Welcome to the
Cognitive Hearing Lab
website
At the Cognitive Hearing Lab, our goal is to advance our understanding of how people perceive sounds in challenging acoustic environments (e.g., speech in a noisy environment) and how hearing loss affects this process.
The research lab is led by Dr Emma Holmes and is based at University College London (UCL).
Use the following links to find out more about us and our research:
“Many people find it difficult to understand speech in noisy places, and they might withdraw from social situations. Our research aims to better understand the processes that allow people to hear in noisy places and how this differs among people, for example due to age and hearing loss. Ultimately, this could allow researchers to create better hearing aids that help people to listen in noisy places.”
Emma Holmes
Principal Investigator of the Cognitive Hearing Lab
Join our research team
If you’re interested in joining our research team, we would recommend that you start by reading more about our research and considering which aspects of our research you find particularly interesting.
Volunteer as a research participant
Our research studies are varied: Some involve sitting in a quiet room listening to sounds, others involve participating in a focus group or interview, and others involve having a brain scan. For some studies, our participants are people with hearing loss and, for others, our participants are people without hearing loss. Some of our studies also focus on participants of particular ages.
You’re welcome to join our mailing list to be contacted about new research studies that are open for participants. Based on the details you provide, we’ll try to only contact you about the studies that you might be eligible for. If you sign up to our mailing list, we’ll contact you with information about relevant studies, but you’ll be able to choose whether or not you’d like to participate in each study.
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