Xinxing Fu
BSc, MSc
PhD Candidate
BRAIN & HEARING
Based in China, Xinxing is an audiologist at Beijing Tongren hospital and Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, the highest-ranking audiology and otolaryngology department in China. Xinxing has worked in Tongren as the Assistant Director assistant for both the Department of Clinical Audiology and the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Prevention of Deafness.
In 2018, Xinxing started his PhD research work at the University of Western Australia through the Centre for Ear Sciences at UWA and in collaboration with Ear Science. His supervisors are Robert Eikelboom, Dona Jayakody, and Bo Liu.
Xinxing’s PhD focussed on the relationship between hearing loss, cognition and mental health in tonal language speakers. Tonal languages, such as Mandarin and Cantonese, are processed differently in the brain to English, and tonal languages may offer some protection against cognitive decline. Given the fact that China has 50 million elderly people over 65 years old with disabling hearing loss, and the rate of hearing interventions such as hearing aid is much lower than that of developed countries, cognitive decline is expected to pose tremendous challenges to the national health-care system.
Areas of research
- Hearing loss & Cognitive impairment
- Teleaudiology
Top publications
Fu, X., Liu, B., Wang, S., Tian, R., Eikelboom, R. H., & Jayakody, D. M. P. (2022). Relationship of age-related hearing loss with cognitive decline and dementia in Sinitic tonal language-speaking populations: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ open, 12(4), e060901. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060901
Fu, X., Liu, B., Wang, S., Eikelboom, R. H., & Jayakody, D. M. P. (2021). The Relationship Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment in a Chinese Elderly Population: The Baseline Analysis. Frontiers in neuroscience, 15, 749273. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.749273
Liu, H., Du, B., Liu, B., Fu, X., & Wang, Y. (2022). Clinical comparison of two automated audiometry procedures. Frontiers in neuroscience, 16, 1011016. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.1011016
Wang, Y., Li, X., Ren, F., Liu, S., Ma, W., Zhang, Y., Qi, Z., Yang, J., Li, H., Fu, X., Wang, H., & Gao, F. (2022). High-Frequency Cochlear Amplifier Dysfunction: A Dominating Contribution to the Cognitive-Ear Link. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 13, 767570. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.767570
Wang, S., Lin, M., Sun, L., Chen, X., Fu, X., Yan, L., Li, C., & Zhang, X. (2021). Neural Mechanisms of Hearing Recovery for Cochlear-Implanted Patients: An Electroencephalogram Follow-Up Study. Frontiers in neuroscience, 14, 624484. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.624484
Chen, J., Wang, Z., Dong, R., Fu, X., Wang, Y., & Wang, S. (2021). Effects of Wireless Remote Microphone on Speech Recognition in Noise for Hearing Aid Users in China. Frontiers in neuroscience, 15, 643205. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.643205
