Jennifer Groh’s work will then discuss multi-sensory processing and how it is that vision helps us hear. Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik are new to the ARO community, and will discuss neurobiology of the visual system as it relates to visual prostheses. Here we integrate psychophysics, clinical research, and biological approaches, aiming to gain a coherent understanding of how we might ultimately improve outcomes in patients. The symposium then highlights the work of scientists working across these areas. Jeffrey Holt, who studies gene therapy strategies for hearing restoration. We start with Rebecca Alexander, a compelling public speaker who has been living with Usher’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder found in tens of thousands of people, causing both deafness and blindness in humans. Vision is known to impact auditory perception and neural mechanisms in vision and audition are tightly coupled, thus, in order to understand how we hear and how CIs affect auditory perception we must consider the integrative effects across these senses. Notably, the visual system is tightly couples to the auditory system. Importantly, auditory abilities operate in the context of how hearing integrates with other senses. However, there is also typically a notable gap in outcomes relative to normal-hearing listeners. Intervention with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants (CIs) has proven to be highly successful for restoring some aspects of communication, including speech understanding and language acquisition. These challenges are particularly significant in noisy situations, where multiple sound sources often arrive at the ears from various directions. Similarly, adults who lose their hearing after communicating using spoken language have numerous challenges understanding speech and integrating into social situations. Hearing loss can significantly disrupt the ability of children to become mainstreamed in educational environments that emphasize spoken language as a primary means of communication.
In a time when we are constantly running, our resources strained, and our sense of connection to others and the world ever more tenuous, Of Sound Mind invites us to consider how sound connects us. Personal stories show how science is a deeply human endeavor. 80 illustrations celebrate the art in science.
OF SOUND MIND offers a perspective on our sonic, past, present and future. The bulk of the book (Our Sonic Selves) applies this knowledge to topics including rhythm, language, music, bilingualism, birdsong, noise, aging, healthy (athletes) and hurting brains (concussion). The sound mind is vast- inextricably woven into our thoughts, our movement, our feelings, and all of our senses. The first part of the book (How Sound Works) views the hearing brain as interactive biological circuitry. The book is written with the intellectually and spiritually curious reader in mind. What we value in sound has consequences on how we build the sonic world we live in. OF SOUND MIND How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World makes the case that the sounds of the world around us impact the development of our brains, the abilities and weaknesses we develop, and who we are as human beings.Ī holistic understanding of the biological consequences of our lives in sound positions us to make better choices for ourselves, education and medicine. IOS Press – Journal of Vestibular Research.JARO – Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.ARO Innovator Award in Clinical Science.
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