Research
HAEP Lab
Research - HAEP Lab
The Human Auditory Evoked Potential (HAEP) Lab is located on the ground floor of French East Building, in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders of the College of Allied Health.
The mission of our lab is to conduct research projects to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying sound perception of humans with normal hearing and abnormal hearing such as cochlear implant (CI) users.
Our long-term goal is to better understand the neural basis of the large variability of CI performance as well as to identify the differences of scalp-recorded AEPs between normal hearing subjects and CI users for the purpose of improving CI performance. Additionally, our lab provides educational opportunities for students at various levels to gain invaluable research experience.
The current research projects include:
- the auditory cortical processing of sound in normal hearing listeners and postlingually deafened adult CI users
- the auditory cortical plasticity caused by CI experience
- the cortical auditory evoked potentials in postlingually deafened adults with binaural cochlear implants
- the correlation between neurophysiological responses and behavioral performance of sound processing
For more information contact Fawen Zhang at (513) 558-8513 or zhangfe@ucmail.uc.edu.