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December 11, 2007

 

Congratulations to Tom Lu and family on the birth of 6lbs 11oz Corinna Gwen on December 11, 2007! 
 

December 4, 2007

 

 

Noisy toys can exceed safety guidelines

Channel 7 ABC News aired on December  4th featuring doctoral student, the HESP lab's very own Jeff Caroll and ENT Dr. Hamid Djalilian regarding the safety of toys.

 

 

October 2007

 

Congratulations to Ginger Stickney & Jeff Brown on the birth of Jason Brown
 

March 2007

 

Zeng, F-.G. (2007). "Cochlear implants: Why don't more people use them?" The Hearing Journal, 60(3): 48-49.
 

February 20, 2007

 

Congratulations, Helen and Arden!  Annabel Shan was born on February 20 at 10am, 7 pounds, 15 ounces
 

February 22, 2007

 

The Thirtieth Annual Midwinter Research Meeting Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 10-15, 2007, Denver, Colorado, USA:

Optimizing electric stimulation to suppress tinnitus

Fan-Gang Zeng, Qing Tang, Jeff Carroll, Andrew Dimitrijevic, Arnold Starr, Leonid Litvak, Jan Larky, Nikolas H. Blevins

Listening to or download the 1-minute sound file

 

February 14, 2007

 

Today @ UCI Press Release:

Low-pitch treatment alleviates ringing sound of tinnitus

UCI researchers find novel approach for hearing therapy

 

December 24, 2006

 

OC Register:
 

December 19, 2006

 

Professor Lin Chen from the Biology Science School at USTC and Professor Fan-Gang Zeng (University of California, Irvine) have published their recent research in PNAS.  

Luo, H., Ni, J.T., Li, Z.H., Li, X.O., Zhang, D.R., Zeng, FG, Chen, L. (2006). Opposite patterns of hemisphere dominance for early auditory processing of lexical tones and consonants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 103 (51): 19558–19563.

(Click here to view the above article in Chinese)  

More work by Professor Lin: Mandrin is music to the ears, By Dao Caoren (China Daily)
 

 

December 12, 2006

 

Today@UCI: Mandarin language is music to the brain
 

September 5, 2006

 

Congratulations, Hongbin and Ahn!  Elizabeth Ahn Chen was born September 5, 2006, 7 pounds 4 ounces, 21.5 inches.
 

Posters from CIAP Conference

August 4, 2005

 

 

 

New Generation of Hearing Aids

ABC, July 19, 2005

 

 

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=edell&id=3265997

 

 

June 3, 2005

 

 Bio 199 Undergraduate Student Research Program Update 

2005 Conference on Implantable
Auditory Prostheses

July 30- August 4, 2005

Asilomar, California

 

http://www.hei.org/ciap2005/ciap.htm

 

New Publication:

 

Zeng, G.F., Kong, Y.Y, Michalewski, H.J., Starr, A. (2005). Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:3050-3063.

Oertel's comment:

Oertel, D. Importance for timing in understanding speech. Focus on Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:3044-3045.

 

 

Graduation Announcement:

 

Sheng Liu, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. 

Sheng is now working with Sound ID in Palo Alto, CA.

 

Tiffany Chua, M.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Tiffany is now a doctoral student in UCI's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

 

Martin Marsala, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering.

 

Aaron Tea, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering.

Aaron is now working with BrainLAB.

 

Today @ UCI:

Hearing aid signal not clear? Then switch frequency to FM, finds UCI study

 

Zeng, F-.G., Nie, K.B., Stickney, G.S., Kong, Y-.Y., Vongphoe, M., Bhargave, A., Wei, C.G., Cao, K. (2005). Speech recognition with amplitude and frequency modulations. PNAS.

 

Announcement:

 

Nicotine receptors regulate synaptic transmission in auditory cortex

 

Graduation Announcements:

Kai-bao Nie, Post-doctoral training in Biomedical Engineering. Kai-bao is now a Research Scientist with Starkey Laboratories, Inc. Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Ying-Yee Kong, Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences. Ying-Yee is now a Post-doctoral researcher with MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England.

Jeremy Liu, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering.

Book:

Cochlear Implants: Auditory Prostheses and Electric Hearing Series : Springer Handbook of Auditory Research , Vol.  20
Zeng, Fan-Gang; Popper, Arthur N.; Fay, Richard R. (Eds.) 2004.

Table of Contents

Review Article:

 

"Trends in Cochlear Implants," Trends in Amplification (2004) 8(1), 1-34.

 

 

Press Release, Purdue University

 

Merging Hearing Technologies Sounds Good to Researchers

 

ARO MidWinter Meeting 2003

 

View some of our most recent work presented at the ARO MidWinter Meeting 2003

 

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