Dr Deborah Vickers is a Speech and Hearing Scientist and the Principal Investigator leading the SOUND Lab. She has extensive research experience in: improving speech perception for profoundly deafened adults; understanding cochlear dead regions; speech and language development in children; training pitch perception; auditory psychophysics and using electrophysiology measures to guide remapping and understand brain changes in cochlear implant users.
Deborah has been instrumental in updating the NICE guidelines on cochlear implant candidacy in the UK and hosts the Translational Auditory Research Group (TARG) bringing together clinicians and researchers in hearing to maximise the impact of the SOUND Lab research programme.
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Publications: See Deborah Vickers’s Google Scholar