The Electrophysiology Laboratory (EL) is located on the 9^th Floor of the Allied Health Building, in the Department of Communication Disorders.  The laboratory is equipped with a 32 channel NeuroScan electrophysiological testing system that has a broad range of capabilities (including evoked-potential, event-related potential, and brain mapping paradigms).  The lab also houses a 16 channel Tucker Davis Workstation. Though the primary emphasis is the study of auditory processing, the laboratory also has the capabilities for testing visual processing. 

          The founder of the EL is Dr. Annette Hurley who is a member of the Communication Disorders Faculty and Audiologist.  Dr. Hurley has extensive research experience working for seven years at the Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory of the South at LSU.  Her research focuses on auditory processing disorders.  Having joined the Communication Disorders Faculty in 2004, Dr. Scott Rubin is an active researcher in the EL.  He is a Speech-Language Pathologist and conducts research in aging and neurogenic disorders of language.

Current Projects:

• Late Auditory Evoked Potentials recorded in quiet and competing noise in Children with auditory processing disorders (APD)

• Early Electrophsyiologic Recordings in Children with APD

• The Binaural Interaction Component in Children with APD

• The effects of physiological aging on the P300 event-related potential

• Automatic attentional process in aphasia

Student participation in laboratory projects is welcomed.  The current EL Student Associate is D. Bradley Davis. 

Links:

          www.asha.org

          www.neuroscan.com

          www.audiology.org

          www.tdt.com