Dr. John Anderson Awarded Canadian Hearing Services Grant

Congratulations to Dr. John Anderson (Department of Cognitive Science), who, along with two co-investigators at the University of Ottawa and Carleton Collaborator Imola MacPhee, has been awarded a Canadian Hearing Services Global Partnership for Research and Innovation Grant. The research project, “Exploring Cognitive Reserve in Adults with Acute and Chronic Hearing Loss using Multi-Modal MRI,” aims to test evidence for three theories linking hearing loss with cognitive decline (the information degradation hypothesis, the sensory deprivation hypothesis, and the common cause hypothesis), using a novel multimodal approach. It seeks to identify the early fingerprints of hearing loss on crucial structures of the brain that, unabated, could cascade into cognitive decline.