Ruth Y Litovsky, PhD
Professor
- Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
litovsky@waisman.wisc.edu
(608) 262-5045
1500 Highland Ave.
Room 521
Madison, WI 53705-2274
Education
- BS, Washington University in St. Louis, 1988
- MS, Washington University in St. Louis, 1988
- PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1991
Research Interests
Dr. Litovsky’s translational research investigates cochlear implants, particularly with regard to the effect that bilateral cochlear implants have on the ability of patients to hear speech and localize sounds. Specifically, Dr. Litovsky’s lab studies emergence of spatial hearing abilities in young children through longitudinal investigations. The lab studies the ability of children to separate speech from competing sounds and identify source locations. Through various collaborations, these studies also focus on language acquisition (with Jenny Saffran and Susan Ellis-Weismer) and phonological awareness (with Jan Edwards). Another line of research with adults focuses on how to improve performance with bilateral devices that are not designed to be synchronized. Thus the lab studies binaural sensitivity using research processors, in the hope that a clinical binaural processor with a single digital signal processor can be implemented in the near future.
Recent Publications
Long-Term Language Development in Children With Early Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implants.
Wie OB, Torkildsen JVK, Schauber S, Busch T, Litovsky R
Ear Hear 2020 Feb 19;
[PubMed ID: 32079817]Sound Localization in Toddlers with Normal Hearing and with Bilateral Cochlear Implants Revealed Through a Novel "Reaching for Sound" Task.
Bennett EE, Litovsky RY
J Am Acad Audiol 2020 Mar; 31(3): 195-208
[PubMed ID: 31429402]Asymmetric temporal envelope encoding: Implications for within- and across-ear envelope comparison.
Anderson SR, Kan A, Litovsky RY
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2019 Aug; 146(2): 1189
[PubMed ID: 31472559]Effect of channel separation and interaural mismatch on fusion and lateralization in normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners.
Kan A, Goupell MJ, Litovsky RY
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2019 Aug; 146(2): 1448
[PubMed ID: 31472555]Binaural unmasking with temporal envelope and fine structure in listeners with cochlear implants.
Todd AE, Goupell MJ, Litovsky RY
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2019 May; 145(5): 2982
[PubMed ID: 31153315]