Live Stream: Otology – It’s all about hearing

Brian Moore is an Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are the perception of sound; development of new diagnostic tests of hearing; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Acoustical Society of America, The Audio Engineering Society, The British Society of Audiology, and the Association for Psychological Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He was President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK) from 1994 to 2021. He has written or edited 20 books and over 730 scientific papers and book chapters. He has been awarded the Littler Prize and the Littler Lecture of the British Society of Audiology, the Silver and Gold medals of the Acoustical Society of America, the first International Award in Hearing from the American Academy of Audiology, the Award of Merit from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement, and an honorary doctorate from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He recently received the Life Achievement Award from the American Auditory Society. He is wine steward of Wolfson College, Cambridge. In his spare time, he likes playing the guitar and fixing things.

Michael Stone trained and graduated too many years ago to remember as an electrical engineer. His research career started at the BBC working on digital audio and video, the latter to incorporate visual perception into the design of HDTV (Hi-Definition TV) systems. He then worked on multiple MRC programme grants investigating and applying digital signal processing to hearing aids and cochlear implants so as to remediate degraded auditory perception. Currently, he co-directs the Hearing Device Research Centre at the Manchester Center for Audiology and Deafness. His latest projects have been on new test signals for infant hearing assessment as well as improving both acoustic and visual communication through face masks and visors in response to issues raised by the recent pandemic. He is an elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a member of the British Society of Audiology (BSA). In 2015 he received the Thomas Simms Littler prize from the BSA for contributions to hearing aid technology and fitting methods.

Stuart Rosen currently holds the Chair in Speech and Hearing Science at UCL, in the Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences. His research interests are broadly-based on hearing and speech, with an emphasis on the interface between the two. Over the years he has studied a variety of aspects of auditory perception with speech and non-speech, in adults and children, and in typical and disordered populations (including people with autism, language disorders and hearing impairments). He has also used a wide variety of experimental techniques, including behaviour, pupillometry, EEG, fMRI and fNIRS.