Language, Aging, and Central Hearing Disorders (LACH)

Group Leaders: Prof. Dr. Nathalie Giroud, Prof. Dr. Martin Meyer

Overview

LACH is committed to research on aging with all its context-dependency, complexity, and individuality (i.e., in line with the concept of healthy aging as functional ability as put forth by the WHO, 2015). LACH is further committed to creating innovations within the aging research area developing diagnostics and interventions taking into account the heterogeneity and context-dependency of functional abilities of aging individuals. The major goal of LACH is to create a platform that supports the availability of research results and tools/innovations to the older adult community in a reasonable time frame.

Applied Research and Innovation Potential

LACH focuses on the development of digital and applied applications for clinical and everyday use (e.g., personalized neurofeedback protocols and technology, personalized digital behavioral training in real life or virtual reality in the area of healthy aging, data collection from everyday life on health issues e.g., individualized information in which context for a person hearing loss becomes a burden and when not).

Data Access and Exchange

LACH relies on the compilation and processing of neurophysiological, neuroimaging and behavioral psychological data from older persons from previous studies by agreement for new scientific questions. Host for temporary projects and visiting scientists within the framework of these provided data.