Nottingham Hearing BioResource

Project lead: Ian Wiggins

Funders: NIHR Nottingham BRC; CRN East Midlands Under-Served Communities

Audio-vestibular Symptoms associated with Traumatic Brain Injury

Project lead: Kathryn Fackrell

PhD student: Kübra Bölükbaş

Funder: The Republic of Turkiye Ministry of National Education

Mother-Child Inter-Brain Synchrony during free play: An fNIRS hyperscanning study

Project lead: Douglas Hartley

PhD student: Efstratia Papoutselou

Funder: NIHR Nottingham BRC

We are investigating the neural mechanisms that support everyday interactions between mothers and children using a non-invasive and portable neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy.

Neural markers of language processing in typically developed children and children with developmental language disorder (DLD)

Project lead: Douglas Hartley

PhD student: Efstratia Papoutselou

Funder: NIHR Nottingham BRC

We are exploring the neural networks supporting language processing in typical development and DLD. Our goal is to identify neural markers of atypical neural activity in children with DLD compared to typically developed children.  

Auditory cortical circuits of sound segregation

Project lead: Joseph Sollini

Funder: Nottingham Research Fellowship

Using optogenetics to functionally perturb parts of the auditory cortex (projection neurons) to understand the circuit for sequential and simultaneous sound segregation.

Incorporating active strategies in speech testing to predict communication performance

Project lead: Tim Beechey

Funder: Medical Research Foundation