Niyazi Arslan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of South Alabama, where he directs the Electric & Acoustic Hearing Lab.
His research focuses on understanding why cochlear implant outcomes vary so dramatically between patients and developing personalized approaches to improve hearing. The lab investigates neural health assessment, electrical stimulation optimization, and pitch perception in cochlear implant users.
Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science, 2025
Arizona State University
M.Sc. in Audiology and Speech Disorders, 2019
Marmara University
B.Sc in Audiology, 2017
Bezmialem Vakif University
I direct the Electric & Acoustic Hearing Lab at the University of South Alabama. We investigate why cochlear implant outcomes vary so dramatically and develop personalized approaches to improve hearing.
Research Areas: Neural Health · Stimulation Optimization · Pitch Perception
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Contemporary cochlear implants (CIs) use cathodic-leading symmetric biphasic (C-BP) pulses for electrical stimulation. It remains unclear whether asymmetric pulses emphasizing the anodic or cathodic phase may improve spectral and temporal coding with CIs.
Music appreciation through electric hearing in postlingually deafened and implanted cochlear implant (CI) users often faces limitations, given their prior acoustic-hearing experience. Research has shown that this group benefits from music preprocessing strategies such as remixing songs to attenuate instruments with rich harmonic structures (e.