Interests
- The auditory system, auditive processing and perception
- Hearing and stroke
- Hearing measurements
- Acoustics
Projects
Hearing ability after stroke
In this project, we wish to study the hearing ability of people who have suffered a stroke. Hearing function is not routinely screened after stroke and research in this area is limited. But there have been studies that show that some individuals who have had a stroke experience reduced ability to process sound. This type of hearing loss is not necessarily detected by the most common hearing tests used today.
The project has two parts. In part one, we study pure-tone audiometry results collected in the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) and examine whether stroke patients have poorer hearing thresholds than people who have not had a stroke. In part two, we wish to measure the hearing of individuals who have had a stroke to see if the results differ from people who have not had a stroke. In the test battery, we include a binaural speech-in-noise test for headphones, where three-word utterances are presented in speech-weighted noise. This measurement is not commonly used in standard hearing assessments but is a test that tells us more about how individuals hear speech in the presence of interfering noise. If it turns out that more stroke patients have poorer hearing function after a stroke than is currently recognized, methods could be considered to identify these individuals.
Background
2023 – : Doctoral research fellow – Department of special needs education, University of Oslo
2020 – : Research collaboration with SINTEF in the project “I Hear You!”
2020 – 2023: Audiologist at Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital in Oslo and Ishavsklinikken in Tromsø
2017 – 2020: Bachelor’s degree in audiology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim
2011 – 2013: Tonmeister (master’s degree), The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen
2007 – 2010: Bachelor’s degree in Music, Sound Engineering, Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen