Nihaad Paraouty

Trained in psychology at Paris Descartes university (BS), I obtained my Master’s degree in cognitive sciences at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (CogMaster). I recently finished my Ph.D. in experimental psychology and neuroscience, co-supervised by Prof. Christian Lorenzi (ENS) for the psychoacoustics part and by Prof. Ian Winter (university of Cambridge) for the physiology part. My research focused on temporal modulation coding in the normal and impaired auditory system. I’m now doing a post-doc at the Center for Neural Science (NYU) with Prof. Dan Sanes.

My PhD focused on the processing of the temporal structure of sounds by the normal and impaired auditory system in both humans and animal models. I studied the auditory perception of two types of temporal modulations of the acoustic signal, the temporal envelope and the temporal fine structure cues, using various approaches (psychophysics, computer modeling and electrophysiology in the cochlear nucleus).

Paraouty, N., Stasiak, A., Lorenzi, C., Varnet, L. & Winter, I. (2018). Dual coding of frequency modulation in the ventral cochlear nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience , 17. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2107-17.2018

Ewert, S., Paraouty, N. & Lorenzi, C. (2018). A two-path model of auditory modulation detection using temporal fine structure and envelope cues. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1111/ejn.13846

Paraouty, N. & Lorenzi, C. (2017). Using individual differences to assess modulation-processing mechanisms and age effects. Hearing research, 344, 38-49. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2016.10.024

Paraouty, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2017, February). Using individual differences to assess modulation-processing mechanisms and age effects. 40th Mid-winter Meeting of the Association for research in otolaryngology. 11-15, Baltimore, USA.

Paraouty, N., Ewert, S., Wallaert, N. & Lorenzi, C. (2016). Interactions between amplitude modulation and frequency modulation processing: Effects of age and hearing loss. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(1), 121. doi:10.1121/1.4955078

Paraouty, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2016, November). Using individual differences to assess modulation-processing mechanisms and age effects. 10th ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe) meeting. 21-22, Zurich, Switzerland.

Paraouty, N., Stasiak, A., Lorenzi C. & Winter, I.M. (2016, November). Responses to frequency modulation in ventral cochlear nucleus. 46th annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience, 12-16, San Diego, USA.

Paraouty, N., Stasiak, A., Lorenzi C. & Winter, I.M. (2016, September). Responses to frequency modulation in ventral cochlear nucleus. Basic Auditory Science Meeting, 5-6, Cambridge, UK. 

Paraouty, N., Stasiak, A., Lorenzi C. & Winter, I.M. (2016, February). Responses to frequency modulation in ventral cochlear nucleus. 39th Mid-winter Meeting of the Association for research in otolaryngology, 20-24, San Diego, USA.

Paraouty, N., Ewert, S.D., Wallaert, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2016, February). Explaining perceptual interference between AM and FM. 39th Mid-winter Meeting of the Association for research in otolaryngology, 20-24, San Diego, USA.

Paraouty, N., Ewert, S.D., Wallaert, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2015, September). An AM/FM interference task. Meeting of the British Association of Audiology, 03, Cardiff, UK.

Lorenzi, C., & Paraouty, N. (2015, October). Perception auditive des modulations temporelles: Effet de l’âge et de la perte auditive. Workshop du GDR CNRS GRAEC. 23, Toulouse, France.

Paraouty, N., Ewert, S.D., Wallaert, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2015, November). An AM/FM interference task. 9th ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe) meeting. Grönningen, Netherlands.

Paraouty, N., Wallaert, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2015, February). An AM/FM interference task. 38th Mid-winter Meeting of the Association for research in otolaryngology, 21-25, Baltimore, USA.

Paraouty, N., Wallaert, N., & Lorenzi, C. (2014, November). An AM/FM interference task. 8th ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe) meeting. Oldenburg, Germany.