Recently published research papers by the Ear Institute's. Learn more about the oustanding work of our researchers on the UCL Profiles website.

A case of acquired amusia and misophonia following right temporal resection

Alexander J. Billig

A tissue boundary orchestrates the segregation of inner ear sensory organs

Magdalena Zak, Javier de Andres, Nicolas Daudet

Strategies for improving music perception and enjoyment: a case study of a deafblind musician with cochlear implants

Bhavisha Parmar 

Protocol for multiplex whole-mount RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization combined with immunohistochemistry in the mosquito brain

Anya Suppermpool, Marta Andres

Pedagogical innovation and educator wellbeing in UK audiology teaching: cross-institutional insights from the COVID-19 experience

Bhavisha Parmar 

Modelling neural coding in the auditory midbrain with high resolution and accuracy

Nicholas A Lesica, Fotios Drakopoulos, Lloyd Pellatt, Shievanie Sabesan, Yiqing Xia

Uncovering Phenotypes in Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review of Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches

Nishchay Mehta, Liam Barrett, Lilia Dimitrov

Probing sensitivity to statistical structure in rapid sound sequences using deviant detection tasks

Alice E. Milne, Maria Chait

Assessing behavioral and neural correlates of change detection in spatialized acoustic scenes

Drew Cappoto, Jakub Sztandera, Maria Chait

Transcriptomic change in human utricles after aminoglycoside-induced hair cell ablation: dynamic alterations to hair cell and supporting cell genes

Camilla Boschian, Andy Forge, Jonathan Gale, Daniel J. Jagger

CIB2 function is distinct from that of whirlin in the organization of sterocilia architecture

Michael R. Bowl

C57BL/6-derived mice and the Cdh23ahl allele – Background matters

Sherylanne Newton, Carlos Aquilar, Michael R. Bowl

Estimating hearing thresholds in rodents using the parallel auditory brainstem response.

Shievanie Sabesan, Nicholas A. Lesica

NF2-related schwannomatosis: A view from within the inner ear

Eleanor D. Brown, Shada Nassar, Daniel J. Jagger

Evaluating Listening Behaviours of Nightclub Goers: An International Web-Based Study with Resident Advisor

Paul Radomskij

Rare disease gene association discovery in the 100,000 Genomes Project

Sally Dawson, Leitizia Vestito, Michael R. Bowl

Early detection and management of hearing loss to reduce dementia risk in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: findings from the treating auditory impairment and cognition trial (TACT)

Anne Schilder, Doris- Eva Bamiou

Myosin-based nucleation of actin filaments contributes to stereocilia development critical for hearing

Carlos Aguilar, Michael R. Bowl

Relationships between hearing, auditory processing, and communication in children diagnosed with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder

Hannah Cooper

Auditory evoked-potential abnormalities in a mouse model of22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and their interactions with hearingimpairment                                                                                                                                     

Jennifer Linden, Chen Lu                           

Gradient boosted decision trees reveal nuances of auditory discrimination behavior

Jennifer Bizley

Ferret contributions to the business of sensory neurobiology

Jennifer Bizley, Rebecca Norris

Virtual reality games for spatial hearing training in children and young people with bilateral cochlear implants: the “Both Ears (BEARS)” approach

Bhavisha Parmar

Understanding the sound environments of young children: potential implications for radio aid use

Hannah Cooper, Doris - Eva Bamiou

Developmental shaping of node of Ranvier geometry contributes to spike timing maturation in primary auditory afferents

Dan Jagger, Anwen Bullen

Mitochondrial dynamics regulate cell morphology in the developing cochlea

Dan Jagger, Stephen Terry, Anwen Bullen

Sleep pressure modulates single-neuron synapse number in zebrafish

Anya Suppermpool

A burden shared: The evolutionary case for studying human deafness in Drosophila

Joerg T Albert

Pleiotropic brain function of whirlin identified by a novel mutation

Carlos Aquilar Hernandez

Comparative biology of the amniote vestibular utricle

Marcela Lipovsek

Generalization of auditory expertise in audio engineers and instrumental musicians

Maria Chait, Claudia Contadini-Wright

Cross-Modal Interactions Between Auditory Attention and Oculomotor Control

Maria Chait, Claudia Contadini-Wright

BAI1 localizes AMPA receptors at the cochlear afferent post-synaptic density and is essential for hearing 

Michael R. Bowl

Concurrent Encoding of Sequence Predictability and Event-Evoked Prediction Error in Unfolding Auditory Patterns

Maria Chait, Migyue Hu

Eye movements track prioritized auditory features in selective attention to natural speech

Maria Chait

Dissociable Neural Correlates of Multisensory Coherence and Selective Attention

Jennifer Bizley

Reversible Inactivation of Ferret Auditory Cortex Impairs Spatial and Nonspatial Hearing

Jennifer Bizley

Mismatch Responses to Speech Contrasts in Preschoolers with and without Developmental Language Disorder

Ana Campos

Is auditory processing measured by the N100 an endophenotype for psychosis? A family study and a meta-analysis

Jennifer F. Linden

Implicit auditory memory in older listeners: From encoding to 6-month retention

 Maria Chait

What is the role of the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus in the persistence of tinnitus?

Alexander J. Billig

Hippocampal atrophy is associated with hearing loss in cognitively normal adults

Alexander J. Billig

Clarin-2 gene supplementation durably preserves hearing in a model of progressive hearing loss

Michael R. Bowl

Regulation of otic neurosensory specification by Notch and Wnt signalling: insights from RNA-seq screenings in the embryonic chicken inner ear

Magdalena Zak, Nicolas Daudet

Absence of Embigin accelerates hearing loss and causes sub-viability, brain and heart defects in C57BL/6N mice due to interaction with Cdh23ahl 

Sherylanne Newton, Carlos Aquilar, Marisa Flook

Age-related changes in P2Y receptor signalling in mouse cochlear supporting cells

Daniel J. Jagger

A phase I/IIa safety and efficacy trial of intratympanic gamma-secretase inhibitor as a regenerative drug treatment for sensorineural hearing loss

Anne G.M. Schilder, Shakeel Saeed