The Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) located within the Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y León, which houses the Acoustic-Hearing Evaluation Unit (UNEVA), recently invested in Genelec 8020 studio monitors to simulate listening in diverse sound environments.
UNEVAconducts advanced research into hearing aid and implant technology and is regarded as a leading infrastructure for hearing technology in the region.
The unit is available for use in research involving perception experiments with healthy individuals and those afflicted with diseases, as well as theoretical neuroscience and computational model development.
It also supports research on improving hearing implants, hearing aids and other hearing devices, as well as diagnostic methods for individuals with hearing impairments. Additionally, the unit is employed to demonstrate the efficacy of new sound processing for hearing aids and the benefits of new devices to users.
The computational models developed in this laboratory serve to simulate how the healthy auditory system works, and how the representation of sound in a listener’s brain would be altered when there is disease or injury.