Research at the Multisensory and Auditory Perception Laboratory (MAPLab) While hearing devices significantly improve audibility, they do not fully address challenges such as speech understanding in noisy environments 1 or music perception. 2-6 These unmet needs reflect a combination of technological limitations, peripheral alterations, and changes in central auditory processing linked to auditory deprivation....
No actionable change at this stage — this is early-stage exploratory research; findings have not yet translated into clinical protocols or validated interventions.
Multisensory approaches that go beyond standard amplification could open new rehabilitation pathways for patients who remain dissatisfied with hearing devices in complex listening environments.
- 01MAPLab (Université Laval / CERVO Research Centre) is investigating multisensory — music, touch, and technology — approaches to hearing rehabilitation.
- 02Research targets two persistent gaps in hearing devices: speech understanding in noise and music perception.
- 03Tactile (touch-based) stimulation is explored as a supplement to acoustic hearing device output.
- 04Emerging technologies, not yet specified, are being integrated into the experimental framework.
- 05Work is exploratory and likely pre-clinical or early-stage; no outcome data are summarized in the abstract.
Music and touch-based (tactile) stimulation can address unmet limitations of hearing devices for speech-in-noise understanding and music perception.
studyunclear- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- na
- Population
- Individuals with hearing device limitations, particularly for speech in noise and music perception
- Intervention
- Music, tactile stimulation, and emerging technologies as supplements to conventional hearing devices
Primary outcomes
Speech understanding in noise; Music perception with hearing devices