Pediatric Auditory Research Laboratory
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Pediatric Auditory Research Laboratory
Thierry Morlet, PhD
Thierry Morlet, PhD is an Associate Professor with a broad background in human auditory and vestibular physiology. He has extensively studied otoacoustic emissions, efferent auditory pathways and event-related potentials in the normally functioning and diseased auditory systems of children and adults. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 articles on the development of hearing, pediatric hearing loss, vestibular and balance disorders, auditory processing disorders, auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder and inner ear malformations and is a co-editor of the “Manual of Pediatric Balance Disorders”.
Graduate Assistants:
Ceilidh Nichols, B.S.
Charley Peyton, B.S.
Student Researchers:
Eden Landry, B.S.
Eden is a third-year doctor of audiology student completing her capstone research project in the PARL. She is measuring behavioral responses in speech in noise compared to Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials (CAEPs) in various signal to noise ratios for young, typically hearing adults. She hopes to gain a better understanding of speech in noise processing at the cortical level and estimating behavioral responses with those results.
Emma Kate Thompson, B.A.
Emma Kate is a third-year doctor of audiology student completing her capstone research project in the PARL. She is utilizing CAEPs to measure residual hearing in unilateral and bilateral cochlear nerve deficiency, a form of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD), for the purpose of implementing individualized treatment plans within the pediatric population.
Landry Wirth, B.S.
Landry Wirth is a second-year doctor of audiology student completing her capstone research project in the PARL. She is measuring CAEPs and Otoacoustic Emission Suppression in children with receptive language disorders to determine how their auditory systems respond to sound at the ear and brain level, particularly in noisy listening conditions. This will allow her to examine if children with receptive language disorders show differences in auditory processing, despite having normal hearing sensitivity on standard hearing tests.
Past Members
Kelsey McDermott, B.S.
Bailey Reeves, B.A.
Parks Flynt, B.S.
Lab Affiliates:
- Dr. Celine Richard, MD, PhD, PD, MBA
- Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
- St. Jude Research Hospital