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Welcome!
Welcome!
Who Are We?
Who Are We?
We are the Cognitive Hearing and Devices (CHAD) Lab located at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse! Our lab is focused on auditory neuroscience, hearing technology, listening effort, and hearing-related equity issues.
Who Runs this Lab?
Who Runs this Lab?
Our students! See our "Meet the Team" page. Most of our students are involved with hands-on research, including conducting patient hearing assessments, participating in psychoacoustic experiments, and presenting findings at regional conferences like the Midwest Psychological Association and the CI CRASH cochlear implant conference in Madison.
Take a look at our lab space!
Our Lab Investigates the Following Research Areas:
Our Lab Investigates the Following Research Areas:
Predictive coding in hearing studies: how individuals with typical hearing, hearing impairment, and cochlear implant users make predictions and listen actively across different auditory contexts (e.g., noisy or reverberant environments).
Psychoacoustics measures: perceptual sensitivity to binaural cues such as interaural time differences (ITD) and interaural level differences (ILD), including via web-based testing platforms.
Cognitive load and multimodal integration explores: how cognitive demands relate to how people integrate information across senses
Access and equity in hearing health: socioeconomic factors affecting cochlear implant users' access to care and resources
Funding and Affiliations
Funding and Affiliations
Research has been supported by grants such as the WiSys Ignite Grant (TT-2024), and the lab collaborates with researchers across the Midwest cochlear implant research community.
Our Labs Most Recent Presentations
Ruth Uelmen and Colten Pergande
Click on the "Participate" tab in the upper right-hand corner to sign up as a research participant in a CHAD Lab study!
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