Nazife Ozturk Ozdes, Ph.D. Student & Visiting Scholar
Development of a Mobile Application for the Rehabilitation of Hyperacusis and Misophonia
This presentation highlights a mobile application developed for the rehabilitation of hyperacusis and misophonia. The app integrates counseling and sound therapy, with educational videos, personalized sound stimuli, and an expert-controlled web panel. In our pilot study, adults with these conditions showed significant improvement in symptom measures after six weeks of use (p < .05). User and expert feedback also highlighted the app’s usability and potential as an accessible rehabilitation tool.
Rohit Ananthanarayana, Ph.D. Student
Children’s Ability to Use Extended High-Frequency and Head Orientation Cues for Auditory Scene Analysis
In realistic listening scenarios where a target talker faces a listener while masker talkers typically face other directions, listeners may receive less masker energy at extended high frequencies (EHFs; >8 kHz) due to directional propagation of EHFs. This leads to unmasking of target EHF cues, which could help listeners identify the target talker. Children’s greater sensitivity at EHFs and reliance on greater signal bandwidth could make EHF cues especially useful for children. In this talk I will present preliminary findings from a study where adult and child listeners were tested on their sensitivity to the relative head orientations of talkers in a multi-talker scene.