Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Ewan Macpherson is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University, where he teaches in the Audiology program and heads the Spatial and Prosthetic Hearing Laboratory at the National Centre for Audiology. He approaches audiological and psychoacoustic research from the perspective of his training in engineering (BASc Queen’s), physics and acoustics (MSc Waterloo), and auditory experimental psychology and neurophysiology (PhD Wisconsin-Madison, postdoctoral fellowship U. Michigan).
His research program focuses on spatial hearing in typically hearing and hard of hearing listeners, the effects of assistive devices on hearing in 3D environments, and the application of virtual auditory space and other acoustic simulation methods in such investigations. His research has been funded by grants from NIDCD and NSF in the United States and from ORF, NFRF, and NSERC in Canada. Dr. Macpherson is excited to begin work on a new, CHS-funded research project on the perception and joint optimization of reverberation and hearing aid settings for hard of hearing musicians. This will be undertaken with the involvement of graduate students and of collaborators Dr. Vijay Parsa (CSD & ECE, Western University), who will provide expertise in hearing aid signal processing, and Dr. Elizabeth Kinghorn (Psychology, Huron University College, Western University), who brings to this project expertise in the area of musicians' perspectives on room acoustics and relationships between music and well-being.
To learn more about their research project, click here.