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So my research basically in a nutshell is about
how the ear works. Unknown fact about the ear
is that the ear not only detects sound but it emits it as well.
These auto-acoustic emissions. OAE's as their called, provide a
really valuable way to probe what's going on at the level of the inner
ear. How do you do a hearing test on a baby? It's very important to know if there's any
sort of
issues associated with their hearing, because you want to get at that very
early stage
if there's any sort of hearing impairment or anything fishy going on,
these emissions are not there. So it's a very quick and rapid way for an
audiologist
to be able to assess the hearing of the newborn. One of the things that's
really fantastic about York and makes my job
just
dream to come to every day, is that there's just so much going on
from different ends and point of views, so I get a chance to
interact with people all over the spectrum, so for example,
there's a music professor that we're starting a project with dealing with
absolute
pitch, people's ability to assess you know,
if you play them a tone, they can tell you exactly what it is. It's
incredibly remarkable, a building that only a very few people have
but it's still a big mystery as to what the underlying
basis for this is, so getting to interact with people across such a wide range of
departments is incredibly
rewarding