix hidden hearing loss”
BU Research, (10/17/16) “For nearly three decades, Shinn-Cunningham has studied how our brains make sense of sound. Her lab’s investigations stretch from the precise algorithms of auditory signal processing to the black boxes of cognition and how shifting attention changes the way our brains sort through the daily mix of sounds we encounter.
Recently, she and her colleagues have focused on hidden hearing loss—the trouble many people with “normal” hearing have deciphering competing, overlapping sounds, such as a conversation in a crowded room.”