Heivet Hernández-Pérez

Objective markers of altered neural gain dissociate tinnitus and self-reported listening problems in individuals with exceptional hearing thresholds

The paper identifies neural gain alterations in individuals with exceptional hearing thresholds who report tinnitus or listening problems, linking these to specific auditory reflex and cortical response changes.

Disruption of prefrontal cortex accelerates sensory anchoring but dissociates online recognition from implicit consolidation of sound sequences

This study investigates the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in auditory learning, finding it accelerates implicit anchoring of predictable sound patterns but does not affect implicit consolidation.

Listening to the room: disrupting activity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs learning of room acoustics in human listeners

This study shows that disrupting dlPFC activity impairs learning of room acoustics, revealing a reverberation 'sweet spot' for speech understanding in noisy environments.

Dogma and belief: the primary lesion in age-related hearing loss is old news

A survey of experts challenges the belief that stria vascularis damage is the primary cause of presbycusis, showing most favor OHC damage instead.

Perceptual gating of a brainstem reflex facilitates speech understanding in human listeners

The paper shows that the MOC reflex enhances speech understanding by gating auditory signals in degraded or noisy environments, with different brain regions engaged depending on the type of speech challenge.