DeVault Otologic Research Lab
The DeVault Otologic Research Lab continues to be a leader in advanced multi-disciplinary research with children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing.
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15/03/2024
Today is Pi Day - a perfect opportunity to highlight the Parent Infant Eyetracking (PIE) study from 2019 that led to our current NIDCD funded research!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7160036/ #:~:text=Overall%2C%20the%20HL%20children%20used,coordinate%20attention%20with%20their%20parents.
15/03/2024
Brain Awareness Week Continues!
FACT: The sounds a baby hears through a cochlear implant are degraded compared to typical hearing. Signals from the implant bypass the damaged part of the cochlea to directly stimulate the auditory nerve. The brain perceives these signals as sound. It takes the child about 12-18 months after implantation to understand and produce their first words. To learn more about early cognitive and social experiences that support early word learning in children who use cochlear implants, visit the DeVault Otologic Research Lab at IUSM.
https://medicine.iu.edu/otolaryngology/research/devault-otologic-research-lab
19/11/2021
Thank you for sharing Hear Indiana!! And thanks so much to our wonderful volunteers! Click the link to find out how you can help us better understand the development of language and executive functioning in children with hearing loss! bit.ly/HELLO_study
Want to get paid to participate in the HELLO Study? The DeVault Otologic Research Lab is in need of volunteers who use cochlear implants, as well as individuals without hearing loss.
Click the link below for more information!
bit.ly/HELLO_study
27/09/2021
NOW ENROLLING! We're looking for ages 3 - 29 to participate in a paid study looking at language and executive functioning skills.
Find out more and contact the study team here: https://research.indianactsi.org/clinicaltrial/1130/hearing-loss-1612692493-executive-functioning-speech/
Executive Functioning and Speech Language Skills in Cochlear Implant Users: The Hearing-Executive Function-Language-Learning Outcomes (HELLO) Project | Trialx iConnect Executive Functioning and Speech Language Skills in Cochlear Implant Users: The Hearing-Executive Function-Language-Learning Outcomes (HELLO) Project study is currently recruiting healthy volunteers at Indiana CTSI, IN
30/06/2021
Cognitive scientist celebrates half century at IU David Pisoni, PhD, distinguished professor of psychological and brain sciences and chancellor's professor of cognitive science, is celebrating his 50th year at Indiana University in 2020. Pisoni has spent the past 28 of those years at the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, part of the Department....
30/06/2021
Our Research Recruitment Database is up and running!
If you're interested in finding out about current and future research opportunities, enroll in the database by clicking the link below or click the "Learn More" button above!
We're currently looking for children ages 3-6, and we need volunteers with hearing loss and without hearing loss!
https://redcap.uits.iu.edu/surveys/?s=EF9DDDH3N3
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DeVault Otologic Research Lab
An early pioneer in the field of cochlear implant surgery, Richard Miyamoto, MD, FACS, FAAP, chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine from 1987 – 2014, was instrumental in the conception and establishment of the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory. Under his leadership, a core group of multi-disciplinary researchers was assembled to study speech perception, speech production, and language development in children with cochlear implants. This group included Karen-Iler Kirk, PhD, Mary Jo Osberger, PhD, David Pisoni, PhD, and Mario Svirsky, PhD. Named for its principal early benefactor, Virgil T. DeVault, MD (1901 – 2000), a native Hoosier and alumnus of Indiana University (BS, 1927; MD, 1929), the DeVault Lab continues to be a leader in advanced multi-disciplinary research with children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing.