Assistant professor
Baylor University
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Dr. Yoon focuses on two high-impact clinical needs in audiology: improving speech perception in noise by optimizing integration process in binaural hearing and developing a new effective treatment for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. These areas are investigated in a highly interdisciplinary manner using psychoacoustic, electrophysiological, and engineering paradigms. In speech perception study, two specific aims set forth: (1) to determine how brain integrates spectral and temporal information processed by a hearing aid ear and a cochlear implant ear and (2) to enhance integration for process for improved speech perception in noise. The study is supported by NIH.
The immediate goal of the noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus study is to enhance the hearing threshold at the most damaged region by manipulating the physical properties of the basilar membrane. Two specific aims are (1) To determine biomaterial, its physical dimensions, and location to be placed on basilar membrane for optimal frequency transposing using computer simulations and (2) To test simulated transposed frequency response using an artificial human basilar membrane.