Emily Allen, PhD and Juraj Mesik, PhD have been appointed Research Assistant Professors in the Department of Psychology. Both are members of the Auditory Perception and Cognition Laboratory. Congratulations Emily and Juraj!
Allen’s current research, funded by a 3-year NIH NIDCD Early Career Research (ECR) R21 grant, uses advanced techniques such as mesoscopic MRI, subcortical neuroimaging, computational modeling, and resting state connectivity to develop a reliable and precise method for defining and parcellating auditory cortex in humans and to provide the scientific community with a state-of-the-art multimodal structure-function characterization of primary auditory cortex. Mesik's current research, funded by an early career NIH R21 grant, uses behavioral, eye tracking, and electroencephalographic (EEG) techniques to explore relationships among different measures of listening effort experienced when trying to understand speech in challenging acoustic backgrounds, as well as how these measures are affected by aging. Additionally, Mesik's work aims to characterize if and how changes in listening effort influence cortical processing of acoustic and linguistic features of continuous speech.
