NIH Funding for Dr. Lau's Research

UW Oto research assistant professor Bonnie Lau, PhD, received a TALK supplement from the NIH for "Development of the Neural Processing of Sound" (PI: Lau, 1 year).

This project aims to identify early brain and behavioral markers of language delay and advance our understanding of whether language screening in the first year of life is clinically useful. 

Dr. Lau and colleagues also received a NIH/NIDCD R01 grant titled "Complex Pitch Perception in Complex Environments" (PI: Oxenham, Co-I: Lau, 5 years). The long-term goal of this research is to understand how the auditory system encodes the fundamental frequency (F0) of single and multiple sounds, how that process develops, and how it is affected by other auditory dimensions, as well as by aging and hearing loss.