In a country where the future of science as we know it is uncertain, I firmly believe that hearing research is in good hands, and that we will ultimately adapt and overcome.

It’s intriguing gaining familiarity with what other pioneers in the field are working on and witnessing the long-term progression of their research. Additionally, this ARO was uniquely situated right down the road in Orlando, FL, which was quite surreal.

As I continue to immerse myself in my field, this conference was intellectually refreshing - and I’m looking forward with a profound sense of inspiration for future directions in auditory neuroscience.

Congrats! So relatable 😅

Stay tuned for neurophysiology work looking at signal-in-noise detection in the aging inferior colliculus and auditory cortex!

This work serves to offer a finer-grained resolution of when senescence-related tone-in-noise detection deficits occur and how they manifest across frequencies and SNRs.

Over 300 CBA/CaJ mice aged 1-27 months were tested.

In addition, an Rd’ detection metric was used, which accounts for the spread of startle amplitude distributions and puts inhibitory and facilitatory responses on an equal playing field.

We utilized tone-in-noise prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex along with our machine learning classifier which classifies true startles with 98% accuracy.

Add me as well please!

Count me in please!