News

November 2025: PUBLICATION: Patricia Aguiar, Michelle Williams, and Dr. Paul publish a study on visual cross-modal plasticity in age-related hearing loss. Congrats Patricia and Michelle!

November 2025: PUBLICATION: Patricia Aguiar, Jennifer Preman, and Dr. Paul publish a mini-review in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Congrats Patricia and Jennifer!

September 2025: Barbara Ledezma joins the lab as an MA1 student. Welcome Barbara!

May 2025: Negar Salehi is awarded the Jackman Foundation Grant Award from the Psychology Department at TMU. Congratulations Negar!

April 2025: Dr. Paul is quoted on The Weather Network about the influence of weather on music preferences. https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/lifestyle/community/fredrick-reyes-how-seasonal-shifts-impact-the-music-you-listen-to

March 2025: Dr. Paul joins the Hearing Matters podcast to discuss auditory neuroplasticity with Dr. Doug Beck. Check it out here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/421432/episodes/16824639-auditory-neuroplasticity-with-dr-brandon-paul

March 2025: New preprint! Aguiar, Williams, & Paul: Visual plasticity and age-related hearing loss: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/ewcmr_v1

January 2025: Julia Kahwajian joins the lab as a practicum student. Welcome Julia!

December 2024: PUBLICATION: Rayna Adachi first-authors a paper in the International Journal of Audiology (check out the publications page). Congratulations Rayna!

December 2024: Dr. Paul completes his first year writing regular feature articles in Canadian Audiologist, in a series called “To the Brain and Back.” Check them out in the Publications page!

September 2024: Negar Salehi joins the lab as an MA1 student. Welcome Negar!

August 2024: Mica Pec defends her M.A. Thesis, and was nominated for the Gold Star! Congratulations Mica!

March 2024: Dr. Paul delivers a colloquium talk at McMaster University.

February 2024: The Cognitive Hearing Lab visits ARO! Mica Pec presented “Neural correlates of memory guided attention in age-related hearing loss,” and Patricia Aguiar presented “Eye-fixation and Speech Perception for Visual and Auditory Words in Age-Related Hearing Loss,” as posters.

Well done Mica and Patricia!

January 2024: Patricia Aguiar first-authors the cover story for Canadian Audiologist! “How vision influences speech understanding in age-related hearing loss.” Vol 11 Issue 1 https://canadianaudiologist.ca/issue/volume-11-issue-1-2024/how-vision-influences-speech-understanding-in-age-related-hearing-loss/

September 2023: The lab welcomes Hazel Ildan (UG Thesis student) to the lab!

Patricia Aguiar was awarded the Labourers’ Local 183 Scholarship Trust Fund. Congratulations Patricia!

August 2023: Patricia Aguiar successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled Visual Bias for Speech Perception in Age-Related Hearing loss: An Eye-tracking Study. Congratulations Patricia!

Mica Pec was awarded a Professional Development Grant from the Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Student Union. Congratulations Mica!

Dr. Paul received an Internal Equipment Grant from TMU to study cortisol responsivity in vulnerable populations.

June 2023: Rayna Adachi was awarded a Certificate of Academic Excellence from the Canadian Psychological Association for her undergraduate thesis on hearing loss and social well-being. Congratulations Rayna!

March 2023: Patricia Aguiar is awarded a Jackman Foundation Psychology Graduate Student Bursary. Congratulations Patricia!

Marie Scicchitano is also awarded a CSA Group Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Congrats Marie!

February 2023: Patricia Aguiar and Mica Pec present posters on hearing loss and its relationship to visual function at the 2023 ARO MidWinter Meeting in Orlando Florida. Well done Patricia and Mica!

January 2023: The lab welcomes Marie Scicchitano (Practicum student), Tierra Bennett (volunteer), and Nikita Jogadia (volunteer) to the laboratory!

September 2022: The lab welcomes Mica Pec (MA1 student) and Ales Thamir (research volunteer) to the laboratory!

April 2022: Practicum student Rayna Adachi is awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunity grant from the Faculty of Arts at TMU. Congratulations Rayna!

September 2021: The lab welcomes Patricia V. Aguiar (MA1 student), Michelle Williams (UG thesis student) and Jennifer Hanna Al-Shaikh (research volunteer) to the laboratory!

August 2021: Dr. Paul receives full funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Province of Ontario through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund to study hearing loss at the cocktail party

June 2021: Dr. Paul receives an NSERC Discovery Grant and a Discovery Launch Supplement to study visual plasticity in partial hearing loss